The Oxford Spanish Play is a society founded by a group of Spanish students at the University of Oxford who aim to reach out to the British audience and have them partake in Spanish theatre and culture. It has been bringing Spanish culture to Oxford since 2011, earning great success last year in staging Lope de Vega’s ‘La Dama Boba’. 

The Oxford Spanish Play is fully built on student initiative with the support of the Spanish Department at the University and to have some of its faculty members directly involved in the project. Both the cast and the production team are multinational –all fluent in Spanish – multi-collegiate, and reading courses at all levels of University from first-year undergraduates to college fellows.

The performance will be staged in the Queen’s College Auditorium and will be conducted entirely in Spanish. However, subtitles in English shall be screened.

The opening night will be on Wednesday 29th February and performances will run through to Sunday 4th March. Full price tickets cost £8.00, and concessions for students are available at £4.50.

Please follow the link to their website www.oxfordspanishplay.com for further information and ticket purchase.

Friday 17th February 8:45PM Cine Lumière, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2DT
Documentary film festival Ready, Steady… Doc: El alma de La Roja
 El Alma de La Roja (The Soul of La Roja) traces the different eras of the Spanish national football team, who were in the spotlight after their victory in the European Football Championship in 2008 and because of their status as favourite for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In the film, directed by Santiago Zannou (winner of a Goya award for best new director for El Truco del Manco), we are taken on a journey through the different periods of La Roja, from the beginning of the last century to the present day, via important protagonists in the history of football such as Di Stéfano, Ramallets, Pepe Claramunt, Víctor Muñoz, Luis Aragonés, Vicente Miera and Luis Sánchez, and more recently the likes of Torres, Villa, Senna, Casillas and Cesc, not to forget the recent past with Hierro, Gordillo, Butragueño, Luis Enrique and Zubizarreta, among many others.

Special guest: Vicente del Bosque, manager to the Spanish national football team. Vicente Del Bosque will be in discussion with Jimmy Burns, vice-chairman  of the Anglo-Spanish Society whose new book “La Roja: A Journey through Spanish Football” is published this Spring by Simon & Schuster.

In collaboration with Eunic London.

With the support of: Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs. Spanish Embassy in the United Kingdom.

For bookings please contact the box office at Cine Lumière: T. 020 7871 3515 or book online

For more information on the festival please go to http://www.europeandocfestival.org.uk/

Why not join our membership today? You can find an application form on our Membership page.

The Ensemble Il Festino takes you to on an exciting journey presenting the influences of mixed cultures on the traditional way of performing baroque music. And to make this adventure complete they also bring a fascinating approach on the performance of the modern Latin repertoire. Not to be missed!

WHEN: FRI, 9th March, 19.30hs
WHERE: Bolivar Hall – 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL
Map of the venue location (Streetmap)

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE AND AT THE DOOR

 Monday 5th of March at 6.30 pm,  Luis Vives Hall, Embassy of Spain, 39 Chesham Place, SW1X 8SB

Followed by drinks

 RSVP 020 7201 5517 / 22 E mail: sara.mate@maec.es

Remember that  Hola!, one of our newest Corporate Supporters, has kindly offered to give our members a 10% discount on yearly subscriptions.

Please contact us to get your promotional code and take advantage of this member-only opportunity!

Why not join our membership today? You can find an application form on our Membership page.

Este año, la comedia española llega a Gran Bretaña por primera vez. El Carnaval de la Comedia en The Clapham Grand es un espectáculo mensual que presenta las estrellas de la Paramount Comedy y de la televisión Española por primera vez en la capital Británica.

El encargado de inaugurar la serie el 16 de Febrero es Hovik Keuchkerian, bicampeón español de boxeo que dejó los rings para dedicarse al mundo de la interpretación y la comedia.

El segundo show, el 22 de Marzo contará con la presencia de uno de los monologuistas más reconocidos de España, Goyo Jiménez. Habitual del programa El Club de la Comedia, Goyo fue elegido como “Mejor Monologuista” por las audiencias de la serie. Además de contar con cerca de 200.000 seguidores en Twitter, un extracto de su monologo “Aiguantulivinamerica ‘ ha recibido más de 1.3 millones de visitas en You Tube.

El fenómeno de los monólogos en España ha crecido de manera exponencial en los últimos años, y cada vez es más frecuente encontrar noches de comedia en salas de fiestas, locales pequeños y bares.

El espectáculo tendrá lugar todos los meses en The Clapham Grand.

Las entradas para El Carnaval de la Comedia están ya a la venta y se pueden reservar en  www.elcarnavaldelacomedia.com. El espectáculo comienza a las 20:00, apertura de puertas 19:00. Las entradas son £20 e incluyen entrada a la fiesta española después del show.

El Carnaval de la Comedia – The Clapham Grand, 21-25 St John’s Hill,

Clapham Junction, London, SW11 1TT (Frente a la estación).

Para más información, contactar con Susana Sola-Gionis: susana@elcarnavaldelacomedia.co.uk 020 7736 1446.

http://www.barlowfinedrawings.com/parallaxaf.html

El día 15 de febrero de 2012 de las 19.00 a las 21.00 horas tendrá lugar la inauguración privada a la que asistirán marchantes de arte internacionales, coleccionistas, directores de museos, casas de subastas, directores de clubs de arte, editores, académicos, comisarios de exposiciones, asesores de arte etc. La organización proporciona un email de contacto (privateviews@barlowfinedrawings.com) a través del cual se pueden solicitar invitaciones.

Parallax Art Fair estará abierto al público los días:

16 de febrero de las 10:00 a las 18:00 horas
17 de febrero de las 10:00 a las 18:00 horas
18 de febrero de las 10:00 a las 17:00 horas

Very few tickets available! Don’t miss out

Evening 1 – Flamenco Gala: Dancing to Lorca on Saturday 11^th February 2012, 19.30 at Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue London, EC1R 4TN

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Federico García Lorca’s death, a host of stars from the world of flamenco, led by Rafaela Carrasco, come together in a very special gala to pay tribute to the great poet and dramatist. All of the performances will be inspired by Lorca’s life and work, recognising his status as one of the most influential poets of the last century.

Tickets: £23 Members, £25 Non-Members. Please note that this event is on a first-come, first-served basis, so please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Evening 2 – Rafael Amargo: Poet in New York on Saturday 18^th February 2012, 19.30 at Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue London, EC1R 4TN

Rafael Amargo’s shows infuse the purest essence of flamenco with other choreographic trends, creating beautiful contemporary dance. Described by the New York Times as “in a class by itself”, Poet in New York is based on a poem by Federico García Lorca. A true multimedia extravaganza it evokes the time, place and culture in which Lorca was writing through stunning 1930s inspired video and imagery.

Tickets: £23 Members, £25 Non-Members. Please note that this event is on a first-come, first-served basis, so please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

 If you want to confirm your attendance to any of the events above, please email us at events@anglospanishsociety.org  and we will send you the bank details for BACS transfer payment.  Alternatively you could send a cheque to Events Secretary, 102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN.

If you need further details, please do not hesitate to contact us.

To join the Anglo-Spanish Society, please visit: http://www.anglospanishsociety.org/membership/

You Are Warmly Invited to a Preview Screening of  The Border Crossing   @ Rio Cinema, 103-107 Kingsland High Street, E82PB  12 noon Sunday 29th January.  Free Admission, bar and snacks!

Set in the Basque country, Jill Daniels reconstructs an evocative story of her own past through the wanderings of a young woman on both sides of the Spanish/French border. As she moves towards a violent fate, an unnamed man drives through the rain at night. Maria and Aitziber, two generations of Basque women, talk movingly about the Spanish Civil War and the continuing effects of violence in the Basque country.

Jill Daniels is Senior Lecturer at the Film and Video School of Arts and Digital Industries of the University of East London, Docklands

If you want to confirm your attendance to the event above, please RSVP – j.daniels2@uel.ac.uk ;              jilldanielsfilms@gmail.com