Merry Christmas to all of our members and supporters

Posted by Jonny hough
On December 18, 2015

The BritishSpanish team wishes a Very Merry Christmas to all of our members and supporters

Antonio Najarro: Dance Fusions

Posted by Jonny hough
On November 29, 2015

Photo by Jesus Robisco Ballet Nacional de España’s highly esteemed director speaks to Graham Watts, chairman of the Dance Section of Critics’ Circle and National Dance Awards about Suite Sevilla, and how he trained dancers to perform flamenco on ice. Antonio Najarro exudes a palpable aura of celebrity. With thick, dark hair that stands to […]

Cultural Diplomacy. 100 years of history of the BritishSpanish Society

Posted by Jonny hough
On November 23, 2015

To mark its Centenary, The BritishSpanish Society is proud to announce the publication by the award winning University of Liverpool Press of the Society’s bilingual history by a scholarship winner Dr Luis G. Martínez del Campo (Paperback format in English and Spanish). Retail: £15 excluding p&p (royalties to the Society Centenary Fund). Order your copy now […]

BS-S Centenary Year Events Program- Save the date!

Posted by Jonny hough
On October 19, 2015

Dear members, we are delighted to inform you of the British Spanish Society’s upcoming events Gala of Spanish DanceAnd dancers 26/11/2015 at The Place WC1 8:00pm£32 / £39 non members CHRISTMAS PARTY 10/12/2015 at Instituto Cervantes SW1W 7:00 pm £35/ £45 non members Why not join […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On July 8, 2015

Brian Mooney navigates his way from the centre of Spain to the city of London. I have become alarmingly medieval in my approach to pilgrimage, believing that a pilgrim walk is not complete without the return leg. My conversion was quite sudden. Having walked to Rome in 2010, on my return I was challenged […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On June 26, 2015

We are happy to announce that BritishSpanish Society members have been offered 20% discount on Robert Goodwin’s magnificent book Spain: the Centre of the World 1519-1682. To receive a 20% discount (£24) on Spain please visit www.bloomsbury.com and quote SPAIN at the checkout The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western […]

The Spanish Embassy opened its doors for one of the biggest annual events organised by the BritishSpanish Society.

Posted by Jonny hough
On June 22, 2015

A long queue of people waited expectantly outside the Spanish Ambassador’s residence on a warm early summer evening in June to join the BritishSpanish Society summer party. The Spanish Ambassador to the UK and honorary president of the Society Federico Trillo-Figueroa hosted the event, which gathered Spanish and British people of all ages and professions. […]

RIP Manuel de Lole y Manuel

Posted by Jonny hough
On May 20, 2015

A legend of flamenco leaves us but su Duende sigue Flamenco artist Manuel Molina Jiménez (Ceuta, 1948), died on Tuesday 19th May. See here for the El Pais article on his life: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2015/05/19/actualidad/1432029880_366877.html

The FT’s Lionel Barber is Guest of Honour at the Society’s Centenary Encounters Dinner

Posted by Jonny hough
On April 14, 2015

By Our Social Affairs correspondent Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber was the guest of honour at a private dinner organised on Monday 13th April by the BritishSpanish Society at London’s Garrick Club. Speaking without notes, Barber gave an incisive and entertaining speech, peppered with amusing anecdotes, entitled ‘Europe and the New Politics – the challenge for Spain and […]

Review: Ay! Eva Yerbabuena

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 28, 2015

By Bess Twiston-Davies Was it a foot? Or was it an instrument? Hard to tell, so fluid was the sound of Eva Yerbabuena’s mint-sharp zapateo. There was a seamless echo – foot, music, sound – all melding together into one. Mesmerising. This was Ay!, her 2013 choreography on a second visit to Sadler’s Wells. The […]

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Merry Christmas to all of our members and supporters

Antonio Najarro: Dance Fusions

Cultural Diplomacy. 100 years of history of the BritishSpanish Society

BS-S Centenary Year Events Program- Save the date!

On foot from Madrid to London

The Spanish Embassy opened its doors for one of the biggest annual events organised by the BritishSpanish Society.

RIP Manuel de Lole y Manuel

The FT’s Lionel Barber is Guest of Honour at the Society’s Centenary Encounters Dinner

Review: Ay! Eva Yerbabuena

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