Author: Pol Vinyes

La Cubana recieves the Ramblista d’Honor 2024 award from Amics de la Rambla

The Amics de La Rambla Association, which annually grants the Ramblista of Honor awards, has chosen to award us this year’s Ramblista of Honor distinction: “in recognition of its artistic trajectory, its relationship with and affection for La Rambla, and its contribution to the happiness and well-being of Barcelona’s residents.”

The other recipients of this distinction are Joan Oliveras Bagués and Cristina Caparrós. The award ceremony took place this Wednesday, October 23rd, in the Saló de Cent at Barcelona City Hall, presided over by the Mayor of Barcelona, Mr. Jaume Collboni, and the president of the Amics de la Rambla Association, Pau Bosch.

The founder and director of La Cubana, Jordi Milán, expressed his gratitude on behalf of the entire company for this recognition and highlighted La Rambla’s importance to our trajectory. After leaving Sitges, we set up our operations headquarters very close by, on Carrer del Carme.

La Cubana has had and continues to have a deep relationship with La Rambla, which we hold dear: it was there that we performed for the first time in a theater, at Teatre Romea, with La Tempestad (1986); the Capitol became a theater when we performed Cómeme el coco, negro (1990), and we produced and rehearsed Cegada de Amor in commercial spaces on Carrer del Carme and Carrer de la Junta de Comerç. La Rambla has also been the setting for many of our street performances, celebrations, and press conferences.

The scores of the Teresines theme song

Editorial Boileau has published the scores of the “Cançó de les Teresines” to celebrate the success of the “teresina’s revival” that we started with the podcast “Les Teresines pim, pam, pum” for Catalunya Radio and the publication of the biography “Vida de Teresina”

Editorial Musical Boileau has published an album with the lyrics and scores of the popular “Cançó de les Teresines”, with the music and lyrics composed by Joan Vives. In other words, for all those people who want to “play and sing it” they have to buy the scores, published by this prestigious music publisher. “Cançó de les Teresines” is a very practical booklet, designed for music students, which apart from the lyrics, contains the scores for voice and piano, and also the instrumental score (piano) that comes with a QR code to be able to listen to the sung version and the instrumental.

It is an honor for La Cubana that these scores have been edited and we want to take the opportunity to thank our longtime musician, Joan Vives, who apart from the Teresines, since 1990 has composed the music from almost all our shows.

You can find this album with the scores on the Boileau Publishing website (www.boileau-music.com), at its headquarters at Carrer Provença 287 or in specialized stores.

 

“TERESINA S.A.” on Netflix

Since its premiere 32 years ago “Teresina SA” had become a cult series in Catalonia, and now, finally this Tuesday, July 23, the thirteen episodes of the series that La Cubana produced together with Televisió de Catalunya arrive on NETFLIX.

For those who do not yet know this comedy, it is a portrait of manners, which shows a series of everyday situations that are very close and known to everyone. Teresinas, the main characters, are three single sisters from the Barcelona neighbourhood of Gràcia, who live with their brother Tomàs.

“Teresina, S.A.” is the name of the underground economy company they have set up at home, where they place orders for anything they are offered: stuffed animals, packing letters, gluing buttons, paper flowers, souvenirs, flags…

Almost all the neighbours on the stairs come to work or gossip on the Teresinas apartment. Each chapter is set in a month of the year in chronological order (starting in August and ending in August of the following year) and is titled after a traditional festival on the calendar, which is also related to the order they have received and are “producing.”.

We hope that all those who know the series will recommend it to their friends everywhere, since “Teresina S.A” can be seen on the Netflix platform also with Spanish subtitles.

 

“Vida de Teresina” in Sant Jorge’s Day

Sant Jordi was a wonderful day… The Teresines put on comfortable clothes and wanted to be accompanied by three “dudes” who rolled them to signings at different points in Barcelona. Rosita and Paca didn’t want to miss out either; they also left Gràcia to meet all the series’ followers.

The day began with a visit to the stalls of Catalunya Radio and Rac1 set up in the center of Barcelona. Then they moved around different book stalls in Barcelona (FNAC, Ona Bookstore, Alibris Bookstore, Abacus Bookstore), and also to the special stall that La Cubana set up on the Rambla de les Flors in front of the Boqueria Market.

There were many moments of emotion for all those people who have enjoyed these characters and love them as if they were family.

Many thanks to everyone who made it possible! It was an unforgettable day!

 

3th Edition of “Vida de Teresina”

The Teresines (especially) and us (La Cubana) couldn’t be happier and more satisfied with the response the book is receiving.

Penguin Publishing has announced, just three weeks after it went on sale, that they have already released the third edition of the Teresines’ biography.

According to what they told us, there are several factors that were decisive in making this decision. The first is that the book is selling very well throughout Catalonia and that “Vida de Teresina” has ranked among the best-selling books. Another factor is that with the imminent arrival of Sant Jordi, there are very good forecasts, and they must avoid “at all costs” that people could be left without it. And obviously, they have also taken into account the feedback we are receiving from readers: the book is being very well received by those who have already bought and read it.

For all these reasons, we are “happier than a child with new shoes”…

 

Signatures calendar of «Vida de Teresina»

The official presentation of «Vida de Teresina» (Life of Teresina) took place at the Ona Bookstore in Barcelona, attended by friends, colleagues, and people associated with the television series. The event concluded with a special performance by the Barcelona Gay Men’s Chorus directed by Master Joan Vives, who performed “La cançó de les Teresines” (The Song of the Teresinas)

Now that the book is available in all bookstores, we will begin a tour to present it.

This tour starts with the Berenar Literari (Literary Tea) organized annually by the Llibreria el Cucut de Torroella de Montgrí

We will also visit the following bookstores around the country:

The afternoon of Friday 12th of April – Llibreria Papereria Caselles in Lleida and you can purchase your book in here

The morning of Saturday 13th of April – Llibreria Galatea in Reus and you can purchase your book in  here

The afternoon of Saturday 13th of April – Llibreria Adsera in Tarragona and you can purchase your book in here

The afternoon of Friday 19th of April – Llibreria 22 in Girona and you can purchase your book in  here

The morning of Saturday 20th of April – La Gralla in Granollers and you can purchase your book in here

The afternoon of Saturday 20th of April – La Llar del Llibre in Sabadell and you can purchase your book in here

 

If any bookstore, library, or organization is interested in having us visit their town or city, they can contact us at 669 82 92 42 or premsa@lacubana.es

“VIDA DE TERESINA” is on the shelves of your bookshop!

This is a book about the Teresines. But let no one think it’s a book about the TV series we all know, which aired on TV3 in 1992, becoming a phenomenon that has become part of the Catalan popular imagination.

“Vida de Teresina” (Life of a Teresina) is a detailed biography of the three sisters, which provides unknown information about the lives of these endearing characters. A fun book within the Rosa dels Vents collection published by Penguin Random House.

After doing the Teresines podcasts on Catalunya Radio, the publishing house proposed to us that, using the scripts we had used for the podcast, we should make a book to publish for Sant Jordi. We told them that was not a godd idea! We didn’t see the point of it!

But instead, we gave them another idea: we proposed to them a game: playing between reality and fiction, the publishing house could go directly to ask the Teresines with the petition of writing a book about their lives. Teresines, not feeling prepared to write their memoirs, also answered them “no”. So the publishing house, using their experience, insisted on offering them the possibility of hiring a “ghostwriter” to help them: a young writer, paid by them, who would be spending all day at their home and would jot down everything that came to their minds. They would only have to dictate while doing their things. Finally, they agreed, and amidst their daily lives, and between their famous orders, the Teresines began telling this scribe all about their “life and miracles” while he type down everything into his computer: they told  him about their birth, their childhood and youth adventures, their first friends, their first communion, adolescence; as well as their first boyfriends, their dreams, and even their romantic disappointments, and so on, and so forth.

After a very intense year, the book is finished and you can already find it at your trusted bookstore.

And of course, for Sant Jordi, the Teresines will be dedicating and signing copies at the Barcelona streets.