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  • “There is no document of Culture that is not at the same time a document of barbarism”

    Walter Benjamin (Berlín, 1892 - Portbou, 1940)

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6-8/09/24: IX WALTER BENJAMIN SUMMER SCHOOL

PROGRESS AND DISASTER: THE FISSURES OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Walter Benjamin, in the last months of his life and before being overcome by fatigue and persecution by the Gestapo, was able to write theses against the ideology of progress. He declared that infinite growth in the future would not be possible and that the emergency brake would have to be activated. The production and consumption of materials would not be sustainable in a resource-limited world. The theories of degrowth have filtered into sociology, economics, philosophy, ecology and any reflection that deepens the problem that plagues the 21st century, based on an unstoppable growth that is leaving the world without resources natural and delegates human intelligence to the machine.  We have chosen this reflection on progress because it is very current. He tells us about a Benjamin who faces productivism, commodity fetishism, the loss of experience and the sensible world, criticism of alienated work, the void of time and catastrophe in history . This catastrophe of which great intellectuals, now recovered and longed for, such as Stefan Zweig and Benjamin himself, have echoed. This Benjaminian thought has influenced thinkers of great relevance. The centenary of the death of Franz Kafka will be addressed. As an international festival of multidisciplinary art and thought in the field of creation and the humanities, it contemplates a training seminar with lectures that include university postdoctoral students, poetry, staged theater, photography, visual arts exhibition and archive of conference contents.

 

Direction: Pilar Parcerisas (FAN), Cari Oriol Serres (AP) and Vicent Ordoñez (UNED)

Secretariat: Irene Cussó

Registrations: info@passatgescultura.org / info@fundacioangelusnovus.org

T. + 34 660827023

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Image 2025/03/01: WOMEN OF BERLIN Image 2025/03/01: WOMEN OF BERLIN
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Image 2025/02/01: FRANCESC PUJOLS, PHILOSOPHER OF SALVADOR DALÍ Image 2025/02/01: FRANCESC PUJOLS, PHILOSOPHER OF SALVADOR DALÍ
Image 2025/01/22: THE SONNETS OF WALTER BENJAMIN Image 2025/01/22: THE SONNETS OF WALTER BENJAMIN
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2025/03/22: TRIBUTE TO CONXITA BADIA, SOPRANO

Tribute to CONXITA BADIA, soprano.

Official commemoration of the 50th anniversary of her death.

Screening of the documentary "Conxita Badia Does Not Exist."

The film is presented by director EULÀLIA DOMÈNECH i BONET, the soprano's great-granddaughter and a director at TV3.

2025/03/01: WOMEN OF BERLIN

Presentation of the book WOMEN OF BERLIN, by ERIKA BORNAY, writer and art critic.

A book of images and stories in the Weimar Republic.

Presented by CARI ORIOL SERRES, profesor of literatura, in dialogue with the author.

A publication by SD Edicions, with the presence of the editor, MARIA LLUÏSA SAMARANCH.

2025/02/15: THE FRAGMENTED WORLD OF PAINTER ÁNGELES SANTOS (Portbou, 1911 - Madrid, 2013)

THE FRAGMENTED WORLD OF PAINTER ÁNGELES SANTOS

(Portbou, 1911 - Madrid, 2013)

Conference by VINYET PANYELLA, writer and cultural researcher

2025/02/13: SONNETTE / SONNETS BY WALTER BENJAMIN

Presentation at the EL SOTERRANI BOOKSTORE, in Tarragona, of the book Sonnette / Sonnets by Walter Benjamin.

Conference by Maria Ramon Cubells, professor and researcher at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) and Pilar Parcerisas, President of the Angelus Novus Foundation.

Thursday, February 13, 7 p.m.

2025/02/05: SONNETTE / SONNETS BY WALTEWER BENJAMIN

SONNETTE / SONNETS BY WALTEWER BENJAMIN

Presentation at the FOSTER & WALLACE BOOKSTORE, in Vic, of the book Sonnette / Sonnets by Walter Benjamin.

First translation from German to catalán, bilingual edition, by Arnau Ferre Samon.

Conference by Carlos Duarte, poet and Pilar Parcerisas, President of the Angelus Novus Foundation.

Wednesday, February 5, 7 p.m.

2025/02/01: FRANCESC PUJOLS, PHILOSOPHER OF SALVADOR DALÍ

FRANCESC PUJOLS, PHILOSOPHER OF SALVADOR DALÍ

Conference by MAX PÉREZ MUÑOZ, Doctor in philosophy and resident of Portbou.

Saturday, February 1, 6 p.m.

2025/01/22: THE SONNETS OF WALTER BENJAMIN

WALTER BENJAMIN´S SONNETS

Culture Classroom of the Santfeliuenc Athenaeum 

Presentation of the book with Pilar Parcerisas, doctor in Art History, exhibition curator and President of the Angelus Novus Foundation; and Cari Oriol, philologist, professor of literature and advisor to the Foundation

2025/01/18: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN EMPORDÀ. REPUBLICANISM, ANTICLERICALISM AND FREEMASONRY.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE EMPORDÀ. REPUBLICANISM, ANTICLERICALISM AND FREEMASONRY

Lecture by Alfons Romero Dalmau, historian and President of the Friends of MUME

2025/01/14: PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK SONNETTE/SONETS BY WALTER BENJAMIN

SONNETTE / SONNETS BY WALTER BENJAMIN

By Josep Murgades, philologist, german translator of Kafka, Goethe, Hesse, Bernhard, among others, and Pilar Parcerisas, president of the Angelus Novus Foundation.

First translation from German to Catalan, bilingual edition, by Arnau ferre Samon.

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17/09/23: ILLUMINATIONS ON WALTER BENJAMIN. ADVANCE ACTS VIII WALTER BENJAMIN SUMMER SCHOOL

We invite you to participate in the Advance Acts of the VIII Walter Benjamin Summer School that will take place on the afternoon of Sunday, September 17, 2023.

-5:15 pm. Performance by the French artist Franck Ancel celebrating 20 years of annual performances around the Passages Memorial. From the station to the Passages Memorial and back to the Walter Benjamin Library.

-Exhibition <8 x 8> of 16 collages of album covers designed by artists on the French-Spanish border, in tribute to Le Rayon Vert by Marcel Duchamp and in relation to the Passages Memorial and Walter Benjamin.

-6 pm. Debate. Art as transformation: a Benjaminian paradigm. Based on the book Art and Transformation, an end-of-century look by Jesús Martínez Clarà. Participants: the author, Jesús Martínez Clarà, Gabriel, Cari Oriol Serres, and Pilar Parcerisas.

-7 pm. Screening of the film "Walter Benjamin. Exile from existence", by Christian Cabane (subtitled).

Starting at 5 pm; we look forward to seeing you!

Location: Walter Benjamin House/Library. Av. de Barcelona, 11. Portbou.

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GUIDED TOURS TO THE MEMORIAL PASSAGES TO WALTER BENJAMIN

We offer an itinerary through the main passages of Walter Benjamin in Portbou, including a tour to the Memorial Passages by Dani Karavan.

The Memorial is an homage to all those anonymous fugitives who go into exile in search of freedom. Recently, the Israeli artist has been awarded with the  Premi Nacional de Cultura 2016 (Catalan Culture Award) for this art work.  

We hope to see you soon in Portbou to discover the last passage of Walter Benjamin.

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