Joan Oliver Roig (Manacor, 2002) Cosijoan, is a rapper and History of Art student. Red cap from Manacor and Majorica pearl necklace. He has just released his first album Morir d'èxit, a real declaration of intent for a work that starts melodically but ends up being incredibly raw. He presents it next Saturday, September 12th, at Sa Factoria in Manacor.

The Majorcan artist Daniel Heredia, artistically known as Rels B, will offer a free concert in Palma on September 11th to mark Mallorca Day and his appointment as Favorite Son of Mallorca. The performance, organized by the Consell de Mallorca, will begin at 9:30 PM in the area between the Parc de la Mar and the Paseo Marítimo of the Balearic capital.

The Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, led by its principal conductor, Sir Mark Elder, was responsible for setting off the grand finale of the fireworks display that marked the latest edition of the Pollença Festival. Sixty-five editions stand testament to it, and its momentum only serves to enhance its legend. The full capacity of each and every one of the seven concerts that made up the program could serve as a sufficiently eloquent summary of what it has been, with this festive closing of a magnitude that merely anticipates the next edition.

The 37th edition of the Setmana del Llibre en Català (Week of Books in Catalan) will take place from September 24 to 27 in the gardens of La Misericòrdia with the participation of seven bookstores and the representation of Mallorcan publishers. The Gremi de Llibreters de Mallorca (Mallorcan Booksellers' Guild), organizer of the event, has highlighted in a press release that the new edition invites attendees to "sit with the great names of literature" through a poster inspired by the statue of Josep Maria Llompart inaugurated a few months ago in Carrer dels Oms in Palma.

The box office of the Principal theatre, both the physical one at the theatre itself and the virtual one at www.teatreprincipal.com, will reopen this Wednesday with the sale of season tickets for the 2026/2027 season. Starting Saturday the 5th, general tickets will also go on sale. Subscribers will have a few days' advantage to choose their preferred seats; furthermore, the first 50 subscribers who purchase their season ticket at the theatre's box office will receive a gift.

The Orquestra de Cambra de Mallorca seems, for a long time, since the day it was born, that growing is part of its character, of its DNA. The latest test by fire is, without a doubt, the challenge of facing Gustav Mahler in the monographs that each year they dedicate to a composer, behind the Pollença Festival and in the same enclave. But this is another story that we will have time to talk about, but which in some way has to do with the concert with which Bellver Castle rounded off the summer season. A farewell, on the one hand, and a presentation card, on the other. A great prelude and a program that to call demanding is an understatement, a great understatement.

To be scorned, insulted, or even attacked; this is what the Xuetes endured for three centuries, the bearers of the fifteen surnames pointed out by the rest of the Majorcans as the sole descendants of Jews converted to Christianity. They did not always endure it stoically: two of them, Gabriel Fuster and Ignasi Forteza, expelled from a ball, took their discrimination to court and won the lawsuit, called 'of Cartagena' due to the jurisdiction that took charge of it. 175 years ago, on September 1, 1851, the defendants decided to appoint a representative to pursue that case.

For 60 years, the gigantic tower of a cement factory has presided over the heart of Raiguer, at the foot of the Tramuntana mountain range. The emblematic industrial complex of Lloseta recalls the smoky nuclear power plant of Springfield, where the character of Homer from the mythical animated series The Simpsons works. The inauguration of the infrastructure in August 1966 was celebrated as a great milestone of progress. The same had happened in 1958 with the commissioning of the Alcanada (Alcúdia) thermal power plant, with which Gesa brought electricity to a large part of Mallorca – in 1981 it would be taken over by the Murterar plant, located about 10 kilometers away, near l'Albufera.

How many of you have started a conversation in Catalan and, after a short while, ended up speaking in Spanish? Perhaps the other person had answered you in Spanish but understood you perfectly. Perhaps you didn't know if they spoke Catalan. Perhaps it was someone you had just met and didn't want to make them feel uncomfortable, or perhaps, quite simply, it just came out that way.

Rodrigo Cuevas can be refined like a dandy; an activist; the most involved neighbor in the village festivals and pecking like a whitewashed sparrow at the door of a toilet. Friday evening Cuevas unleashed euphoria in his debut in Ibiza at the Nits de Tanit festival, accompanied by his inseparable Mapi Quintana, Juanjo Díaz, Tino Cuesta and Rubén Bada. The first applause of the night was received by Massiel, a collaborator on the opening track, 'Un mundo feliz'. Cuevas went down to the stalls to sing with her, and he didn't stop, until the apotheosis finale with the whole band and the dancers singing the vitalist 'La fiesta' among the audience, with verdiales Malagueños who sound as if they were makineros. "How can it be that an artist as gay as Rodrigo Cuevas pleases my parents", said a girl who had convinced her parents to go to the concert. Before the performance, the mother recalled a recital by the violinist Ara Malikian. Afterwards, moved, she described Cuevas as "amazing".

This week, chance has pushed me to the Deleuzian coasts, to blur their outlines. Deleuze argues that sadness does not make us intelligent, nor lucid; on the contrary, in sadness we are lost. This is why powers have the need to feed sad subjects. When we have a sad affect, according to the philosopher, a body acts upon ours, a soul acts upon ours, from conditions or through a relationship that does not suit us, that extinguishes our powers. There is nothing in sadness that allows bodies or souls to form a common territory.

Rosalía, seated as she does in every concert on the white grand piano to perform the song Sauvignon Blanc. It was the first of the four evenings presenting their latest album LUX (2026) in Barcelona, at the Palau Sant Jordi, last April. He turned to Llorenç Barceló from Manacor, his pianist, to toast with him, who had poured two glasses of wine, and introduced him as a "true Mallorcan." "Llorenç, do you want to say something? Because I always tell my version of the story, and I don't know about you…", he told him. He then replied: "About which story? The one about Taller de Músics?" And Rosalía continued: "No, about our story. It's your moment, you have ten seconds to summarize our story." Faced with the anticipation and the ovation generated, he modestly added: "Well, we met at Taller de Músics and became friends and here we are, after 15 or 20 years." And Rosalía concluded: "Sometimes they boo us uuuuh and no, we have always been just friends and you have always been a great friend. Thank you, Llorenç!

In Ibiza and Formentera, the vocabulary related to livestock conveys a way of life where raising sheep and goats was part of the peasant economy and daily diet. It is not simply an abundance of names, but a precise lexicon that allowed animals to be distinguished according to species, sex, age, or their function within the flock.Words like ‘xai’, ‘anyell’, ‘moltó’, ‘ovella’, ‘cabrit’, ‘cabra’, and ‘boc’ are part of this rural universe. In the case of ovines, ‘xai’ and ‘anyell’ denote the young of the sheep, while ‘moltó’ identifies the adult male and ‘ovella’, the female. Among caprines, ‘cabrit’ is the name for the young, while ‘cabra’ and ‘boc’ distinguish adult animals according to sex. These are words known in the Catalan language as a whole, but in the Pitiuses they are integrated within a much broader peasant terminology, where differences in the animal’s age and state could have practical importance.

The documentary Mallorca, a recipe book, directed by Majorcan Pablo Bujosa Rodríguez, will close the Culinary Cinema section of the San Sebastián festival with a tour of various towns on the island to reclaim traditional Majorcan cuisine and the gastronomic knowledge passed down from generation to generation.The film, which will premiere at the festival on September 25, focuses on a way of understanding cuisine linked to the territory, seasonal products, and family recipes. According to the film's synopsis, "cooking has never been a neutral act." "One places oneself in front of the fire when hungry, but not only with the intention of satisfying hunger: there is always a little more behind this exercise," it continues. "When we think of a recipe, we do so from a specific place, incorporating who we are, what we have been taught. And when we execute it, we do so respecting rituals we have seen repeated for years," it concludes.

Karmento is the artistic name of Carmen Toledo Sánchez, a neofolklore singer-songwriter originally from Bogarra, a village in the Albacete part of Sierra de Segura. She began making music when she was over thirty, in an "amateur" way, as she explains. That was more than a decade ago: in 2015 she released the album Mudanzas}; in 2020, Este devenir, considered one of the best Root Music albums of that year. In 2024 she releases the album La Serrana, which wins the Music Academy award for Best Folk Album. It is an album, La Serrana, born from research and, subsequently, a dialogue with the place of belonging, memory, and relationships with the community. Karmento's La Mancha folklore will be heard in Montuïri this Saturday, August 29th, within the framework of the La Lluna en Vers festival of the Fundació Mallorca Literària. 

Argentinian Maia Reficco and Spaniard Fernando Lindez star in The Last Sunrise, a summer romance that, in addition to addressing themes such as loss and illness, incorporates a reflection on excessive tourism in Mallorca. "It's not just a romance," Lindez (Madrid, 2000) explains in an interview. "The film, I think, touches on other topics and also teaches us to take care of the places where we come from, where we originate, the natural reserves in this world, and not to abuse them," he adds.

Fabrizio Plessi, one of the great pioneers of video installations, has died at 86. The Italian artist, born in Reggio Emilia on April 3, 1940, died this Sunday in Venice, the city where he trained and which marked a good part of his career. But for three decades he also maintained a particularly close bond with Mallorca, to the point of establishing his residence in Santanyí and developing an important part of his work from the island.

Second to last concert of an edition, by Muffati-Brussels Baroque Orchestra, until then immaculate and with one of the concerts that for some was almost the cherry on top of a magnificent cake. An evening entirely dedicated to the one who was everything, Johann Sebastian Bach, with a tasty and rich program, like a small great demonstration of the undisputed condition of the great capoper of music history. For example, with the first piece, the "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050, which treasuresa first majestic and original movement, the impeccable combination of the different solo instruments, harpsichord, flute, and violin crowned by an innovative sixty-four-bar cadence by the harpsichord, which until that moment in history only served as a fundamental but not very ostentatious basso continuo. Only with this Allegro initially we had enough ingredients to enjoy thoroughly. It wasn't like that. Just when it had barely started, a gust of wind blew away Frank Theuns's sheet music and perhaps here the elements allied against any possibility of enjoyment. Hope was placed in the cadence, but not even that. Violaine Cochard, at the height of her performance, seemed to be chasing the notes as if it were an obstacle race to align them with those coming from the original; a task that was almost impossible without the adequate (over)dose of virtuosity. It is easy to imagine that it was not simple to sort out the mess.

The reader who has passed through what is now the Parliament can imagine it, when it was the headquarters of the Círculo Mallorquín, as a kind of those British clubs from novels and films, where distinguished gentlemen share conversation, while having a coffee, smoking a cigar, and playing cards. Certainly, it resembled it quite a bit. But the Círculo, founded on August 25, 1851 (175 years ago), was much more than that: a venue for balls and parties, a hub for cultural initiatives, a meeting place for personalities, and, above all, an essential reference for the island's high society, for decades.

Imagine you are on a terrace, with the heat sticking to your skin, a glass with ice in front of you, and you ask your companions if they want to go for a swim. One of them replies: “No, thank you. Consequently, I will proceed to leave the establishment.” You will probably look at them strangely, not because you haven't understood the sentence or because there's any problem with the syntax, but because it's hard to imagine someone speaking like that in that situation. The most probable thing would have been for them to say “No, I’m going home” or simply “I’m leaving”.