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  1. Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa

    11/08/2025

    Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa

    We interview researcher and professor Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa. He completed a European doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Hamburg and the Universitat de Barcelona. After stays in Dresden and Montevideo, he held teaching positions at the universities of Edinburgh and East London, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at Yale University and a Ramón y Cajal fellowship at the Universitat de Barcelona. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Psychological Treatment and also collaborates with the Spanish Association of Mental Health Professionals, the European Network for (ex)-Users, and the Survivors of Psychiatry and the Global Anti-Stigma Alliance. His research is focused on the analysis of strategies for the awareness of mental health service users and professionals, with the aim to improve communication between them.

    25 min
  2. Alicia Escribano

    11/01/2025

    Alicia Escribano

    This month, we interview journalist and world traveler Alicia Escribano. Immersed in the world of radio and television since she was 17, she has since developed an extensive career in various media outlets. She is known for hosting television and radio cultural programs, such as her long-running interview program Barcelonautes on 25TV, reporting on everything from political debates to cultural showcases and more. And Alicia is known not only for her reporting on the local scene, but also for bringing stories from around the world to Barcelona through Barcelonautes. As the tagline goes on her travel blog: You think you're going to make a journey. But the journey makes you. She’s an example of how where we go in life shapes who we are, and how opening yourself up to new experiences makes life that much richer.

    24 min
  3. Richard White

    08/17/2025

    Richard White

    This month we speak with bluesman, painter and sculptor Richard White. Born in Philadelphia, Richard has performed concerts all over the U.S. and Europe before finally making Tarragona his home. He has become a fixture in the Catalan blues scene, from organizing independent blues festivals to recording and releasing his own work. He is also a painter and sculptor with international exhibitions to his credit, and his work—both visual and musical—is known for combining satire, social commentary and a deep love of storytelling.

    22 min
  4. Lulú Txispun

    08/02/2025

    Lulú Txispun

    In this episode of the Metropolitan Culture Corner we go behind the scenes with Lulú Txispún: burlesque dancer, teacher and festival organizer extraordinaire. She has traveled the world performing, and even serving as a judge at international burlesque events. She has also taught burlesque since 2013, and is the co-founder of the Barcelona Burlesque Meeting and Festival. Joining her in this interview is Yiste, one of her artistic collaborators in the festival, an acclaimed photographer, and graphic and performing artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela, who now makes his home in Barcelona. He is known for producing transgressive, often political neoburlesque, and is currently the producer of monthly burlesque show Foxy Cabaret.

    24 min
  5. Chris Reilly

    07/26/2025

    Chris Reilly

    This month on the Metropolitan Culture Corner, we interview Chris Reilly, former chair of the Barcelona chapter of Democrats Abroad. If you’ve seen previous installments of this monthly interview series, then you know that we usually go behind the scenes with someone from the world of the arts. However, culture is multifaceted, and we wanted to speak with someone who is deeply involved in a different facet of local culture: social and political activism. Born in the UK, Chris Reilly’s professional life has taken him all over the world, working in business development and senior sales roles, specifically in the fields of new technologies and media. Chris became a green card holder while working in the United States, and became a naturalized American citizen in 2001. While living in New York he worked on the presidential campaigns for John Kerry and Barack Obama. Later, his love of his adopted country led him to want to continue to stay involved even from afar. In 2009, his work brought him and his family to Barcelona, where he became heavily involved in non-profit organization Democrats Abroad, which—among other things—works to encourage American citizens living abroad to register to vote.

    27 min
  6. Esther Gimeno Miró

    07/19/2025

    Esther Gimeno Miró

    We interview Esther Gimeno Miró. She is a computational linguist, conversational AI specialist, technology project manager and educator who has worked for multinational tech companies on the development of projects such as conversational assistants like Siri and Alexa, and large language models, or the AI programming that makes programs like ChatGPT possible. Esther is also an independent musician, and the co-founder and President of CABE, a non-profit organization that works to support emerging artists all across Spain. The non-profit organization is run by musicians, for musicians, with the goal of creating a space where artists can support one another and share their musical and management skills.

    29 min
  7. Yodé Olubajo

    07/12/2025

    Yodé Olubajo

    This month on the Metropolitan Culture Corner, we go behind the scenes with Yodé Olubajo. Born in London, raised in Lagos, he later lived in Venice, where he was known for his cabaret performances and parties. He speaks four languages—English, Yoruba, Italian and Spanish—and is known for his fun, flamboyant personality and style. He later moved to Barcelona, and in 2022, he created the jazz club and piano bar, Velvet Room born out of a sense of nostalgia for the sophistication and glamour of the 1940s and 1950s.

    24 min
  8. Laura Avery

    07/05/2025

    Laura Avery

    In our first interview of 2025, we go behind the scenes with Laura Avery, events organizer and co-founder of local non-profit organization Fashion Cares. Laura was born in the UK, but has made Barcelona her home for the past ten years. She was an English teacher in London, Lisbon, and Santander, until she made a career change and decided to spend the next fifteen years in fashion print media in London and Mumbai. She later went on to become a fashion lecturer at the London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts in London. After that, Laura moved to Barcelona, where she co-founded the nonprofit organization Fashion Cares in 2021. It organizes primarily fashion-related events in support of charitable foundations in and around the city of Barcelona, and holding a big annual fundraising event.

    28 min
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