The City’s Main Fiesta

The Mercè festivals will be the shortest and most austere so far (read article in Castilian here, La Vanguardia). The city’s main fiesta, will be a day shorter than last year, from September 22nd until the 25th, but will maintain a virtually unchanged level of activity despite cutting costs. St. Petersburg will be the invited city, linked to Barcelona since the Eighties, the highlight of which will be a performance of Swan Lake in the Parc de la Ciutadella. Speaking at a press conference yesterday the Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Culture said that the budget for cultural activities will be €3.4 million, compared to the €3.6 million budget of last year. For the third consecutive year, the reception party at the Palacete Albéniz has been cancelled—the last party cost half a million euros in 2008. Councillor Marta Almirall, in charge of the Festival explained that due to the reduction in budget, events taking place in the Teatre Grec, the Canódromo and at the stage at the Portal de la Pau have been cut, however she wanted to emphasis the inclusion of the Plaça de la Mercè as the main stage for the traditional activities such as the habaneras,sardanas and castells. As usual the end of the festivities will be marked with the Festival del Cielo, which can be seen from the beaches of Mar Bella, Nova Mar Bella and the Marina and the piromusical event at the four towers of Puig i Cadafalch. (metropolitan barcelona)

Places

Saturday Schedule of Events (ENGLISH)

When	What	Where
08:30	The epicenter of the tradition	Plaza de la Merced
	Dawn grallers	Plaza de la Merced, the streets of the Gothic Quarter and St. James pl
09:30	Open Day at the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia	Archaeology Museum of Catalonia
	Beach rugby tournament	Beach Somorrostro
10:00	Campaign theater discounts to Mercy, 50% drama	Palau de la Marquise
	Exhibition commemorating the CSIO Barcelona – 100th International Jumping Competition at the Olympic Museum and Sports Juan Antonio Samaranch	Olympic Museum and Sports Juan Antonio Samaranch
	Exhibition commemorating the CSIO Barcelona – 100th International Jumping Competition at the Parliament of Catalonia	Parliament of Catalonia
	Exhibition The flute in the school	House of Entremeses-Center Production and Dissemination of Traditional Folk Culture in Barcelona
	Exhibition Giants (miniature) of Ikaré	House of Entremeses-Center Production and Dissemination of Traditional Folk Culture in Barcelona
	Exhibition Parade People of Barcelona	Palau de la Marquise
	Exhibition of trabucaires Rocaguinarda Perot, 20 years in Barcelona	House of Entremeses-Center Production and Dissemination of Traditional Folk Culture in Barcelona
	Galejada Trabucaire	Down Cathedral, pl. New, Bishop, pl. Santiago
	Open day at CaixaForum	CaixaForum Social and Cultural Centre
	Open day at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies	Fundació Antoni Tàpies
	Open day at the Archaeological Area and the Domus Romana Sitges Medieval	History Museum of Barcelona – The Archaeology of Medieval Domus Romana and Sitges
	Open day at the archaeological area of ​​the Roman Temple of Augustus	History Museum of Barcelona – The Archaeology of the Roman Temple of Augustus
	Open day at the Centre for Interpretation to Park Güell, Casa del Guarda	History Museum of London – Centre for Interpretation to Park Güell, Casa del Guarda
	Open day at the Interpretation Centre of the Milky Roman burial	History Museum of London – Interpretation Centre of the Milky Roman burial
	Open day at the Call Center Performance	History Museum of London – Call Centre Performance
	Open day at Cosmocaixa	CosmoCaixa Barcelona
	Open day at Barcelona Design Hub – Museum of Decorative Arts	Barcelona Museum Design Hub
	Open day at Barcelona Design Hub – Textile and Clothing Museum	Barcelona Museum Design Hub
	Open Day at the Museum of Contemporary Art	Museum of Contemporary Art
	Open Day at the Museum – Museum lau	Museum of London – Museum Blue
	Open Day at the Museum Foundation	Foundation
	Open Day at the Museum of Ceramics	Ceramics Museum
	Open day at the Music Museum	Music Museum – Auditorium
	Open Day at the Museum of Rock	Barcelona Museum * Rock Arenas Barcelona
	Open Day at the Museum of the History of Catalonia	History Museum of Catalonia
	Open Day at the Museum of City History – Monumental Ensemble of the Plaça del Rei	History Museum of London – Monumental de la Plaça del Rei
	Open Day at the Museum of Ethnology	Ethnological Museum
	Open day at the Frederic Marès	Frederic Marès
	Open day at the Pedralbes Monastery Museum	History Museum of Barcelona – Pedralbes Monastery Museum
	Open Day at the Museum of Olympic Sport	Olympic Museum and Sports Juan Antonio Samaranch
	Open day at the Picasso Museum	Picasso Museum
	Open day at the Verdaguer Museum-House	History Museum Barcelona – Museo Casa Verdaguer
	Open day at the Palau de la Generalitat	Building Palau de la Generalitat
	Open Day at the Park Maze of Horta	Parque del Laberinto Horta
	Open day at the Photographic Archive of Barcelona	Photographic Archive of Barcelona
	Open day at the MNAC	National Art Museum of Catalonia
	Open day at the Maritime Museum	Barcelona Maritime Museum
	Family Workshops at MACBA	Museum of Contemporary Art
	City of Barcelona Trophy International Figure Skating Freestyle	Passeig Lluis Companys
	City of Barcelona Trophy International Beach Volleyball	Nova Icaria Beach
	X International Bonsai Show Nishikiten	Museum of Barcelona – Barcelona Botanical Garden
	7th Anniversary Cosmocaixa: workshops, shows and astronomical observations, as part of the Fiestas de la Mercè 2011	CosmoCaixa Barcelona
10:15	Workshop This festival, become small	Ideas and Inventions Museum of Barcelona
10:30	Concert Group World Raval , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Public reading The Little Prince , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
11:00	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: Performance of magic Gala young wizards of Mag Lari (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – The Park and The Dance Theatre Street: Carillon ambulant de Douai and flocks Dancing (France / Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Capoeira for all, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Circuit slalom on wheels, in the 15th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Closure of the International Festival of Choral Singing Europe and its Songs , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Game Port	Portal de la Pau
	Show Aires Brown , by Hogar Extremeño Barcelona in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Conference on traditional navigation	Wood Wharf
	Open day at the CCCB	Centre for Contemporary Culture
	Open day at Barcelona Design Hub (DHUB)	Barcelona Museum Design Hub
	Open day at Museum Barbier – Mueller Pre-Columbian Art	Barbier-Mueller Pre-Columbian Art
	Open day port visit your Golondrina	Portal de la Pau
	Giant Morning. Show dance of giants and dwarfs and giants pass	Saint James Pl
	MercèDansa	Down Cathedral
	Screening of a video on joint collaboration in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Children’s Workshop The Museum is dressed in blue	Ceramics Museum
	Workshop The watercolor technique alive in the 16 samples of Associations	Catalonia Square
	Workshop Tasting tip of Barcelona , within the 16 samples of Associations	Catalonia Square
	Children’s workshops run by the Red Cross in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Workshops: We are what we do, we are what we eat	Jardinets Salvador Espriu
	Trofeo Internacional Ciudad de Barcelona soccer ACELL – Special Olympics Catalonia Futsal	Municipal Sports Centre Mundet
	Guided visit to the studio-workshop Oleguer Junyent	Study Workshop Oleguer Junyent
	Guided tour and workshop in Palau Moxó children	Palau Moxó
	Guided tours and workshops for children in the Foundation Rocamora	Private Cultural Foundation Rocamora
11:15	Cal puppet show with Galiot	Montjuïc Castle
	Rate Game Robin Hood in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Workshop on public participation in the design of public space and city in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Workshop I am also a volunteer. Take a sheet within the 16 samples of Associations	Catalonia Square
11:20	Talk Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s diverse and thriving , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
11:25	Show or two nosos devanceiros Legacy , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
11:30	Mercedes 2011 – The Park and The Dance Theatre Street: Attractions and facilities in Antigua & Barbuda (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – The Dance and The Park Street Theatre: ConcertDelinus + Black Jack (Netherlands) ‘, within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: Performance Rich – Rich (Catalonia), in the proceedings of theMercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Leisure: Play for your rights and spot stories for children’s rights, by UNICEF, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Build castles with hopscotch	Montjuïc Castle
	Show Magomic The Show with Gròmic	Montjuïc Castle
	Games Ambulats	Montjuïc Castle
	Licedei	Montjuïc Castle
	MalabArte	Montjuïc Castle
	Nautius with the Spinning	Montjuïc Castle
	Workshop Sharks up close	Barcelona Aquarium – ACUARIOS OCEANWORLD
	Workshop & Exhibition For Mercy, fish recycled	Information Centre Beach
11:50	Concert candombe, by Los Botijas, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
12:00	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: Performance Bolshoi Circus – Tubo Transformer with Kalashnikov Nicolay (St. Petersburg), within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
	Circus at the Plaza mb Volaquivol (air quadrant), Tongue & Lee (trapezius and bamboo) and side street Brassville Walkers, within the 16 samples of Associations	Catalonia Square
	Merce 2011 Barcelona CSIO – 100th International Jumping Competition	Real Club de Polo de Barcelona
	Spectacle Cabaret Elegance with The Elegant	Montjuïc Castle
	Show General Bum Bum in Theater Biking	Montjuïc Castle
	Exhibition Fotomercè 2010	The Marquise Image Centre
	Third View of the World Rice	Rambla del Raval
	Authorities courtship dance with the Giants and the City of Eagle	From the Plaza de la Merced on St. James Place
	String & Circus by George Regot	Montjuïc Castle
	Drawing Studio, by Avis-grandchildren. As, in the 16 samples of Associations	Catalonia Square
	Workshop African braids in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	31st Wine Show of Catalonia and Caves	Wood Wharf
	4th The 12 hours of magic to the Merced	The Mint Space Brossa
12:15	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: Traveling Show FLEXUS , led by Cia. The As (Catalonia), in the acts of Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Show House by Thrace, Bulgaria in Catalonia in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Show Until Now with Mimbre	Montjuïc Castle
12:25	For breakfast today? Healthy habits during childhood , in the16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
12:30	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: Performance Duo Full House by Camus & Schmutz (Switzerland), within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Install Pianist water with Ephemeral (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Concert Stupid Erikah within the Barcelona BAM-Action Musical	Royal Plaza
	Concert Renaldo and Clara , in the BAM – Barcelona Action Musical	Plaza del Rey
	Tower Day with local groups	Plaza de Santiago
12:35	Concert Zalama, beats the world in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
12:45	Mercedes 2011 – The Dance and The Park Street Theatre: Concert – Dance Snippet with Borda Bros. (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Combined Circus	Montjuïc Castle
	Show Evolución y Danza Ecuatoriana on mergers within theAssociations 16th Show	Catalonia Square
13:00	Dancing with the vermouth Orquestrina The World in the 16 samples of Associations	Catalonia Square
	Lunch and dinner feast at Restaurant 7 Portes	Porches Restaurant 7 Portes
	Performance Specifications with the CIA. Enfila’t	Montjuïc Castle
	Rediscovering the balance through Reiki , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Theatre History of Ikram , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
13:15	Show Late hard , by the Group within the International Renaissance Dances 16th Show Associations	Catalonia Square
	Show Grey with The Córcoles	Montjuïc Castle
13:30	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: DanceGiselle with Victor Zambrano and Carmen Martin (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: Performance and Dance The bed with Adrian Schvarzstein (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Show Everything bounces with Fernando Pose	Montjuïc Castle
13:45	Concert Havana and boleros with the folk group Montjuic, in the16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
14:00	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Dance Makers and The Street Theatre: Performance Boom! with Chapertons (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Open day at the schooner Santa Eulalia	Schooner Santa Eulalia
14:05	Performance of Choral Music for Voices and Integration in the16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
14:30	Mercedes 2011 – The Dance and The Park Street Theatre: Concertboogie – woogie with Silvan Zingg (Switzerland), within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: SeeFantasy, light and color with the Victor (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
15:00	Show Youkali Orchestra	Montjuïc Castle
15:30	Mercedes 2011 – The Park Street Theatre and The Dance: Performance Dance senses sound with Camut Band (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
16:00	Show Circus with Handmade	Montjuïc Castle
16:30	Mercedes 2011 – The Park and The Dance Theatre: Concert Gadjo(Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Talk Penguins, birds with tuxedo	Barcelona Aquarium – ACUARIOS OCEANWORLD
17:00	Activity awareness of physical and visual, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Performance of the Coral Lake of the Lower House of Elderly Guinardó, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	From what? Dish, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Dance of India in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Screening of the documentary A muted conflict: the Western Sahara , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Workshop on Arabic names, in the 16 samples of Associations	Catalonia Square
	Workshop A world of virtues , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Environmental workshops and storytelling, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
17:25	Actions Bolivia Tradition and Culture. Bolivia has soul , in the16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
17:50	Action Ritmos and colors of Peru by the Peruvian Cultural Association Alma, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Concert Diego and nearby Parque Trio Dolphins for Best Buddies Spain in the ’16a Show Associations	Catalonia Square
18:00	Choral concert	Plaza del Rey
	MAKE thy raid. Parade of the giants of Mercy	From street to Gravina Plaza Ramon Berenguer the Great
	Talk with healthcare Volunteer Reiki, a resource for public use as a powerhouse of health and social welfare in the ’16a Show Associations	Catalonia Square
18:15	Dance, dance and do not stop! with Esbart Catalan dancers, in the16 samples of Associations	Catalonia Square
18:30	Concert Semifinal Sona 9 with New Garlic Pique , The cold andSea Bee , as part of BAM – Barcelona Action Musical	Avenida de la Catedral
18:40	Acting Forever Young Dance Group of the House of Elder of the Vall d’Hebron, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Parallel realities , by the Catalan Foundation Syndrome, in the16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
19:00	Sardana and concerts	Plaza de la Merced
19:05	Dance swing in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Show Colors of dance , in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
19:30	Estate ses islands, danced in the square with the Cultural Association of Bot It! in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Concert 4t1a (first quarter) , Herman Dune and Mando Diao , within the Barcelona BAM-Action Musical	Old Factory Damm
20:00	Dance with Merce Bailongu, in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Show Radio armeniaca with Jashgawronsky Brothers	Montjuïc Castle
	Percussion, dance and participation in joint organizations participating in the 16th Exhibition of Association	Catalonia Square
	Cosmocaixa 7th Anniversary: ​​Night of telescopes and Arch at night, as part of the Fiestas de la Mercè 2011	CosmoCaixa Barcelona
20:30	Concert Single , Parade and Javiera Mena , in the Barcelona BAM-Action Musical	Plaza Joan Corominas
20:45	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Show Love in times of Ikea with Nadine O’Garra, within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
	Projections show the magic house	In front of the building of Barcelona City Council
21:00	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Performance Barcelona Dancing with Montse Colome and Leo Castaldi (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Install Carpet interactive Tecnoràdio of (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Install The Umbracle: affected area.Organic Mapping with Fausto Morales (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Circumstances, 15th Winter Circus with the Ateneo Popular 9 Barris	Montjuïc Castle
	Extraordinary concert Mercè Festival , the carillon of the Palau de la Generalitat	Building Palau de la Generalitat
	Concert Indardeep Gosh and Arup Sen Gupta , within the Festival Asia 2011	Barcelona Athenaeum
	Touch to fold and Contradansa . Parade of the Giant City	Pl King to Palau de la Virreina
21:15	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Show St. Petersburg – London: Swan Lake , with Handmade (St. Petersburg), within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
21:30	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Dance Swan Lake with the Mariinsky Theatre and dance companies Catalan (Catalonia / St Petersburg), within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – Mercedes Music: Concert St. Andrew Jazz Bandand Jazz Orchestra Barcelona	Catalonia Square
	Concert The Little Cal Eril , MANET and Rammstein , as part ofBAM – Barcelona Action Musical	The Forum Park
	Music Maïa Vidal , John Vanderslice and Little Scream in the BAM – Barcelona Action Musical	Plaza del Rey
	Concert Choir and Senior Brutal , Mr. Chinarro and Solynieve Group of Experts , within the BAM – Barcelona Action Musical	Royal Plaza
22:00	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Show Circa (Australia), within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – The Merced Fire: XIV International Pyrotechnic Festival	Barceloneta Beach
	Habaneras Recital	Plaza de la Merced
22:30	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Performance Chez Jopie with Delinus (Netherlands), within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
23:00	Mercedes 2011 – Mercedes Music: Concierto Cadena 100 withMelocos , Moises Loval , Robert Ramirez and Fangoria	Avenida Reina Maria Cristina
23:30	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Show Reactable (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – Mercedes Music: Concert Grace Power	Plaça Sant Jaume
	Concert Amilcar Vazquez & Havana Jazz Combo	Harlem Jazz Club
00:00	Mercedes 2011 – The Park and The Dance Theatre Street: Game of artistic creation in piezas and Art on Velcro with Pal (Zaragoza), within minutes of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Performance Layer with companies EIA (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Show Ytuquepintas of Art with sand (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
	Road safety education activities	Montjuïc Castle
	Traveling Show Los Excéntricos	Montjuïc Castle
	Magic Traveling with Zootroupe	Montjuïc Castle
00:30	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Screening Jacques Leonard, the Chac Payo , with Cameron Leonard, within minutes of the Arts Street Merced	Ciutadella Park
	Mercedes 2011 – Mercedes Music: Concert Cuca Rosette and E Zezi	Avenida de la Catedral
01:15	Mercedes 2011 – Park Light: Show You twist the company Sacude (Catalonia), in the proceedings of the Mercy Street Arts	Ciutadella Park
01:30	Mercedes 2011 – Mercedes Music: Music inspires and Timbaland	The Forum Park

Diary: La Mercè day by day

Official website in English: La Mercè 2011