“Llibres per llegir” organizes a literary tour at Sarrià, accompanied by some texts by the great poet and guided by Maria Nunes, the route creator. The participants will go up to Vallvidrera by funicular and will go down taking a shortcut. After that they will walk through the nice little squares and streets which used [...]
On May 15th, a group of 15 female students of Catalan from CNL Gràcia i Sarrià-Sant Gervasi came to visit the Fundació accompanied by their teacher, Rosa Carbó. Apart from the native Catalan students, the rest were from France, the Lebanon, Japan, Mexico, England, Argentina, Canary Islands, and Asturias. After an introduction to the life [...]
On May 6th, it will take place the opening ceremony of the twentieth aniversary of the Biblioteca Gabriel Ferrater in Sant Cugat. We can see the artist books from the Poètica Còdex collective entitled “A l’ombra de Foix”. Place: Biblioteca Gabriel Ferrater Av. Pla del Vinyet, s/n. 08172 Sant Cugat del Vallès Opening day: May [...]
El cap de setmana del 3 al 5 de maig, dins de les jornades de portes obertes dels tallers d’artistes visuals de Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, s’exposaran els llibres d’artista del col·lectiu Poètica Còdex “A l’ombra de Foix”. El dissabte a les 18.30 les artistes explicaran l’origen dels seus llibres i es farà una lectura de poemes [...]
On April 24th the Poètica Còdex collective will open an exhibition in honour of J. V. Foix at the Fundació Setba in Barcelona, where another exhibition by Susoespai will also open on the same day. The opening ceremony will be presented by the art critic Arnau Puig. The exhibition will remain open till the 2nd [...]
On the 22nd March, Televisió de Catalunya dedicated its program to J. V. Foix‘s book Onze Nadals i un Cap d’Any. “Llibres a l’atac” is a daily 1-minute microspace that aims to promote and recommend 45 titles of Catalan Literature and is carried out by Josep Maria Martorell in the production and Enric Gomà,who is [...]
World Poetry Day is on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout THE WORLD and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to “give fresh recognition and [...]
On Saturday 16th at the 11.30, the Port de la Selva Town Council will present again the J.V. Foix literary tour, which will cover several locations in the town that were portrayed in many of the poet’s works. Date and hour: Saturday, 16th March at 11.30 h Meeting Point: at the end of the Passeig, [...]
On 22st February a literary tour took place in the Sarrià of J.V. Foix. At 10am, 30 secondary-school students and their teacher Marta Prunés from INS Serrat i Bonastre in Barcelona began the tour from outside Sant Vicenç church. They were accompanied by Marta Prunés, teacher of Catalan Language and Literature, and by Gemma Reguant, [...]
On Tuesday 29th January, an event will be held in the Sala Prat de la Riba of the IEC to pay homage to J. V. Foix on the ocasion of the 25th aniverasry of his death. The poet and literary critic Pere Gimferrer will give a lecture and Mariona Sagarra will sing some Foix‘s poems [...]
