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February 10, 2024

Come to the Carnival del CírculoThis year, come to the South

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Party schedule 22:30 - 05:00

This year, in which we celebrate the tenth anniversary of our Escuela SUR, el Círculo de Bellas Artes We want to invite you to celebrate the wisdom, imagination, tenderness, energy and art of living of the Mediterranean.

It was 1964, and a BBC journalist thought he'd discovered the secret that made Spaniards so unique. "It's not the Pyrenees, nor the history, nor the climate. The problem is breakfast." Spaniards didn't eat enough for breakfast, and that's why we spent the day snacking. It was impossible to be productive that way.

From that same very European tradition of not understanding anything was born, many years later, that funny nickname they gave all the Mediterranean countries: PIGS. And it didn't matter that we were the Europeans who worked the longest hours or that they'd tightened our belts so much we were turning purple. Some do the work, and others get the credit. What a shame that didn't happen to us this decade, when we've finally learned to reframe everything. We would have had a good laugh.

But in 2024 things have changed and now that it seems that artificial intelligence is going to free us from all those mechanical and repetitive jobs, it turns out that the Mediterranean countries have the sun, which is now energy, we have the culture, we have the creativity and the desire and we are killing it: even speaking English with a Cuenca accent has become fashionable.

Let's see if Luis Racionero was right when he said that Northerners were all barbarians who only know how to work, and that it was the South, the Mediterranean world, that managed to build a civilization of creative leisure that has all the makings of becoming the future of humanity. In the end, it might just be true that we have to come to the South, and not just to make love well: to learn, to create, to discover, to write poetry, to listen to Rosalía.

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General admission with drink included €45,00

CBA member entry with drink included €36,00

 

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Isa Calderón and Lucía Lijtmaer

 

This year our town criers will be Isa Calderón and Lucía Lijtmaer, or, in other words, the faces and voices of Deforme Semanal Ideal Total, the radio show with which they won the Ondas Award for best podcast in 2021 and the award for best podcast of the year at the 2022 Ondas Global Awards. Laughter and provocation are guaranteed when they take to the stage at the Ballroom.

Together we will celebrate all that is best done under the sun and by the sea. The love and pleasure that Raffaella Carrà sang about, but also so much more: we want to invoke all the wisdom, imagination, tenderness, energy, and art of living of the Mediterranean.

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Line Up

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María Espada

 

Pichi by birth and a lady at heart. A devout and practicing pop music fan, at nightfall she plays what she has dubbed 'disco shower', a mix of disco, oldies, and freak music.

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The Body of the Disc

 

Almost classics in the DJ booths of Madrid clubs, although their varied tastes mean their sessions are constantly changing evolution, always free of prejudice and in communion with the public.

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Natalia Ferviu

 

Their sets are eclectic and will get everyone dancing with a mix of disco, Italo, Afrobeat, dancehall, Latin rhythms, hip hop and old-school R&B, punk, and new wave. Their motto: mix without restraint.

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Gaspar & Elena

 

Since your monthly appointment Papaia Club, G&E (a couple on stage and in real life), they convey in their sessions a love for music and dance, an absence of prejudice and eclecticism as their banner.

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Potoo with Rocoto

 

Her projects explore everything from diasporic soundscapes and identity contradictions to collective pleasure and desire. She investigates the possibilities offered by the transvestite body through digital diggering.

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Alnank

 

His sets are a mind-blowing and festive journey between the past and future of Latin dance rhythms and beyond, between the village fair and the club. Music that's more or less tropical, more or less underground, like his Radio 3 Extra podcast "Wild Delights"

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Opera Primas

 

Two cousins ​​who are DJs and incredibly energetic dancers, with over ten years of experience making people dance. Their sets are a whirlwind of danceable electronic music, featuring disco, Italo, house, and acid as some of the main ingredients.

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Maria Latina

 

With almost a decade of experience
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Do not miss your entry!

 

Entry includes one drink

Access restricted to those over 18 years of age

Party hours: 22:30 PM to 05:00 AM

 

 

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Lara Lars, feminism and surrealism

Since the first edition of its Masked Ball was held in 1891, the tradition of the festival posters del Círculo de Bellas Artes It is a history of design in Spain.

This year, Galician illustrator Lara Lars was commissioned to design the Carnival poster. An architect by training and an artist by vocation, she fell in love with the art of illustration through collecting prints. vintageShe was fascinated by the portrayals of women in advertisements from the 50s—women always characterized as housewives or explosive heroines in the style of Barbarella—but although she found them aesthetically interesting, she felt that their roles and attitudes did not represent her.

From this arose the idea of ​​recontextualization, transforming these "decorative women" into empowered women, with an attitude of strength and determination, protagonists of their own stories. Their other fetishes—flying saucers, papier-mâché monsters, postcards thanks to Brutalist-style buildings—completed the formula of anachronistic elements with which Lara Lars creates her suggestive retrofuturistic prints.

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