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Omar Allibhoy's Green Paella

We at LatinoLife are embracing Veganuary or Veganenero as we say in Spanish. Come on its only one month! So we asked our favourite Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy for recipes and he gave us his delicious Green Paella: a paella version…

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‘Ropes’ (Cuerdas) Dir. José Luis Montecinos

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. With multiple awards for his six short films behind him, writer/ director José Luis Montecinos has finally plunged into his first feature with a dark thriller laced with horror at every turn.

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75 Days (2020) Dir. Marc Romero

Screened at the 2020 London Spanish Film Festival, in his film ‘75 Days’ (2020) Writer/director Marc Romero re-visits a horrifying real-life event that remains a brutal and dark mystery. In 1992, in an area known as Alcàsser,…

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'Window to the Sea' Directed by Miguel Ángel Jiménez

“Those that take risks get the life they want”, not as easy as it sounds, but pretty close to the decisions made by María (Emma Suárez) in this very moving film about love and loss, when María discovers she only has a few months…

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Grupo Tromboranga: The Art of Re-Invention

The Barcelona-based salsa-dura outfit Tromboranga seemingly came out of nowhere when they first exploded onto the music scene in 2011 with hit singles such as ‘Agua que va caer’. From then onwards the group has become the most…

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LATIN LONDONER #30: Daniel Carbonero, dancer

Born in Malaga, Spain Daniel Carbonero is a professional dancer, choreographer, model and actor. After 16 years of intense training and dance competitions in Spain Daniel moved to London and founded the Carbonero Dance Academy,…

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Things That Matter To...Antonio Lizana

Growing up immersed in the world of Flamenco, Cádiz-born Antonio Lizana studied Jazz in Musikene, the Advanced Music School in San Sebastián. Though submerged in jazz composition, he found that flamenco crept into every song he…

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Things That Matter To...Pablo Egea

Winning last year's LUKAS for Outstanding Male Dance Performer, Pablo Egea captured Londoners' attention after spotting this rising star in the West End show "Heart Beat of Home" as a flamenco soloist dancer.…

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Camarón de la Isla, Spanish Flamenco Singer (1950-1992)

Camarón de la Isla was considered by many as the gipsy god of flamenco. Today we remember his legacy and his legendary trajectory that left a mark in Spanish music history, leaving his memory to be respected with great zeal.

Latin Londoners
LATIN LONDONER #29: Julia Ruiz Fernández, dancer

Julia Ruiz Fernández is one of those rare dancers who traverses the world of Latin dance and ballet. Born in Málaga, Spain, she graduated in Contemporary dance and Ballet before training with the prestigious Alicia Alonso company…

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Girl on a Mission

Old soul, 90s style Hip-Hop and modern Trap, all shaped by the band of an Argentine alternative-rock legend? Intriguing to say the least. And that is precisely the way you can describe the shape-shifting 25-year-old, Argentine-…

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LatinoLife's Guide to Bi-lingual Poetry

Rhyming translator-poet, Timothy Adès guides us through the daunting world of poetry, finding moments of bi-lingual inspiration to help us battle through dark times and relish the good...

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Rels B

From Rosalia, to C Tangana, it's clear that there's a new wave of Spanish talent in town.

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The House of Bernarda Alba returns to the Cervantes Theatre to critical acclaim.

Thanks to its consistent success, the Cervantes Theatre has brought back their excellent production of The House of Bernarda Alba, directed by Jorge de Juan. Now, the third version of this powerful play, steeped in passion and…

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Picasso and Paper

This exhibition at the Royal Academy has concentrated on Pablo Picasso’s output on paper, which entails a large number of drawings and different inventive and dazzling works in many formats, from pastels, lincuts, watercolours,…

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REYKO @ The Waiting Room

REYKO kicked off the new year with an exceptional London concert in The Waiting Room. A concert hall filled with music enthusiasts, fans, and curious Londoners wanting to know more about this mystical Spanish band, making it the…

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KLAUS (2019) Dir Sergio Pablos

“A true, selfless act always sparks another”. Sparkling winner of this year's Bafta for 'Best Animated Film, 'Netflix’s first animated feature KLAUS, by its sheer exuberance, inventive story-line and characters,…

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Spotlight on...Rosalia

She might have started off singing flamenco, but truth is Rosalia has now become a multifaceted international pop-star.

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The Food Guerrillero

When Gordon Ramsay dubs you the ‘Antonio Banderas of Spanish cooking’ surely its a provocation. In the quest to modify taboos and fears over the complexity of the meals, Omar Allibhoy found his calling: presenting to the British…

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CERDITA 2018 Director CARLOTA PEREDA

CERDITA (2018) is a dramatic short film of horror fiction, written and directed by Spanish director CARLOTA PEREDA, with Laura Galán as the protagonist. It examines bullying and the pain of being different and how hate can…

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“The dead man doesn’t help” – 7 Reasons To Run Away (2019) at the Raindance Film Festival Dir: Esteve Soler, Gerardo Quinto & David Torras

Brutal, hilarious, black humour at its best, the film ‘7 Reasons to Run away’ (2019) is made up from a group of independent stories listed under respectable, socially conscious titles: Solidarity, Order, Property, Work,…

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THE EYES OF THE NIGHT at the Cervantes Theatre.

Directed by the Australian director and movement specialist Simone Coxall, the art production and mise- en- scène on the Cervantes stage of “The Eyes of the Night”, sets the tone of the production at a glance, having it…

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Pain & Glory Dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Along with Law of Desire and Bad Education, Pain and Glory represents the third and final instalment of an unplanned trilogy which has taken thirty-two years to complete. The three films all focus on male film directors as…

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Antonio Lizano's Jazz Eñe

To mark the end of this year's Flamenco Fetsival, Saxophonist Antonio Lizana played a variety of fascinating tracks at The Cervantes Theatre, exploring new pastures in Flamenco/Jazz fusion. The compositions of this cantaor/…

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Sara Baras @ Sadlers Wells

Challenging the traditionalists, Sara Baras synchronises music, lighting and design with dance to astonish and inspire.

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Things That Matter To…Albert Quesada

Albert Quesada is a Spanish dancer and choreographer who trained in Amsterdam and Brussels (PARTS) after studying philosophy in Barcelona. Quesada is known for translating musical structures into choreography and inviting the…

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EVERYBODY KNOWS - When a Secret is not a Secret

When a young teenager is kidnapped at a family wedding in a small Spanish town, layer-by-layer, dark secrets, unsatisfied revenge and rivalries are revealed. Unable to contact the police, the whole family is trapped in a fraught…

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PARICIO-PICASSO - Pedro Paricio’s homage to a great master.

The Halcyon Gallery is presenting a show of the Spanish artist Pedro Paricio’s colourful and dramatic paintings, in which he analyses and expresses his feelings about different aspects of Picasso’s work, including Guernica. The…

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Iberica, Victoria

A cosy Spanish corner in Victoria's sterile centre

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Escocesa

A marriage made in heaven as Spain 'a la Escocesa' finds its niche in Stoke Newington

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Carmen & Lola (2018) A forbidden Gypsy Love

Spanish director Arantxa Echevarría disturbs the status quo with her opera prima about love between two teenage girls from a close-knit Roma Community in the Vallecas suburb of Madrid. Corina J Poore catches up with the exuberant…

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LINA TUR BONET & MUSICA ALCHEMICA bring new shine to ‘Il Grosso Mogul’ of Vivaldi

LINA TUR BONET & MUSICA ALCHEMICA have recently released a superb new recording of ‘Il Grosso Mogul’. The CD “Antonio Vivaldi Il Grosso Mogul, Violin Concertos & Sonatas” includes some of the lesser known music of Vivaldi…

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Bridge or Barrier? 10.000km (2014) New Release

Can a modern relationship survive long distance? Facebook, Skype and social media are designed to bring people closer, are they not? The award-winning opera prima ‘10.000 km (2014)’ of Carlos Marques-Marcet is finally available…

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YERMA Poisoned Blood and the Aesthetics of Anguish

YERMA at the Cervantes Theatre, presented in both Spanish and English versions, is the last of the powerful ‘Rural Trilogy’ written by Federico Garcia Lorca and here directed by Jorge de Juan. The first was ‘Blood Wedding’, then…

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Myth or Reality, and Does it Matter?

Supposedly based on a true story about Basque farm lad, who started to grow uncontrollably to became Europe’s tallest man, reaching a height of 2,42m, Handia swept the boards at the 2018 Goya Awards, winning 10 out of their 13…

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