The Catalan Arts Council Reduced to an “Advisory Agency”

Tweet I was asked to write this article for “IETM Engage!”, newsletter of International European Theatre Meeting. The newsletter main goal is to highlight activist operations and present initiatives outside the network to reduce the impact of public cultural budgets cuttings in Europe and other restrictive laws for the cultural and artistic development. What was [...]

    Bons Nadals – Merry Christmas – Felices Fiestas

    Tweet     Artistas brasileños cantando la Navidad. Me lo envió mi querida amiga Tela Leao de Portugal y en seguida me lo hice mio para compartir. Brazilian artists in a Christmas song. My friend Tela Leao from Portugal sent it to me and I loved it. Artistes brasilers cantant els Nadals. M’ho va enviar [...]

      Challenging the Crisis in Performing Arts Sector

      Tweet The summaries and conclusions of “Open Forum Feria Huesca 2011” have been published. The debates, under the name “Reinvent Yourself to Challenge the Crises” of the Spanish performing arts sector, took place during three months in a “Facebook Group” finishing in an on-site session, the 30th of September of this year in Huesca during [...]

        Theatres in London and UK

        Tweet I wrote this report four years ago as a result of the training trip I curated for the “Spanish Network of Public Theatres” to London and Oxford. In this trip, around 30 Spanish directors of public theatres traveled to London to meet English colleagues, exchanges information with them, being familiar with their projects and [...]

          In Defense of the Catalonian Arts Council – CoNCA

          Tweet The Councillors of the Catalonian Arts Council have resigned in block to protest by the threaten of the new Catalan government to eliminate their executives competences. This is their letter: Compártelo / Share it Tags: arts and culture, arts councils, Catalan Arts Council, catalan government, Catalonia, Catalonian Arts Council, CoNCA, Creativity, Crisis, Cultura, cultural [...]

            Toni Gonzalez Moves to London his Base of Operations

            Tweet I am pleased to inform that in the coming days I’ll move to London and from there I will continue my professional career as a consultant for the performing arts and international management culture. I foresee a stay in London for about two months. Compártelo / Share it Tags: London, London theatres, Performing arts

              New “Spanish Network of Public Theatres” Travel Notebook: The Netherlands

              Tweet Just published the third volume devoted to the Netherlands in the collection “La Red Travel Notebooks”. This collection began with London and Berlin, is the result of the training trips I’ve been designing annually for the Spanish Network of Public Theatres. Its aim is to present models and best practices in managing theatres and [...]

                Merry Christmas and Happy 2011

                Tweet From this corner in Internet I wish you a very happy Christmas and that 2011 let us to do everything we want and we have not yet donne.  Ah! and it would be foolish to let  the crisis stop us I leave this Christmas song to remember that John Lennon left us 30 years [...]

                  Overview Internationalization Performing Arts Projects

                  Tweet PowerPoint of my lecture on Wednesday 3 November in Santander (Spain) at the general meeting of the Spanish Network of Independent Theaters. Compártelo / Share it Tags: Contemporary dance, Dance, Performing arts, Performing arts internationalization, Performing arts showcase, Theatre

                    Few days to start La Feria de Teatro y Danza de Huesca

                    Tweet In my third year of collaboration with the Feria de Huesca (Hueca international showcase for performing arts) I can’t but express satisfaction with the results obtained. The difficulty of pulling ahead in Spain a performing arts project which encourage innovation and contemporanity above populism, tradition and simple entertainment (I feel a deep sorrow for [...]