Just as Inner City sang «Let me take you to a place I know you wanna go” in that mythical year of 1988, we will also try to be a beacon of the culture and lifestyle that gravitate around A CASA PORTUGUESA.
Without any regularity, but whenever we have something to share, here you will have fresh recommendations of those exciting things that make life good!
Who are we? - Baro D'Evel
18 to 30 December - Teatre Lliure Montjuic, various times.
Who are we? A piece premiered at the Avignon Festival in 2024 deals with questions of group and collective. A hymn to hope, born from the mud, from the earth itself. Because we still have time to sublimate existence despite the disasters of the world.
Qui som? It is clear that the dream is an exploratory and transformative power, an imaginary force that goes beyond ourselves to reconnect us with other presences, a way of guiding us on our journeys through the darkness, through secret lands.
And if we tell you that this will be one of the best shows you can see at the end of the year in Barcelona, are you going to miss it? Attention, there are very few tickets left.
First Sea Bath of the Year
Praia Grande, Ferragudo, Algarve, Portugal - 1 January 2026, 11h00
For those who are in the Algarve on the first day of the year, the “first sea bath” at the “Praia Grande” in the beautiful village of Ferragudo is not to be missed.
A revitalising dip in the cold waters of the Atlantic to start the new year in the best possible way or to take advantage of the opportunity to cure some of the previous night's alcoholic excesses. There are usually more than 500 people dressed to the nines (or undressed) and the entertainment is guaranteed.
We won't miss the call 🙂 We're not going to miss the call.
GOLLIWOG - Billy Woods (2025)
“Golliwog” is presented as one of the most disturbing and ambitious works of the year, an album where horror becomes a tool to explore trauma, identity and historical memory. The rough and enveloping productions create a claustrophobic soundscape that enhances its poetic narrative.
Billly Woods deploys a dense lyricism that demands active listening, mixing the intimate with the political without concessions. The album stands out for its capacity to discomfort. It's not easy, but the good stuff is never easy. Much of the future of music surely passes through here.
Not to be missed in June in the recently announced Primavera a la Ciutat line-up.
The Open Society and Its Enemies - by Karl Popper (1945)
Why a book on political thought from the middle of the last century? Because the world is in a mess and today's “thinkers” are generally a mob of uneducated and ill-prepared people who lack much historical context. If you want to understand a bit of today's world, The Open Society and Its Enemies is still essential because it dismantles the idea that history moves inevitably forward, warning against ideologies that promise definitive solutions.
Popper argues that a free society requires criticism, pluralism and institutions capable of correcting errors, fundamental values in an age of extremism and misinformation. It functions as an intellectual vaccine against populisms - left and right - that seek to close society around grand narratives.
Less typing and more reading please!
Die My Love - Lynne Ramsay (2025)
Die My Love, based on the extraordinary novel of the same name by Argentinean Ariana Harwicz, offers a brutal and obsessive portrait of a mother's psychological breakdown, played by Jennifer Lawrence in perhaps the best role of her career. We're betting on a shower of awards in the near future.
The film is intense, with almost dreamlike moments that mix emotional violence, eroticism and despair, becoming a wild descent into madness and isolation reminiscent in parts of the best David Lynch.
The mesmerising Lynne Ramsay - considered by Martin Scorsese to be the greatest living director - builds a suffocating atmosphere and visual opulence that make this the cinematic experience of the year. Demanding, overwhelming but deeply revealing, it is the best example of why it is still worth going to the cinema today.
