Más allá (escribiendo en la residencia)
Más Allá Más allá de la emoción cruda De un alma infantil Yace el eterno suspiro De un alma anclado En lo cómodo En lo familiar En el consuelo de la nostalgia De lo que nunca volverá a… Continue Reading
Writing
Tommaso Merlo, writer in residence April and June 2016
My contribution to Jiwar’s blog
Again in Jiwar. By Ghazaal Hashemi.
Barcelona has always felt like home to me and I am truly grateful for this opportunity to be here once again to complete the project that I could not finish in April 2017. The project I am working on is “gender oppression… Continue Reading
Differance – that Democracy Makes. By Antonin Marto.
Differance. That Democracy Makes. Antonin Marto (Irakli Z. Kakabadze) was the writer hosted by the City of Barcelona and Catalan PEN in 2016-2017. His presentation was done in Jiwar in April 2016. “In 1980s I have participated in the struggle… Continue Reading
The Color of Belonging
Having been in residence at Jiwar for three weeks now, for the Making Neighborhood project about urban mobility, I designed a survey and initiated a participatory process with “conversations” about Barcelona life. With help from translators, the participation can be… Continue Reading
Last day in Barcelona by Geoff Gates
This morning I left Barcelona. That could almost be the start of a novel because the word ‘Barcelona’ conjures up so much, and leaving Barcelona almost seems like a tragic statement. I had a wonderful month at the Jiwar Creation… Continue Reading
From Barcelona to London. Namita E. Chakrabarty_4
A short delayed farewell… I left Barcelona last week for London briefly, then a few days in France, and I’m now back in London so I’ve been thinking about departures, farewells and journeys – and arrivals. My performance reading of… Continue Reading
Loving communications. Namita E. Chakrabarty_3
Since my last entry I’ve been thinking about different types of loving communications: The synchronicity of writing in my last blog entry about hearing via phone call of Dudu Pukwana’s death, when here in Gracia decades ago, then reading the… Continue Reading
Away from England. Namita E. Chakrabarty_2
How quickly we settle in to places we’ve been before, or that are welcoming to strangers! JIWAR is a green oasis, hidden in Gracia’s network of streets and lanes. Still as I remember it: the market stalls bursting with ripe… Continue Reading
Arrival in Gracia. Namita E. Chakrabarty_1
I arrived here yesterday evening, away from Brexit blues and the complexities of the Leave vote…to find Barcelona, and Gracia blooming in the summer heat, while the past ripples within the promise of the present, and the future… Continue Reading