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The last month of September did take place in the University of Split (Croatia) a follow-up meeting of the INCOME Tourism Project. Montserrat partipates in this project, funded by the European Union, with the objective to create a laerning model of soft skills, based on university - company collaboration, tryin to establish a dual education model.  Progress was made in the definition of the model and the concretion of the pilot test of the project.   More information: http://income-tourism-p...

Sala Daura in Museu de Montserrat (MDM) houses, from April 20th to October 7th, the exhibition Mirrors of Stone, by Enrique Asensi. The 25-work exhibition –some of them unpublished, small and big size sculptures- seeks to offer a closer look at Asensi’s geometric abstraction. It displays a selection of his indoor works, sheltered by the imposing beams and girders of Josep Puig i Cadafalch supporting the ceiling. As Berger argues, “art does not help explain the mysterious. What art does is make i...

              Espai d’Art Pere Pruna (MDM) houses –from July 7th to Nov. 11th- the exhibition The Silence of the Pomegranates by Andrea Torres Balaguer, with around 30 photographies, some of them big size. The work of this Young Barcelonian artist is influenced by dreams and surrealism, exploring the relationship between femininity and nature by means of symbolism and the dream transcription technique. Inspired by references to magical surrealism and the theory of psychoanalysis, her i...

            The 8th Montserrat’s International Organ Festival. Abbot Cassià M. Just, in memoriam (FOUM)  presents a rich and diverse programme –classical and innovative- with touches of openness to new proposals, with a truly international musical level. According to its musical director, F. Jordi-Agustí Piqué, the will of the FIOM 2018 is ‘to explore new artistic possibilities of sound that include different tastes, multiple sensitivities and a varied audience’. The FOUM’s eighth editio...

The INCOME Tourism project aims at developing a new learning approach based on a cooperative learning process joining higher education and tourism businesses applied to soft skills learning to be incorporated in the last year of the Tourism Bachelor.  Although some efforts can be found in different higher education contexts, there is still the need and potential to bring academia and industry together in a new cooperative learning model to get a curriculum focusing on soft skills and with learn...

Espai d’art Pere Pruna, at Museu de Montserrat (MDM), houses –until June 24th- the exhibition Muntanyes de l’ànima (Soul Mountains), by ceramist Maria Bofill. Curated by Anna Pujadas, in this exhibition Maria Bofill (Barcelona, 1937) focuses on the mountain, keeping always in mind Montserrat’s mountain: her life’s mountain, since it is in her country, it is part of her landscape, so it is her soul mountain.   Bofill offers ceramics mountains, sometimes literally, miniatures of mountains in...