City guideBarcelona · Sat 31 – Sun 1 November
Barcelona this weekend: Barça v Alavés and Anselm Kiefer at La Pedrera
Barça v Alavés at the Spotify Camp Nou, Anselm Kiefer at La Pedrera, the In-Edit festival, Jorge Drexler and Melendi at the Palau Sant Jordi, Wojnarowicz and Scemama at La Virreina, the book fair on Passeig de Gràcia and La Barra de l’Avenir.
The weekend at a glance
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Saturday · 31 October
Sunday · 1 November
All weekend · Saturday and Sunday
Saturday
31 October
Sat 21:00
Sport · Spotify Camp Nou
Barça v Alavés at the Spotify Camp Nou
FC Barcelona host Deportivo Alavés at the Spotify Camp Nou on Halloween night, matchday 11 of LaLiga, six days after the Clásico at the same ground. The stadium is still being rebuilt around the crowd.
Kick-off is at 21:00. Tickets are sold only through fcbarcelona.com. The stadium is in Les Corts, on metro line 3 (Palau Reial or Les Corts), and the metro runs all night on Saturdays.
Sat 21:00
Concert · Palau Sant Jordi
Jorge Drexler at the Palau Sant Jordi
Jorge Drexler, the Uruguayan singer-songwriter who won an Oscar for Al otro lado del río, brings Taracá, his fifteenth album, to the Guitar BCN festival. It draws on candombe, the Afro-Uruguayan drum rhythm.
He plays with seven musicians from 21:00 on Saturday, in Arata Isozaki’s arena on Montjuïc; all seats are numbered. Bus 150 from Plaça d’Espanya goes up to the Anella Olímpica.
Sat 9:30–00:00About €30–35 a head
Restaurant · Passeig de Sant Joan
La Barra de l’Avenir, a new Catalan tapas bar on Passeig de Sant Joan
Roger Viñas and Chesco Salrach of Avenir, a Catalan restaurant with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, have opened a counter version: small plates and casseroles such as pork snout and ear carpaccio, squid tartare and stuffed squid cannelloni, with wine from a porró.
On Saturday it serves from 9:30 to midnight at number 60; à la carte is about €30–35 a head. Book on its site.
Sunday
1 November
Sun 21:00
Concert · Palau Sant Jordi
Melendi at the Palau Sant Jordi
Melendi, the Asturian singer-songwriter behind twenty years of Spanish pop and rumba hits, brings his Pop Rock Tour to the Palau Sant Jordi. Sunday, the All Saints’ holiday, is the first of two Barcelona nights.
The show starts at 21:00; tickets are on the arena’s site. Under-16s must come with an adult. From Paral·lel metro, the funicular goes up Montjuïc.
All weekend
Saturday and Sunday
Sat and Sun, 10:00–19:30€16, €12 reduced, free under 12
Exhibition · La Pedrera
Anselm Kiefer at La Pedrera
The Secret Life of Plants is Anselm Kiefer’s first big exhibition in Barcelona: about forty paintings, sculptures, photographs and artist’s books from the Hans Grothe collection, including the Opus Magnum vitrines.
It is inside Gaudí’s Casa Milà, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 19:30, last entry 19:00. Tickets are €16, €12 reduced, free under 12; the book fair is down the same avenue.
Sat 16:00, Sun 16:30€11, €13 with a DJ warm-up
Festival · Mooby Aribau
In-Edit, the music documentary festival, at the Aribau cinema
In-Edit, Barcelona’s festival of music documentaries, is in its 24th edition at the Mooby Aribau cinema. Saturday has Wizkid: Long Live Lagos and Cerrone: Supernature; Sunday has Hex, about three women who form a black metal band.
Screenings start at 16:00 on Saturday and 16:30 on Sunday. A ticket is €11, or €13 with a DJ warm-up; some sessions sell out, so book online.
Sat and Sun, 11:00–20:00Free
Exhibition · La Virreina, La Rambla
David Wojnarowicz and Marion Scemama at La Virreina
An American Story shows, for the first time in Spain, what the artist David Wojnarowicz and the French photographer Marion Scemama made together from 1983: videos, photographs and performances answering AIDS and Reagan-era America.
It opens on Saturday at the Palau de la Virreina on La Rambla, free, 11:00 to 20:00 both days. Martí Llorens’ photographs of Poblenou from 1987 to 1992 open alongside it.
Sat 10:00, Sun 11:00Free
Market · Passeig de Gràcia
The second-hand and antiquarian book fair on Passeig de Gràcia
The Fira del Llibre d’Ocasió, Antic i Modern, run by Catalonia’s guild of second-hand booksellers, reaches its 75th edition with 29 stalls on Passeig de Gràcia: first editions, out-of-print books, comics and cheap paperbacks.
Sunday is the last day. Listings give the stalls opening at 10:00 on Saturday and 11:00 on Sunday; entry is free. Bring cash, then walk up the avenue to La Pedrera.
Saturday
Sat 21:00
Barça v Alavés at the Spotify Camp Nou
FC Barcelona host Deportivo Alavés at the Spotify Camp Nou on Halloween night, matchday 11 of LaLiga, six days after the Clásico at the same ground. The stadium is still being rebuilt around the crowd.
Kick-off is at 21:00. Tickets are sold only through fcbarcelona.com. The stadium is in Les Corts, on metro line 3 (Palau Reial or Les Corts), and the metro runs all night on Saturdays.
Spotify Camp Nou Sat 21:00
Jorge Drexler at the Palau Sant Jordi
Jorge Drexler, the Uruguayan singer-songwriter who won an Oscar for Al otro lado del río, brings Taracá, his fifteenth album, to the Guitar BCN festival. It draws on candombe, the Afro-Uruguayan drum rhythm.
He plays with seven musicians from 21:00 on Saturday, in Arata Isozaki’s arena on Montjuïc; all seats are numbered. Bus 150 from Plaça d’Espanya goes up to the Anella Olímpica.
Palau Sant Jordi Sat 9:30–00:00
La Barra de l’Avenir, a new Catalan tapas bar on Passeig de Sant Joan
Roger Viñas and Chesco Salrach of Avenir, a Catalan restaurant with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, have opened a counter version: small plates and casseroles such as pork snout and ear carpaccio, squid tartare and stuffed squid cannelloni, with wine from a porró.
On Saturday it serves from 9:30 to midnight at number 60; à la carte is about €30–35 a head. Book on its site.
La Barra de l'Avenir Sunday
Sun 21:00
Melendi at the Palau Sant Jordi
Melendi, the Asturian singer-songwriter behind twenty years of Spanish pop and rumba hits, brings his Pop Rock Tour to the Palau Sant Jordi. Sunday, the All Saints’ holiday, is the first of two Barcelona nights.
The show starts at 21:00; tickets are on the arena’s site. Under-16s must come with an adult. From Paral·lel metro, the funicular goes up Montjuïc.
Palau Sant Jordi All weekend
Sat and Sun, 10:00–19:30
Anselm Kiefer at La Pedrera
The Secret Life of Plants is Anselm Kiefer’s first big exhibition in Barcelona: about forty paintings, sculptures, photographs and artist’s books from the Hans Grothe collection, including the Opus Magnum vitrines.
It is inside Gaudí’s Casa Milà, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 19:30, last entry 19:00. Tickets are €16, €12 reduced, free under 12; the book fair is down the same avenue.
La Pedrera - Casa Milà Sat 16:00, Sun 16:30
In-Edit, the music documentary festival, at the Aribau cinema
In-Edit, Barcelona’s festival of music documentaries, is in its 24th edition at the Mooby Aribau cinema. Saturday has Wizkid: Long Live Lagos and Cerrone: Supernature; Sunday has Hex, about three women who form a black metal band.
Screenings start at 16:00 on Saturday and 16:30 on Sunday. A ticket is €11, or €13 with a DJ warm-up; some sessions sell out, so book online.
MOOBY Aribau Sat and Sun, 11:00–20:00
David Wojnarowicz and Marion Scemama at La Virreina
An American Story shows, for the first time in Spain, what the artist David Wojnarowicz and the French photographer Marion Scemama made together from 1983: videos, photographs and performances answering AIDS and Reagan-era America.
It opens on Saturday at the Palau de la Virreina on La Rambla, free, 11:00 to 20:00 both days. Martí Llorens’ photographs of Poblenou from 1987 to 1992 open alongside it.
Sat 10:00, Sun 11:00
The second-hand and antiquarian book fair on Passeig de Gràcia
The Fira del Llibre d’Ocasió, Antic i Modern, run by Catalonia’s guild of second-hand booksellers, reaches its 75th edition with 29 stalls on Passeig de Gràcia: first editions, out-of-print books, comics and cheap paperbacks.
Sunday is the last day. Listings give the stalls opening at 10:00 on Saturday and 11:00 on Sunday; entry is free. Bring cash, then walk up the avenue to La Pedrera.