David bueno
Specialist in neuroeducation, author of ‘The art of being human’
“We have lost the art of conversation and we no longer talk to each other”
The arts are a unique expression of humanity and a key driver for our growth David Bueno argues in his book L’art de ser humans (The Art of Being Human), which won the Josep Pla Prize 2025. Are the arts...
Marga Payola
INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR OF PLATAFORMA PER LA LLENGUA
“We will only accept full official status for Catalan”
In August 2023, Spain’s foreign minister José Manuel Albares sent a letter to the Council of the European Union requesting that Catalan, Basque and Galician be considered as official languages of the...
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Joaquim Arenas
EDUCATOR, PROMOTER OF LANGUAGE IMMERSION
“Catalan is screaming out that it is dying; we must save it”
Joaquim Arenas was the architect of the Catalan school and language immersion programmes, a project conceived during the Franco regime that made it possible for Catalan to become the vehicular language...
Francesc Xavier Vila
MINISTER OF LINGUISTIC POLICY
“The situation of Catalan is diverse, complex, delicate and reversible”
Not even a third of the population speak Catalan as a common language. In 2003 the figure was 46%. Now it’s almost 14 points below, how do you see the situation?To understand this data, you need to understand...
Paradise lost
Rafael Chirbes’ two late novels Cremation (Crematorio) and On the Edge (En la orilla) describe and explain the destruction of the Valencian coast in the building boom of the early 2000s and its accompanying corruption
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Marga Payola
INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR OF PLATAFORMA PER LA LLENGUA
Joaquim Arenas
EDUCATOR, PROMOTER OF LANGUAGE IMMERSION
Francesc Xavier Vila
MINISTER OF LINGUISTIC POLICY
Catalans abroad
Mireia Vilanova. marcela topor. mtopor@cataloniatoday.cat
is a Barcelona-born, LA-based producer working in film, TV and digital media. She has led numerous projects in the US and Europe that have screened at top-tier festivals such as Tribeca, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Outfest and Palms Springs ShortFest, among others. She is currently in pre-production on her debut feature, I Live Here Now, directed by Julie Pacino
JOSEP PRAT.
Journalist and author who has worked with newspapers like La Vanguardia and the South China Morning Post. With his wife he is the owner of the PIZZA HERE chain of pizzerias in Vietnam
Christian Rodrigo
Actor, producer, director and acting coach from Barcelona
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David bueno
Specialist in neuroeducation, author of ‘The art of being human’
Joaquim Uriach
President of the Palau de la Música Catalana
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Director of the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SMC)
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