Holiday Barcelona Blog

Art in the street and Senegalese music in the largest festival of Barcelona

Dance, theater, mime, circus and traveling actions constitute a generous and eclectic offer, which guarantees the ancestral pleasure of enjoying art in public spaces, all of this in the suggestive holiday break for the Festival of Barcelona, on 23, 24 , 25 and 26 September 2010.

Apart from the first "Street Arts Festival", the novelty of this year is the presence of Senegalese music and culture. This is because Dakar is the city's guest this year's festivals. For the first time an African metropolis will be able to make Barcelona its window to the world.

The opening speech of the Mercè festival will be read in 2010 by the poet and architect Joan Margarit. The National Prize for Literature and author of collections of poems such as "Barcelona amor final" (Barcelona final love) will be on the balcony of the City Hall on September 23 at 19:00.