Barcelona Degusta 2011

Are you a lover of good food? Are you interested in food? Do you like cooking? Come to Barcelona Degusta and discover new flavours, add to your recipe book, surprise your family on Christmas Day, learn about new culinary techniques…

At Barcelona Degusta you’ll find small-scale producers of food specialities and leading brands, the best designations of origin and the latest in kitchen equipment. You’ll also be able to discover the new gastronomic trends, update your recipe book and attend cooking demonstrations.

Over one hundred exhibitors will be bringing you their new delicatessen products, organic foodstuffs and high-end products. A range of demonstrations, workshops and talks have also been organised, not to mention the “Bulevard dels restaurants“, the ‘Restaurant Boulevard‘, where the chefs from the city’s top-end restaurants will be serving special tapas.

Barcelona Degusta demonstrates its solidarity through a firm commitment to recycling the surplus food and drink at the show. The show is providing the Food Bank Foundation with a stand for collecting food and drink during the two days of the show. This food will be distributed by over one hundred volunteers from the Foundation to the most disadvantaged people in the city of Barcelona and its province.

Fira Barcelona -> Av Reina Maria Cristina, 2 | Sants-Montjuïc

BARCELONA First Mobile World Capital until 2018

After an 18-month search, the GSMA announced that Barcelona has been selected as the Mobile World Capital from 2012 to 2018. As the Mobile World Capital, Barcelona will be the home of the mobile industry’s must-attend event, the GSMA Mobile World Congress, and will also develop a range of other programmes and activities that will span the entire year benefiting the worldwide mobile industry.

We commend all of the finalist cities – Barcelona, Milan, Munich and Paris – for their excellent proposals and the huge amount of energy and creativity that was put into them. While all of the cities who competed for this title presented extremely innovative and compelling bids, in the end, Barcelona truly demonstrated that it deserves the title of the Mobile World Capital, with its combination of outstanding exhibition and conference facilities, its transportation and hospitality infrastructure, its commitment to expanding the reach of mobility throughout Barcelona.

Beyond the Mobile World Congress, the Mobile World Capital also features two additional elements: the Mobile World Centre and the Mobile World Festival. The Mobile World Centre will be comprised of permanent and temporary exhibitions which will meld culture and technological innovation, facilities for the development and incubation of mobile solutions, and retail and hospitality venues. The Mobile World Festival, which is targeted to the general public, will incorporate a range of activities including sporting events, music and art festivals, film awards, applications and technology fairs and more.

Mobile World Congress 2012 will remain at Fira de Barcelona Montjuic and will be held 27 February – 1 March 2012.

www.mobileworldcapital.com

ModaFAD: “On Wheels” Parade & Fashion Market

While The Brandery, an urban fashion fair designed to show off the latest trends from the big brands, is organising a competition for new talent, the 080 Barcelona Fashion catwalk, an indie fashion platform, is letting in two big names: TCN and Mango.

Such apparent contradictions share the same spirit, that of putting Barcelona on the fashion map, publicising successful businesses and introducing up-and-coming designers.

This July at least sees these two events coinciding with the ModaFAD events and activities once again to provide a highly unique fashion week.

As for ModaFAD, which continues to be a platform for emerging fashion, the activities this year are included in the Barcelona Design Festival and, more specifically, the FADFest. This edition’s logo is “On wheels“.

The catwalk, PasaFAD, will take place at the FAD centre and on Plaça dels Àngels on 14 July, offering an opportunity to discover the design school’s up-and-coming creators.

The following day (15 July) the showroom MerkaFAD will be held at the Fira de Barcelona, at the Brandery site. There visitors will be able to buy items from the designers that took part in the parade.

Barcelona Bridal Week

The 21st Barcelona Bridal Week, which includes the Gaudí Novias CatWalk and the Noviaespaña Fair, is coming a week devoted to the bridal wear sector, taking place at Pavilion 8 within the grounds of the Gran Via de Fira de Barcelona. It will draw in even greater numbers than last year’s, with over 14.000 visitors from 50 countries.

The event will bring in representatives from almost half of the 700 businesses specialising in the sector here in Spain. 40% will be international, with businesses from the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, South Korea and Turkey, among others.

Barcelona Bridal Week kicks off with Gaudí CatWalk parades, from 10 to 13 May, in which 27 designers are expected to participate: Jesús del Pozo, Pronovias, Rosa Clarà, Victorio & Lucchino, Jesús Peiró, Cymbeline and Raimon Bundó.

The Noviaespaña Fair, from 13 to 15 May, will take over from the cat walk. It will offer a range of products from 240 businesses in the sector in a venue with 30.000 square metres at its disposal.

B-Days: Discover Barcelona at incredible rates

Planning a visit to Barcelona? Check out our calendar and take advantatge of B-Days: the new incredible promotion at B-Hotel. For only 65€ per night, stay in one of our B-Rooms.

 Seamlessly blending avant-garde style with ultimate functionality, B-Rooms are equipped with the latest technologies and electronic devices; they also feature high design furnishings, minimalist decor, total luxury and excellent services, such as free Wi-Fi, natural lighting, and king size beds or two singles. Cots are also available.

B-Hotel in Plaza Espanya is a perfect place to stay when visiting Barcelona; it’s just ten minutes from La Rambla and Plaza Catalunya, as well as all the museums on Montjuïc. Its ideal location, in one of Barcelona’s most exciting areas, and just steps away from Fira de Barcelona fairgrounds, has made B-Hotel a key landmark during business meetings and trade conventions.

Click here and check out our B-Days calendar

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Between 15 and 18 February, Barcelona is going to be the world capital of mobile telephony. The Mobile World Congress at the Fira de Barcelona will bring together the top leaders of this industrial technology, who are not going to miss the most important event in the world in this sector.

During the four days the congress lasts many activities, talks and events will be held, along with presentations of the latest advances in mobile technologies. It will also see the presentation of the Global Mobile Awards, the sector’s most prestigious awards.

Place:  Fira Barcelona  |  Address: Av Reina Maria Cristina, 2

Mobile World Congress Website

080 Barcelona Fashion, Indepedent Fashion

Hotel 1898 is one of the sponsors of 080 Barcelona Fashion.

Creativity and innovation are the concepts inspiring 080 Barcelona Fashion, a platform from which to offer visibility to independent fashion designers, with the aim to become a benchmark for international avant-garde fashion and design.

With the intention to earn its own place inside the independent fashion circuit, this event aims to transform the city of Barcelona into an inescapable first rate worldwide showcase for fashion and avant-garde design. 080 Barcelona Fashion is therefore committed to back Fashion Culture as a whole, pretending to become more than just a plain Fashion Show.

For its present fifth edition, held on January the 26, 27, 28 and 29th, the 080 Barcelona Fashion Showroom will be combined together with The Brandery; and work has continued to be done to achieve an extension of the commercial possibilities.

In this 5th edition, we could see the following catwalk shows: Bibian Blue, Cardona Bonache, Celia Vela, Crommorc, Heal Fashionlab, Jan Iú Més, Juan Antonio Avalos, Karlotalaspalas, Krizia Robustella, Manuel Bolaño, Martin Lamothe, Miriam Ponsa, Montse Liarte, Songzio, Stefania Borras, Tim Hamilton, Tramando y Yiorgos Eleftheriades.

Location: Pavilions 6 & 8 de Fira de Barcelona (Montjuïc)
When: del 26 al 29 de enero de 2010
More inf@: 080 Barcelona Fashion Website

The Children’s Festival during Christmas holiday

Immersing yourself in a mysterious jungle, painting recycled water bottles, taking part in a cart race, jumping on trampolines, playing on “Planet Basketball”, cooking fruit and vegetables, travelling through virtual settings, becoming a firefighter for a day, scaling artificial climbing walls and taking part in juggling, magic and circus workshops, are just some of the many activities you’ll be able to do at the Children’s Festival, which is being held from 27 December to 4 January at Fira de Barcelona’s Montjuïc site. This year’s event will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Convention on Children’s Rights.

Sport will be one of the Festival’s pillars. Children will find areas for playing football, basketball, climbing, skating, hockey, Olympic shooting, cycling, cart racing, athletics and taekwondo. Other highlights in the programme include game activities, such as merry-go-rounds, trampolines and games of every kind, plus shows, with this years featuring performances by clowns, magicians, storytellers, puppets, children’s theatre, human castle makers and Bollywood artists.

Children’s rights will have a place in several of the festival’s activities, which will be promoting creativity and solidarity among children in a playful and educational way, as well as encouraging sport, physical activities and healthy eating habits, instilling values such as respecting diversity, integration, healthy coexistence and looking after the environment.

47th Children’s Festival  |  From 27/12/2009 to 04/01/2010
Fira Barcelona -> Av Reina Maria Cristina, 2 | Sants-Montjuïc

Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009

Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009 will be attended by over 4,000 delegates from many countries and international observers with aim of drawing up a text for a possible agreement at the Convention of the Parties (COP15), which will take place in December in Copenhagen.

From 2 to 6 November, FIRA GRAN VIA, at carrer del Foc 47, Barcelona, will be the venue for the last preparatory sessions prior to COP15, which will take place in Copenhagen in December.

Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009 will be the last of the meetings established for 2009 in order to draw up an internationally deal to tackle climate change beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expires. These meetings were established under the Bali Action Plan agreed at COP13, in order to arrive at a future agreement regarding climate change beyond 2012.

The Bali Action Plan, or Decision 1/COP13, establishes that a comprehensive process be launched to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through long-term cooperative action, now, up to and beyond 2012, in order to reach an agreed outcome and adopt a decision at its fifteenth session, to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Barcelona Climate Change Talks 2009
Barcelona Convention Centre FIRA GRAN VIA -> Calle del Foc, 47

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Mascota Barcelona – Pet Exhibition

For the first time in Spain, three important events dedicated to pets will be held in the same exhibition centre and on the same dates:  Fira de Barcelona’s Mascota Show where the latest pet food and pet care products will be presented; the Southern European Veterinary Congress attended by around 5.500 experts; and the international reptile and amphibian fair, Expoterraria. From the 1st to the 4th of October his coincidence will turn Barcelona into a reference point for pet professionals and lovers.

Mascota, which arose from the transformation of Sizoo and the Festival de la Mascota, will showcase the latest trends in food, health, accessories and specialised services for domestic animals. Although a trade fair, the general public will have the opportunity to see these new products at the weekend, on the 3rd and 4th of October, in the Montjuïc exhibition centre, also the setting for the other two major events which, together, will occupy halls 2, 5, 7 and 8 and the Plaça de l’Univers.

The show’s list of proposals includes the Pets’ Fashion Catwalk where the new collections of pet fashion and accessories will be presented, featuring designers like Adolfo Domínguez, and a large variety of activities for the whole family such as aquarium and cat exhibitions, training trials, a dog beauty contest and children’s workshops with service dogs for persons with disabilities, among others.

At the same time, around 5.500 experts on animal health will attend the Southern European Veterinary Conference – 44th Congress of the Association of Spanish Specialist Veterinarians of Small Animals (AVEPA), which will feature 200 conferences and speakers from around the world. Topics at the event will include Leishmaniosis disease in dogs, new medical and surgical advances, clinic management and veterinarian assistant training. There will also be specialised workshops on diagnostic techniques and dog behaviour, among others.

www.salonmascota.com  1 & 2 october: only professionals  | 3 & 4 october: general public

NN Hotels: www.nnhotels.com  | We suggest accommodation at B-Hotel (www.b-hotel.com) located at Plaza España

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