WORKSHOP ON GALICIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC

The Centre for Galician Studies is organizing a two-day workshop on Galician Traditional Music with the musician and actor Mano Panforreteiro. 

Mano will be bringing Galician bagpipes, tambourines, tambours, ocarinas, Galician jew’s harps, finger castanets, peitoques, etc. and giving our students the opportunity to discover Traditional Galician Music first-hand.

FEMINISMOS

The Centre for Galician Studies of the University of Birmingham is pleased to invite you to an interactive talk on Feminist Studies with Dr Olga Castro. A dialogue through which we will be exploring the meaning of some of the concepts discussed in her last co-authored book: Feminismos (Feminisms).

Tempo de Magostos 2013

November is here and that can only mean one thing: it’s time to celebrate o Magosto!

O Magosto is one of the most popular traditions in Galicia. During this autumn festival, family and friends gather to spend time together, sing, dance… and eat roasted chestnuts!

Welcome to the new academic year 2013-2014

Galician, Basque and Catalan studies extend a warm welcome to all our new first year students! We wish you an enjoyable and successful time with us. We hope that you will find this blog a good way of keeping up with all the latest news from our languages. Remember that you can follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook.

Throughout the year we will be organising parties, seminars, special lectures and many other surprises. Check our blog regularly!

Organisers pleased with the turnout at the 3rd Basque, Galician and Catalan Cinema Season

The event proved once again to be appealing to the local audience, which along the years has been showing a sustained interest in the realities of these three nations of South Western Europe.

Although there was some initial concern that this year’s change of venue to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts might have had an impact on the attendance, this new edition of the Cinema Season attracted once more a remarkable amount of spectators. 

The audience applauded the screenings and contributed to very insightful and enjoyable Q&A rounds with our guests, Jabi Elortegi, director of the Basque film Zorion Perfektua, Gustavo Balza, director of the Galician film Doentes, and Gonzalo Bendala, co-producer of the Catalan film Els Nens Salvatges. They had all agreed on the interest of sharing their work with a foreign audience, as they could thus learn what reactions provoked their films in people of differing cultural backgrounds. Our guests were interpreted from their mother tongues into English —a special thanks here to Jennifer Arnold and her brilliant contribution in the last session. 

Basque, Galician and Catalan Studies at the University of Birmingham have already started to plan next year’s festival, which will probably come along with substantial changes to current arrangements, more suitable showing times being an objective everyone wishes to achieve.

See you next year!