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On this page we include what was on in Barcelona some time ago. If you've have missed it, note that nearly all of these are annual events, so you might want to take a look at them if you are coming to Barcelona next year.

You might also check our "coming up" page (link above)...

27 December 2011-4 January 2012
Festival de la Infancia
Barcelona's annual "Children's Festival" (this year the 44th edition) is a great day out for kids - with basically anything you could wish the Three Kings (aka Santa) would bring you.

•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan

November 22-December 18
World Press Photo Exhibition
The truly outstanding World Press Photo exhibition [website], at the CCCB, includes some of the breathtaking images taken by photojournalists around the world in the last year.

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11.00-20.00.

Locking the world's leaders up inside on a starvation diet for a week or so would surely fix quite a number of the world's problems...

September 1-29
Festival l'Hora del Jazz-Memorial Tete Montoliu
The 21st edition of the Hora del Jazz festival includes free midday concerts in the Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia (September 4, 11 and 18) as well as evening sessions at venues that include Jamboree, the Continental and the Conservatori del Liceu.

•Languages: Catalan

July 4—August 5
Open air cinema
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, for a lamentably short period, there's open-air cinema, proceeded by a concert (21.00) the film starting at 22.00, under the walls on the fort on Montjuic (free bus service from the Plaza España).

Bring your picnic supper along beforehand and enjoy 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

July 4-5
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

June 30—July 10
Jewish Film Festival of Barcelona
As well as the Asian Film Festival, Barcelona also has a Jewish Film Festival, which reaches its 13th edition this year.

June 18—19
Bike Show'11
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.

We're back this year, with a professional bike industry fair; competitions of all kinds and various other events.

May 10-15
Barcelona Fashion Week
Barcelona likes to think itself as always at the height of fashion and its Fashion Week, the Pasarela Gaudí is its big annual event.

"Moda Barcelona's" next big event is June's "BCN Bridal Week".

The Flash-built site is decidedly uninspired.

•We liked: Dressing up when we were kids...?
•Not so hot: "Fashion shows require a direct personal invitation from the designer". Er... Guess that means I'll not be going, then
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan

May 30
Corte Inglés Fun Run
The 32nd edition of this 11 km run, sponsored by Spain's largest department store, one of the world's largest fun runs with over 50,000 participants.

The route takes you from Plaça Catalunya out to Plaça Espanya, up Montjuic, into the Olympic Stadium and back down to Plaça Catalunya for the finish.

May 9-September 26 2004
Forum 2004
Officially, the "Universal Forum of Cultures" is an event that was going to "move the world", according to the propaganda, that was. The statistics suggest that the world didn't buy it. More information on our Forum 2004 page.

The Forum, thankfully, is not an event that will be coming back.

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