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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

24/01/2024
19:00 | Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Santiago
"Fremosas, Cantigas de Amigo e de Amor" is the new work of the musical group Barahúnda formed by Helena de Alfonso and Jose Lara Gruñeiro.
26/01/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
In this 2024 Guadi Gallego returns with a new show, Síntese Horizonte, expressly conceived to represent, live, in three unique functions on the boards of the theatres of Galicia. Síntese Horizonte is a bet of Guadi Gallego herself for the evolution of her own, because with each...
27/01/2024
21:30 | Gentalha do Pichel
Winter Guateque 20th anniversary of the Gentalha do Pichel
17/02/2024
21:00 | Riquela
MT y Pastor eléctrica bring their Galician tour to Santiago de Compostela.
27/03/2024
10:30
The itinerary will take in different places throughout the city that have to do with the figure of this illustrious musician and will end with a small concert, given by the organist and researcher Marco Aurélio Brescia, in which works by Olagüe included in the so-called Libro de...
11/04/2024
21:00 | Iglesia de la Compañía o de la Universidad
Concert as part of the USC's cultural cycle Primavera Cultural
13/04/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Presentation tour of Xabier Díaz's seventh album, entitled Axúdame a sentir.
20/04/2024
20:30 | Sala Capitol
Boyanka Kostova mixes Galician retranca, regional folklore and traditional rhythms; she adds urban, contemporary and electronic sounds, effects loops, samples, drum machines... The result is pure rural flow. Village Trap, but universal.  
25/04/2024
18:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Auditorio de Galicia is calling on the public to participate in this collective singing of 'Grândola,Vila Morena, and thus pay tribute to Portuguese society and the role of music in the face of oppression.  
17/10/2024
20:30 | Sala Capitol
The AMAL X GAZA Solidarity Concert is part of the programme of the 22nd Amal Euro-Arab Cinema Week. Its main objective is to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) through the profits generated. The concert will feature performances by...
Free
18/10/2024
19:30 | Centro Xove da Almáciga
Ulex Concert and Ataque Escampe ALIAXE is a series of concerts that will take place one Friday of each month during the last quarter of 2024, at the Centro Xove da Almáciga. This initiative, promoted by the Concellería de Xuventude do Concello de Santiago de Compostela and chosen...
Free
15/11/2024
19:30 | Centro Xove da Almáciga
Concert by Liskadakí and Loita Amada ALIAXE is a series of concerts that will take place one Friday of each month during the last quarter of 2024, at the Centro Xove da Almáciga. This initiative, promoted by the Concellería de Xuventude do Concello de Santiago de...
Free
23/11/2024
11:00 | Centro Xove da Almáciga
‘FolkXove’ is an initiative born from the Participative Budgets of the Youth area and aims to connect the youngest audience with the Galician musical tradition. This will be done through different workshops and concerts.
11/12/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Premiere of this work made with Artificial Intelligence as part of the Contemporary programme.
20/12/2024
20:00 | Teatro Principal
Cantar a Nación. Anniversary of the premiere of the Galician Hymn
27/12/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
After many years without hearing from them, the great masters of Galician light song return to the stage with a Christmas concert at the Teatro Principal. The recital is intended as a tribute from Galicia to its two favourite ‘trangalleiros’. 
Free
27/12/2024
19:30 | Centro Xove da Almáciga
Boa Sunet and Mariagrep Concert. ALIAXE is a cycle of concerts that will take place on a Friday of every month during the last quarter of 2024, at the Centro Xove da Almáciga. This initiative, promoted by the Youth Department of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela and chosen...
01/02/2025
21:30 | Sala Capitol
A banda da Loba presents their new album: ‘Lovismo’, which revolves around the idea of love.
13/02/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Tempo de cor is the new work by Abe Rábade, which he presents at the Teatro Principal. 
27/03/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
ORTIGA will be presenting his brand new third album, ‘Obra social’, in his home city, Santiago de Compostela: it will be on March 27th at the Sala Capitol, accompanied by his band.
18/05/2025
12:00 | Teatro Principal
CONCERT OF THE LETRAS GALEGAS Banda Municipal de Música de Santiago de Compostela & Pandeireteiras Cantigas e Agarimos Season 2024/25 ‘PASEOS’ (WALKS) Winter-spring cycle  

Dance

29/02/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Òscar Cobos Compañía de Danza

Theatre

20/01/2024
19:00 | Centro Sociocultural de Santa Marta
A piece with a bit of dance by Tangatutanga Teatro
20/01/2024
19:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
BUTACAZERO, CENTRO DRAMÁTICO NACIONAL AND MIT RIBADAVIA. 
02/02/2024 - 03/02/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
CULTURACTIVA PRODUCIÓNS
03/02/2024
21:00 | Auditorio Abanca
Roberto Vilar celebrates 30 years painting the monkey on television by presenting and bringing his humour to the public in a surprising tour of Galician theatres. A show full of laughter and many surprises!
14/03/2024 - 16/03/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
TEATRO NACIONAL DONA MARÍA II, TEATRO NACIONAL SAN JOÃO, CENTRO DRAMÁTICO GALEGO, TEATRO DO NOROESTE –CENTRO DRAMÁTICO DE VIANA
21/03/2024
21:00 | Auditorio Abanca
Manquiña and Sabela Hermida in an amusing play directed by Darío Autrán.
06/04/2024
19:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
In 'Aquí Tou!', Touriñán takes a journey through his life, from his conception on the night of San Juan to a possible epitaph.
11/04/2024 - 26/05/2024
Salón Teatro
"Os actos e as profecías" is the central show of the 40th anniversary programme of the Centro Dramático Galego. The production, developed under the umbrella of the European project Phōnē, is directed by Tamara Canosa and has a cast of 20 performers. In it, a whole universe is...
20/04/2024
20:30 | Auditorio Abanca
The Noites de retranca are back to share laughs and more laughs around the country.
15/05/2024
19:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Soledad Felloza and Irina Gruia
26/05/2024
20:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Corentena'. Perdomo and Touriñán in live chat During the months of confinement in 2020, David Perdomo and Xosé A. Touriñán began to chat live via Instagram. Those nights they improvised different characters and interacted with the viewers who tuned in to...
14/07/2024
19:00 | Salón Teatro
Open rehearsal of 'Entre Palav-bras', the new proposal of international collaboration of the Galician theatre company ButacaZero and the Portuguese TEAtro Ensaio, in co-production with the Centro Dramático Galego.
09/10/2024 - 13/10/2024
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Third Act is a piece that is at once comic, dark and beautiful. A scenic poem about memory and dreams, an exorcism, a celebration of life and theatre.  
16/10/2024 - 20/10/2024
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Third Act is a piece that is at once comic, dark and beautiful. A scenic poem about memory and dreams, an exorcism, a celebration of life and theatre.
01/11/2024 - 02/11/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Carlos Blanco and Xosé A. Touriñán put an end to one of the most successful projects of Galician theatre in recent decades with a new show that will tour throughout Galicia until January. 
12/12/2024
20:00 | Salón Teatro
In this piece coexists a mixture of violence and humour that portrays a society accustomed to receiving the blow and accepting defeat, to assuming it as something constitutive of our being. And to turn laughter into a twisted gesture, laughter into a contracted body. 
27/12/2024 - 28/12/2024
22:00 | Sala Capitol
Ultranoite returns regularly to Compostela, always at the Sala Capitol, which will become the new mooring platform for the most veteran show on the Galician stage.  
03/01/2025 - 05/01/2025
22:00 | Sala Capitol
Ultranoite returns regularly to Compostela, always at the Sala Capitol, which will become the new mooring platform for the most veteran show on the Galician stage.
10/01/2025
20:00 | Salón Teatro
Frágua de amor, by Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, is co-produced by Centro Dramático Galego together with six Portuguese cultural structures: Escuela de la Noche-Grupo de Teatro de Coímbra, O Bando de Surunyo, Artway, Cendrev-Teatro Garcia de Resende, Teatro...
17/01/2025 - 18/01/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Premiere of Teatro do Noroeste's new show
23/01/2025 - 24/01/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Show by Teatro de Ningures
31/01/2025 - 01/02/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Go Home is a new show directed by Tito Asorey and stars David Amor and Josito Porto in the company of well-known playwrights such as José Prieto, José Faro, Laura Iturralde, Patricia Ferreira and Xavier Porto. It is a comedy, committed to reality and with a luxury cast to deal...
06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Mulleres que viven soas is a co-production of Berrobambán and the Festival Internacional Outono de Teatro (FIOT) of Carballo. Three exceptional women to give voice and body to real stories and fictional female characters.  
14/02/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
A story to leave the theatre with a good feeling in the body, with pleasure, joy and hope.A story to talk and reflect on what we call ‘love’.
26/02/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
T.R.A.C.A. Wednesdays  Improvisation Festival  
06/03/2025 - 07/03/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
In the 16th century, a small community of nuns on the banks of the Minho River was threatened by the greed of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The lords of the Church, in order to put an end to the resistance of the sisters, do not hesitate to defame and threaten them by all means, from the...
15/03/2025
21:00 | Auditorio Abanca
ROBERTO VILAR's new show to tour the Galician theatres again comes after the success achieved with CELEBREIXON.
22/03/2025 - 23/03/2025
20:30
When photographer Maribel Longueira heard the first sounds of the pickaxe, it was clear to her: the Papagaio was coming down. Or rather: the Papagaio was being pulled down and with it a fragment of the city that many A Coruña women did not want to look at.
27/03/2025 - 28/03/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Un deus salvaxe is pure script, pure dialogue and pure performance. Show by Talía Teatro.
03/04/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Vitória is the portrait of a complaint. An autobiographical theatre piece that tells the story of the legal process that the actress Iria Pinheiro underwent when she filed a complaint for sexual harassment against the director of the television programme in which she worked. The piece...
04/04/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Tromsø is a humorous reflection on loss. About life, death and everything in between.
02/05/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
In a play of masks and facial deformities, Julia investigates the loss of identity and the search for an other who can cover this lack. The illusions created with light and shadow and the possibilities of expanding and deforming the body with other materials amplify Waacking's dynamic and...
09/05/2025 - 10/05/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Night of Luar. Crossroads of paths. A small, melancholic man enters the scene. He is the character of O Xestal. With a candle in his hand, dressed as a strong Rosalian piper, he comes out to a young garrido. It is death. O Xestal refuses to recognise death in such an atypical appearance. When...
17/05/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
A groundbreaking and sexy version of August Strindberg's classic. One of the most controversial texts in history. For lovers of psychological thrillers and film noir.
24/05/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Uxío Rodas, sculptor and painter, is considered by his contemporaries to be a true ‘national glory’. His sculptures are in the best international museums. Now he is in his studio, away from civilisation, trying to concentrate on his most important work.

Music

Free
05/06/2024
19:30 | Hotel NH Collection Santiago de Compostela *****
The gastronomic and musical cycle noitiNHas returns to the cultural programme with a seventh edition in which it will offer five free events for the public at the NH Collection Santiago on Wednesdays 15th May, 5th June, 3rd July, 7th August and 4th September from 19:30h.
Free
04/09/2024
19:30 | Hotel NH Collection Santiago de Compostela *****
The gastronomic and musical cycle noitiNHas returns to the cultural programme with a seventh edition in which it will offer five free events for the public at the NH Collection Santiago on Wednesdays 15th May, 5th June, 3rd July, 7th August and 4th September from 19:30h.  

For children

20/01/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Chus Álvarez
26/01/2024
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
Toy-making workshop
27/01/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Illustrated storytelling with Polo Correo do Vento
10/02/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Iván Davila
12/02/2024
16:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Come and enjoy the carnival at Gaiás with the ENTROIDO NA HORTA! This year the Gaiás carnival is set in the vegetable garden, so you are free to walk in the cabbages, become a potato or whatever you can think of for this day. We want to see your originality, although you can also...
17/02/2024
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
To commemorate Mother Language Day, the Library of Galicia brings a proposal in the form of a game in which we will speak in our language, in other languages and in languages that we invent.
24/02/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling-homage by Marisa Irimia
02/03/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Ana Carreira
05/03/2024
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Literary and artistic workshop by Claudia Herrero Kaczmarek  
09/03/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Cris de Caldas  
09/03/2024
11:00 | Museo Centro Gaiás
[De]construirnos is our proposal to commemorate this 8M, International Women's Day, with a fun game to break down stereotypes and build an egalitarian society for all. In this great gymkhana by teams, the Gaiás Centre Museum becomes a giant board and the participants become the pieces of...
16/03/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Iago Lopez  
23/03/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Miguel Ángel Alonso Diz
30/03/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Tarabelos

Music

02/04/2024
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Children's concert to celebrate Children's and Young People's Book Day.

For children

05/04/2024
18:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling for babies with Ana Carreira
Free
06/04/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Sole Felloza
06/04/2024
17:00 | Auditorio Abanca
In O Mundo Máxico de Pinocchio, the audience will find a curious musical theatre adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic. A story told through the eyes of Jiminy Cricket, who together with the Fairy Godmother, the Fox and the Cat will accompany Pinocchio on his way to becoming a real boy....
13/04/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Iago López
19/04/2024
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
What were the beginnings of writing in the world? Which civilizations were the pioneers in developing this precious tool?   WORKSHOP-Audience from 6 to 11 years old.
20/04/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Charo Pita
Free
27/04/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by A Xanela do Maxín
04/05/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Aida Cobas
11/05/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Ramiro Neira
13/05/2024 - 14/05/2024
10:30 | Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
Cycle of concerts for children and adults coordinated by Carmen Hermo and Virgina Villar and directed by Xacobe Martínez Antelo.  
18/05/2024
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
Oral storytelling show with Raquel Queizás Family audiences (from 5 years old) 
18/05/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling and badge workshop by the Garabullos Company.
25/05/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Sara Cruz
01/06/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Iván Dávila.
29/06/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Bandullo Azul.

Fiestas

23/07/2024
12:00 | Parque de Eugenio Granell (O Paxonal)
The Eugenio Granell Park will host next July 23, a day of fun dedicated specifically to the children of Compostela, the Festa Pícara. It is a day framed in the programming of the Feasts of the Apostle that will feature various activities of theater, music, puppets, workshops in Galician...

For children

28/07/2024
Actuaciones en el Monte do Gozo
Revenidas Miúdo celebrates this 2024 its second edition in Monte do Gozo with the best music for the kids and other leisure activities.
06/08/2024
18:00 | Parque de San Domingos de Bonaval
The initiative ‘Contos no parque’ of Espazo Apego will take place every Tuesday in August at 6pm in Bonaval Park (arches platform) with free access. This activity is aimed at children between 1 and 4 years old.
20/08/2024
18:00 | Parque de San Domingos de Bonaval
The initiative ‘Contos no parque’ of Espazo Apego will take place every Tuesday in August at 6pm in Bonaval Park (arches platform) with free access. This activity is aimed at children between 1 and 4 years old.
27/08/2024
18:00 | Parque de San Domingos de Bonaval
The initiative ‘Contos no parque’ of Espazo Apego will take place every Tuesday in August at 6pm in Bonaval Park (arches platform) with free access. This activity is aimed at children between 1 and 4 years old.  
03/09/2024
18:00 | Parque de San Domingos de Bonaval
The initiative ‘Contos no parque’ of Espazo Apego will take place every Tuesday in August at 6pm in Bonaval Park (arches platform) with free access. This activity is aimed at children between 1 and 4 years old.
07/09/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Paula Merlán  
Free
14/09/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Pepablo Patinho.
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...
05/10/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
06/10/2024
11:00
The cycle ‘Xogamos na Casa!’ opens in the Casa de las Máquinas a space to have fun with the family, to discover and rediscover games and toys with which to let imagination and time fly.
19/10/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Sole Felloza.
Free
24/10/2024
18:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Paco Nogueiras.
25/10/2024
18:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling for babies by Catuxa Cela.
25/10/2024
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
Caxoto's oral storytelling show
26/10/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Vero Rilo.
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.  
09/11/2024
17:00
In the Casa das Máquinas de Galeras there is a space for play and imagination with a lot of instruments to test the ability, dexterity, coordination and ingenuity of the kids.
23/11/2024
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
What is a medieval scriptorium? Palaeography workshop to decipher ancient writings.
23/11/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Eduvía
25/11/2024
18:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Ana B. Trillo
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.    
30/11/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Chespir Teatro
30/11/2024
18:00 | Teatro Principal
A lonely character in search of company explores the audience's imagination to give life to each of his thoughts. Through this process, he makes himself feel in company and opens a path full of surprises and laughter.
01/12/2024
12:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
 Fantoches Baj accompanied by the Municipal Band of Santiago de Compostela adapts the classic tale of Peter and the Wolf in a proposal performed with puppets manipulated with the Japanese technique of bunraku and accompanied by the music of Prokofiev's classic.
21/12/2024
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
A Xanela do Maxín. Storytelling with puppets
21/12/2024
12:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
 A whole day of activities for young children to socialise in Galician. Theatre, music, workshops, magic and much more. Recommended for children from 0 to 6 years old.  
26/12/2024
11:00
In the Casa das Máquinas de Galeras there is a space for play and imagination with a lot of instruments to test the ability, dexterity, coordination and ingenuity of the kids.
28/12/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Sole Felloza
30/12/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling for babies by Raquel Queizás
Free
11/01/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Mamá Cabra
18/01/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Ángeles Goás
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.
25/01/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Illustrated storytelling by Polo Correo do Vento
29/01/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Workshop by O faiado de Nin
30/01/2025
18:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Pakolas

Theatre

15/02/2025
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
What would happen if we put all our fears together to dance? Big fears, small fears, little fears, playing with each other and telling their stories. A danza do medos invites us to discover how, throughout the different stages of life, our thoughts, feelings and desires expose us to many...
29/03/2025
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
There is little time left before Castelao and his mother leave for Arxentina. That afternoon, Daniel and Baltasara turn the town upside down with their mischief, free and happy, and the sea awaits them. 

Festival

23/02/2024 - 24/02/2024
Plaza de Mazarelos
It is undoubtedly a great daring that, in its sixth edition, the Rosalía Festival will be filled with sunshine, harmony and naturalness, to celebrate new and diverse creativity in the Galician language.
24/07/2024 - 25/07/2024
Parque de la Alameda - Campus Sur
Festigal is a festival held at Campus Vida and promoted by the youth organisation Galiza Nova and the Galiza Sempre Foundation.
05/08/2024 - 29/08/2024
The fifth edition of Festival C will take to the squares, parks and streets of the city a lot of free proposals for all audiences from 5 to 29 August. Dance, poetry, film, music, puppetry, storytelling, circus and performances, by Galician and visiting companies and artists to fill the summer...
12/10/2024 - 20/10/2024
The Galicreques International Puppet Festival, organised by the Asociación Cultural Barriga Verde with the collaboration of the Santiago City Council, the Xunta de Galicia, the Diputación de A Coruña, the Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas y Musicales (Inaem),...

Literature

21/03/2024 - 23/03/2024
The Alguén que respira! festival will turn Compostela into the Galician epicentre of poetry. Faithful to its vocation to create a framework for reflection on reality and society today, this year the festival will focus on poetry in conflict territory, with special attention to areas of...
18/10/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Talk - snack with Alba Rozas | Women Writers' Day 2024 Free of charge upon registration
27/10/2024
18:00 | Teatro Principal
The event will take place at the Teatro Principal and will be attended by renowned cultural figures such as Ana Romaní, Andrea Nunes, Guadi Galego, Tero Rodríguez and Uxía, who will remember the author through a journey through her literary and poetic career.

Cinema

20/03/2024 - 26/03/2024
The International Ethnographic Film Festival Museo do Pobo Galego reaches its nineteenth edition in March, already consolidated as a benchmark event at Galician, national and even international level, specialising in ethnographic film and visual anthropology.  
17/04/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
"Suso. Fóra de lugar" is a documentary by Alberto Sacido in which the writer Suso de Toro reviews his path, in a constant dialogue that leads him to revisit his beginnings, his literary models and projects, the obstacles in his career, his political militancy, and the abandonment and...
01/10/2024 - 06/10/2024
Between 1 and 6 October 2024, the citizens of Compostela and film lovers will be able to enjoy a wide selection of 41 small-format films from 18 countries, distributed in three sections: Cosmos, Planet GZ, Supernova.

Courses and workshops

15/02/2024
18:00 | Centro Sociocultural de Vite
Carnival couplets workshop by Sechu Sende. Organised by the Semente Association.

Fiestas

08/05/2024 - 12/05/2024
The celebration of the Fiestas de la Ascensión, the most beloved of the city's traditional festivals, brings a full programme that includes a wide range of musical styles, activities for young and old, the traditional bigheaded and the many attractions in the Alameda.  
Free
10/05/2024
21:00 | Plaza de la Quintana
Festival included in the Fiestas de la Ascensión, promoted by SD Compostela and the Concello de Santiago with the participation of Dios Ke te Crew, Boyanka Kostova and Cool Nenas. 
24/05/2024 - 26/05/2024
The banquet that brought together university students, workers and craftsmen around the same table on 2 March 1856 to demand equality and freedom, remains in the collective memory as one of the foundational events of the galeguismo. INFORMATION AND SCHEDULES CONXO BANQUET...
25/05/2024
11:00 | O Tangueiro
 Water wheels route. Directed by Patricia Fernández, director of the “Sar River Restoration” project. Includes visit and exhibition of the operation of the Mourullo Mill (Multipurpose of Sar) at 12:00 p.m.
25/06/2024 - 30/06/2024
Five days of music, dance, theatre, big-heads, reading, storytelling, science and much more in one of Santiago's most unique neighbourhoods. 
29/11/2024 - 07/01/2025
Praza Roxa
The Praza Roxa will be one of the focal points of Christmas in Santiago. Concerts, games, performances and attractions will fill the Ensanche of Santiago de Compostela with light and colour.

Guided visits

07/03/2024
17:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Route by Maos Social Innovation  
05/10/2024
11:45 | Iglesia y Convento de San Domingos de Bonaval
Guide: Xoán Costa, a secondary school teacher who has written several studies on this pantheon.

Others

14/10/2024 - 19/10/2024
The Sermana da cidadanIA, framed in the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), is a cycle of activities organised by the CiTIUS of the USC to bring AI closer to society in an informative, playful and rigorous way. Open and free activities.
18/10/2024 - 20/10/2024
Some twenty free and relocated activities are planned in different parishes and spaces with the aim of bringing the maximum to all the council's venues. Xulio Merino, O Mago Paco, Sara Rodríguez and Óscar Fernández will be responsible for the shows and performances,...
18/10/2024 - 19/10/2024
The vibrant call of the forest as a creative heartbeat.Music, visuals, workshops, walks and activities inspired by nature.

Conferences

07/02/2024
19:30
Meeting with Noa Sobrino, philologist and peliqueira from Laza
26/02/2024
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
Conference entitled "Urban pasts, presents and futures. O proxecto Compostela (etno)gráfica", which will be given by Aldara Cidrás, PhD in Contemporary History from the USC.
27/02/2024
19:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
Talk by María José Domínguez entitled: "Roteiro pola psique. A travelogue to the interior". 
08/03/2024
18:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of the commemoration of Women's Day, the Library of Galicia, together with the CSIC, is organising a relaxed and interactive conversation between the attendees and a researcher, Miguel García Fernández, specialised in the study of women's history. 
14/03/2024
20:00 | Convento e Iglesia de Santo Agostiño
Informative science conference given by Xurxo Mariño
20/05/2024
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
Conference organized by the Science, Technology and Environment Section, entitled “O desafío dunha crise ambiental acelerada e global”, which will be given by Emilio Fernández Suárez, Professor of Ecology at the University of Vigo.
22/11/2024
20:00 | Centro Sociocultural O Ensanche
Lecture by Beatriz Brasa as part of the cycle ‘Knowledge and Visibilisation of the Civil War and Repression in Santiago’ organised by the Agrupación Cultural O Galo.
26/11/2024
12:15
Mathematician and populariser Marta Macho Stadler (Bilbao, 1962) visits Santiago to give this talk, as part of the IGFAE's Science Week.
17/12/2024
19:30 | Centro Sociocultural O Ensanche
Conference as part of the cycle ‘Coñecemento e visibilización da historia de Compostela e do Reino de Galiza: o Panteón Real da catedral de Santiago’ organised by the AC O Galo.

Meetings

17/12/2024
19:30 | Centro Comercial Compostela (Hipercor y tiendas El Corte Inglés)
Conversation between the music critic Fernando Neira and the artist Xabier Díaz. Afterwards, the performer will present songs from his album ‘Axúdame a sentir’.

Exhibitions

29/11/2023 - 28/04/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Gaiás Centre Museum brings together a selection of paintings and drawings by José María Barreiro in an exhibition that pays tribute to the painter from Forcarei, who continued the renovation of Laxeiro's historical avant-gardism and post-avant-gardism.
22/01/2024 - 29/02/2024
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Bibliographic exhibition Xesús Chichi Campos, cartoonist, illustrator, scriptwriter and writer, is the person to be honoured on Illustration Day, which is celebrated every 30 January to recover historical figures of this discipline.
01/02/2024 - 06/04/2024
Museo-Fundación Eugenio Granell
This exhibition is based on revisiting the plastic and vital project of the artist Paco Pestana, through an exhibition that revolves around works, documentation and other elements of the artist, which are in private collections, trying to show the intense personality of this artist in a journey...
01/02/2024 - 20/03/2024
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Photography exhibitions and meetings with readers
02/04/2024 - 30/06/2024
Auditorio de Galicia
#Punctum puts two irrefutable realities on the table: that the designed band is art and that the Galician BD artists possess a visual power and an artistic discourse of the first order.
14/05/2024 - 31/05/2024
Museo do Pobo Galego
The artistic installation A Galicia do presente, is an initiative of the project of dynamization of the emergent Galician culture Galicia Latente, promoted by Eduardo de Martís and based on the homonymous study-book of photographic collection and dissemination.
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...
13/06/2024 - 01/09/2024
Museo do Pobo Galego
The collective Habitar o baleiro presents an exhibition of ten years of photographic documentation of depopulation and life in rural Galicia. Coordinated by Tono Arias, it will remain open to the public in Compostela until 1 September.
19/09/2024 - 31/03/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
This is a collaborative installation that seeks to rescue the affective memory of Bonaval and the Museo do Pobo Galego. The artistic proposal, which will be developed with the mediation of DEAC and in collaboration with the associative fabric of the neighbourhood, takes as its starting point a...
18/10/2024 - 06/01/2025
Auditorio de Galicia
The exhibition Xaquín Marín, humor líquido galego arrives at the Auditorio de Galicia to show a careful selection of pieces that cover the more than sixty years of profession of the cartoonist, painter, muralist, caricaturist and artist born in Fene in 1943.
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.  
03/12/2024 - 29/12/2024
Museo do Pobo Galego
75 years ago, in December 1949, Castelao, exiled in Argentina, signed on his deathbed the first pages of what was to be his last published work: As cruces de pedra na Galiza, the result of many years of study of these particular examples of popular religiosity. 
10/12/2024 - 23/01/2025
Centro Sociocultural O Ensanche
Xoán Andrade brings together in this exhibition his work from several decades as a cartoonist and caricaturist, in which he collaborated with different digital and print media, such as Sermos Galiza, Nós-Diario Galego or La Región. We can see a good collection of his works...
13/12/2024 - 11/01/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
The Council of Cerdedo-Cotobade and the Antonio Fraguas Fraguas Foundation organise in the Museo do Pobo Galego an exhibition of the original illustrations made by Miguelanxo Prado for the book Os animais de Fraguas.
16/01/2025 - 02/02/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
Louza de Bamio: memoria, mulleres e territorio invites the public to discover the richness of a trade that has disappeared today: the oleira tradition of the parish of San Xinés de Bamio, in Vilagarcía de Arousa. 
Free
31/01/2025 - 18/05/2025
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
As part of its programme featuring mid-career artists, the CGAC is delighted to present an individual exhibition of the work of Mar Caldas, a pioneer of feminist art in Galicia. Her work, which is fundamentally photographic, is constantly renewing its stance as a means of protest against the...

Festival

Free
05/08/2025 - 31/08/2025
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

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