The Roca London Gallery hosts the photographic exhibition ‘The Transformation of an Olympic City – Barcelona ’92’
The Representative of the Catalan Government in the United Kingdom, the Ramon Llull Institute and the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, in conjunction with the Roca London Gallery, reached an agreement to exhibit a small part of the photographic archive of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation in the British capital.
FROM THE STREETS TO THE FIELDS WINNER OF THE THIRD EDITION OF THE BCN SPORTS FILM FESTIVAL
Maite Fandos, president of the Fundació Barcelona Olímpica, was the person that gave the Ánfora Ciudad de Barcelona to the best film in the third edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival to FROM THE STREETS TO THE FIELDS by the Catalan production Cafetera Productions and directed by Carlos Sánchez-Llibre and Josep Badel.
The International Association of High Performance Sport (ASPC) visits the Museu Olímpic I de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch.
Because of the general Convention of the ASPC, held in Barcelona, the members of the executive Committee have visited the facilities of the Museu Olímpic. Pep Escoda, Technology responsible for the High Performance Centre of Sant Cugat CAR and secretary of the ASPC has been in charge of showing to the delegates of Canada, Sudafrica and Germany the most emblematic places of the Olympic Barcelona.
A new space in the Olympic and Sports Museum
Highlights of the refurbished area of the Olympic Museum include the yacht Dragon Fortuna and two new spaces; one is interactive and aimed at younger visitors, plus a new cultural space dedicated to art and film with sporting connections.
A great turnout for the Olympic Walk
This year, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Barcelona Olympic Games of ’92, many of those who acted as volunteers turned up in their former uniforms, stored and preserved like a treasure.
Trailwalker Intermon Oxfam 2012
On the occasion of the second edition of the Interworld Oxfam Trailwalker, the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum will host the Trailwalker 2012 exhibition from 6 to 31 March.
Xavier Trias visits the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum for the first time
Xavier Trias, the Mayor of Barcelona, accompanied his in-laws – including Montserrat Amat, the widow of film director and producer Josep Arraut de Ossó – to the screening of the film “II Mediterranean Games. Barcelona, July 1955”.
Presentation of the New Barcelona Baseball Club
Presentation of the Barcelona Baseball Club. This new club has come about because FC Barcelona has dispensed with the legendary baseball team which dated from 1931.
A delegation from Guangzhou (China) visits the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum
The Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum is generating burgeoning interest among various delegations from Asia. The Vocational Sports Institute has joined the list of entities from Asia requesting a tour of the Olympic Museum.
THE LIGHT THAT CAPTURES SPORTS
Hidden behind the title La llum que captura l’esport (The Light that Captures Sports) is the etymological and semantic origin of the term “photograph”, a nineteenth-century discipline formed by two words of Greek origin: φως (light) and γραφη (writing). Thus, we can say that the notion of photography holds within it the concept of writing […]
