General

The Choirs of the Madrigal Choir Group, with the JONC, the Escola-Niu Children’s Choir and the Waldorf School’s Children’s Choir pay tribute to choir director Manel Cabero. The program will include the cantata «Ho sap tothom, i és profecia», by J. V. Foix, with music by Narcís Bonet. It was performed for the first time at the Palau at Christmas 1972, with the Sant Jordi choir.

Day and time: January 17, 2023 at 8:30 p.m
Place: Palau de la Música Catalana

The Casa de Cultura of the Diputació de Girona hosts the Art i Paraula exhibition, a traveling exhibition of contemporary art and Catalan poetry.
The looks of artists of different generations discover the poetry of Ausiàs March, Ramon Llull, Joan Oliver, Salvador Espriu, V. A. Estellés, J. V. Foix, Maria Mercè Marçal, Felícia Fuster, Carles Hac Mor, Joan Brossa and Àngels Moreno.

Place: Pl. de l’Hospital, 6, 17002 Girona
Days: From January 10, 2023 to February 10, 2023. From Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Documents propis i texts d’altri

The new book that the Fundació publishes that year contains the contributions that J. V. Foix worked for the Serra d’Or magazine between 1960 and 1962, renewing the old practice of “Meridians”, in the newspaper La Publicitat< /em>, where he did cultural journalism, an activity he dedicated himself to for twenty years, from twenty-three to forty-three.
It is the first time that these collaborations have been collected in one volume. In “Documents propis” he collects opinions of Catalan writers, while in “Texts d’altri” he collects the opinions of foreign authors.

Merry Christmas, by J. V. Foix

La gent s’agleva en la nit dura,
Tots anuncien la ventura,
Les Illes porten el saïm,
I els de l’Urgell, farina pura:
Qui res no té, clarors del cim.
La fe que bull no té captura
                                I no es fa el Pa sense el Llevat:
                                A cal fuster hi ha novetat.
                                                        J. V. Foix, Nadal 1953

The well-known verse of J. V. Foix “It’s when I sleep that I see clearly” illustrate one of the panels in the exhibition Brain(s) at the CCCB, which takes us so deep into the anatomy of the brain as in everything it generates: consciousness, abstract thought, language, imagination, dreams and memory.

During sleep we enter a state of altered consciousness, and although the brain is still active —in fact, activity increases in some areas while we sleep— our perception is greatly reduced.

J. V. Foix‘s verse gives the title to the poetry recital that Teatre Essela, with Cacu Prat and Pep Tines, presented at the Vapor Badia Library in Sabadell.
It is a journey through texts referring to industrialization, to which avant-garde creators such as Joaquim Folguera, Joan Salvat-Papasseit, J. V. Foix and Joan Brossa referred.

Place: Biblioteca Vapor Badia de Sabadell
Day and time: November 17 at 7.00 p.m.

In the third presentation dedicated to the 20th century, included in the cycle “The great civilizations of Europe”, the poet and editor Jordi Cornudella will talk about post-war Catalan poetry and, more specifically, about J. V. Foix and Carles Riba.
This activity is part of the Institut d’Humanitats. Course 2022/2023.

Place: CCCB, Montalegre, 5 Barcelona
Day: November 8, 2022, at 6:30 p.m

Biblioteques de Barcelona offers an unprecedented tour through the works of Catalan classics and their toys. Among them, you will find J. V. Foix. In this way, they are added to the commemoration of the 40 years of Museu del Joguet de Catalunya-Figueres.

Place: Biblioteca Jaume Fuster. Pl. de Lesseps, 20, 08023 Barcelone
Days: From October 20 to January 15 2023

The Espai Isern Dalmau of the Fundació Lluís Coromina hosts the exhibition Art i Paraula, a traveling exhibition of contemporary art and Catalan poetry that was presented in November 2021 at the Factoria Cultural de Terrassa, and that is presented for the first time in Barcelona.

Place: Espai Isern Dalmau, Fundació Joan Coromina, Mallorca, 305, 08037 Barcelona
Days: from September 8 to October 29, from Tuesday to Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Foix a Dubrovnik, 1934The Palau Robert, with the collaboration of PEN Català presents an exhibition on the organization’s centenary, curated by Manuel Guerrero. PEN Català was born in Barcelona in 1922 as a response to a call from PEN International. J. V. Foix was its president from 1968 to 1973.

Room 4 of Palau Robert from September 9 to November 20.