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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

Free
29/04/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Suit(e) is a project that aims to bring together two artistic disciplines, music and dance. This proposal is part of the Contemporáneas Programme.
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...
08/02/2026
16:00 | A Nave de Vidán
The association Breizh Galiza is organising a Breton fest-deiz on Sunday 8 February, from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm, at Nave de Vidán. This convivial gathering will feature live music by Da VAB (Xacobe Varela, Xavier Agra and María Blanco) and the group As Pías, and will invite...
08/02/2026
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
XPECTRO is a multidisciplinary performance that invites audiences into a creative and deeply emotional universe. The action unfolds in a corner of the minds of two beings whose bodies bear traces of neurodivergence and whose inner worlds hold echoes of the past.

Dance

30/04/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
In Aurora Borealis, the permanence of things is exposed. It reflects on the durability of a scenic work: can it change over time, does it need to change or remain frozen?  Transience as a social essence already constituted and apparently approved by society. Aurora Borealis starts from...
02/05/2025
17:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
It is a dance show that is constructed as an initiation ritual to life and in which music, light and movement attend to the cognitive process of the youngest children. It is a careful international production made between Spain and Germany, which is based on an idea: imitation as a way of...
03/05/2025
20:00 | Casa das Máquinas
As part of the celebration of the 15-year trajectory of the Danza a Escena program, the Compostela Cultura agenda presents a double bill of free-access performances to enjoy the art of movement. Two stage works, PIES DE GALLINA and ZENEZ, take us to a space where contemporary dance becomes a...
23/05/2025
18:30 | Teatro Principal
The goal of this activity is to enrich knowledge about the history of dance, highlight synergies between different styles, create spaces for dialogue and debate that foster critical thinking, collaborate with the community by opening the arts of movement to the public, bring together sector...
24/05/2025
11:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Movement workshop with Janet Novás
14/06/2025
19:30 | Auditorio Abanca
In this 2025, Danza Alfaia celebrates its XV Festival of end of course, with a team of wide trajectory creating scene, so that the students enjoy the artistic experience, where we will present choreographic works of different disciplines. 
21/06/2025
19:00 | Auditorio Abanca
The Mandala Solidarity Gala will take place on June 21, 2025, at the Auditorio Abanca in Santiago de Compostela. Organized by the wellness center Mandala, this gala aims to raise funds for Itínera, an Association of Volunteers for the Social Integration of People with Mental Disorders,...
22/06/2025
19:00 | Auditorio Abanca
End of Year Gala of the professional dance school of Santiago de Compostela, SILIRIA Dance Center.
17/10/2025
20:00 | Palacio de Congresos e Exposicións de Galicia
El espectáculo Luna. Oda a Federico García Lorca, dirigido e interpretado por la bailaora Rocío Pozo, es una propuesta flamenca que rinde homenaje a la fascinación del poeta granadino por la luna. A través de la danza, la poesía y la música en...
02/11/2025
20:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
A performance that combines music, dance, and images to honor the legacy of Ruth Matilda Anderson and her Galicia, creating a visual and emotional experience that invites us to see and be seen.
24/01/2026
19:00 | Teatro Compostela
The Nutcracker by the International Classical Ballet is a magical production that tells Marie’s adventure on Christmas Eve, full of music, dance, and fantasy.
06/02/2026 - 08/02/2026
New edition of the International Tango Festival organised by Compostela Tango Club, an association created in the capital of Compostela in 2013 to promote Argentine tango.
09/04/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
ON TIME invites reflection on the concept of time through contemporary dance. Choreographers Amaya Galeote, María Cabeza de Vaca and Maite Gámez explore new artistic challenges with dancers and performers with and without disabilities.    
10/04/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
QUISO NEGRO explores death through movement, inspired by tarantism, a medieval ritual from southern Italy. The piece combines choreography and music to depict possession, catharsis, and physical exhaustion, offering a celebratory and vitalistic journey through the end of life.
19/04/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
TRANSEÚNTE explores the duality between permanence and transience in the bodies of new generations, shaped by folklore and tradition. A performance that celebrates cultural diversity, honors the past, lives the present, and embraces the future.    
07/05/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
ALÉN is a contemporary dance creation exploring the “beyond” as a process, an intermediate space where identity dissolves to emerge transformed. Four dancers offer a poetic, sensory, and energetic experience.
09/05/2026
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
ANÓNIMOS immerses us in the subconscious of a woman who creates a dreamlike refuge through paper. With an innovative mix of dance, circus, acrobatics, and surreal puppets, the piece offers a poetic and sensitive reflection on solitude and the memory of what is forgotten.    
20/05/2026
19:30 | Colexio de Fonseca
The milonga is a place where people who love tango and milonga meet to dance and socialise, to share experiences in a place where you can breathe the tango atmosphere and share the passion for the dance.

Theatre

23/05/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
PROTO (SN1806) is the result of ten years of Janet Novás' solo research, characterised fundamentally by her relationship with the energetic through movement, music, the dark box, lighting and the spectator's gaze. 
11/09/2025 - 14/09/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Serie Clopen is a multidisciplinary performance blending daring acrobatics, comedy, dance and clowning to humorously reflect on the challenges faced by today’s youth. Through the story of Alicia, a girl passionate about mathematics, the show delves into questions of identity, politics,...
17/09/2025 - 21/09/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Serie Clopen is a multidisciplinary performance blending daring acrobatics, comedy, dance and clowning to humorously reflect on the challenges faced by today’s youth. Through the story of Alicia, a girl passionate about mathematics, the show delves into questions of identity, politics,...
24/09/2025 - 28/09/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Serie Clopen is a multidisciplinary performance blending daring acrobatics, comedy, dance and clowning to humorously reflect on the challenges faced by today’s youth. Through the story of Alicia, a girl passionate about mathematics, the show delves into questions of identity, politics,...
01/10/2025 - 05/10/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
  Serie Clopen is a multidisciplinary performance blending daring acrobatics, comedy, dance and clowning to humorously reflect on the challenges faced by today’s youth. Through the story of Alicia, a girl passionate about mathematics, the show delves into questions of identity,...
08/10/2025 - 12/10/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Serie Clopen is a multidisciplinary performance blending daring acrobatics, comedy, dance and clowning to humorously reflect on the challenges faced by today’s youth. Through the story of Alicia, a girl passionate about mathematics, the show delves into questions of identity, politics,...
11/10/2025
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Aracaladanza dives into the universe of Johann Sebastian Bach with Va de Bach, a contemporary dance performance brimming with humor, imagination, and visual magic. Directed by Enrique Cabrera, the piece blends music, light, movement, and stage design to create a dreamlike journey where five...
15/10/2025 - 19/10/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Serie Clopen is a multidisciplinary performance blending daring acrobatics, comedy, dance and clowning to humorously reflect on the challenges faced by today’s youth. Through the story of Alicia, a girl passionate about mathematics, the show delves into questions of identity, politics,...
22/10/2025 - 26/10/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Serie Clopen is a multidisciplinary performance blending daring acrobatics, comedy, dance and clowning to humorously reflect on the challenges faced by today’s youth. Through the story of Alicia, a girl passionate about mathematics, the show delves into questions of identity, politics,...
08/11/2025
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Family show by the Alodeyá theatre company.
01/03/2026
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Celebration, culture and community come together in the time of Carnival, whether in 1568, 1668 or 2024. During the carnival season, anything is possible: rules shift and the world is governed by paradox. This baroque revelry opens the door to music, madness, magic and acrobatics, filled with...
07/05/2026 - 10/05/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Escenas del cambio 2026 proposes a program in which three interconnected currents beat: the drive of those who persist, that of those who reveal themselves, and that of those who reinvent. Revelesencia is the term—between revelation, effervescence, and essence—that...
25/05/2026 - 28/05/2026
Salón Teatro
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. Agadic organizes this Galician performing arts market festival. Through a selection of recently produced shows and a programme of parallel activities, this initiative takes the pulse of the current situation of the sector in Galicia....

For children

22/07/2025
12:00 | Parque de Eugenio Granell (O Paxonal)
Eugenio Granell Park will host, on July 22nd, a day of fun dedicated specifically to the children of Compostela: the Festa Pícara. This event is part of the Apostle Festival program and will feature a variety of activities including theatre, music, puppetry, workshops in the local...
06/09/2025
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Cidade Imaxinaria returns to Gaiás to transform the hill into a dreamlike place: singing chairs, giant animals, impossible acrobatics, games to stop time, and little wonders for young and old to enjoy. On 6 September, from 5 pm to 10 pm, the little ones will take over the City of Culture...
02/12/2025 - 06/01/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This Nadal no Gaiás, the Cidade da Cultura hosts Dreams of Argonauts, a magical setting filled with glowing spheres, inflatable corridors and family activities, including creative workshops, a theatre show inside the first “static” balloon, a museum escape room, a virtual...
Free
07/03/2026
18:00 | Casa das Máquinas
ROYAL is a circus-dance performance full of rhythm, humour, emotion and acrobatics, where body language becomes the ink of a story written in the air. The piece brings together Arturo Cobas’ poetic clowning with Paula Quintas’ balance work and dance, creating a unique fusion of...
10/05/2026
10:00 | Casa das Máquinas
TAVOLE is a circus show by Zirko Txosko featuring acrobatics, dance, movement, and balance, combined with the company’s signature humor and an original, delicate staging. Perfect for the whole family.
30/05/2026
18:00 | Casa das Máquinas
Raquel and Girisho present their fifth contemporary circus show. Two performers competing to prove who is the best: she, methodical and skilled; he, enthusiastic but not very clever. Trapeze, aerial silks, hula hoops, and more in a fast-paced, fun, and astonishing show for the whole family.

Festival

Free
03/08/2026 - 28/08/2026
  ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. During the summer, dance, circus, theatre, poetry, music, heritage, visual arts and much more in the streets of Compostela. All the programme at compostelacultura.gal

Courses and workshops

08/12/2025
17:30
Galician dance workshop for visitors. A cultural experience to enjoy local music and traditional dance, open to everyone, with or without previous experience. Led by Rebeca Tallón and Manu Seoane.  Price: €28.

Fiestas

12/07/2025
10:30
Forth edition of this festival, which is an encounter with the local community and the rock heritage of the area through local and sustainable cultural proposals.  
11/02/2026 - 18/02/2026
Entroido 2026, one of Santiago’s most popular annual celebrations, will take place from 11 to 18 February with a programme full of humour, music and tradition. As every year, the Meco will be the central figure of the festivities, presiding over the celebrations and setting the irreverent...

Others

21/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
The Plataforma Festival is an unmissable annual event for lovers of culture and the arts, bringing together diverse audiences with its interdisciplinary approach. Between May 21 and 25, the festival will energize the streets and squares of the city, with performances, music, film, dance, stage...
04/08/2025 - 28/08/2025
Circus, dance, street theatre, poetry, music, storytelling, magic and cinema make up nearly thirty proposals spread throughout the city. Organised by Santiago City Council through Compostela Cultura, Festival C is supported by the Provincial Council of A Coruña and collaborates with...
01/10/2025 - 04/10/2025
Debates, humor and live music come to Santiago with the second edition of Mover os Marcos, taking place from October 1 to 4. The event combines conversations on language, ecology, identities and housing with spoken concerts, live podcasts, urban dance and musical performances. This cultural and...
17/01/2026
Auditorio de Galicia
REINVENTIO is a visually stunning show that immerses the audience in an unprecedented adventure. The story follows a magician who has lost his wonder. Will he be the one to regain it as he journeys through his nightmares and dreams?

Conferences

11/04/2026
10:30 | Museo do Pobo Galego
On the occasion of Dance Month, the Museo do Pobo Galego is organizing a new edition of the event A voltas co baile, accompanied by the activity Petís a voltas. Entroidanzas, in a double proposal that invites the public to explore the universe of masks and Entroido through dance.