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JANUARY / FEBRUARY 07
| Canary Islands Music Festival – Spain The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra plays the Auditorio de Tenerife on 1 February as part of this music festival that spans the Canary Islands. Winter sun-seekers can choose between a value-for-money festival pass or individual event tickets. 7 January–2 March. www.festivaldecanarias.com |
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| Prague Winter Festival – Prague Experience Prague’s theatres during the city’s annual Winter Festival for classical music, opera and ballet. Works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky are on the bill, and the featured ballet is Prokofiev’s Cinderella. To cap it all off, catch the fireworks display on the last night at the Charles Bridge. 2–6 January. www.praguewinter.com |
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| Vidéodanse – Paris The Pompidou Centre presents the annual Vidéodanse festival, which means a viewing marathon of some 150 dance-related films and video installations. This year the festival takes a look back at the role played by dance and choreography in the careers of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati in particular. 25 January–20 February. www.centrepompidou.fr |
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| Winter skating – Stockholm Get your skates on, literally, and hit the ice on the Stockholm lakes before it cracks (usually around March). On Lake Mälaren you can skate to the ancient island of Björkö and see its Viking Age cemetery of 3,000 graves. If the ice gets thick enough, the lakes will turn into extreme sports arenas for the Vikingarännet skating race, too. January–March. www.vikingarannet.com |
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| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) – Budapest Think Shakespeare was a genius but a bit too long-winded? This speedy run through of the bard’s greatest hits is an opportunity to catch an English-language production for the whole family at Hungary’s National Theatre. From January. www.nemzetiszinhaz.hu |
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| Picasso: Master of Line – Amsterdam It’s a case of women, wine and the master of line at Amsterdam’s Cobra Museum, as Picasso’s complete line drawings of his models and mistresses are exhibited in the Netherlands for the first time. Until 4 February. www.cobra-museum.nl |
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| AltaRomAltaModa – Rome In January Italians and visitors flock to the Alta Moda fashion shows at Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica – a mixture of haute-couture and prêt-à-porter catwalk shows, performance art and photo exhibits. A competition in collaboration with Vogue Italia predicts the superstar designers of the future, too. 27–30 January www.agenziaperlamoda.it |
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| The Animals’ War – London From secret-service carrier pigeons who saved lives during World War II, to dolphins whose sonar has charted routes across the Persian Gulf, this interactive exhibition for adults and children at the Imperial War Museum looks at the history of animals’ roles in human conflict. Until 22 April. www.iwm.org.uk |
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| Humberto Rivas – Barcelona See a different side of Barcelona and discover the secrets of influential photographer Humberto Rivas at The Photographer of Silence, an exhibition showing 72 of his works. There’s Spanish passion hidden beneath the radical minimalism of his stark portraits of Barcelona’s residents and urban landscapes. Until 18 February. www.mnac.es |
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