Madame Chocolat reopening

Last week Madame Chocolat store moves to a better and bigger place. On front of the older place! You can see pics of the opening at his blog or visit the store at...

Madame Chocolat

Pg. de Sant Joan, 7

Barcelona

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L1 Arc de Triomf

7ª Fira Modernista de Barcelona

Since friday 3rd to 5th of June Barcelona hold 7ª Fira Modernista de Barcelona. Included within Eixample dret district fair, Fira Modernista hosts an artisan fair from the late 19th century and early 20th, live shows and more stuff. You can check it the program (in catalan) at this link.

Back to the activity: III Convención Steampunk y Retrofuturista from Barcelona

After to take a breath for a while, I back with some news about Steampunk, victorian and modernism facts in Barcelona and Catalonia.

The first one it's the uploading of the website from III Convención Steampunk y Retrofuturista from Barcelona fully in english and spanish. You can check it here.

III Convención Steampunk y Retrofuturista wants to be almost totally free (Except some activities and live shows), then we need your help! We have an account at Lanzanos.com, a crownfunding website, where you can do your donations to create and promote III Convención Steampunk y Retrofuturista. You can check it here.

29º Salón del Cómic de Barcelona

From tomorrow thursday 14th April until Sunday 17th it's the 29º Salón Internacional del Còmic de Barcelona. Everyday from 10h to 21 at Fira de Barcelona. More info here.

Podcast: Cabaret de Medianoche

Since yesterday at night I have a cabaretish/steamy podcast in spanish language named "Cabaret de Medianoche". My intention it's show different musicians and step by step add sections and add collaborators to my midnight cabaret. You can visit it here.

Steampunk at Calle 20.

20 Minutos it's the most popular free daily press journal in Spain. And Calle 20 it's his monthly magazine about fashion, mainstream culture and trends. Calle 20 on April's issue includes an interesting report about Steampunk. You can check it here or download it here.

Madame Chocolat online store

Barcelona's japanese fashion store "Madame Chocolat" has opened his new website. Since now you can buy his lolita and japanese clothes and steamie stuff through Internet! Anyway you can visit Madame Chocolat girls at his brick and mortar store at Passeig Sant Joan, 5 on the corner of Ali Bei street, Barcelona.

First A.C.S.A.R. reunion

Tomorrow saturday 18th at artisan brewery La Cervesera artesana from Barcelona holds the first informal meeting and new members reception from A.C.S.A.R.

A.C.S.A.R. (Catalan Steampunk Association and Another Retrofuturisms) was born at late 2010 to organize 2nd Barcelona Steampunk Convention and since this moment they are looking for new members to create and promote more Steampunk related events.

This first meeting it's a good way to meet and know the comitee of the association, know the rules and the advantages to being member of the association. The reunion starts at 18h at La Cervesera. Come to meet us!

La Cervesera artesana

C/ Sant Agustí, 14

Metro: L3 L5 Diagonal (Barcelona)

Sesión Steampunk at Serie B bar

A new and monthly Steampunk venue in Barcelona, next saturday 26th at Serie B bar from 22.30h to 03.00h. It's free entrance and the drinks are cheap!

Check Facebook's event here.

Serie B
C/ Nou de la Rambla, 137
Metro: L2 L3 Paral·lel (Barcelona)

Steampunk at Radio 4.

A piece of the past. Last October meanwhile ACSAR and Soluciones Discrónicas prepared Barcelona Steampunk convention at 13th November, Elisabeth Rosselló was interviewed at La Taverna del Llop, a program from the catalan radio station Radio 4. You can listen it (In catalan) at the following link. Enjoy it!

Obra't a l'Steampunk!

Article at Suite101

Last week Steampunk SP administrator, Lady Elizabeth aka Elisabeth Roselló, publish at Suite101 webpage a brief introduction about retrofuturism in spanish. You can read it here.

Crónicas Drakonianas.

Since early 2010 medieval shows company Drakonia produces Crónicas Drakonianas. An amateur fantasy web series setted on the imaginary lands of Drakonia.

Nowadays they are shooting the second season and they hope upload it so soon!

On the ebglish web you'll can see the first episode with subs and in the spanish and catalan version you can see it (without english subs!) until eight episode. Enjoy it!

Far'n'hate - My Salvation

Toxicvision guys debuts on the video clip world with My Salvation video from the Girona metal band Far'n'hate. The girls from lolita's store Madame Chocolat collaborated on the costumes. Enjoy it!

Noches de Retrópolis: Sanghai 1936: Persiguiendo al Dragón Rojo.

Retrópolis is a city submerged in a time-space loop of a parallell dimension. It is the city where pieces of time and parties of the past which we thought we have lost ended up.
Thanks to the last explorations in the limbo and to our scientific-o-magical knowledge, Soluciones Discrónicas have managed to create an Atopic Cronotonic Flux Particles Generator (patented) so we can open every now and then the doors of the city, from where the most suggestive parties and even some Retropolitan artists come to our world.

Soluciones Discrónicas is proud of opening once again the doors of Retrópolis to invite our visitors to 'Shanghai 1936: On the Chase of the Red Dragon':

30s decade of the 20th Century: while the rest of the world is immersed in the Great Depression, Shanghai faces the world in its most prosperous era. The city grows in sophistication and weath, gets to be called "the Paris of the East", and it becomes the Mecca of the rich and famous of the time. The boom of this city will end with the Japanese invasion in 1937. At the same time the city grows, its hunger for wealthy and pleasure grows too. In a situation between a possible Japanese invasion and the fame of the city, it will start a decadence spiral were the slogan "dance, drink and be merry, for tomorow we die" becomes a whole philosophy of the times. Many people refugee themselves in night clubs in parties that seem to have no end or chase the dragon in dark opium smoking rooms.

With the occasion of the Carnaval, Retropolis opens its gates once more to invite its visitors to dance, drink and to be merry, for the Carnaval reign may end tomorrow...Come to spend a Shanghai-style night in our peculiar night club, let the dicjockeying mastership of Dj LouderThanBombs and the voice of Noemi Bokesa transport you to the far lands of the dragon in this night, lost in time in the streets of Retropolis.

Dresscode: 30s, oriental, dischronic, stempunk, dieselpunk, lolita...not compulsory but, can you resist in a night such as that?

Tickets: 10€ (includes one drink+fortune cookie). Send a PM to Soluciones Discronicas to reserve ticket (due to maximum venue capacity) indicating the following information:
-Name and surnames of each person
-A valid e-mail where we can send the ticket (It must be taken to the entrance, where it will be paid)

Facebook event

2nd Barcelona Steampunk Convention at Bizarre Magazine

The people from the british magazine Bizarre Magazine visit us last November at 2nd Barcelona Steampunk Convention to take some pics. You can see the article at this month issue. You can buy it or imagine it the content seeing this pic!

Los Tiki Phantoms - Siberia

My friend Dani Moreno from Chaparra Entertainment filmed last year a video for the Barcelona surf-rock band "Los Tiki Phantoms". Check this video and another ones at Youtube's channel of BCore records.

Article at Vanitatis e-zine.

Vanitatis e-zine interviewed Lady Elizabeth of the spaniard steampunk community Steampunk SP and they made it a short article in spanish. You can read it here.

IV Trobada Steampunk video

My friends Lady Miranda and Serval filmed a short story last sunday at IV Trobada Steampunk. You can see it at this Youtube video. Enjoy it!

IV Trobada Steampunk

Yesterday was the IV Trobada Steampunk (4th Steampunk meeting) at Barcelona. An annual and informal Steampunk meeting in Barcelona. Maybe less important than our conventions and another steampunk catalan acts, but more funny than another serious events...

The place of our meeting was Park Güell, a unfinished garden city project designed by the modernist architect Antoni Gaudí.



The meeting point was at 11h at Olot Street doors. The famous salamander/dragon gate.

At 11h we were near to 20 people and along the morning we were near to 60 people! Until lunch time people plays with modified NERF guns, improvise silent films with the cameras and nice talkings about the park until 14h. Then we moved until the top of the hill to the picnic area to eat exotic food and some sweets.

After this we moved to the main square to rest and chat.

Under the main square it's setted the columns area. Too knowed like the market, 'cause at the original design this area should be a market, but never was a market! Nowadays you can listen usually some cello players at this area. Haves an awesome acoustic.

At this moment some people decides to back to home and rest, some people decided it's time to take a group pic. You can look at me like the tenth Doctor Who at left.

Before the park closes a last coffee at the terrace of a bar of the park.

At 19h the park closes and the people back to home or move to another place to have some drinks. Was a great day! And we know to we meet again so soon!

Barcelona and Catalonia Steampunk: First post

This is not a personal blog, too is not a character's blog. It more than this and less than you can't imagine. It's a blog from a small scene. The Steampunk scene at Barcelona. Our small conventions and parties, places to go and more. I know my english is not perfect and I know how hard it's write a blog on a foreing language. But I want to try it and tell on english what's happen in Barcelona and Catalonia.

If you're interested to read more about Catalonia you can check at Wikipedia.