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Clase de acuarela
☀️ Eros Art Space
Comunidad artística en crecimiento.
Ofrecemos formaciones abiertas, para todos los ritmos y todas las edades.
🎨 Técnicas disponibles
· Dibujo: grafito, carboncillo, conté, sanguina
· Pintura: acuarela, óleo, acrílico, pastel
· Técnicas mixtas: collage, monotipia y otras
· Taller de arte infantil
· Taller de pintura experimental
📚 Programas de participación
· Mensual / trimestral: 2h o 4h semanales con seguimiento continuo
· Pack libre: elige tus clases sin límite mensual
· Clase suelta: ideal para probar o venir puntualmente
🕒 Horarios
· Turno mañana: 12:00 – 14:00
· Turno tarde 1: 16:00 – 18:00
· Turno tarde 2: 18:00 – 20:00
👥 Cupo máximo: 10 personas, atención cercana y acompañamiento personalizado.
Si quieres, dime qué técnica te interesa y si te encaja alguna sesión o modalidad (mensual, pack libre o clase suelta), y te cuento con más detalle ✨
**Plazas limitadas.**
Reserva tu plaza al **650 927 591**
· Dibujo Realista con Jesús Murrieta
✨ · Realist Drawing Portrait
**🎨 ·DRAWING- DIBUJO REALISTA A LÁPIZ**
**SIN IMPORTAR TU NIVEL : Ven a experimentar el realismo desde una perspectiva profesional y disfrutando de un ambiente cercano y facilitador.**
**✍️Imparte: Jesús Murrieta (@jam_ilustra) 🇪🇸🇺🇸🇮🇹**
**⏰Cuándo:Miércoles, 17 de junio | 18:30 a 20:30 h.**
**✨Precio:30€ (materiales incluidos, todo listo para ti)**
**🚀SPACE TRASCENDENTAL : CARRER ROSSWLLO 309( metro Verdaguer)**
**Un encuentro exclusivo y cercano para recibir feedback directo de Jesús, corregir vicios de trazo y potenciar tu talento. Solo 10 plazas.**
**Reserva la tuya por mensaje directo o en mi whattsapp +34608186985**
**#barcelona #retratoalapiz #tetrato #spacetrascendental #arte**
**📅 Miércoles 17 de Junio | 18:30 h**
**📍 Carrer Rosselló 309, Barcelona**
**⚠️ Aforo limitado · Reserva obligatoria**
**⚠️ Limited capacity · Reservation required**
**👉 book your SPACE WhatsApp Nori: +34 608 186**
**https://wa.me/34608186985?text=Hola%20%F0%9F%91%8B%20Quiero%20reservar%20plaza%20para%20el%20taller%20de%20Retrato%20del%203%20de%20junio.%20%C2%BFQuedan%20plazas%20disponibles%3F**
Oil painting course for beginners in Barcelona
**Do you want to learn to paint? You are just at the right place – start and learn all classical tips and modern tricks of oil painting!**
It’s time to finally start! Come to our oil painting course and we will teach you how!
You will learn all the necessary skills and theory to create your own art. You will see that oil painting is not hard! We will teach you all the steps even if you are just starting.
During our classes we will walk through painting techniques, learn about working with oil, get to know the types of brushes and learn to use them. You will practice underpainting, use essences and mediums. Come and learn color theory, composition and everything else to go from “how” to “WOW”.
What to bring with you? Nothing 🙂 All the materials and supplies are always provided to you for free at Draw Planet!
**Don’t wait anymore – start your creative journey now!**
**Register HERE:** https://drawplanet.es/en/curso/oil-painting-course-barcelona/
📍 Classes take place in our studio in the Poblenou neighbourhood
(el Poblenou, c/ Pere IV, 192).
🎟 The price of the trial class is 29 €. This price includes all materials and a full class in the studio.
CLASE TEATRO NIVEL 2. TRABAJO ESCENAS TEATRALES Y CINEMATOGRAFICAS. Grupo A
Volvemos a la carga con mucho teatro y más ganas que nunca de poder compartir este maravilloso arte con vosotros. Teatro en estado puro al alcance de todos!
Este curso pretende facilitar el descubrimiento y la ejercitación de los hábitos creadores del actor en el alumnado.
Haremos un repaso de todo lo aprendido (técnicas de formación del actor, cuerpo, voz, paleta emotiva, improvisaciones, desbloqueos…) para entrar a fondo en un trabajo de escenas cinematográficas y teatrales.
Los alumnos aprenderán, mediante la práctica, a trabajar una secuencia cinematográfica y una escena teatral, se enfrentaran a retos de creación de personajes y escenas, en función de la necesidad de superación de cada alumno. Se les otorgará personajes y situaciones más conflictivas, siempre enfocándonos a la mejora y superación del trabajo interpretativo del alumno.
Se trabajará a fondo el análisis de personajes y textos de distintos géneros, para finalmente presentar las escenas.
Se incidirá más en el trabajo individual y grupal para mejorar las capacidades actorales.
Todo esto intercalado, con clases prácticas y de formación actoral, para poder ir aplicando lo aprendido en las escenas y profundizar en un trabajo más completo.
Para este grupo es necesario una experiencia mínima en teatro.
No os preocupéis si no hay mucha gente apuntada por meetup, la actividad se hace igual porque tenemos más gente apuntada por otros lugares.
Lo único ESENCIAL PARA PODER ASISITIR es que nos escribas para que te CONFIRMEMOS LA PLAZA. Sin confirmación por parte nuestra no podréis acceder al evento
BALETT iniciación
es una puerta de entrada al mundo de la danza clásica, pensada para adultos sin experiencia previa. Se trabajan las bases de la postura, la coordinación y la musicalidad de manera accesible y progresiva. El objetivo es mejorar la conciencia corporal, la fuerza y la elegancia, disfrutando del movimiento desde el principio.
MIM - mindfullness in movement
dirigido a personas que buscan (re) conectar con su Cuerpo Creativo y la energía sutil.
Mediante el Enraizamiento, la activación de motores y trabajos de Centro nos acercamos de manera suave a la Expresión Corporal que es una herramienta muy necesaria para poder escuchar el.cuerpo y dialogar hacia dentro, tanto como para ejercer presencia absoluta donde nos encontremos y podamos dialogar con nuestro entorno siendo capaces de generar una respuesta más que solo reaccionar.
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Activa tu luz interior con el poder del solsticio
Activa tu luz interior con el poder del solsticio
En este taller íntimo y transformador combinarás aromaterapia con un ritual consciente para alinearte con la energía expansiva del Solsticio de Verano, el día de mayor luz del año.
Durante 2 horas crearás tus propias herramientas aromáticas personales: una Bruma de Solsticio, formulada para limpiar el campo energético y elevar la vibración y un Aceite Personal, creado con una intención clara para los próximos meses.
A través de la creación consciente, una meditación guiada y el ritual de ungimiento, podrás limpiar energías estancadas y reducir tensiones físicas y emocionales, activar tu fuego interno, vitalidad y poder personal, elevar tu frecuencia vibracional y conectar con tu intención más profunda y llevarte a casa tu propia "medicina aromática", cargada con intención y propiedades terapéuticas
Modalidades:
20 y 21 de junio 2026 (inscripciones hasta el día 15 de junio)
Grupo de mañana y de tarde.
Duración: 2h y sin prisa...
Grupo reducido e íntimo: solo 7 personas por taller
Precio: 35 € (Incluye todos los materiales, aceites esenciales de calidad terapéutica, frascos y tus dos productos terminados)
Este taller une las propiedades terapéuticas de los aceites esenciales (emocionales, energizantes y equilibradoras) con sus propiedades vibracionales, creando un espacio de reconexión profunda, autocuidado y manifestación consciente.
Ven a honrar el solsticio de una forma espiritual, creativa y sanadora.
Watercolour workshop with a professional painter for beginners
We organise a watercolour workshop for beginners;
The teacher is an advanced graphic designer and painter Tiana Diakova, whose works you can check on Instagram: @diakova_art.
The maximum amount of people is 10 so the teacher will be able to guide every person.
The workshop is adapted to a beginner's level (every time people who never painted before are surprised with the result they achieve!) But also the process will be interesting for those who draw or paint already. For architects, designers and illustrators it's a good way to discover a new technique and make new contacts)
All materials are included so there is no need to bring anything.
The process will take 2-2,5 hours.
Important: Your subscription is confirmed after you make a payment following this link: https://mauicowork.com/watercolour-painting-with-tatiana/
Welcome to our evening of creativity in the atmospheric studio with beach vibes:)
Barcelona Art Residency
**Not your typical Barcelona trip.**
This is a creative immersion for those who want to experience Barcelona through art, not tourism.
Join us for a unique Art Residency where we explore the city through creativity, movement, photography, storytelling, and cultural immersion.
Think:
✨ Hidden artistic neighborhoods
✨ Street art walks
✨ Creative workshops
✨ Flamenco nights
✨ Photography experiences
✨ Meaningful connections with an international group
We’ll explore Barcelona through an artistic lens, from the creative energy of Poblenou to the magic of the Gothic Quarter, while reconnecting with your own creativity and self-expression.
Perfect for artists, creatives, entrepreneurs, and curious souls looking for deeper connection, inspiration, and a completely different way to travel.
No artistic experience needed, just openness to create, explore, and be inspired.
**Barcelona won’t just be a place you visit, it becomes part of your creative process. ✨**
Connect with me on IG: @inlovewithmarcela
Exploring the Self through Acrylic Painting
I welcome you to a warm, meditative space where you can relax and your mind can breathe, using art as a vehicle for this journey. We will focus on the artist that is already inside of you, using this space not to critique or judge but to create, play, and cultivate. Feel free to bring your own supplies if you want, but it is not necessary. Materials will be provided, including acrylic paints, paintbrushes, pencils, paper, and towels.
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Les doy la bienvenida a un espacio cálido y sereno donde podrán relajarse y dejar que su mente respire, utilizando el arte como vehículo para este viaje. Nos centraremos en el artista que ya reside en su interior, utilizando este espacio no para criticar ni juzgar, sino para crear, jugar y cultivar su creatividad. Si lo desean, pueden traer sus propios materiales, pero no es necesario. Se proporcionarán todos los materiales, incluyendo pinturas acrílicas, pinceles, lápices, papel y toallas.
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Tengo plazas limitadas. Si te apuntas y luego no puedes venir, por favor, cancela tu plaza con al menos 1 día de antelación. Si no lo haces, tendremos que eliminarte del grupo para darle la oportunidad a otra persona. ¡Gracias por entenderlo!
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**Para confirmar su asistencia, envía un bizum a ES20 0049 0702 5620 1135 0779. Si cancelas 24 horas antes del evento recibirás tu dinero de vuelta íntegramente **
Art in vino veritas 🎨🍷- Paint and wine experiences Barcelona
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZHMm-qoCqO/?igsh=NzJkYWQyOXQwMmZs
🎨🍷 Art in Vino Veritas es mucho más que un taller de pintura.
Una experiencia creativa y social en Barcelona donde personas de diferentes países se reúnen para pintar, compartir una copa de vino y conectar en un ambiente acogedor e internacional 🌍✨
No necesitas experiencia. Solo ganas de disfrutar, conocer gente nueva y dejar fluir tu creatividad.
💛 Ven solo o acompañado. 🎨 Materiales incluidos, 🍷 Vino, pica pica 🌮y un ambiente agradavel. 👯 Ven con un amigo y ambos recibiréis un 10% de descuento.
Precio: 30€ por persona (todo incluido)
Para reservas: +34 635 54 94 38 (WhatsApp) Plazas limitadas para mantener una experiencia más íntima y ordenada✨
Fecha y hora: Sabado, 20 de junio, 18:00 – 20:00
🇬🇧 English
🎨🍷 Art in Vino Veritas is more than a painting workshop.
A creative and social experience in Barcelona where people from all over the world come together to paint, enjoy a glass of wine and connect in a friendly international atmosphere 🌍✨
No experience needed. Just bring your curiosity, creativity and good vibes.
💛 Come alone or with friends. 🎨 All materials included. 🍷 Wine, snacks and great company.
👯 Bring a friend and both of you will get 10% off.
Price 30€ per person (all included)
for blocking: +34 635 54 94 38 (WhatsApp)
Date and time: Saturday, 20 de June, 18:00 – 20:00
Limited spots available
Collage in Motion
Spring is turning into summer, making it the perfect time to pause, reflect, and regenerate. Join us for a special afternoon dedicated to the art of transformation: turning what is here and now into preset's creation🌀
📅 Date: **Sunday 21/06**
🕒 Time: **14:00 – 16:00**
📍 Location: **Parc del Poblenou**
🪙 Cost: **5€ via bizum**
✨ No experience needed! Just an open heart and mind. **All materials are provided🎨**
🌱 We will start with short meditation followed with movement to get out of our heads, connect with our bodies, and tune into the nature around us.
🌱Create & Transform: We’ll dive into a hands-on collage practice, learning the art of transforming existing materials into unique, personal expressions.
🌱An open opportunity to share, reflect on closing chapters, welcome new beginnings, and connect with ourselves and others.
This space is dedicated to move and be moved, reflect on the past and upcoming endings and new beginnings, connect with a warm community, and enjoy the June sun and fresh air☀️
Saturday Night Party(FREE ENTRANCE & PARTY INFO)
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Sutton Barcelona
(Free pass till 01:00 list KAZU)
Here is the link to get free entrance list
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Better to be there before 00:30
Calle de Tuset, 13, Barcelona
House Comercial / Reggaeton / Top Hits
Girls +23 / Boys +25
Elegant - No Sneakers or Sportswear
Whatsapp +34665605282
VIP table reservation
Club Otto Zutz
(Free pass till 01:30 list KAZU)
Send DM for guest list\*skip line\*
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Carrer de Lincoln, 15, 08006 Barcelona
Hip Hop / R&B / Reggaeton / Top Hits
+18
Casual - No Sneakers or Sportswear
La Biblio Barcelona
(Free pass till 01:00 list KAZU)
Just say KAZU at the door
Free welcome shot
Carrer de Moià, 1, 08006 Barcelona
Reggaeton / Top Hits
+23
Well-dressed: No Sneakers or Sportswear
Opium Barcelona
Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 34, Barcelona
Here is the link to buy entrance and VIP TABLE RESERVATION
https://www.fourvenues.com/es/kazu-opium
Early birds 20€ with 1 drink
Hip Hop / House Comercial / R&B
+18
Elegant - No Sneakers or Sportswear
Saturday - Pegao - Pacha Barcelona
Pacha Barcelona – 23:55h – Saturday, 18 of March
R&B / Hip Hop / Afrobeat / Reggaeton / Top Hits
Local & International
+18
Well-dressed: No Sneakers or Sportswear
Here is the link to buy ticket & VIP
https://xceed.me/es/barcelona/club/pacha-barcelona/channel--kazu
Whatsapp +34665605282
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NFT AI ART Columbus
NFT's are here to stay folks!
This is a group for like minded people interested in understanding, leveraging, using, creating for, profiting from, trading too i suppose, NFT's.. everything around them, complexity, fear and exploits, best practices and more.
**PLUS**
This group will talk AI ART tools, techniques, artists, video, audio, prototypes and more in the AI assisted production space- ART specifically, but we can get into any aspect of some of the cooler things happening in AI in general.
June Crafternoon: Art & Craft Day
**Join us for an afternoon of community art and craft time!**
Whether you are looking to carve out dedicated creative time, wanting to get a lingering project across the finish line, or just looking to chat with fellow local makers—this is the space for you.
🧵 **What to Bring**
Bring any art or craft project you are currently working on, as long as it is portable and quiet. Think:
* **Yarn & Thread:** Knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross-stitch, hand-sewing, mending.
* **Paper & Sketching:** Sketchbooks, adult coloring books, watercolors, bullet journaling.
* **Digital:** Tablets, iPad drawing, laptop writing/design.
* *Please note: Because we are meeting in a shared public space, no power tools, sewing machines, or high-odor materials (like strong solvents or spray glues), please!*
**📍 Where to Find Us**
* We will be meeting at **Columbus Metropolitan Library - Hilltop Branch** in **Meeting Room 4**. Room is reserved under **CBUS Maker Meetup.**
**⏱️ Timeline**
* **1:00 PM:** Arrive, grab a seat, get settled, and do a quick round of introductions so we can see what everyone is working on.
* **1:15 PM - 3:00 PM:** Open maker time! Chat, craft, relax, and swap creative ideas.
**⚠️ A Note on RSVPs**
The RSVP count for this event is strictly limited to 10 spots.
If your plans change and you can no longer attend, please update your RSVP to "Not Going" as soon as possible so someone on the waitlist can grab your spot. Please try to give at least 48 hours' notice if you need to cancel, allowing folks on the waitlist time to check their schedule.
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**We can't wait to meet you and see what you're making! All skill levels welcome.**
Columbus Museum of Art, Free Admission Sundays
Let’s meet and wander the galleries! General admission on Sundays is free.
Fundamentals: by do Jung Ishu/ the art of fighting
We are a real world Martial arts group. \
Called DO JUNG ISHU (the art of fighting) \
Based off of Jeet kune do we just continued where Bruce Lee left off. \
We have been around a while. \
Every week we get together and work technical skills and full contact spar. \
Almost all of the instructors have been in everything from street fights to the ring and some still compete in cage fighting. \
If you want to take your skills up, improve your confidence, gain self defense skills, get in better shape, test yourself or just want to kill some time and possibly get hit a bit come on down. \
We will be located at 3923 N High St, Columbus, OH 43214 Outside in the grass between the playground and horseshoe area. our instructors are normally in a black and red art of fighting shirt \ if you can not find us call or text me at 6143570295
Saturday 1:30pm Wednesday 5:45pm
From Age 16 and up. attendees under the age of 18 must have a guardian with them. \
Wear workout clothes. \
Bring a MOUTHPIECE! \
WE HAVE GLOVES. \
$10 per class
$5 per class if you are wearing a club shirt
Club shirts are $25
Hope to see you soon. \
let me know if you have any questions :)
Beginner and Intermediate Bachata Dance Classes with Todd Smith!
**✅ Bachata Mondays with Todd Smith!**
**👉 Beginner Bachata Class**
**$15 In Advance / $20 At the Door**
7:00 pm – 7:15 pm … Registration
7:15 pm – 8:15 pm … Beginner Class
**👉 Intermediate Bachata Class**
**= $15 In Advance / $20 At the Door**
8:15 pm – 8:30 pm Registration
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm Intermediate Class
**👉 If You Take Both Bachata Classes**
**= $25 In Advance / $35 At the Door**
**👉 Buy Advance Tickets Now at:**
https://columbussalsadancing.com/bachata-mondays-dance-class-tickets/
Ohio Fight club
We are a real world Martial arts group. \
Called DO JUNG ISHU (the art of fighting) \
Based off of Jeet kune do we just continued where Bruce Lee left off. \
We have been around a while. \
Every week we get together and work technical skills and full contact spar. \
Almost all of the instructors have been in everything from street fights to the ring and some still compete in cage fighting. \
If you want to take your skills up, improve your confidence, gain self defense skills, get in better shape, test yourself or just want to kill some time and possibly get hit a bit come on down. \
We will be located at 3923 N High St, Columbus, OH 43214 Outside in the grass between the playground and horseshoe area. our instructors are normally in a black and red art of fighting shirt \ if you can not find us call or text me at 6143570295
Saturday 1:30pm Wednesday 5:45pm
From Age 16 and up. attendees under the age of 18 must have a guardian with them. \
Wear workout clothes. \
Bring a MOUTHPIECE! \
WE HAVE GLOVES. \
$10 per class
$5 per class if you are wearing a club shirt
Club shirts are $25
Hope to see you soon. \
let me know if you have any questions :)
Drunken Philosophy: Where Is Everybody? The Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter
Welcome to Drunken Philosophy, a casual, curious, social discussion club. Come grab a drink and a seat at The Oracle.
**Optional topic for this meetup: Where is everybody?**
In 1950 the physicist Enrico Fermi was talking about aliens over lunch and asked a question that still has not gone away: if the universe is so vast and so old, and even a fraction of those billions of stars have planets, where is everyone? By the numbers the galaxy should be crowded with civilizations. Instead we look up and hear silence. That gap between "they should be everywhere" and "we see no one" is the Fermi Paradox.
One of the most unsettling answers is the idea of a **Great Filter**: somewhere on the road from dead chemistry to a galaxy-spanning civilization, there is at least one step that is almost impossible to get past. Maybe the filter is behind us. Maybe life starting at all, or simple cells becoming complex, or intelligence ever evolving, is the freak accident, and we already cleared the hard part. Or maybe the filter is ahead of us, and advanced civilizations reliably wipe themselves out before they spread.
Here is the part that messes with people. If we ever found life somewhere else, even pond scum on Mars, most people would call it the greatest discovery in history. But it might be the worst possible news. It would mean life is common, the early steps are easy, and the hard step is still in front of us. So the eerie silence overhead might actually be the best sign we could ask for.
**Questions to wrestle with:**
* Is it better to be alone? Would you rather we find alien life and learn we are not special, or find nothing and quietly improve our odds of surviving?
* Where do you bet the filter sits, behind us or ahead of us, and why?
* If it is ahead of us, what is it? Nuclear war, climate collapse, AI, something we cannot even picture yet? And can we do anything about a filter we cannot see coming?
* Two principles pull opposite ways here. The principle of mediocrity (the Copernican principle, Sagan's "no privileged place in the universe") says we are ordinary, so what happened on Earth probably happened everywhere, which makes the silence scream louder. The anthropic principle says of course we find ourselves somewhere life was possible, since we could not observe anything else, so our being here may say almost nothing about how common life is. Which lens do you trust, and does the silence still demand an answer once you account for observer selection?
* And if we did confirm life out there and had to accept we are not special, what would that do to belief in a higher power, and would shedding (or keeping) that belief help or hurt our odds of pulling together as one species?
* Does any of this change how you live, or how humanity should be spending its time and money right now?
As always the prompt is optional. Come for the conversation, stay for the drinks, and bring your own questions.





















