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Friday, 10 February 2017

Cultural events worth travelling for this season

The season’s cultural events worth traveling for: A lot is going on all over the world in the next couple of months. The Economist’s sister magazine, 1843, compiled a list of exciting event taking place and worth traveling for. On their list is the Las Fallas Fiesta in Valencia, Spain. Its origins trace back to the Middle Ages where each neighborhood in the city fashions its own bawdy statue satirizing public figures and on 19 March – the Night of Fire – they go up in flames, except for one, which is spared by people’s votes and joins the crew of previous winners in the Museo Fallero. “The five days leading up to the final conflagration are a continuous street party, with fireworks, bullfights and paella.” Robots exhibition is on at the Science Museum in London starting this week. Starting from 5 March, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts is hosting the exhibition “Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950.” The exhibition is hinged on the anger, frustration and admiration of Cuba’s artists towards its 1959 revolution. Back in Europe and for the next six weeks, art will be everywhere in the Swiss village of Gstaad as it holds the Elevation 1049 art festival. The art, exploring the theme of “avalanche,” will take over spaces from the Palace Hotel to the high glacier, inspired by the instability of the snow that transforms Gstaad each year, 1843 says. On the quirkier side, on 15 March, Japan celebrates honen matsuri – the fertility festival, and 1843 recommends being in Komaki as it “one place does it with particular aplomb.”

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