Field Hockey in Castelldefels

Do you miss your [Field] Hockey and finding it difficult to find a club in Barcelona?
Castelldefels H.C. Men's Section are seeking players for next season. The club currently runs a single Men's XI playing in the Catalan League but next season will field a second, Veterans team. Thet are therefore looking for players of all ages. The club is conveniently based close to Castelldefels train station, a 25 minute journey from Barcelona. In addition to the Men's section, they have a very successful Women's section, kids teams from the age of 5 years old and up, as well as training evenings for all levels.

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English-Speaking Children's Parents' and Guardians' Association of Catalonia

Catalan schools, wheter public or independent, lack special programmes for native speakers of English. This group will work to change that.

Interesting site to visit... (click here)

Australia & NZ Opportunities Day.... THE VIDEO !!!!

Last 19th of Feb we met at the Hogan's (now The International) in Rambles (BCN).

We are showing here a summary of the event.

Thanks to Manuel, our personal film director...

Video by the Transport Accident Commision of Victoria

Video broadcasted by the Transport Accident Commision of Victoria.
Enjoy your friends, enjoy life.... but be careful
Hard to watch...

Thanks Manuel

"Made in Catalonia" film festival: Cinema Nova, Melbourne (2,3,4 March)

Melbourne’s fourth 'Made in Catalonia' Film Festival (MiCFF) will be screened at Cinema Nova, Melbourne. Over the first weekend in March.  Organised by the Cultural Catalan Centre of Victoria, the Festival's aim is to promote the lively film culture of Catalonia.  

The Opening Night* film on Friday 2 March is ‘Heroes: Forever Young’, a drama for General Exhibition. A young publicist, with a successful professional life but with an empty personal life, finds himself reconnecting with survivors of the most emotionally satisfying but challenging period of his childhood – the summer in which he was accepted by the local teenage gang - *Complimentary glass of Sangria Salamanca included

On Saturday afternoon the MiCFF will be screening  ‘Maria and I’, a remarkable documentary full of humour, irony and sincerity, about how an unusual pair of parents share the caring of their child Maria who has severe autism. The father is one of Spains’ most successful cartoonists, Miguel Gallardo, and the film is enriched with his animated cartoon commentaries.   

On Saturday evening the Festival presents the adult drama ‘Elisa K’.  Elisa, the ten-year-old child of separated parents, behaves a little oddly after a visit to the city, but that’s all. Fourteen years later she becomes terrified by a memory that has suddenly emerged from her childhood. A virtuoso performance by actress Aina Clotet.

A highlight of the Festival for Spanish history buffs is kept for the Closing Night on Sunday 4 March: ‘14 April: Macià versus Companys’. Television fiction under the formal guise of a documentary, which appears to have been recorded in 1932, yet with the methods, style and equipment of nowadays. Thanks to this journey through time, the heroes of one of the most important episodes in history of Catalonia during the 20th century discuss the details of that moment in the first person, while an inquisitive camera allows us to relive the events that took place in Barcelona three days that the Catalan Republic was in force. 

Festival's website:

Opera from the Sydney Opera House in Barcelona...

From the Sydney Opera House via satellite here in Barcelona in High Definition...

Where?: Cinemes Filmax, Gran Via 2 Barcelona

Tickets: via SERVICAIXA or CINEMA FILMAX (in "Gran Via 2" Commercial Centre) or in MAGIC BADALONA's CINEMA.

Further info: Conchita Escura. Phone 670.615.798