The content on offer includes television programmes from areas in which Catalan is spoken, material on Catalan culture and videos of activities carried out by the IRL
On Monday, 19th April, to coincide with the programme of activities for "Sant Jordi Around the World", the test phase of the Internet television portal Llull TV (www.llull.tv) will begin. The project has been developed by the Fundació Ramon Llull and is being managed by the Institut Ramon Llull. This new channel is a further tool for achieving the aims of the Fundació, and can be accessed from the webs of the IRL (www.llull.cat) and the Fundació Ramon Llull (www.fundacioramonllull.cat / www.fundacioramonllull.ad).
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Kristen Brandt, Jaume Cabré and Josep Bargalló during the interview - IRL
The periodical handover of the chair took place, falling to the Mayor of Sueca this year
On Friday, 5th March, the conference room of the Casa de la Cultura in Sueca was the scene of the general assembly of the Ramon Llull Xarxa de Ciutats Valencianes (Network of Valencian Cities), which was attended by the Director of the Fundació, Josep Bargalló.
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A performance by the Catalan group Comediants was the star event of the closing ceremony of the 28th Expolangues 2010, with the Catalan language as the guest of honour. The Comediants moved around the fair as they gave a show based on Ramon Llull’s El llibre de les bèsties (The Book of the Beasts), performing passages from the book combined with poems by Miquel Martí i Pol, among other Catalan authors.
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Comediants - Yvan Gherman
Rally driver Cyril Despres interviewed at the Catalan language stand
This afternoon Cyril Despres was at the Catalan language stand, representing Andorra at the fair. The Director of the Institut Ramon Llull (IRL), Josep Bargalló, and the Head of the IRL’s Language and Universities Department, Andreu Bosch, interviewed the driver, the winner of the Dakar Rally in January. Cyril Despres, born in France and living in Andorra for ten years, stressed the importance and the normality with which he speaks Catalan in his everyday life: “For me it’s no effort at all to speak Catalan; I live in Andorra and I find it normal to speak the language of the place where I live,” He added, “I like Catalan and it’s great to be able to speak the language and be able to talk to people in your city.”
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Interview Cyrile Despres - Yvan Gherman
