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Camerata Garnati: rescuing our musical heritage and empowering young talents

  • Culture and the arts
  • Interview
  • Talent

PHOTO: © José Zapata Classical music is a cultural treasure that lives on for centuries, however, behind every great work there are composers and young...

“Art doesn’t change the world, artists do”. We talk to Kike Labián, creator of KUBBO and leader of the La Movida project

  • Culture and the arts
  • Interview
  • Talent

Kike Labián represents the voice of a generation of young artists working to reinvent and improve musical education in our country. And he does this...

First Hypatia mission to Mars analogue site a success: “We are changing the narrative and putting women at the centre of research excellence”

  • Foundation
  • Interview
  • Science

The Hypatia I mission, which took place during the second half of April and is supported by the Banco Sabadell Foundation, was completed successfully in...

HYPATIA I: A mission of nine female scientists travels to the Mars Research Desert Station

  • Interview
  • Investigation
  • Science
  • Talent

In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first astronaut to carry out a manned journey into space. Since then, only 1 out of every 10...

Curso de interpretación de Lied

“The Lied interpretation course is an indispensable tool for the enrichment of the Spanish musical panorama” We speak with Victor Medem, director of the Asociación Franz Schubert

  • Culture and the arts
  • Foundation
  • Interview
  • Talent

More than 25 years ago, doctor and musical manager Jordi Roch observed that higher training in classical singing focused only on the study of opera,...

“To be part of this community is a great gift”. We talk to Sofía and Santi, talent from the 4th Generation of Celera.

  • Interview
  • Talent

The application process for the Eighth Generation of Celera, the first talent accelerator in Spain, is already underway. Each year, Celera selects 10 young individuals...

“We want to awaken emotion in attendees, just like a good theatre play”. We talk to Sheila Cremaschi about the Hay Festival Segovia

  • Culture and the arts
  • Interview
  • Talent

In 1988, in the small town of Hay-on-Wye, better known as the “The city of books” in Wales, the Hay Festival was born. It is...

Interview with Jordi Juanos, director of Plant-for-the-Planet Spain, a B-Value participating institution

  • Interview

In 2007, a 9-year-old boy called Felix Finkbeiner was given an assignment about the polar bear. While researching his favourite animal, he found out that...

We join IRB Barcelona’s Metastasis Challenge by visibilizing four lines of research in the fight against cancer

  • Interview
  • Science

We joined the Metastasis Challenge of IRB Barcelona giving visibility to different lines of research in the fight against cancer carried out by four recognized and...

“To carry out a good research project, there has to be something inside you that stirs curiosity and sparks your interest to study a particular subject”, Pol Morillas, CIDOB Director.

  • Interview
  • Prizes

Together with CIDOB, we are launching the Global Talent Programme with the aim of promoting quality research by young researchers through two applied research awards...

“B-Value is not only a programme in which they make you work hard, but it is also a place where you can dream, where you can turn things upside down, the more times the better, only then you are able to evolve,” Meritxell Martorell, founder of Yoga Sin Fronteras, finalist of the Fourth Edition of B-Value

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Yoga Sin Fronteras is one of the finalists and awarded organisations of the Fourth Edition of B-Value, the innovation programme for third sector leaders that we...

Full video of the live on Instagram with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

  • Culture and the arts
  • Interview

Last Wednesday, October 7, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) opened its doors to us live from our Instagram profile (@fundacionbancosabadell). A visit by...

La entrevista de la semana – “El futuro será cuántico, porque la mecánica cuántica nos da la comprensión y el dominio más profundo del universo”, José Ignacio Latorre, asesor científico de la exposición ‘Cuántica’ del CCCB

  • Interview

Hemos hablado con José Ignacio Latorre, asesor científico de la exposición ‘Cuántica’ que acoge el Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) hasta el 24...

Interview of the week – “Photography is the first technological art form”, Pepe Font de Mora, director of the Foto Colectania Foundation

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We spoke to Pepe Font de Mora, director of the Foto Colectania Foundation, an institution that aims to showcase photography and raise awareness of this...

Interview of the week – “For a young musician, it is very important that institutions offer these kinds of opportunities, particularly in such an emblematic venue as the Palau de la Música. Clearly there is a passion for music”, Aleksandr Kliuchko, finalista del Concurs Internacional Maria Canals

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We spoke to the finalist of 65 edició del Concurs Internacional Maria Canals. This year, a total of 88 young pianists from 33 different countries have taken...

Interview of the week – “Science is about always going one step further than what has been achieved or understood, and this is where the impact of innovation lies”, Martine Bosman, Researcher at IFAE, BIST centre.

  • Interview

We have spoken to Martine Bosman, header researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IFAE) BIST centre (Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology) with...

Interview of the week – “The Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme teaches our students that, if they really want to, they can be a lot more creative than they thought possible in the artistic, social and technology fields”, Julia Sánchez, CEO of the Reina Sofía Shool of Music

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For three years now, our Foundation and the Reina Sofía School of Music have been supporting the ‘Musical Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ programme, which is aimed...

Interview of the week – ‘Art and culture must be valued based on aspects that are not just quantitative, yet also aspects related to quality and opportunity’, José Miguel García Cortés, director of the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM).

  • Interview

Until April 2020 you can visit the new exhibition hosted by Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) ‘TIEMPOS CONVULSOS. Historias y microhistorias en la colección...

Interview of the week – ‘Not many people understand the value of creative work, particularly when they are young, and I am happy to see that there are real opportunities out there for us’, Javier Fernández, winner of the first ANFACO-Banco Sabadell Foundation Design Award

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On Thursday 28 February we gave out the first ANFACO-Banco Sabadell Foundation award to a young designer, aged 24: Javier Fernández. This award recognises and...

Interview of the week – ‘Young researchers who train in Spanish laboratories are sought after all over the world’, Dr Óscar Marín, Chairman of the XIV Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Biomedical Research

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Until April 16th we will be accepting applications for our three awards for Biomedical, Scientific and Economic Research. Given the opening of this new application...

Interview of the week – ‘Cara B has a free vocation, less orthodox than A, it’s fresher…emerging…’ Juan Vidaechea, Co-Director of the Cara•B Festival

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This weekend, Friday 15th and Saturday 16th, Barcelona is hosting the fifth edition of the Cara•B Festival of underground music.   It’s already the fifth...

Interview of the week- “In Spain there are very talented and creative professionals, but they need tools to develop and grow their skills”, Lucía Ybarra, Vice-Chair and head of external relations of Factoría Cultural.

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Based on the fifth edition of the “Foro Expertos” cycle, we have chatted with the Vice-Chair and head of external relations of Factoría Cultural, Lucía Ybarra.

Interview of the week – ‘We want the works of art to speak for themselves, we want everyone who sees them to make up their own minds about the character’, Isidro Bango, curator of ‘Floridablanca, la sombra del rey’

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We chatted to its curator, Isidro Bango, a History of Ancient and Mediaeval Art professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, to ask him to tell us more about the exhibition...

Interview of the week – ‘Culture needs to innovate if it is to continue being relevant’, Antonella Broglia, curator of ‘10×10 Innovación en Cultura’

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To mark the tenth anniversary of this cultural event, we chatted to its curator, Antonella Broglia.