Opening Ceremony of the BCN Sports Film Festival 2017
The Olympic and Sports Museum Joan Antoni Samaranch has been the headquarter for the Opening Ceremony of the BCN Sports Film Festival which has been presided by David Escudé, President of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and Sports commissioner in Barcelona’s town hall; Alejandro Blanco, COE President and Franco Ascani FICTS President.
The Art on Paper exhibition at the Corte Inglés Àmbit Cultural gallery
Art and sport came together once again this year at the Corte Inglés Àmbit Cultural gallery Portal del l’Àngel with an exhibition of the entries for the Barcelona Olympic Foundation’s seventh International Art on Paper Awards.
Teamwork was the great success of the Barcelona Olympic bid and Games
The round table, consisting of Manuel Fonseca, Secretary General of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Romà Cuyàs, Secretary of State for Sport, Josep Lluís Vilaseca, Secretary for Sport and Enric Truñó, City Councillor for Sport (all of whom were in post during Barcelona’s bid), with Juli Pernas as moderator, emphasised that the key to success was the commitment of the various sectors involved.
11th Olympic Museums Network General Assembly
The International Meeting of World Olympic Museums is organized annually by the Olympic Museum of Lausanne, in an effort to generate synergies among the various Olympic Museums throughout the world that are members of the Olympic Museum Network, under the sponsorship of the IOC.
The IOC grants a credential to those museums that comply with the established organizational norms, as indicated from Lausanne. The Olympic Museum located in Barcelona, known as Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch, is one of the 27 official museums in the world.
Catalan referees and judges take centre stage at a session of the History Seminar
The round table, moderated by Jordi Alcover, was made up of Santiago Deo, Hortènsia Graupera, Josep Manuel Cortés and Montserrat Ubia. The journalist Joan Manel Surroca, for his part, presented his book “Àrbitres i Jutges Olímpics Catalans” (“Catalan Olympic Referees and Judges”), which includes the men and women, over 40 of them in all, who have contributed to ensuring fair play at the Olympic Games.
Decision of the jury of the 7th Barcelona Olympic Foundation International Art on Paper Award for 2016
Having been convened, the jury, comprising Romà Arranz, teacher at the Escola Massana Arts and Design School, Raquel Medina, art critic and member of ACCA-AICA (Catalan Association of Art Critics); Miriam Alcaraz, Director of the La Casa Elizalde Cultural Centre, Antoni Benages, artist, and Juli Pernas, Director of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, has decided, after careful deliberation, that the winners of these 7th Barcelona Olympic Foundation International Art on Paper Awards are:
‘Streets, Squares, Parks and Gardens’ pays tribute to the sportpersons and personalities from the world of sport represented in the city of Barcelona.
In the book ‘Streets, Squares, Parks and Gardens’ Juli Pernas, Director of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, has compiled the history of the spaces in Barcelona dedicated directly or indirectly to sport.
First seminar on “Education and the Olympic Movement: Olympic values in education”
The Darder Museum in Banyoles hosted this first seminar on Education and the Olympic Movement organised by the Banyoles Centre for Olympic Studies – University of Girona, in collaboration with the Joan Antoni Samaranch Centre for Olympic and Sports Studies of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation.
Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (CAFES) students from the Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sports Sciences in the Olympic Museum.
The students visited the Olympic Museum facilities after completing the “Management of the Olympic and Sport Museum” masterclass, presented by its director, Juli Pernas.
Marta Carranza, president of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and Commissioner for Sport for the Barcelona City Council, head of the Board of Trustees that includes Pere Miró, deputy director general of the CIO and director of the Olympic Charity.
The Barcelona Olympic Foundation Board is made up of the Barcelona City Council, the Spanish Olympic Committee, the State Administration (through the Higher Sports Council), the Catalonia Regional Government (through the Secretary General for Sport) and five individual members: His Excellency Mr Josep Miquel Abad, His Excellency Mr Romà Cuyàs, His Excellency Mr Josep Lluís Vilaseca, Ms Teresa Samaranch and Mr Pere Miró.
