FIB Heineken 2009: Internacional Benicàssim Music Festival

As every year in these dates, we count the days in order to celebrate one of the best music festivals on the world: the Internacional Benicàssim Music Festival FIB Heiniken 2009. It comes with the best alternative music.

From 15th July to 19th July the Festival will held its 15th edition in Benicàssim. With nearly 200,000 people, this year's crowd will beat the all time attendance record easily surpassing last year's 52,000 attendees. In fact, tickets and passes were sold out two months before the festival its celebration.

Located at Km 986 of the N-340, the FIB enclosure measured 120,000 square meters. It will host various cultural and musical areas as the necessary facilities for offering a comfortable and safe stay for the audience. There will be four stages in which up to 100 concerts will be held: the outdoor Escenario Verde, which is the largest one; and the Fiberbib.com, the FIBClub and the Pista Pop, all located inside different marquees. In addition, extra musical parallel activities will be held. Also, large areas with spacious lawns and trees for sheltering against the hours of strong sunlight will be setup. They will also feature a varied gastronomic offer and Official Stores to buy the official merchandise of the different bands.

This year a high quality program has been specially designed to overcome the crisis. Oasis will open the festival with the presentation of their latest offering, 'Dig out your soul'. Other great bands are: Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Russian Red, Magazine, Cooper, Maximo Park Spanish bands as Christina Rosenvinge, La Bien Querida, Cooper, The Unfinished Simpathy, Oblique, Nacho Vega o Fangoria. This year the festival seeks to recover its national audience, relegated in recent years owing to the avalanche of Anglo-Saxon'fibers'.

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The Henri Matisse Exhibition at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid

Henri Matisse along with Pablo Picasso is without doubt one of the central figures of modern art today. The Thyssen Museum in Madrid is holding an exhibition of his work, namely the central period when Matisse was in Nice between 1917 and 1941.

The exhibition will be held at the Thyssen - Bornemisza Museum in Madrid from June 9th to September 20th gathering around 80 of his works including drawings, paintings and sculptures. These works are gathered from around 50 museums worldwide including private collections.

This wonderful exhibition seeks to breakdown the works of Matisse in the period that is marked by the end of World War 1 and the beginning of World War 2. By the year 1917 Matisse found himself losing clients and therefore had to redirect his painting towards a more recipient public replacing huge works such as The Dance by smaller works using easels. Thus the painter moved to Nice.

With the returning to easel painting Matisse could now centre on the weight, density, depth and pictorial language of his figures. Therefore the exhibition aims to cover the period in which Matisse delved into the relationship between colour and size thus avoiding anything to do with Cubism and its traditional flat shapes and perspective.

After 1930 a new vigor and a bolder simplification started to appear in his work and American art collector Albert C. Barnes convinced him to produce a large mural for the Barnes Foundation, The Dance II, which was completed in 1932.

The exhibition has been designed so that each stage of the artist's life is reflected under the following headings: "Painting and Time", "Landscapes, Balconies and Gardens", "Intimacy and Ornament", "Figure and Background", "Form" and "Une sonore vaine et monotone ligne"

Why not take this pleasant opportunity and visit the Thyssen Museum in Madrid and discover one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. Rent Apartments in Madrid and immerse yourself in the wonderful art of Henri Matisse.

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The Grec Festival 09 in Barcelona

The Grec Festival has become one of the referent cultural festivals in Barcelona. Specialized in music, dance and theatre, the Grec Festival has celebrated 33 successful editions. The year it focuses on the renovation and extension of the program, with up to 66 shows.

From June 20th to August 2nd the Grec Festival will bring the best national and international artists. It owes its name from the early editions, when the shows were held in the Grec Theatre (Greek Theatre), in Montjuic. Nowadays there are many other stages to celebrate the Grec Festival: the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB), the Teatre Lliure, the Teatre Ovidi Monitor, the Mercat de les Flors or the Plaza del Rey. Italy will be the guest country. It will present a trilogy of the Divine Comedy by Romeo Castellucci. This year, theatre and dance will become important than music.

The spectacle El jardín de las estrellas will open the festival. This year the festival will focus on the co-productions, of which Edipo, una trilogía (Oedipus, a trilogy) or Don Carlos (Mr. Carlos) stand out. Another outstanding spectacle will be La guerra de los hijos de la luz contra los hijos de las tinieblas (The War of the sons of light against the sons of darkness), a co production with the d'Avignon Festival and the Athens Festival, by Amos Gitai.

The dance program will bring such spectacles such as Entity, H3, or o Eonnagata, by important dance companies. In the music program the most remarkable proposals are: the singer Vinicio Capossela, the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, the Algerian singer Khaled with its rai music, the Argentinean composer and singer Sofía Rei Koutsovitis or the hip-hop singer la Mala Rodríguez & Refree, among others.

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Madrid Gay Pride 2009

Now begins the countdown to host one of the biggest celebrations of the Spanish capital, the Madrid Gay Pride. The Gay Pride is one of the festivals with the largest number of followers in the whole Spain. On June 28th every year, thousands of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender and straight people join together to celebrate and fight for the gay cause in a festive way.

Madrid has the privilege of being one of the major European capitals that has one of the most important and multitudinous Gay Pride Day. Last year only the parade congregated 1,100,000 people, while along the rest of the week hundreds of thousands of people went to the festival and to the special gay pride events. In fact, this celebration only can be compared in terms of attendance with other Spanish events such as San Fermin or the Fallas in Valencia.

This way, from from June 27th to July 5th Madrid will host an amazing Gay Pride that expects to beat, as every year, a record of attendance. On July 4 it will be held in the famous gay Parade. It will begin at 17:00 in the Independence Square and it will move around the Calle Alcala, the Plaza Cibeles and La Gran Via and it will finish in Plaza Espana, where some concerts will be held.

This year people will fight for visibility and non-discrimination in schools with the slogan "School without Closets", since 2009 is the "Year of Diversity in the Sexual Health Education", and after last year people fought for Lesbian visibility. One more time, the festive atmosphere will ensure a great success and fight for an equal cause in Madrid. Rent Madrid Apartments for the best accommodation.

Madrid Will Hold the 24th Edition of the Veranos De La Villa 2009 Festival

Madrid is ready to host the most awaited cultural event of the year, the Summer Festival of the Town, the festival of the Veranos de la villa 2009. This event will bring the best cultural offers to the Spanish capital - from theatre, to music, circus or dance, on the Casa de Campo trade fair grounds (in the Avenida Puerta del Angel) from June 25th to August 23rd.

Veranos de la Villa festival will offer a multidisciplinary and quality program with 150 spectacles, divided into 1,166 representations and also 120 film screenings. To this end, the Madrid City Council has spent 2.8 million euros in the organization of the event.

This year, the festival could not have better artists. Regarding the national scene, important stars such as Chano Dominguez, Juan Perro, Tequila, Diego "El Cigala" or Tomatito can be seen. But if national figures are noteworthy, the international ones are great too: Nina Simone, Lou Reed, The Yellow Pony and Anastacia...

The musical is a mandatory fashionable show this year: West Side Store has been chosen for this occasion. For the Flamenco lovers, the second half of August will take place the "Madrid Flamenco", with great flamenco artists as Baras, Lolita, Juanito Valderrama, Carmen Linares and Farruco among others. The music director Daniel Barenboim will repeat with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra to interpret "Les Preludes" by Liszt, and the "Symphonie Fantastique" by Berilo. And of course, the theatre will be one of the main attractions of the festival. It will be divided in several municipal areas and in some private rooms.

This year the festival has moved to a new location (tha Casa de Campo), with the purpose of place it at the same level as other big cities that celebrate important events in their unique natural surroundings such as the Central Park in New York or Hyde Park in London. The new stage is surrounded by nature and it enjoys magnificent Madrid views. The new stage has a capacity for 2,500 people and parking for up to 225 vehicles. Fivebus lines and some Metro stations will communicate the fair ground with the city centre. The EMT will enable a special buses line for the occasion. Rent Madrid Apartments for the best accommodation.