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277 matches: 50 Music | 76 For children | 2 Dance | 56 Theatre | 1 Courses and workshops | 3 Festival | 1 Annual | 12 Literature | 1 Social events | 2 Educational events | 1 Cinema
Music
13/03/2025
21:30 | Sala Capitol
De Ninghures combines the essence of Galician music with innovation and emotion.
14/03/2025
20:30 | Riquela Club
Montedapena is the most personal artistic project of Héctor Rodríguez, who is also a member of Lontreira. A musical proposal that does not understand labels, as it goes far beyond; it brings together everything from the pop sounds of recent decades to electronic music.
16/03/2025
20:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Uxía Senlle, one of the great voices of the country's music and a key figure in the preservation and dissemination of our culture, celebrates 40 years on stage with an unforgettable concert in Compostela.
Free
20/03/2025
21:00 | Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
A banda da Loba presents their new album: ‘Lovismo’, which revolves around the idea of love.
22/03/2025
20:30 | Teatro do Camiño
Monologue set to music with Ainhora Martínez.
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.
Free
29/03/2025
19:00 | Colegiata Santa María a Real do Sar
Activities for all the family, with dance workshops and musical performances to celebrate the arrival of spring.
09/04/2025
21:00 | Modus Vivendi
“Bótalle guindas á PAVA” is a game and a reflection.
23/04/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
FAIA presents her second solo album, Alvela, a complex and subtle work, with ten songs that deal with the experience of motherhood, the memory of the body and the violence that crosses it, but also with the strength that resides in the intimate, in desire and pleasure.
09/05/2025
20:30 | Riquela Club
Presentation concert of the EP ‘3’ by the band PAVA, formed by Analís, David Santos, Pablo Silva and led by Lucía Aldao.
09/05/2025 - 10/05/2025
21:30 | Sala Capitol
Mondra presents DE RONDA, their second album: a record made to seduce or be seduced.
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.
16/05/2025
20:00 | Teatro Principal
Santiago City Council joins the celebration of the Día das Letras Galegas, which in 2025 honors the cantareiras and pandeireteiras—female singers and tambourine players who are authors of orally transmitted traditional music—with a concert by five local choirs.
Free
17/05/2025
15:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Second meeting of the ‘tocadoras’ and great foliada open to the public.
Free
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
Free
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...
Free
21/06/2025
20:30 | Sede SGAE/Fundación Autor
Event with groups from the Galician scene to commemorate International Music Day.
03/07/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
Free
04/08/2025 - 25/08/2025
Feito a Man is a street festival that began in 2003, organised by the cultural association Cidade Vella in unique venues across the city of Santiago de Compostela.
Throughout August, Feito a Man curates and presents a continuous cycle of performances featuring a wide range of artistic...
Free
13/09/2025
12:30 | Museo do Pobo Galego
The Raigañas group was founded in 1994 within the Raigañas Youth Association, a cultural collective established in 1979 in the parish of Cerqueda (Malpica de Bergantiños), with the aim of collecting and preserving traditional music, particularly the musical heritage of...
24/09/2025
21:00 | Modus Vivendi
The Clubtura Cycle comes to Modus Vivendi with a concert featuring AmiguiS and Kreze, two projects that showcase emerging Galician music in one of Santiago’s cultural landmark venues.
09/10/2025
20:30 | Sala Capitol
The 2nd edition of AmalxGaza will feature renowned national artists such as Mondra, Monoulious DOP, Wöyza and Ruxe Ruxe, along with a performance by the Palestinian dance group Watani. The involvement of these acclaimed artists reflects the Galician people’s commitment...
Free
22/10/2025
21:00 | Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
The pioneering Galician trap duo Boyanka Kostova, formed by Cibrán García and Chicho do Funk (Ortiga), will perform on October 22 at the Outono Cultural. The concert starts at 9:00 p.m. in the University Church, and tickets can be collected for...
Free
23/10/2025
19:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
By Lucía Aldao and Pablo Silva
Free
24/10/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Paco Nogueiras
25/10/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Brais das Hortas and Peter Punk
25/10/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
End of Tour “Síntese Horizonte”.
30/10/2025
19:30 | Sala Capitol
Alternative pop artist Barry B will perform in Santiago on October 30 at Sala Capitol, in a free concert organized as part of the Youth Participatory Budget program. He will share the stage with three Galician bands linked to the Centro Xove da Almáciga —Ginko Biloba, Futuro...
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31/10/2025
20:00 | Sala Capitol
Presentation in Compostela of his latest album called ‘III’.
Free
12/12/2025
19:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Municipal School of Music of Santiago de Compostela will hold its traditional Christmas Festival next Friday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m., at the Auditorio de Galicia — an event eagerly awaited by the city’s educational and musical community.
Free
19/12/2025
20:00 | Teatro Principal
The Teatro Principal hosts on Friday, December 19, the recital Cantar a Nación, commemorating the institutional premiere of the Galician Anthem in 1907 in Havana. Various choirs and musical groups travel across Galicia to collectively celebrate this foundational work of Galician...
26/12/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Abraham Cupeiro presents ‘Loira’, his new album.
28/12/2025
19:30 | Sala Capitol
After 10 years of career and more than 400 concerts, Xabier Díaz and the Adufeiras de Salitre continue working on the recovery and dignification of the traditional music transmitted by the women of the country's villages.
Free
29/12/2025
20:00 | Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
Christmas concert by the O Galo Cultural Association.
06/02/2026
21:30 | Sala Capitol
Familia Caamagno present their new LP Disco Comarcal in a unique show accompanied by the "Orquestra do Quince".
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...
24/02/2026
21:00 | Modus Vivendi
As part of the CIRCUM programme, Alba María and Nacho Muñoz present Aira, an open creative space where oral tradition, improvised speech and sound arts come together in a performative, volatile and humour-driven proposal. Born from a spontaneous foliada blending traditional...
05/03/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Antía Muíño presents Anfibia Por Veces, her second album —a beautiful and contemporary work in which the song remains at the centre. Situated between folk-rooted music and jazz-pop, the intimacy of her songwriting engages in dialogue with the pulse of traditional...
19/03/2026
21:00 | Sala Capitol
A nuite dos mortos
21/03/2026
20:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
SÉS presents her new work, Nadando na incerteza, live. In this album, the song itself takes centre stage, free of overproduction or embellishment, in an exercise of craftsmanship and authenticity that reaffirms her role as a singer and songwriter.
22/03/2026
20:00 | Sala Capitol
Unto Vello will premiere their debut album Inmaterial live in a concert conceived as a collective celebration of Galician traditional music. The duo, formed by Bieito Pereira and Xabi Gómez, will be joined by several guest collaborators. The album brings together songs collected across...
28/03/2026
21:00 | Multiusos Fontes do Sar
The live debut of the new album by Galician band The Rapants will take place on March 28. The grand opening of Rapants Club, their fourth LP, will be held on the last Saturday of March at the Multiusos Fontes do Sar in Santiago de Compostela.
11/04/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
ROCÍO MÁRQUEZ MUSIC · FIESTRA ABERTA SERIES
22/04/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
FIESTRA ABERTA SERIES Presentation concert of Amorodios, the new album by Xan Campos.
02/05/2026
11:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
A musical show for the little ones, ranging from Monteverdi to Mozart, classical to jazz, and Portuguese tradition to world music. Saxophones, clarinets, birimbaos, and other instruments create a stimulating sound universe to enjoy together as a family.
03/05/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Presentation concert of Pablo Sanmamed’s album A estrela mostrada.
07/05/2026
20:30 | Riquela Club
Eris Mackenzie is the project of A Coruña–born producer and composer Carlos Eirís, blending cutting-edge electronic music with elements of Galician tradition. The artist combines electronic music, minimal-techno or hardstyle with alalás, jotas and traditional melodies...
23/05/2026
11:00
Water is life, memory, and transformation. The Sarela River was once a source of food, leisure, and economy for Compostela, when the city was just a small village—a silent witness to the passing of time… Yet that’s only a saying, because the Sarela is anything but silent. Its...
Dance
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...
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.
Theatre
06/03/2025 - 20/04/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
This is the tale of a Galician working-class family in those days when it was easier to believe in the stories of grandmothers than in the promises of the bosses.
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...
Free
08/03/2025
20:00 | Centro Sociocultural do Castiñeiriño "Agustín Bueno"
A sainete that, with great intelligence and humour, shows the reality of women subjugated by men. The protagonists fight for their freedom, for equality and to prove that they are as valid as men, both in life and in the economy. A message that, even today, remains powerful.
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.
Free
16/03/2025
12:00 | Salón Teatro
A community theatre show directed and written by Celina Fernández Ponte and Ana Fontenla, which delves into the concept of art through the history of Sargadelos.
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.
Free
23/03/2025
12:00 | Salón Teatro
A community theatre show directed and written by Celina Fernández Ponte and Ana Fontenla, which delves into the concept of art through the history of Sargadelos.
Free
27/03/2025
19:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate Castelao Year with an amusing version of Cousas in which the great themes of the original are present: ecology, solidarity, emigration, social justice...
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.
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.
Free
30/03/2025
12:00 | Salón Teatro
A community theatre show directed and written by Celina Fernández Ponte and Ana Fontenla, which delves into the concept of art through the history of Sargadelos.
02/04/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
‘As Rhumorosas’ is a show that mixes monologues, comedy sketches, poetry and music, bringing us closer to the most unknown details of great Galician illustrious women such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, María Casares or even legends such as Pepa A Loba.
Written, directed and...
03/04/2025
Salón Teatro
The laboratory where comedians prepare their next shows opens its doors.
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.
26/04/2025 - 28/04/2025
20:30 | Salón Teatro
The Centro Dramático Galego and the Portuguese collective ASTA–Teatro e Outras Artes co-produce the play Rosalía, Cartography of Harsh Nettles, joining the celebrations of the 188th anniversary of Rosalía de Castro’s birth with the premiere of this...
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...
Free
03/05/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Moby Dick is a show based on the famous novel by Herman Melville. The piece centers on the figure of the great whale from the story.
03/05/2025 - 04/05/2025
20:00 | Salón Teatro
Directed by Carlos Álvarez-Ossorio and texts by Ernesto Is. 16º Premio Abrente de textos teatrales de la MIT de Ribadavia 2021
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...
16/05/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
A performance that uses various techniques —oral storytelling, holographic projections, music, and object theatre— to honour the legacy of the exceptional women celebrated on Galician Literature Day, from Rosalía de Castro to the cantareiras.
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.
25/06/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
Last show of this improvisation festival
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,...
13/09/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Carlos Blanco and Xosé A. Touriñán bring one of the most successful projects in Galician theatre in recent decades to a close with a new show that will tour across Galicia in 2025.
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,...
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,...
Free
17/10/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Oral storytelling performance for the Intangible Heritage Day.
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,...
03/11/2025
20:00 | Teatro Principal
Since 2023, Galiza Cultura has been celebrating Samaín through Castelao’s work Un ollo de vidro. Memorias dun esquelete (Ed. Céltiga, 1922). The skeleton protagonist recounts his memories and adventures beyond death, reflecting on the world of the living. On November 3rd at...
05/12/2025 - 07/12/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Berenguela na Gaiola is a family play co-produced by Galeatro and Xarope Tulú, with the support of the Centro Dramático Galego, the Fundación Manuel María, and the FIOT Carballo festival. The play is directed by Paula Carballeira and based on a text by Manuel...
16/12/2025
20:00 | Salón Teatro
José Afonso, Live at the Coliseums, 1983 is a multidisciplinary show blending music, theatre, performance, and poetry, reinterpreting Zeca’s legacy from a contemporary perspective inspired by Gig Theatre.
17/12/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
A mythical tale reimagined in a contemporary key: a tavern keeper from a Galician port —mother of monhilista Cadaval— comments on the Oedipus myth while dismissing the classical version and sharing her roasted-meat recipe. Gastronomy, epic narrative, high culture, gossip,...
08/01/2026 - 25/01/2026
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Theatrical adaptation of the Galician classic by Xosé Neira Vilas, directed by Cándido Pazó, with set design by Pablo Giráldez “O Pastor”, costumes by Martina Cambeiro, music by Xosé Lois Romero, and lighting by Afonso Castro.
10/01/2026
20:30 | Auditorio Abanca
Celso Fernández Sanmartín, Mofa e Befa and Quico Cadaval return with Noites de retranca, Galicia’s longest-running comedy show.
28/01/2026
20:00 | Teatro Principal
New performance of Un ollo de vidro (Memories of a Skeleton) on Wednesday, January 28th, at 8:00 pm. This stage adaptation of Castelao’s work, directed by Lucho Penabade, blends humour and social criticism to reflect—through the voice of a skeleton—on issues still relevant...
29/01/2026 - 30/01/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
RECONVERSIÓN is a large-scale production for adult audiences, featuring eight actor-musicians who form a charanga and perform the soundtrack live.
06/02/2026 - 07/02/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
FRAN SIEIRA AND CAAMAÑO&AMEIXEIRAS
Affection, loving well, and self-love are at the heart of the new show by Fran Sieira, this time accompanied live by the Galician duo rooted in traditional music and dance, Caamaño&Ameixeiras.
20/02/2026 - 22/02/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
ICTUS is a play about memory: about the deep connection between a strong collective memory and a healthy democracy, and about the still-open wounds of historical memory. Its guiding thread is A derradeira leición do mestre, the last painting signed by Castelao in exile, when he...
27/02/2026 - 28/02/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
One night, in a multi-storey building somewhere in Europe, the lives of different characters intersect around a Thai-Chinese-Vietnamese fast-food restaurant called O Dragón de Ouro. There, a young Chinese man suffers intense toothache while searching for his missing sister, without...
28/02/2026
12:00 | Zona C
Tramoia · Anatomy of a Theatre Piece — Analysis session with Chévere
Tramoia · Anatomy of a Theatre Piece is a shared analysis space focused on stage-creation processes, promoted by the Cultural Mediation Service of the Auditorio de Galicia. This session, held...
01/03/2026
12:00 | Teatro Compostela
The Color Monster · Theatrical show based on Anna Llenas’ book, in which the Monster and a girl embark on an adventure to recognize and express emotions like joy, sadness, fear, anger, and calm. Suitable for children aged 2 and up.
06/03/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
A HISTORIA VAXENIAL is a comedy that explores how women and their bodies have been represented throughout the history of humankind. The piece blends well-researched educational content and a gender perspective with irony, irreverence, sharp wit and humour.
07/03/2026
19:00 | Teatro Principal
Theatrical performance of AUTO DOS SIMULADOS DA CARAVILLA by Manuel María. Produced by the S.C. Theater Group: Medulio, directed by Francisco Rodríguez. In collaboration with A.C. O Galo.
15/03/2026
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
After selling out auditoriums with Corentena and Corentena · Game Over, Perdomo and Touriñán return with their most dangerous couple yet: love.
A show full of crazy dates, impossible passions and characters who should never be together… but end up together anyway. A...
26/03/2026 - 27/03/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
ARTUR UI, O OVO DA SERPE examines the current moment through the critical and ironic lens of epic theatre. A tribute to a 20th-century classic, the production explores mechanisms of power, the nature of authoritarianism, and its manifestations, drawing clear parallels with the resurgence...
11/04/2026
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
MONSTROS is a fun adventure for the whole family, blending laughter with reflection. The piece encourages understanding that living with our fears and accepting our own “monstrosities” helps us better understand ourselves and others.
15/04/2026 - 18/04/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Pedriño and Rañolas are contradictory and antagonistic friends, one a daring dreamer and the other a timid materialist. Inspired by classic characters like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, they enter a universe of clowns and jesters admired by Castelao. The show mixes body, soul,...
23/04/2026 - 24/04/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
UBASUTE, by playwright Paula Carballeira, reflects on abandonment through a light and poetic stage “toy.” The piece blends genres and enigmas, guiding the characters’ journeys and offering an inner voyage in which each audience member can recognize themselves.
09/05/2026
20:30 | Teatro Compostela
Carlos Blanco presents The Penultimate, a new show in which he once again blends humour, memory and an ironic взгляд on the passage of time. New images and stories intertwine with familiar ones in a monologue where laughter is guaranteed.
For 70 minutes —which always feel too...
22/05/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
NORTEAR is a stage piece where the real and the spectral, the political and the dreamlike, the ethnographic and the poetic intertwine. A group of women inhabit an emptied northern landscape, moving through work, dance, and waiting in a constant search for a place to anchor themselves and...
06/06/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
IRIBARNE is an irreverent stage investigation into a key figure of recent Galician and Spanish history. It follows the life of a man born in Rouco Varela during Alfonso XIII’s monarchy, who emigrated to Cuba and returned to navigate politics with ambition. The play explores power,...
For children
09/03/2025
11:00 | Casa das Máquinas
SororAs is a space for creation and learning in equality from the application of the gender perspective. Through traditional games, they build a fun space for girls and boys from 1 to 12 years old, in which to learn with the games of today and always.
Free
28/03/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate the 17th anniversary of the library with the show and workshop Chocolate by Teatro Calavera.
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’;...
29/03/2025
12:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Activity for children around the exhibition ‘Ollos de vidro. As formas doutra historia de Galicia'.
29/03/2025
11:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
Paste up workshop for children
Free
02/04/2025
18:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate Children's and Young Adult Book Day with the musical show "Chungo que te cagas" by Peter Punk Pallaso.
Free
05/04/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate Children's and Young Adult Literature Day with Pedras de cartón, presenting “Little Red Riding Hood,” one of the most popular classics in children's literature. Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale of oral tradition, later adapted by Charles...
06/04/2025
11:00 | Casa das Máquinas
The Traditional Xogo Association brings to the Casa das Máquinas a bunch of proposals to play as before, or as always, and rediscover and enjoy the Galician recreational heritage.
Free
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.
12/04/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Supercoroza, the protagonist of Na eira e na lareira, is the guardian of our heritage: our people, our language, music, stories, and traditions. Her superpower is the recovery of tradition, and she seeks to pass on cultural knowledge through music, dance, and stories in a fun, engaging,...
25/04/2025
17:00 | Mupega (Museo Pedagóxico de Galicia)
On the occasion of Book Day, we will take a look at the beginnings of writing to understand the importance of this tool for communication and recording information. We will get to know and experiment with different supports and tools used for writing throughout history, focusing on this...
Free
29/04/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate the Theatre Day with the puppet show ‘O traxe novo do rei’ by Tarabelos.
11/05/2025
11:00 | Casa das Máquinas
SororAs is a space for creation and learning in equality from the application of the gender perspective. Through traditional games, they build a fun space for girls and boys from 1 to 12 years old, in which to learn with the games of today and always.
Free
16/05/2025
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagóxico de Galicia)
Oral narration show with objects and puppets by Raquel Queizás.
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...
Free
23/05/2025
10:15 | Parque de Eugenio Granell (O Paxonal)
The foliada will bring together in Compostela music and dance groups, as well as pandeireteiras (tambourine players), from 15 educational centers in Galicia and Portugal, in a festive pilgrimage celebrating Galician-Portuguese Letters.
24/05/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Andamiaxe
28/05/2025 - 30/05/2025
Salón Teatro
O Carteiro de Ximaraos is a deeply moving small-format theatrical piece for children, based on the work that won the Manuel María Dramatic Literature Prize 2024, written by Carlos Labraña.
Free
31/05/2025
12:00 | Centro Sociocultural do Castiñeiriño "Agustín Bueno"
Storytelling for babies by Raquel Queizás
31/05/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Mago Paco, the magician
Free
07/06/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Sole Felloza
13/06/2025
17:30 | Parque de la Alameda
The central promenade of the Alameda will host the activities organized by the Departments of Sociocultural Centers and Youth to celebrate the International Day of the Right to Play.
In addition to traditional games, inflatables, and performing arts proposals, this year's program introduces...
Free
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.
Free
14/06/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Marisa Irimia
Free
28/06/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Sara Cruz.
Free
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...
13/09/2025
17:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Workshop “A galiña dos ovos de conto” | In commemoration of Literacy Day | Library of Galicia
13/09/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Juste Kamishibai
20/09/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Bandullo Azul
Free
26/09/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling in English by Kids&Us
27/09/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Gema Santos and Caxoto
Free
11/10/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling for babies by Marta Ortiz
Free
12/10/2025
11:00 | Casa das Máquinas
The Casa das Máquinas resumes its activity as a space open to play and imagination for children aged 1 to 12.
The Xogos do Paporrubio are a collection of self-operating, animated toys inspired by agricultural life, allowing us to discover one of the smallest, liveliest, and most...
18/10/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Paula Carballeira
Free
30/10/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Ramiro Neira
Free
02/11/2025
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.
08/11/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mysterious challenges and intricate clues await in the corridors of the exhibition Castelao. Mirar por Galicia... Your mission? Solve them all to discover the hidden words and form the secret message that captures the spirit of the exhibition, as well as the life and thought of Castelao.
09/11/2025
18:00 | Casa das Máquinas
Trepas is the nickname of a Villatriste resident who unexpectedly gets caught up in a singular adventure: saving his town from the clutches of an evil ruler.
Free
22/11/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Musical show with live illustrations at the Library of Galicia for Music Day.
22/11/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate Music Day with this show by Magín Blanco. The Notebook of Colours and Songs is a journey through the musical and literary creation of songs.
23/11/2025
11:00 | Casa das Máquinas
Hoops, ropes, spinning tops, keys, stilts or frog games are just some of the traditional and popular toys that have brought joy to children for generations. The Asociación do Xogo Tradicional brings to Casa das Máquinas a lively selection of games to play like in the old days...
29/11/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
During the week of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we dedicate the storytelling session to brave and free women who choose their own path, showing that true happiness comes from being oneself, breaking imposed molds, and laughing with the strength of those...
06/12/2025
18:00 | Teatro Compostela
This is a fun, scatological, and humorous play that provokes laughter and makes the audience empathize with the little mole, whose pride has been hurt.
Environmentalism, reuse, and recycling are also present in this show, which invites us to look differently at a topic as natural as life...
10/12/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Activity led by O Faiado de Nin
Free
13/12/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Vero Rilo
Free
13/12/2025
18:00 | Casa das Máquinas
A circus performance about the importance of friendship, a statement against the absurdity of war, a reflection on patience, and above all, a reminder to treasure what we already have around us.
Free
14/12/2025
11:00 | Casa das Máquinas
A lively session full of fun, learning and creativity for kids. Through games, workshops and participatory activities, education and play come together to create special moments where everyone can experiment, invent and express themselves freely.
17/12/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Free
20/12/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Cris de Caldas
22/12/2025
18:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Workshop con Árbore azul
22/12/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Trinketrinke Theatre
22/12/2025
18:00 | Casa das Máquinas
Three travelling performers bring back Galician folk tales such as A Cabra Montesina, As Lavandeiras and A Santa Compaña. With plenty of humour and audience participation, Teatro Ghazafelhos celebrates its 20th anniversary by reviving one of its first street shows — a lively,...
Free
23/12/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show for babies by Tropa de trapo
26/12/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Bea Campos
27/12/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Raquel Queizás
Free
29/12/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Galeatro
Free
30/12/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Pulpiño Viascón
17/01/2026
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Pavís Pavós
Free
24/01/2026
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Ubú Teatro
Free
25/01/2026
11:00 | Casa das Máquinas
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.
31/01/2026
18:00 | Casa das Máquinas
Rusty machinery, misaligned gears and unstable structures become the perfect setting for clumsiness and unexpected skills. With warm humour, circus techniques and visual poetry, mishaps intertwine and are resolved until everything finally falls into place.
21/02/2026
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This is the story of Mariña, a girl who, thanks to boredom, turns into an idea! Her thoughts take the form of a colorful pinwheel.
Free
21/02/2026
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Marisa Irimia
21/02/2026
12:00 | Teatro do Camiño
A forest loses its magic. The moura and the trasno will try to save it by deciphering its mysteries and challenges with the help of the audience. A ritual tale with sung storytelling, juggling, and live music, aimed at children and family audiences. Saturday, February 21 at 12:00...
Free
07/03/2026
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Soledad Felloza
Free
14/03/2026
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Ramiro Neira
Free
21/03/2026
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling with Charo Pita
28/03/2026
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate World Theatre Day and the library’s eighteenth anniversary with the show Contamos contos de lobos? by Teatro dos Ghazafelhos.
Free
12/04/2026
11:00 | Casa das Máquinas
Get ready for an morning full of movement and laughter! Tropa C invites children to try traditional Galician games like jumping ropes, skittles, spinning tops, accuracy, memory and skill games, and more. A participatory space where children are the protagonists, enjoying together a living play...
26/04/2026
17:00 | Auditorio Abanca
The Three Little Pigs is a musical featuring life-size puppets. It is a retelling of the traditional fable adapted to modern times, including the characters of Xan and Xiana, two explorers who love stories and venture into the forest to meet their favorite characters.
26/04/2026
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Gran Gala del Circo celebrates International Circus Day at the Auditorio de Galicia. Coordinated by Pistacatro, the show brings together local and international artists in a spectacular event full of juggling, acrobatics, humor, balance, and magic for the whole family. Don’t wait to...
Free
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
06/09/2025 - 07/09/2025
11:00 | Parque de San Domingos de Bonaval
The Electrofauna festival, the forest’s vibrant call as a creative heartbeat, will take place in Santiago de Compostela this Saturday and Sunday with free admission and activities for all audiences. The event will be held mainly in Bonaval Park, featuring music performances,...
21/02/2026 - 22/02/2026
From February 21 to 22, Santiago celebrates the 189th anniversary of Rosalía de Castro’s birth and the 160th anniversary of the publication of Las literatas. Activities for all audiences, free entry until full capacity. Organized by the Language Area of the Deputación da...
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
Literature
20/03/2025 - 22/03/2025
Teatro Principal
VIII Poetry Festival for Corpo Principal
The Alguén que respira! festival will turn Compostela into the Galician epicentre of poetry. The event returns to the Teatro Principal faithful to its vocation to create a framework for reflection on reality and current society.
The VIII...
Free
21/03/2025
19:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate Poetry Day with a poetry-musical recital by Lucía Aldao and Samuel Merino.
29/03/2025
12:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Four decades after Castelao's reburial, different ‘ollos de vidro’ come together in this gathering to analyse Castelao's political and aesthetic thought.
01/10/2025
19:00 | Libraría Couceiro
On Wednesday 1 at 7:00 PM, Libraría Couceiro will host a literary talk on the book Ensaio sobre o efémero by Vítor Vaqueiro, organized by the Cultural Association O Galo.
03/10/2025 - 12/10/2025
Praza da Quintana
SELIC (Compostela Book Week) is a literary event that transforms Plaza de la Quintana into an open cultural space, with book presentations, readings, workshops and activities for all audiences.
17/10/2025
19:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Oral storytelling show for adults by Sole Felloza
Free
18/12/2025
20:00 | Teatro Principal
De corpo e palabra is a journey through poetry expressed through the languages of dance and theatre. A piece of resistance against a social and economic system that traps us. On stage, live poetry by Eva Veiga and Andrea Nunes, together with the voice and soundscape of a musical collage created...
Free
28/01/2026
10:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
On the Work of Emily Brönte
Free
25/02/2026
10:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
New session of Mañás poéticas, an open and free reading of texts by different authors, which in February we dedicate to the most prominent avant-garde poet of Catalan literature in the first half of the 20th century, Joan Salvat Papasseit.
27/02/2026
20:00 | Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
AC. O Galo presents the book Personaxes da Galiza Medieval IV, a new volume in the series through which the association continues contributing to the recovery of Galicia’s historical memory. This edition explores the centuries when Galicia was a kingdom of its own, shaped by a...
02/03/2026
19:00 | Centro Sociocultural de Conxo
AC. O Galo presents the booklet 170 Anos do Banquete de Conxo, a volume in which philologist Xoán Costa delves into the collective memory of this historic event with a precise, erudite and accessible style, shedding light on the social, political and symbolic dimension of...
16/03/2026
18:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate World Poetry Day with the poetry creation workshop Que como o sol sexa o meu verso led by Apiario. Que como o sol sexa o meu verso are words by the poet Miguel Hernández, and they give this workshop its name. A proposal where the discovery of the poetic...
Social events
15/03/2026
17:00 | Modus Vivendi
When was the last time you consciously listened to an album from beginning to end? The Modus Vivendi listening club is a space to share a love of music, exploring albums from different genres and eras together.
Educational events
Free
19/05/2025 - 21/05/2025
18:30
Pint of Science is the world’s largest science communication festival, held in over 70 cities across Spain and 27 countries worldwide. This year marks its 10th edition, and on May 19, 20, and 21, 2025, Santiago will be one of the seven Galician host cities for this relaxed encounter...
Free
21/11/2025 - 22/11/2025
Área Central
Área Central will host on the 21st and 22nd the first edition of the Dálle Xogo Festival, an event dedicated to board games and screen-free leisure. Publishers, creators, and promoters will gather in a space supported by the Youth Department, featuring numerous free activities for...
Cinema
Free
28/03/2025
19:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Preview of Illa Bufarda's documentary on photography, gaze and gender.
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