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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

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21/06/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Budiño presents ‘Branca Vela’ to celebrate Music Day 2024.
04/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela. 
05/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
11/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
12/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
18/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
19/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
01/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
02/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
08/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
09/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
15/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
16/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
22/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
23/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
30/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
15/09/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The ensemble Música Práctica inaugurates the cycle Ópticas contemporáneas 2024 of the Cidade da Cultura on Sunday 15 September with a journey through the most recent musical creation that culminates in a premiere work by Fernando Buide, specifically written for the...
18/10/2024
20:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mudar la piel is a work in which images, sounds and words are the vehicles for transmitting to the audience aspects of today's society that are also the object of research for anthropology and the social sciences. This unique piece will be performed by its creators, the teacher and researcher...
16/11/2024
20:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Real Filharmonía de Galicia closes the cycle Ópticas contemporáneas 2024 of the Cidade da Cultura on November 16th with a special concert in which it will perform, under the baton of Baldur Brönnimann, the work The Four Seasons Recomposed, by Max Richter. In this...
16/05/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A folkloric microcosm where identities converge and community is created. Come and enjoy the intimacy, freshness, and personality of Abril’s music at the Biblioteca de Galicia on the occasion of Galician Literature Day.
24/05/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Concert by Felisa Segade and Merchi Rodríguez for the Day of Galician Letters 2025
20/06/2025 - 22/06/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Traditional music and dance will once again flood the Gaiás with muiñeiras and aturuxos, alalás and pandeiradas: the Serán returns in June 2025 to the Cidade da Cultura - framed in the programme of these Letras Galegas - and coinciding with the start of summer and...

Theatre

21/02/2025 - 22/02/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Clásicas desfeitas is a cycle promoted by the Centro Dramático Galego with the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia to rediscover the classics through the languages of the contemporary stage. The cycle is part of the Gaiás Artistic Residencies programme (REGA).
28/02/2025 - 01/03/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Clásicas desfeitas is a cycle promoted by the Centro Dramático Galego with the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia to rediscover the classics through the languages of the contemporary stage. The cycle is part of the Gaiás Artistic Residencies programme (REGA).
22/03/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Show for Oral Storytelling Day
08/05/2025 - 11/05/2025
This year, Escenas do cambio is more than ever committed to transcending the physical limits of territories and stages for avant-garde stage creation. From 8 to 11 May, the festival brings artists from eight countries (Spain, Germany, Australia, Belgium, South Korea, Cuba, Portugal and...

For children

03/07/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Based on visual poetry, Karpaty is transformed into a show full of humour and hope. A prestigious Russian circus sets out on a journey fleeing from war in order to fulfil its dream: to show its art to the public once again.
10/07/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Crashh_Xiri is a show with its own language: ‘crasshonês’. The latest production of the Crashh, a show with energy, humour and a contagious rhythm that brings together the group's entire career to bring together children, families and the general public.
17/07/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A new Rock en Familia show is coming to Gaiás, a space in which to share and sing the best of Spanish pop music from the eighties and nineties: from Alaska to Radio Futura, Nacha Pop or Coque Malla.
31/07/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Designed for audiences of all ages with the aim of generating community around the performing arts, De Vilatriste a Vilalegre combines acting and puppet theatre with the world of comics as a reference.
07/09/2024
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A Saturday afternoon to close the summer in style. 13 proposals among which we find fixed shows, itinerant shows, play areas and installations by companies from Portugal, Madrid, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. 
21/09/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of the commemoration of the European Day of Languages, the Library of Galicia is organising the workshop As letras viaxeiras, given by Marisa Irimia. In this activity, children will be able, through music and plastic arts, to immerse themselves in the diversity of other...
26/10/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Library of Galicia celebrates Library Day with the theatrical performance Little Red Riding Hood in the attic, a family show by the company Teatro del Andamio.  
23/11/2024
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
What is a medieval scriptorium? Palaeography workshop to decipher ancient writings.
30/11/2024
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
What colours do we use to depict screams? How do we draw sadness or loneliness? And empathy? This is possibly a family workshop against male violence, through which you can discover the power of artistic expression together.    
14/12/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Auditorium of the Biblioteca de Galicia becomes a small village with wooden houses that look like they are made of gingerbread biscuits. In them live the neighbours of the Christmas Musical Village, who will tell the children what life is like in a magical and surprising place where it is...
27/12/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Rediscover the magic of the classic circus with this new show where polar bears or animatronic elephants - mechanical animals with the appearance and movement of real animals - will amaze children and adults alike. With a carefully designed set design, and fabulous acrobatics and choreography,...
04/01/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Horns, crests and throats ready for this Christmas special! A Gramola Gominola and their show Aí vén o Apalpador! promises to get the whole Gaiás Centre Museum dancing!
25/01/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
De conjuros y música is a musical workshop in which children actively participate in a concert through an interactive experience full of magical moments and live music.
05/02/2025 - 30/04/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Galiverso project launches a new virtual reality experience, Galiverso no corazón da pedra, which proposes a journey into the interior of our land to discover the natural, archaeological, ethnographic and historical wonders of our territory, where the stone, the one that shapes us...
03/03/2025
16:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This year for the Entroido no Gaiás ball we travel to Mount Esmeralda and to the iconography of a literary saga that fascinates children of all generations: the wonderful world of Oz.
29/03/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The play, aimed at children from 6 years of age, takes a look at the most significant literary and artistic moments in Castelao's life in a language adapted to the youngest members of the family. This stage play represents part of his work with puppets: stories from ‘Cousas’;...
12/04/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A musical show in verse, agile, daring and inspiring. Os contos de Lobicán, by Redrum Teatro and recent winner of the María Casares Award for Puppets and Animated Objects, comes to the Biblioteca de Galicia on the occasion of the International Children's and Young People's Book Day.
26/04/2025
18:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
At the City of Culture, we celebrate World Circus Day with Xampatito Pato and a show where puppetry and the circus world intertwine in a beautiful story where every cog turns to perfection. A surreal and dreamlike world, and a wordless tale that mesmerizes children and awakens the child that...
17/05/2025
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
As part of this year's Letras Galegas, dedicated to oral popular poetry and to the legacy of our cantareiras, the Gaiás invites you to a family workshop of traditional songs and small percussion instruments, where we’ll deconstruct the lyrics of the Galician tradition...
25/05/2025
12:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Oral storytelling, music, objects and new technologies to exalt the heritage of all the women honoured on the Día das Letras Galegas throughout time. The Biblioteca de Galicia hosts the workshop Desde Rosalía hasta las Cantareiras, a multidisciplinary proposal aimed at children...
14/06/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Biblioteca de Galicia hosts this theatrical production as part of the Castelao Year: a vibrant, humorous show directed by Fina Calleja and starring Mónica Caamaño and Cris Collazo. A piece created for children that invites them to take part in a magical, memory-filled story.

Literature

18/10/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Talk - snack with Alba Rozas | Women Writers' Day 2024 Free of charge upon registration

Cinema

14/02/2025 - 16/02/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The best international small cinema will fill the Gaiás on the weekend of February 14 to 16 with short films and workshops to enjoy with the family and on the big screen.

Sport

14/09/2024
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Obstacle races return to the Cidade da Cultura. A six-kilometre route in which participants will have to overcome more than 30 obstacles. The race is aimed at both high-level athletes and a more popular profile. 
17/05/2025
10:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On Saturday, May 17, 2025, the XI Carreira Camiño das Letras will take place—a race that combines sport, culture, and symbolism.
07/06/2025
11:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On Saturday, June 7, Holi Gaiás and Peque Holi return to fill the Cidade da Cultura with color and give spring the farewell it deserves with a fun, sporty event for all audiences. The seventh edition of this festive race is already underway, offering a joyful June Saturday for families...

Fiestas

03/12/2024 - 06/01/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Family Christmas programme organised by the City of Culture of Galicia.  

Guided visits

23/03/2025
11:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
 With the start of spring, at the Cidade da Cultura we are joining in the celebrations for International Forest Day and World Water Day - 21st and 22nd March, respectively - with an interpretative walk through the green spaces of the forest to discover the fauna and flora that live there.

Exhibitions

22/03/2024 - 04/08/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
From seed to tree. An asset for our lives connects with the original idea for which the Hejduk towers were designed, conceived as botanical towers. Thus, the spaces are used as a greenhouse, where two types of Galician forests - Atlantic and Mediterranean - are recreated, and as a classroom,...
22/03/2024 - 04/08/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Royal treasures. Masterpieces from the Museum of the Holy Land is an international exhibition that will showcase in Santiago de Compostela the extraordinary and little-known artistic treasure of the Museum of the Holy Land in Jerusalem, made up of donations from European Catholic...
28/05/2024 - 26/01/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Other Possible Stories brings together the work of six contemporary artists born in the 1950s and linked to Galicia in their lives and careers, whose careers are worth reviewing and contextualising in order, as the title of the project states, to generate other stories to complement those...
12/07/2024 - 05/01/2025
Museo Centro Gaiás
The international exhibition A Viking Life is one of the most outstanding projects of the programming of the Cidade da Cultura for 2024. It comprises around 120 pieces, of which a hundred come from outside Spain and belong to museums of history and archaeology of reference in Europe on Viking...
29/10/2024 - 20/04/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The exhibition Tattoo. Art under the skin follows tattoo artists and tattooed people through the ages and across continents to explore the confluences that have made tattooing a form of artistic expression and a global phenomenon.
31/10/2024 - 18/05/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This exhibition, through more than 100 bibliographic pieces, engravings, manuscripts and other materials brought by the authors on display, highlights the value of fantasy literature both originally written in Galician and translated into our language.  
11/03/2025 - 31/12/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Arquivo de Galicia opens the exhibition Women artists: learning the trade, which reflects the difficult path that many had to face in order to achieve social recognition of their creative capacity, as well as access to artistic education.
08/04/2025 - 07/09/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Rafael Úbeda has been painting for seven decades. The exhibition Rafael Úbeda. Retrospective view offers a complete overview of his creative career, delving into the most important milestones of his work and the representative pieces that marked each stage of his career.
16/05/2025 - 30/09/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
An exhibition to focus on all the women who kept alive the poetry and music of oral tradition, and also to know how their collection and enhancement evolved over time.
17/05/2025 - 18/05/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Activities in celebration of International Museum Day 2025
05/06/2025 - 23/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Plastic biontes is an intervention in the Hejduk Towers that aims to establish a dialogue, through rubbish, between the city of culture and the city of Santiago. The towers as beacons, as social reference points, as symbols that unite history, memory and the possibility of a future yet to be...
12/06/2025 - 02/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
BORIS SAVELEV. Viewfinder, a way of looking is the most extensive retrospective to date of the photographer Boris Savelev (Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 1947), an award-winning artist at PHotoEspaña 2024 whose gaze was forged in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. 
26/06/2025 - 11/01/2026
(Castelao. Looking around Galicia) Castelao. Mirar por Galicia represents the most advanced technological-cultural experience to date on Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, a journey through the personal, literary, artistic and political evolution of one of the most outstanding...

Annual

03/07/2025 - 30/08/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between July and August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
06/11/2025 - 09/11/2025
The Encounter of Compostela Illustrated Travel Journals, was created in 2016 by El Patito Editorial and the direction of Miguelanxo Prado, as a winter event in the city of Santiago, open to artists from all over the world. It takes place during the second weekend of November, and its purpose is...