Barcelona is eventful. June 2009 is just another example of this. We listed the Barcelona events of June for you. Enjoy!
June 6-7
Barcelona Extreme Sports Festival
If "skateboard, BMX, inline, FMX, urban jibbing and wakeboard" are your thing, don't miss the Barcelona Extreme Sports Festival, at the Parc del Fòrum.
Barcelona Extreme Sports Festival
If "skateboard, BMX, inline, FMX, urban jibbing and wakeboard" are your thing, don't miss the Barcelona Extreme Sports Festival, at the Parc del Fòrum.
•Languages: English, Spanish and Catalan
Motorcycling, 8 JuneSpanish Grand Prix
The official Spanish Grand Prix site has full information on the Montmeló circuit (about 20 km outside Barcelona) and how to get there (train).
Details on our Barcelona sports page.
June 13-14
Bike Show'09
In 2006, Barcelona held its first ever "participative event" for the bike world (that's the kind that you have to pedal and get hot and sweaty, not the brrrom-brroMMMM variety) at the Palau Sant Jordi.
Bike Show'09
In 2006, Barcelona held its first ever "participative event" for the bike world (that's the kind that you have to pedal and get hot and sweaty, not the brrrom-brroMMMM variety) at the Palau Sant Jordi.
Following the success of the first two editions, we'll be back in 2009, with a professional bike industry fair; competitions of all kinds and various other events.
Until June 18Barcelona Guitar Festival
The highlights of the 20th edition of Barcelona's "Festival de Guitarra" include Amaral (April 2);Jackson Browne (May 13), Gary Moore (May 21), Wilco (June 4) and Vicente Amigo (June 18).
Venues include the Palau de la Música, L'Auditori, Luz de Gas and Bikini, with over 30 concerts running through until June 18.
•Languages: English, Spanish and Catalan
16-18 June 2009Internet Global Congress
For four days in May, Barcelona becomes the "Internet world capital", the IGC site modestly claims. The event offers a wide range of papers and plenaries on Internet-related matters.
The site carries full information on the congress, its different plenaries and parallel sessions, as well as information on the "village" where you will be able to get your hands on some of all that technology.
•We liked: The vast, apparently all-inclusive range of its themes
•Not so hot: €300 a head for the four days unless you qualify as a student - and that was the 2004 edition!
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
•We liked: The vast, apparently all-inclusive range of its themes
•Not so hot: €300 a head for the four days unless you qualify as a student - and that was the 2004 edition!
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
18-20 June 2009Sonar Festival
The sixteenth edition of Barcelona's Advanced Music and Multimedia Art SONAR festival takes place in June, with this year's big attraction being... Er, we're struggling with that one, I'm afraid. We guess that if you are really into this sort of stuff then, um, er… great! Nice talking to you… (Cripes, what was that guy on about…?!)
Hang on a sec: Grace Jones (who has just brought out her first new album for 20 years) will be there!
•We liked: ...er, the MNAC?
•Not so hot: Terrible site design... Just what the dickens is on?
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
•We liked: ...er, the MNAC?
•Not so hot: Terrible site design... Just what the dickens is on?
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
June 20-August 2
Grec Festival
The Grec is one of Barcelona's major annual festivals, with events including music, theatre, dance and circus...
Grec Festival
The Grec is one of Barcelona's major annual festivals, with events including music, theatre, dance and circus...
Tickets can be booked online (via Telentrada), but obtaining tickets and information is probably going to be much easier from the ticket and information office at the top of the Portal de l'Àngel, in the south-east corner of the Plaza Catalunya.
June 23
Sant Joan - Midsummer's Eve
Barcelona goes wild on St Joan, drinking cava, the local sparkling wine, consuming a rather boring coca de St Joan, a dry cake with candied fruit of various kinds on top, blasting off the annual budget of a small developing nation in fireworks and partying on the beach till dawn and the Guardia Urbana come along. Reliable sources -- aka a local freebie rag -- tell us that 28 tonnes of rubbish were collected this year the next morning.
Sant Joan - Midsummer's Eve
Barcelona goes wild on St Joan, drinking cava, the local sparkling wine, consuming a rather boring coca de St Joan, a dry cake with candied fruit of various kinds on top, blasting off the annual budget of a small developing nation in fireworks and partying on the beach till dawn and the Guardia Urbana come along. Reliable sources -- aka a local freebie rag -- tell us that 28 tonnes of rubbish were collected this year the next morning.
The fireworks are something else. You remember Apocalypse Now? Walking the streets on the night of the 23rd is about like that. Wild!
More about Sant Joan on the official BCN site - what's on, how to makecoca... Why, you can even build your own rocket!
June 29 - July 31
Open air cinema
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, for a lamentably short period, there's open-air cinema, the film starting at 9.00pm, under the walls on the fort on Montjuic (free bus service from the Plaza España). The 2009 programme includes Scorsese, Hitchcock, Almodóvar, the Coen brothers... Bring your picnic supper along beforehand and get some live jazz to go with it. A cool way to spend a hot summer night.
Open air cinema
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, for a lamentably short period, there's open-air cinema, the film starting at 9.00pm, under the walls on the fort on Montjuic (free bus service from the Plaza España). The 2009 programme includes Scorsese, Hitchcock, Almodóvar, the Coen brothers... Bring your picnic supper along beforehand and get some live jazz to go with it. A cool way to spend a hot summer night.
•We liked: The walk round the castle walls afterwards in the moonlight
•Not so hot: Some of the films on the programme... But hey, I'm going for the picnic
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
•Not so hot: Some of the films on the programme... But hey, I'm going for the picnic
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
Concerts
For what is on in the way of classical music, opera and the like, see what's on at the Palau de la Musica and the Liceu Opera House (two places well worth visiting for their architecture, even if you are not that keen on that sort of music). Tickets for these can be obtained from ServiCaixa, see below, which also has a rather frustrating to navigate calendar of events.
For what is on in the way of classical music, opera and the like, see what's on at the Palau de la Musica and the Liceu Opera House (two places well worth visiting for their architecture, even if you are not that keen on that sort of music). Tickets for these can be obtained from ServiCaixa, see below, which also has a rather frustrating to navigate calendar of events.
Classical music is also on at the Auditori, home to Barcelona's Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC). Tickets for this can be obtained from Telentrada (see below).
Apart from the concerts in the Guitar Festival (see above), coming up in Barcelona we have U2 (Camp Nou, June 30 and July 2); Metallica (Parc del Fòrum, July 11); and Madonna (Olympic Stadium, July 21); withColdplay coming in September (Olympic Stadium, September 4).
No Summercase this year
It had become one of the highlights of the summer (last year we had Sex Pistols, Blondie, Primal Scream, The Verve, The Stranglers...) but there will be no Summercase Festival this year, due to the recession.
It had become one of the highlights of the summer (last year we had Sex Pistols, Blondie, Primal Scream, The Verve, The Stranglers...) but there will be no Summercase Festival this year, due to the recession.
Now that's a worrying sign!
Barcelona concert ticketsServiCaixa and Telentrada
Servicaixa is one of best sources of tickets for concerts and other events in Barcelona, being run by La Caixa, the city's major bank. Tickets can be bought online or at cashpoints throughout the city.
Telentrada is the online ticket service from rival bank Caixa de Catalunya.Concert details are also to be found at concert promoters Doctor Music and concert tickets can also be obtained from TickTackTicket.
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