Linguistic Apartheid at Balearic Schools

The ultra-nationalistic Spanish government continues its policy of language suppression in the Balearic islands. The government has completely eliminated Catalan language immersion in elementary and secondary schools. A few weeks ago the government published the draft of the decree on trilingualism, which requires schools that...

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Saint George’s Day in Barcelona: roses, Books ... and Collective Security

Love and Culture.  Saint George’s Day in Catalonia is a treat to the senses, with hundreds of stalls selling books and roses and a mass of humanity peacefully taking over the streets. It is not surprising that the day is often referred to as one devoted to love and culture. Unaware tourists never cease to be amazed by this unexpected...

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The legacy of Salvador Dalí

Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term “Surrealism” in 1917. Thereafter, it became a word used often by great artists such as André Breton, Paul Éluard, and other contributors to the Surrealist magazine “Littérature”. The authors of “Littérature” paid close attention to the outlandish genres and avant-garde experiments of the time,...

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Why do I sing in Catalan?

I sing in Catalan because I want to, because it comes from inside, because it makes me feel who I am, because it brings me back to my childhood, because I can't express myself with different words. I love all languages. I’ve sung in Spanish in a lot of choirs. I enjoy this language and its lexical richness. But when I write a poem or a song,...

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A Catalan Christmas

Across the globe the holiday season represents different things to different people. But what does a Catalan Christmas consist of? Here is our run down of what traditions and events are celebrated in Catalonia over the Christmas period. December 8th: Immaculate Conception (“Immaculada Concepció”). This public holiday marks the feast...

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A brief history of the repression of the Catalan language

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