Institut Ramon Llull and Senate House

Event organised by Institut Ramon Llull and Senate House in collaboration with  Delegation of Catalonia to the United Kingdom and Ireland, Instituto Cervantes and the support of Estrella Damm and FreixenetThe Institut Ramon Llull (IRL) is a public entity funded by the Catalan Government with the primary aim of promoting the Catalan Language and Culture internationally and is named after the visionary thinker Ramon Llull. The IRL’s programmes are coordinated by three departments: Performing and Visual Arts; Literature and the Humanities; and Language and Universities. In addition to its Barcelona headquarters, the IRL has four offices abroad in the cities of London, New York, Paris and Berlin. http://www.llull.cat/offices/london/

Senate House Library is the central library for the University of London and the School of Advanced Study. It offers Arts, Humanities and Social Science Research Collections and Special Collections in the heart of London’s student and research community. Members have access to millions of books and journals, digital resources, and beautiful study spaces. For more information please visit http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/The Delegation of Catalonia to the United Kingdom and Ireland is the representative of the Government in these territories, and promotes the Government of Catalonia's external action, at institutional, corporate and financial levels, and supports the Catalan Communities Abroad. Its office is located in one of London’s neuralgic and business hubs. At the doors of the City, the British capital's financial district, and overlooking the Palace of Justice, it is surrounded by barrister’s chambers. It is also very close to Westminster, which houses Britain’s main political institutions.The Tudor style Catalan Delegation building dates from 1610 and has great historical value since it was one of the few buildings that survived the fire that devastated the city in 1666.http://afersexteriors.gencat.cat/en/representacio_a_l_exterior/delegacio_del_govern_al_regne_unit_i_irlanda/la_delegacio/

The Instituto Cervantes was created in Spain in 1991 to promote the Spanish language and cultures of Spanish-speaking countries. Our Head Office is in Madrid and Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), the birthplace of the writer Miguel de Cervantes. The work of the Instituto Cervantes is directed by representatives from the worlds of academia, culture and literature from Spain and Latin America. In the UK we work closely with British museums, galleries, theatres, publishers and universities as well as with Spanish and Latin American organisations.http://londres.cervantes.es/en/about_us_spanish.htm

This event is kindly supported by Estrella Damm and Freixenet