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“En Clave de Vida” (In the Key of Life): A documentary about animal conservation in Equatorial Guinea
The young director Antonio Grunfeld Rius is the author of this interesting audiovisual work that shows, in the field, the problem of the disappearance of unique animal species in Equatorial Guinea. The documentary, currently projected at numerous schools in the country, can also be seen on the internet.

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08 May 2013
The singer Betty Akna talks about her new album
She is one of the best artists on the Equatorial Guinean music scene, who just surprised us all with the presentation of her new album, "Lembo La Mbôka Ame", in which she debuts as composer of most of the songs.

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07 May 2013
The 2013 Book Fair concludes
After several days of exhibits, the stands at the fair, whose main venue was the campus of the National University of Equatorial Guinea (UNGE), closed their doors after significant participation of exhibitors and visitors.

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27 April 2013
World Book Day is held in Malabo
The National Library, the Equatorial Guinean Cultural Center and the UNGE joined forces to commemorate this day with several events: a Book Fair, which will run until next Friday, conferences and the message of the Director-General of Books.

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25 April 2013
Celebration of World Book Day in Malabo
The Spanish Cultural Center of Malabo (CCEM) has begun the acts of this celebration that will culminate next week.

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18 April 2013
Short Story Contest "World Book Day"
On the occasion of this celebration on April 23, the Spanish Cultural Center in Bata announces its 1st Short Story Contest "World Book Day".

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13 April 2013
The President of CICTE receives the sculptor Ghuty Mamae
The President of the Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Equatorial Guinea (CICTE), Anacleto Olo Mibuy, met on Wednesday with the artist to address the creation of a National School of Fine Arts.

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05 April 2013
Second edition of Eco Carnival
The French Cultural Center of Malabo is organizing the second edition of Malabo Eco Carnival, with the theme of water and biodiversity as the protagonists.

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04 April 2013
World Theater Day in the CCEM
The Spanish Cultural Center in Malabo (CCEM) celebrates this day with a month of national and international performances and parallel activities, such as a theater workshop and a conference on the bridges between Latin American and Equatorial Guinea drama.

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26 March 2013
Pocho Guimaraes Exhibit at the CCEM
The exhibit "Modulations" is an interesting review of the work of the timeless Equatorial Guinean artist, which opened on the anniversary of the Spanish Cultural Center of Malabo (CCEM) and can be seen until later this month.

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16 March 2013
Los Soldados del Triste Hogar, winners of the Easy Music Bata Festival 2013
The rap group from Bata won on Saturday, March 2, in the final of the Easy Music Festival, a contest that the Spanish Cultural Center in Bata (CCEB) launched on September to boost the career of young singers or bands in the city.



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08 March 2013
Tenth anniversary of the CCEM
On February 15, the Spanish Cultural Center in Malabo (CCEM) will be ten years old, and to celebrate, they have prepared a series of special events.

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08 February 2013
The Bonko Creole dance entertains in Malabo parties
During the celebration of past Christmas holidays, the traditional Bonko dance was one of the main amusements for citizens of Malabo of all ages.

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12 January 2013
The National Library now has a Book Club
The main objective of the club is to promote reading. The presentation ceremony of the association was presided over by the Delegate Minister of the Department of Culture and Tourism, Guillermina Mekuy Mba.

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10 January 2013
Presentations of the Mogue Agency
On Wednesday, December 19, at the Club House of the Hotel Sofitel Malabo Sipopo Le Golf the launching took place of the magazine and the website of the agency.

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31 December 2012
11th Christmas Carol Contest
The group "Las Semillitas" from the Ekuku neighborhood, in the children's category and "Las Kisiritas" of Nfefe-Esala, in the adults, have renewed their title and for the second consecutive year, by obtaining the first prize in the contest organized annually by the Spanish Cultural Center in Bata.

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28 December 2012
La Casa Tomada: new space for books and culture in Malabo
La Casa Tomada is the new bookstore in Malabo, created as a space designed for and by culture. Here one can buy almost any book and even have a small snack.

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22 December 2012
Musical Instrument Exhibition in the CCE
The Equatorial Guinean Cultural Center of Malabo hosts these days the exhibit of musical instruments from the collection of Isabela de Aranzadi. The exhibit offers a selection of interesting musical objects used for centuries in the traditional music of our country.

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22 December 2012
Success of the 6th edition of the International Hip Hop Festival of Malabo
The sixth edition of the festival, held from November 14 to 18 in Malabo, confirmed that this platform for interdisciplinary and international meetings is becoming increasingly important.

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29 November 2012
Change of dates for the 1st International Brisas del Mar Jazz Festival in Sipopo
The jazz festival, which was scheduled to be held on the beach of Sipopo on November 24 and 30 and on December 1, will finally be held in February or March 2013.

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27 November 2012
Farewell ceremony for the sculptor Leandro Mbomio Nsue
The funeral in honor of the international artist and sculptor, who died on November 12, began on Saturday in Malabo with the arrival of the President of the Republic and the First Lady of the nation to the Equatorial Guinean Cultural Center, where the coffin with the body of the deceased was lying in state.

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19 November 2012
The mortal remains of Leandro Mbomio Nsue will be buried in his hometown
The mortal remains of the great sculptor will be buried in the Continental Region, specifically in his hometown of Ayantangan Nsomo, on Sunday, November 18.

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16 November 2012
The Ambassador of Spain expressed his condolences over the death of Leandro Mbomio Nsue
In an audience with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Agapito Mba Mokuy, the Ambassador of Spain, Manuel Gomez-Acebo, has conveyed to the Government of Equatorial Guinea his country's sentiment of condolences over the death of the great sculptor. For the same reason, the Embassy also sent a message to the President, which we attach to this news article.

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16 November 2012
Jazz arrives in Equatorial Guinea
Concha Buika and other greats of contemporary music will perform at the 1st International Jazz Festival of Brisas del Mar, to be held in Sipopo from November 24 to December 1.

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16 November 2012
The great sculptor Leandro Mbomio Nsue dies
The most international and prestigious figure of Equatorial Guinean art has died after a long illness.

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13 November 2012
Publication presentation
The Collective of Equatorial Guinean Students of Valencia organizes, on November 15, the presentation of the work Fañg N'Ntúmu Anthropological Names, by Edu Makuy Lorenzo.

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09 November 2012
6th International Hip Hop Festival of Malabo
During November 14 to 18, the 6th International Hip Hop Festival will take place in Malabo, organized by the Spanish Cultural Center in Malabo, the ICEF French Institute and, for the first time, the Equatorial Guinean Cultural Center. Artists such as Frank T, S. Petit Nico, Black Bey, Yuma and AdjoGuening will join the best Malabo rappers in this edition.

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07 November 2012
Theater Festival at the French Institute of Malabo
From October 22 to 27, the French Institute of Malabo organized the third edition of the Festival "Los golpes de teatro en Malabo", in partnership with the Spanish Cultural Center in Malabo and the Culture Center of Rebola.

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06 November 2012
The Spanish Cultural Center in Malabo promotes theater in schools
Their Performing Arts Department seeks to bring the world of theater to the public in general and children in particular.

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03 November 2012
Lyrical singing concert at the Spanish Cultural Center of Bata
On Friday afternoon, October 26, the center's auditorium witnessed the performance of Luis Alberto Llaneza, musicologist of the University of Oviedo (Spain) and pianist Eduardo Frias. Both musicians are conducting a tour in Equatorial Guinea and have also performed in the Spanish Cultural Center of Malabo.

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30 October 2012
Lyrical singing comes to Equatorial Guinea
Lyrical singing is a musical style that is not very known in Equatorial Guinea. In order for Equatorial Guineans to discover it, the Spanish cultural centers in Malabo and Bata have scheduled a series of concerts around the country.

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25 October 2012
The Seas of Equatorial Guinea
The Spanish Cultural Center in Malabo has published the book "Los mares de Guinea Ecuatorial: nueva prosa y poesía africana" [The Seas of Equatorial Guinea: New African Prose and Poetry], which collects texts of the winners of the "October 12" Literary Contest.

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19 October 2012
Great success of Julio Iglesias in Malabo
The singer declared his surprise at seeing the reality and the current development of Equatorial Guinea, so different from the picture shown in many international media.

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10 October 2012
Julio Iglesias sings in Malabo
The internationally renowned Spanish singer performs for the first time in Africa and our country has been chosen for his continental debut.

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09 October 2012
The First Lady will support an international fashion parade
During a meeting with young designers, Constancia Mangue de Obiang has stated the importance of women feel beautiful at any age.

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08 October 2012
Celebration of Fang Culture Week
The Spanish Cultural Center in Bata held the Fang Culture Week from September 19 to 22, with a series of activities to promote and raise awareness on the richness of the cultural manifestations of the Fang ethnic group.

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19 September 2012
Exhibition at the Equatorial Guinean Cultural Center
The Republic of North Korea has organized an exhibition of photographs and paintings in the Equatorial Guinean Cultural Center to celebrate its independence.

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11 September 2012
Julio Iglesias will perform in Malabo
The capital's population awaits with emotion the performance of the great Spanish singer, announced through thousands of posters that fill the city. The big date is October 8.

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06 September 2012
An international feature film is shot in Equatorial Guinea
The film "Where The Road Runs Out" is produced by the Dutch Film Firenze, directed by Rudolf Buitendach ("Dark Hearts") and starring actor Isaach De Bankole Ivorian ("Casino Royale", "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly").

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30 August 2012
New edition of the magazine ATANGA
The magazine of the Cultural Centers of Spain in Equatorial Guinea returns this time in digital version twice a year.

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09 August 2012
Celebration of August 3 in the Africa House
The Africa House, the meeting and exhibit center of the different African countries that are participating in the Olympic Games, was the scenario of the celebration of the festival of August 3 Freedom Coup, in the city of London.

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08 August 2012
The Organizing Committee of the Yeosu Expo 2012 visits the pavilion of Equatorial Guinea
The tour took place on the morning of Thursday, July 19, and was headed by the Secretary General of the International Exhibitions Bureau, the Spaniard Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales, who was accompanied by other committee members of the exhibit.

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23 July 2012
The best music and dance of Equatorial Guinea at the UNESCO
A selection of the best artists of our country entertained the exciting ceremony of the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Prize.

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19 July 2012
The country's first bookstore opened in the Cultural Center of Bata
"The Bookstore of Bata" was officially opened on June 27 at 19 h. at an event open to the public which took place in the cultural center, with the presence of Anacleto Olo, Presidential Adviser on Culture, and Miguel Mahiques, Consul General of Spain in Bata.

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04 July 2012
The CCEM promotes the country's native games
The 8th Akong Tournament finalizes in the Spanish Cultural Center in Malabo. Within its cultural agenda, the center has organized, from June 6 to 27 these interesting cultural and indigenous games of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon.

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02 July 2012
The school year ends
The holidays have arrived at the schools in Malabo and across the country. As in other schools, the CANIGE also dismissed their students with a very special party. The reporters of www.guineaecuatorialpress.com were there to witness the fact.

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30 June 2012
Meeting of the Director-General of Books with Equatorial Guinean authors
This first meeting took place in the conference room of the National Library. At the meeting they addressed several issues of interest, such as the functioning of the General Directorate and copyrights.

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30 June 2012
Photo exhibit at the French Cultural Center of Malabo
With this exhibit, which included a contest for amateur photographers, the program of activities for the Francophone Week ended in the cultural center.

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30 May 2012
International Africa Day: exaltation of African pride
Once again this year, on May 25 Africa Day took place, which commemorates the birth of the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union, AU), an event that took place in 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This celebration honors the founding fathers of postcolonial Africa, such as Patricio Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Julios Nyerere, Sekou Toure, Ben Bella, Haile Selassie and many others who are remembered as illustrious sons of this continent.

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28 May 2012
Reggae Cultural Festival
From June 26 to 27, starting at 16:00 h, the Spanish Cultural Center of Malabo (CCEM) held for the first time a space dedicated exclusively to this musical genre.

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21 May 2012
Interview with designer Lucas Nguema Escalada
The famous Equatorial Guinean designer presented at the third edition of the International Malabo Fashion Week his seventh fashion collection called "Escalada Sensual" (Sensual Escalada).

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12 May 2012
The short film "María Adá", Ceiba Award for best national audiovisual production
The short film "María Adá" directed by a young Ruben Monsuy, from Malabo, was the winner of the Ceiba Award for best national audiovisual production, worth 500,000 CFA francs. The result of the contest was announced last week at the closing ceremony of the South-to-South Traveling Film Festival of Equatorial Guinea (FECIGE), which took place in the Spanish Cultural Center in Bata.

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01 May 2012
Tourist visit of the designers of the Malabo Fashion Week
After completing the activities of the third edition of the Malabo runway, the designers attending the event visited some tourist sites in Bioko.

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24 April 2012
Second gala of the third edition of the Malabo International Fashion Week
The night of the second gala of Malabo fashion was devoted to the best fashion designers of our continent. Models for designers from Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Uganda and Burkina Faso performed in the fashion show.

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17 April 2012
Opening session of the Malabo International Fashion Week
The first fashion show of the third edition of the runway of the Malabo International Fashion Week was held in a festive atmosphere, where a stunning combination of colors prevailed.

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16 April 2012
The Head of State visits the Bata Public Library
After twelve months of renovation, last Thursday the Bata Public Library opened its doors to the student population and anyone interested in culture.

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14 April 2012
Press conference of the designers of the Malabo International Fashion Week
The designers participating in the third edition of this fashion week held a press conference with the media, before the big show.

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13 April 2012
The South to South Touring Film Festival of Equatorial Guinea, from April 17 to 26
Next April 17 will begin at the Spanish Cultural Center of Malabo the South to South Touring Film Festival. Until April 26, African and Latin American films will be screened in Malabo, Ela Nguema, Sampaka, Rebola and Bata.

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12 April 2012
Program of activities of the Malabo International Fashion Week
The organizing committee of this third edition has published the program of activities for the different days of this great fashion event.

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11 April 2012
Interview with Librada Ela Asumu: "Fashion is a way of conceiving life"
The third edition of the Malabo International Fashion Week, to be held between April 12 and 15, will have the theme "Transformation". The director of the event reveals the secrets of this new great appointment with fashion.

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10 April 2012
Conference on cultural values of the Fang people
The Director-General of Culture, Rufino Ndong Esono Nchama, at the invitation of the board of the private school Ewaiso Ipola in Malabo, introduced last week a conference on cultural values of the Fang people.

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05 April 2012
Celebration of World Theater Day in Malabo
The Spanish Cultural Center in Malabo has joined for the first time the celebration of this day, created in 1961 by the International Theater Institute (ITI), and has done so for three days with performances by the groups Bocamandja, A.M.E.A. and the children's show "Rijole does not want to read".

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30 March 2012
Exhibition and calendar on gastronomy of Equatorial Guinea in the CCEM
"From the kitchens of Equatorial Guinea" is the photographic show that can be seen these days in the Spanish Cultural Center of Malabo: an excellent collection of recipes of the country photographed with great quality and compiled in a calendar.

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27 March 2012
The First Lady continues her humanitarian work
On Friday, Constancia Mangue, as Honorary President of the Association for National Solidarity of the Disabled, gave 500,000 CFA francs to the artist Moises Abaga Nguema, to cover layout, production and publication costs of his new album.

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26 March 2012
The Third Edition of the International Malabo Fashion Week arrives
The Malabo International Fashion Week will take place from April 12 to 15 in the city of Malabo. The event is organized by the magazine Ewaiso and enjoys the patronage of the First Lady's Office, Constancia Mangue de Obiang.

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24 March 2012
Arrival of the relics of St. John Bosco to Equatorial Guinea
The Christians of the Catholic Church and the Salesian Congregation of the districts of Bata and Micomeseng received on March 5, 6 and 7 the coffin of the relics of St. John Bosco in the course of their pilgrimage that will lead to different countries of Africa in which the religious Congregation of the Salesians is present.

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08 March 2012
Eco Carnival organized by the French Cultural Center
The protection of the environment in maintaining a healthy setting is the message of Eco Carnival, an initiative of the French Cultural Center in Malabo, to be held from March 17 to 24.

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22 February 2012
Presentation in Bata of the magazine Oráfrica
The Cultural Center of Spain in Bata recently presented the 5th issue of Oráfrica, the annual magazine of the Laboratory of Oral Resources, published by the Barcelona NGO Ceiba and Spanish cultural centers of Equatorial Guinea, in collaboration with the universities of Alcala de Henares and Barcelona.

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21 February 2012
The singer Miky Bad Boy participates in the official song of the CAN 2012
Singers from across the continent are involved in this amazing video, which displays with rhythm and color the full force of African music.

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10 January 2012
Cameroon Fashion Week
Representatives of Equatorial Guinea won the first prize for the best model and best designer in the Cameroon Fashion Week, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Cameroon.

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04 January 2012
Spain inaugurates a film about Copito de Nieve
On December 23, in Spain opened an animated film, "Copito de Nieve," based on the life of the most famous albino gorilla in the world. After his capture in 1966, he was transferred to the Barcelona Zoo where he lived until his death in 2003. During all those years, he was the symbol and attraction of the center, becoming a true legend.

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29 December 2011
The 5th International Festival of Hip Hop in Malabo begins
For the fifth consecutive year, the Malabo International of Hip Hop in Festival is taking place, held between November 28 and December 3, organized by the Spanish Cultural Center of Malabo (CCEM) and the Cultural Institute of French Expression in Malabo (ICEF).

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26 November 2011
Afran, the painter of public spaces, takes his art to Italy and Spain
The network of Cultural Centers of the AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development) presented in Madrid the first edition of a network of artistic activities that have been called "Enredados" (Tangled). This is one of their most prominent projects in Latin America and Equatorial Guinea, about urban art, dance, music, hip-hop, etc. Equatorial Guinea is represented a young artist named Afran, a muralist who performs his art on the streets, and has worked in Malabo and Bata, and in other cities.

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03 November 2011
Equatorial Guinean fashion and culture in the heart of Madrid
Under the title "Made in Africa", the magazine Ewaiso organized two days where fashion and culture of Equatorial Guinea are the main protagonists. The Círculo de Bellas Artes, in the heart of Madrid, is the magnificent setting of choice for the event.

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09 September 2011
The Spanish Cultural Center remains active in Malabo in August
During the month of August, the Spanish Cultural Center of Malabo has scheduled a wide range of cultural activities in which the visitor can enjoy theater, cinema, dance, lectures, etc. All this for free and in a pleasant environment to be in the company of friends.

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18 August 2011
Origenes, an Equatorial Guinean musical in Madrid
From yesterday, July 29 until July 31, the people of Madrid have the opportunity to see an authentic novelty on the stage in the "El Matadero" Contemporaneous Creation Center. The Equatoguinean musical "Origenes" is presented in the program of the Summers in the City of Madrid to show the complete life cycle, through the rhythms, the rites and the traditional dances of the five ethnic groups of Equatorial Guinea.

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30 July 2011
The Consul General of Spain in Bata presides over the institutional day of the tenth anniversary of the Spanish Cultural Center of Bata
The institutional day of the tenth anniversary of the Spanish Cultural Center of Bata had the presence of various authorities, highlighting the Spanish Consul General in Bata, Pedro Aróstegui, the Coordinator of the Network of Spanish Cultural Centers and former director of the Center between the years of 2001-2003, Enrique León Chacón, as well as Equatorial Guinean authorities and people from Bata in general.

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13 July 2011
The Spanish Cultural Center of Bata celebrates its tenth anniversary
"Lets go for another ten" is the slogan used in the tenth anniversary of existence of the Spanish Cultural Center of Bata.

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09 July 2011
Interview with the director of the Spanish Cultural Center in Bata
To mark the tenth anniversary of operation of the Spanish Cultural Center in Bata, Myriam Martinez Elcoro, its director, speaks to us of the past, present and the future of this center essential for the life of the city.

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07 July 2011
International Music Day in the city of Bata
In Bata and the rest of the country, June 21 was the day dedicated to music. Therefore, both the Spanish Cultural Center and the French Cultural Center organized two separate concerts with different groups and local artists.

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25 June 2011
Presentation of "The Spanish colonization in Equatorial Guinea"
The Oral Resources Laboratory has just published its seventh book, "The Spanish colonization in Equatorial Guinea." The event took place in the Spanish Cultural Center of Bata by the anthropologist Gustau Nerín, representing the authors of the work: Mariano Luis de Castro and Maria Luisa de la Calle.

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18 June 2011
Exhibit of Plácido Guimaraes
In the Spanish Cultural Center of Bata, the exhibition dedicated to the Equatorial Guinean artist Plácido Guimaraes, "Pocho". With the title Mixtures: Actions and Reflections, the exhibit has been opened by the centers director, Myriam Martínez Elcoro.

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09 June 2011