Activities of "Friends of the Dalí Museums" - Fundació Gala

Activities

Figueres, february 14th

Chillida engraver

Day: February, 14th

Hour: 6 pm

Place: Empordà Museum

Guided visit to the engravings exhibition Chillida. Codes.
The engraver, Sebi Subirós, explains the various engraving techniques and gives a demonstration of printmaking based on a plate by the artist.

Figueres, 24 junuary 2008

History of a painting

Day : 24 junuary

Hour : 8,15 pm

Place : cupola room of Dalí Theatre-Museum

Talk given by Carme Ruiz, coordinator of Centre for Dalinian Studies, about Dalí and its Self Portraits because of the temporary exhibition organized around 11 self portraits, one of them on loan

Barcelona, January 20th

Cultural Outing to Barcelona

Day : January, 20th

Hour : 8.30 am

Place : Bus Station

3 visits to temporary exhibitions, one of them in Picasso Museum : an exhibition about the private art collection of the artist.

The day finished with a play by La Cubana Company in Cine Coliseum.

Barcelona, 24 November 2007

Cultural outing to AGBAR TOWER and MNAC (Barcelona)

Date: 24 November 2007
Time: 8.30 am
Place: Bus station

Guided visit to Agbar Tower in Barcelona, temporary exhibition devoted to the surrealist painter Yves Tanguy at the MNAC and a play at the Poliorama Theatre: El Llibertí (“The Libertine”) by E. Schmitt.

Figueres, 14 October 2007

Opera at the Teatre Jardí in Figueres

Date: 14 October 2007
Time: 6 pm
Place: Teatre Jardí in Figueres

Seats at exclusive prices for the Friends of the Dalí Museums.
Places limited.

Performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Un Ballo in Maschera, by Amics de l'Òpera of Sabadell, in collaboration with the Culture Department of Figueres City Council.

Cadaqués, 7 October 2007

Outing to Cap de Creus

Date: 7 October 2007
Time: 8.30 am
Place: Bus station
An outing to see Dalí’s landscapes, a visit to the House-Museum in Portlligat and stroll around Cadaqués after lunch.
The visit to the garden of the Salvador Dalí House-Museum has been extended to include the Olive Grove, the Pigeon Loft and especially the Christ of Rubbish, a previously unshown montage that Salvador Dalí created in the later 1960s with materials left washed down onto the beach by heavy rains over the bay of Portlligat.

Pla de l'Estany, 22 September 2007

"Soldiers of Salamis” Route

Date: 22 September 2007
Time: 8.30 am
Place: Bus Station

A guided visit around the settings in which Javier Cercas’s famous novel is located, followed by a trip around the Prehistoric Caves of Serinyà, and finally a visit to the Archaeological Museum of Banyoles, where we will be shown the discoveries that have been made.

Figueres, 6 September 2007

Homage to Anna Maria Dalí

Date: 6 September 2007
Time: 8.30 pm
Place: Dalí Theatre-Museum

A talk given by Montse Aguer, Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies and Trustee of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, about the figure of Anna Maria Dalí, Salvador Dalí’s model and muse in his youthful work, on the occasion of the temporary exhibition devoted to her at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres.
Sample of works from a private collection, some never previously shown and others whose whereabouts had been unknown. A good opportunity to find out more about this period in the work and the life of Salvador Dalí as a boy/young man, presented by one of the leading experts in the field.

Figueres, from 28 July to 28 September 2007

Photography competition

From 28 July to 28 September 2007
Sixth Photodalícatessen Photography Competition 2007, under the motif "Best photo connected with the Dalí Museums", open to photographers from all over the world. Event organised by Friends of the Dalí Museums in collaboration with Dalícatessen.

Figueres, 29 August 2007

Outing to COLÒNIA GÜELL CRYPT (Santa Coloma de Cervelló)

Date: 29 August 2007
Time: 8.30 am
Place: Bus station

An all-day outing that consists of a guided visit to the Colònia Güell Crypt in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, devised by Gaudí; attendance as audience at the TV3 programme El Club d'estiu .