Madrid, taken by the gothic literature in October
Jun28

Madrid, taken by the gothic literature in October

Organize a 30-day literature meeting is our great challenge this year. We will start with the IV Conference on art, literature and urban gothic culture, which will be held in October from the 1st to the 3rd and then we will offer round tables, lectures and book presentations in several venues of Madrid for the rest of the month The Philology Faculty of the Complutense University has joined us in the organization of the academic...

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Crowfunding for the 2015 Semana Gótica de Madrid
Jun28

Crowfunding for the 2015 Semana Gótica de Madrid

Besarilia Cultural Association organizes Madrid Gothic Week from 2009. Since then, every year, we have showed the beauty and richness of the nineteenth century, deepened into the mysteries of Romanticism and the various cultural expressions that have extended their legacy to the present day, through literature, music, film, fashion, and visual and performing arts, successful and extensive national and international impact. This year,...

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Gothic artists always remain – SGM ART 2014
Sep23

Gothic artists always remain – SGM ART 2014

SGM ART is the space devoted to visual arts inside the Gothic Week of Madrid. The art we might relate to Gothic has always existed since the man was a man. But nowadays gothic art comes mostly from the underground. This fact means that this art is more authentic, deeper, because it’s made from the deepest feeling. In previous editions of SGM ART we have put our eyes on Pre-Raphaelitism, concretely in how it’s reinterpreted by the...

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Short Stories for adults and children in Theatriffic 2014
Sep23

Short Stories for adults and children in Theatriffic 2014

Emma López´ Music for Vampires will sound this year in the Museum of Romanticism, thanks to a beautiful show of oral narration for adults, that gives us a new perspective of the beast through the human being intensity exploration, and reveals that we are the real vampires. In the SGM’s Theatriffic we have “gothified” young people through the spoken word, during the las three years, making them enter in the amazing books world by...

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New cinema trends and releases in Ventana Oscura 2014
Sep11

New cinema trends and releases in Ventana Oscura 2014

“Urbex”, the exploration of abandoned places and structures, is one of the subjects that will be addressed this year within the Ventana Oscura. In the last times, this trend has seduced to the filmmakers due to the possibility of telling stories from the solitude and mistery provided by those ghostly places, whose location is never revealed. “Musarañas”, the thriller produced by Alex de la Iglesia, will have a...

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Videogames, audiovisual horror and poetry in Literature Meeting SGM 2014
Sep08

Videogames, audiovisual horror and poetry in Literature Meeting SGM 2014

In gothic literature there are specific elements about features and structure, and these elements, beyond the subjects of the novels or short stories, have fed another disciplines like cinema, music, arts or later literary movements. This is what we are going to see this year in the SGM 2014 Literature Meeting, gotic elements in video games, rol games, audiovisual and writers like Julio Cortázar or Jorge Luis Borges. Also, we approach...

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