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BANKSY. The Art of Protest has received more than one million visitors on its world tour. Organized by Sold Out, it now arrives in Barcelona with more than seventy original works, some of them unpublished, exclusively donated by international private collections. The exhibition is presented as a multisensory immersion in the mysterious world of this influential and unknown artist.

Eigth edition of the Poblenou Open Night with a wide variety of free cultural proposals and special promotions organized by more than forty spaces. The exhibitions and art shows will be the main protagonists of the event, but you will also find immersive experiences, an animation festival, concerts in concert halls and unique spaces, theater and a gastronomic route.

The central towers of the Sagrada Familia will be six: four dedicated to the evangelists, one dedicated to the Virgin Mary and another to Jesus. The construction of the last towers began in 2016 and their height will exceed that of the towers of the Passion façade and the Nativity façade. The construction is well advanced, but in one case it is nearing completion: in December, the Tower of the Virgin Mary will reach its maximum height of 138 meters in height thanks to the star that will complete the work and the base that will support it. To celebrate the birth of a new tower and a new star in Barcelona, ​​the Sagrada Familia has organized various events, liturgical and popular, inside and outside the Basilica.

The exhibition considered worldwide as the most important in the field of photojournalism. The World Press Photo of the Year goes to “The First Embrace”, a photograph by Danish Mads Nissen for Politiken / Panos Pictures that shows the elderly Rosa Luzia Lunardi being hugged by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, in a nursing home in São Paulo.

MIRA, celebrated since 2011, is a digital arts festival that fuses music and visual arts live. It is an international reference festival in the field of digital arts that shows new creations and artistic trends. Program audiovisual concerts, fulldome audiovisual shows, installations, conferences, projections and workshops in unique spaces.

The 2021 edition will take place in a mixed, face-to-face and online format, although the face-to-face format will predominate. The festival will include 138 films from 25 countries in its program, which can be seen in the cinemas of the Cinemes Girona, CaixaForum, the French Institute and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, and the FILMIN platform. Of the program, the film that opens the festival stands out; the 14 Iranian films; the 15 from India; Philippine cinema, Japanese cinema or the new cinema that comes from China and Korea.

Sónar is still running, and from October 27 to 30, 2021 it will present two new festivals in Barcelona: the AI and Music Festival, an event dedicated to artificial intelligence in music creation, promoted by the S + T + ARTS program of the European Commission and in association with UPC and betevé. This new festival will coexist with SónarCCCB, in an extended, face-to-face and more musical version, with different live music stages, conferences, workshops and Sónar + D presentations.

After the 2020 online edition, the most important event in Barcelona dedicated to manga and its derived genres, will once again be face-to-face. This year's poster, by Carles Dalmau, is representative of that transition: it presents us with a post-apocalyptic city of Barcelona rescued by the optimism provided by the otaku culture. Tickets are not on sale yet, but they will be very soon, and keep in mind that they will only be sold online while supplies last.

Gastronomic Forum Barcelona 2021's main objectives are to advance towards sustainable food and contribute to the recovery of the sector in the post-covid stage. The show will have more than 300 exhibiting companies that will occupy a total of 10,000 m2, 6,000 m2 of exhibition space and 4,000 m2 for more than 70 activities, a gastronomic congress and the Forum Lab innovation area, carried out in collaboration with the World Capital. of Sustainable Food 2021 of Barcelona.

Under the slogan The illusion returns, Automobile Barcelona will show the novelties of 23 car brands in what will be one of the biggest events in the sector this year. The contest, which will take place at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc venue from September 30 to October 10 (from September 30 to October 1 for press and professionals, and from October 2 to 10 for the general public) , will focus on the future of sustainable mobility.