Orwell Day 2025
Literary routes and other activities in Orwell’s Barcelona
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Free with pre-booking
As part of Orwell Day 2025, we explore the libertarian Barcelona that the author experienced and described in Homage to Catalonia, retracing his steps accompanied by scholars of his life and work.
Homage to Catalonia has been consequential for generations as an exceptional first-person account of the Aragon front of the Spanish Civil War and the social revolution in Barcelona. The Orwell Day group offers this invitation to discover the places that are the basis of Orwell’s chronicle of the city.
Orwell literary routes 2025:
The starting point of the routes will be Rambla de Santa Mònica, at the Drassanes metro station. They will end at the CCCB.
*This activity is free of charge. Prior registration is required. Places are limited.
Thursday 22 May (4 p.m. to 6 p.m.) with Paula León (in Catalan).
Wednesday 28 May (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) with Fernando Casal (in Spanish).
Thursday 5 June (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) with Nick Lloyd (in English). This route will conclude with a reading of extracts of Homage to Catalonia in Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Italian, and Greek at the Cafè Moka, La Rambla.
Tuesday 10 June (4 p.m. to 6 p.m.) with Manu Valentín (in Spanish).
Wednesday 11 June (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) with Carlota Canal (in French).
Monday 16 June (4 p.m. to 6 p.m.) with Ricard Martínez (in Catalan).
Other Orwell Day activities, 2025
“Orwell Has Coffee at the Moka”
Sunday 25 May, at Cafè Moka (12 h). Discussion about Orwell at Eton College, with Josep Lluís González, a former teacher at the school.
* No prior registration is required.
“Langston Hughes, Key Figure of the Harlem Renaissance and Chronicler of the Spanish Civil War”
Monday 2 June, at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Barcelona (6 p.m.). Entrance through Teatre Poliorama (La Rambla, 115).
*This event is free of charge. Prior registration is required. Register here.
Apropos of the publication of Homenaje a Cataluña y Aragón de George Orwell (George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia and Aragon, Sariñena Editorial, 2024), which includes a new translation of Homage to Catalonia, the translator, Maribel Cruzado Soria, will speak about the American poet and founding member of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, who was a correspondent of the newspaper Baltimore Afro-American during the Spanish Civil War. She will put into perspective the initiatory journeys of George Orwell and Langston Hughes to wartime Spain.
Concluding this event, the Gili-Romaní-Mazzanti Trio will perform jazz pieces inspired by poems by Langston Hughes and the atmosphere of the Harlem Renaissance.
On 13 and 14 June, Aragon Orwell Day will be held in Sariñena (Huesca). For further information, please contact: [email protected]
This activity is part of Orwell Day 2025, Orwell Day
