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213 matches: 31 Music | 2 Gastronomy | 1 Dance | 42 Theatre | 68 For children | 5 Festival | 1 Annual | 5 Literature | 1 Educational events | 3 Cinema | 1 Courses and workshops | 8 Fiestas | 3 Guided visits | 5 Others | 9 Conferences | 1 Meetings | 20 Exhibitions
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.
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...
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...
13/02/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Tempo de cor is the new work by Abe Rábade, which he presents at the Teatro Principal.
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...
25/10/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
End of Tour “Síntese Horizonte”.
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31/10/2025
20:00 | Sala Capitol
Presentation in Compostela of his latest album called ‘III’.
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.
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...
Theatre
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...
25/05/2024
20:30 | Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
BUTACAZERO
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...
Free
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’.
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...
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
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.
For children
Free
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.
Free
29/06/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Bandullo Azul.
Free
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.
Free
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.
Free
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.
Free
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.
Free
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.
Free
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.
Free
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...
Free
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.
Free
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.
Free
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.
08/11/2024 - 10/11/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A space to feel, touch, play and immerse ourselves in art.
Free
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.
Free
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.
20/12/2024 - 04/01/2025
The Christmas Circus of Santiago de Compostela. New show by Educateatro Produccions
Free
21/12/2024
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
A Xanela do Maxín. Storytelling with puppets
Free
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.
28/12/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Sole Felloza
Free
30/12/2024
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling for babies by Raquel Queizás
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
Free
08/02/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Miguel Ángel Alonso Diz
Free
15/02/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Ana Carreira
Free
21/02/2025
17:00 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
Carnival is one of the most popular celebrations in Galicia. In this edition of the workshop we will approach some of its most traditional variants. We will explore what is probably the most elegant, the Carnival of Cobres, and we will develop our most creative side by recreating one of the...
Free
22/02/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate Rosalía Day with storytelling by Ramiro Neira
01/03/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Magic show by the Magician Toño
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
15/03/2025
17:00 | 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.
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 Pedagógico 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 Pedagógico 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.
31/05/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Mago Paco, the magician
Festival
Free
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),...
21/02/2025 - 23/02/2025
Under the slogan Sen pombas nin flores, inspired by a Rosalian verse taken from Follas Novas, a wide-ranging programme including recitals, street entertainment, concerts and theatre will take place over 3 days.
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
Literature
18/10/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Talk - snack with Alba Rozas | Women Writers' Day 2024
Free of charge upon registration
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.
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.
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...
Cinema
Free
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.
Free
28/03/2025
19:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Preview of Illa Bufarda's documentary on photography, gaze and gender.
Free
02/04/2025
20:30 | Teatro do Camiño
Presentation of Ferro, madeira e pel, directed by Paco Guitián, a member of Seminario Galán, which highlights the role of the cantareiras honored on the 2025 Día das Letras.
A story told through the voices of Tanxugueiras, Bieito Romero, Haydn, Xabier Díaz, Carlos...
Courses and workshops
Free
17/05/2025 - 18/05/2025
The artist Neves Seara will lead the performative workshop Luz infinda at the DIDAC Foundation in Santiago de Compostela — a proposal where body, emotion, and poetry intertwine through games of light and shadow.
Fiestas
Free
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.
Free
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...
Free
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.
10/05/2025 - 11/05/2025
Patron saint festivities of this parish in Santiago de Compostela in honor of Saint Anthony and Saint Joseph. Featuring performances by Soprano, Fania Blanco Show, and Charanga BB+.
23/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
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.
28/05/2025 - 01/06/2025
The 2025 Ascensión Festivities will fill Compostela with music, activities, and tradition during the last week of May. This celebration, one of the most beloved by the people of Santiago, returns with open-air concerts, children’s shows, traditional markets, fairground rides in the...
Free
31/05/2025
13:00 | Parque de Belvís
This is a day of diverse music, activities for all audiences and a varied gastronomic offer within the framework of the Ascension Festivities 2025.
Guided visits
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.
16/05/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Guided tour that reviews the history and the figures honored on Galician Literature Day from its first year (1963) to the present. Special attention will be given to individuals and works connected to Santiago.
24/05/2025
12:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
As the final event of the exhibition Ollos de vidro, curator Germán Labrador and researcher María Bella, Germán’s curatorial assistant for this project, invite us to take part in a public tour — the last chance to visit the show through a guided experience.
Others
Free
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,...
Free
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.
23/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
Área Central
First big Rallyslot event in Galicia
Free
06/06/2025 - 07/06/2025
Casa das Máquinas
Self-publishing festival and independent designed band
Conferences
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.
03/02/2025
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
Conference entitled “A escrita de Neira Vilas no ámbito do xornalismo”, which will be given by Xosé López, Professor of Journalism at the USC, and Fernando Redondo, President of the Xosé Neira Vilas Foundation.
10/02/2025
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
In collaboration with the Galician Federalist Association, there will be a colloquium entitled “O Federalismo en Castelao”, with the participation of Ramón Máiz, Professor of Political Science at the USC and President of the Galician Federalist Association, and...
10/03/2025
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
Conference to commemorate Women's Day, entitled ‘Paseando Compostela coas súas mulleres’, which will be given by Encarna Otero, historian and writer.
17/03/2025
19:30 | Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
Conference within the IV International Film and Education Festival (CINEDUCA) entitled ‘Educating in citizenship: a commitment to the future’, which will be given by José Antonio Caride, Professor of Pedagogy and Didactics at the USC.
05/04/2025
12:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
Conversation between actor Quico Cadaval and writer Carlos Callón.
10/05/2025
12:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
This commemorative event for the centenary of the annexation of Conxo to Compostela focuses on the historical relevance of its Psychiatric Hospital, a place tied to the tensions and transformations of modern Galician society. The event will feature experts such as Montse Fajardo, Marcelino de...
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
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 - 30/03/2025
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.
21/01/2025 - 29/03/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Anthology of the work of Bernardino Graña, one of the founding members of the Brais Pinto group, a full member of the Royal Academy since 2010 and one of the most recognised voices of contemporary Galician literature by the public and critics alike. This exhibition serves as a tribute to...
27/01/2025 - 31/05/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The exhibition, made up of six showcases, takes us on a journey through the artist's life and work through which we can glimpse his motivations, tastes and the great effort he dedicates to each creation.
Free
31/01/2025 - 25/05/2025
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...
Free
03/02/2025 - 28/02/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
In 2025, one hundred and forty years after his death, the Ánxel Casal Library of Santiago de Compostela wants to celebrate his birth, on 23 February 1837, dedicating the whole month to his work with this bibliographic exhibition that you will find in the Children's Room.
04/02/2025 - 31/03/2025
Facultad de Filología
This exhibition, curated by doctoral student Laura Paz Fentanes, is a small sample of the material held in the José Ángel Valente Chair of Poetry and Aesthetics, directed by Claudio Rodríguez Fer and created after the poet's appointment as doctor honoris causa by the...
18/02/2025 - 12/04/2025
Zona C
Zona C hosts the curatorial work selected in the selection of artistic intervention projects for Zona C. The curator and researcher Sergio Meijide Casas (A Coruña, 1996), presents a journey through the kinesthetic universe of the choreographer, dancer and researcher of the moving arts,...
05/03/2025 - 28/03/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Exhibition organised by the USC as part of the Women's Day celebrations.
11/03/2025 - 31/12/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Arquivo de Galicia opens the exhibition Women artists: learning the trade, which reflects the difficult path that many had to face in order to achieve social recognition of their creative capacity, as well as access to artistic education.
14/03/2025 - 22/04/2025
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Exhibition of contemporary geometric abstraction by Anabel Álvarez Goyanes.
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