3rd AQUÍ TAMÉN SE FALA MUSIC FESTIVAL, TODAY

 What was born in a state secondary school in Coruña... is already a phenomenon that crosses borders: the #AquíTaménSeFala Festival celebrates its 3rd edition today Friday, 12th June at the Tolerance Square and gives its international jump featuring Carolina Deslandes, one of the most important musical artists from Portugal.

Apart from her, three other from the Galician scene: Apolo 18, Kid Mount & De Ningures.

But this is much more than music... not only because it's the only professional festival in Europe organized by a secondary school, but also ATSF is the largest lingustic revitalization movement in the country, actively carried out by more than 25.000 teenagers.

FOOTBALL VOCABULARY & IDIOMS AS WORLD CUP 2026 KICKS OFF

 

Today the 2026 Football World Cup kicks off. The championship is held in Canada, Mexico & USA. Here are some words and idioms connected with football and much more on previous posts linked here.

THE POPE @ GAUDI'S "SAGRADA FAMILIA", BARCELONA

The Pope Leon XIV visited Barcelona's Sagrada Familia today on the 100º anniversary of Antoni Gaudi's death to bless the newest of its geometric spires that makes the structure the world's tallest church.

Videos

Video "100 YEARS AFTER GAUDI'S DEATH":

GRADUATION 2026

"Rafael Dieste" second BAC students celebrated their Graduation yesterday evening at the assembly hall of the Conservatorio Superior de Música of A Coruña.

The event had Jessica & Iker Cárdenas as hosts and the speeches by Alberto Pombo (head-master), teachers Pedro García, Isabel Viña & Carlos Blanco and students Susana Doldán, Aroa Rodríguez & Román Rojo.

Furthermore, for the first time, the hymn of the school, an adaptation of a text by Rafael Dieste published in the book "Rojo farol amante" and changed into music by Jei Noguerol,  was performed

Congratulations to students, families & teachers! The best of luck!

BORROWED (FOREIGN) IDIOMS

 

EUROVISION 2026, 70º

Pity for Eurovision's 70th anniversary, not even its slogan is true to reality. Today's the final of the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna (Austria). This year's contest should have been a celebration of 70 years of music, but it has lost part of its entertainment magic.

EUROVISION IS SINKING AND THEY CAN NO LONGER HIDE IT

Without Spain, without Ireland, without the Netherlands, and with half the continent pointing at its complicity with Israel, Eurovision is experiencing the biggest crisis in history while trying to project an image of normality amidst censorship, protests and propaganda. Viewers are plummeting, song hearings are down 45%, the EBU is losing nearly 800.000€ in fixed fees alone and even the contest's director admits they "miss" the countries that left. What once was a musical celebration is now a political showcase marked by Gaza, international whitewashing and shattered credibilty. And the more they try to cover it up, the more evident the collapse becomes. [From: Spanish Revolution Facebook]

RTVE onscreen messages on the days of the Eurovision broadcast below:

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Video EUROVISION EVOLUTION 70 YEARS, all its winners:

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S 100th BIRTHDAY!

mage: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website – CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

 Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough!

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian, conservationist, writer, producer and narrator.

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