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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

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...
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.   
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.
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.
17/05/2025
15:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Second meeting of the ‘tocadoras’ and great foliada open to the public. 
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
14/06/2025
12:30 | Museo do Pobo Galego
The pandeireteiras group formed by María, Carme and Uxía from A Pontragha and Maca from O Pinheiro will bring their project Termando os Marcos to the Cloister Garden.
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...
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...
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...
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...
23/10/2025
19:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
By Lucía Aldao and Pablo Silva
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
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...
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. 
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...

Theatre

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...
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.
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.
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.
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. 
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.
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,...
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...
14/12/2025
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...
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.

For children

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.  
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
08/02/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Miguel Ángel Alonso Diz
15/02/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Ana Carreira
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...
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. 
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
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.
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.
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,...
Free
19/04/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Pablísimo
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...
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.  
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...
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 | 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
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...
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.
14/06/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Marisa Irimia
28/06/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by Sara Cruz.
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
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
11/10/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling for babies by Marta Ortiz
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
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.
15/11/2025
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.
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.
22/11/2025
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,...
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...
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.
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.  

Festival

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
04/08/2025 - 28/08/2025
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
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,...

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...
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

Educational events

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

28/03/2025
19:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Preview of Illa Bufarda's documentary on photography, gaze and gender. 
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...
01/07/2025 - 06/07/2025
22nd edition of the International Festival of Cinema and Visual Arts.
16/10/2025
19:00 | Centro Sociocultural O Ensanche
Searching for the Santa Compaña, directed by Fernando Cortizo, is a documentary that gathers the last testimonies of this Galician myth through interviews with experts and people who claim to have experienced it. Structured as a road movie, it seeks to uncover the mystery of an ancient...

Courses and workshops

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

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...
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.
Free
05/06/2025 - 07/06/2025
New edition of the local commerce festival with music and activities for the whole family.
25/06/2025 - 29/06/2025
Five days of music, dance, theatre, big-heads, reading, storytelling, science and much more in one of Santiago's most unique neighbourhoods. 
12/07/2025
10:30
Forth edition of this festival, which is an encounter with the local community and the rock heritage of the area through local and sustainable cultural proposals.  
24/07/2025 - 25/07/2025
Campus Universitario Sur
Festigal is a festival held at Campus Vida and promoted by the youth organisation Galiza Nova and the Galiza Sempre Foundation.  

Guided visits

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.
07/06/2025
10:00 | Centro Sociocultural do Castiñeiriño "Agustín Bueno"
Guided walk through the Castiñeiriño neighbourhood promoted by the Asociación Fonte da Virxe, Amigos do Castiñeiriño and the Centro Sociocultural do Castiñeiriño. Activity framed in an action entitled ‘Castiñeiriño with mental...
27/09/2025
12:00
The Cultural Association O Galo invites you to join the walking tour “Meeting and Social Spaces. Santiago 1923-1936”, a journey through the memory of the city that revisits the places where social and cultural life flourished in Compostela during the early 20th century. The...
11/10/2025
11:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Guided tour led by Encarna Otero
15/10/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C return with the proposal titled “Servas de Deus, donas de si”, exploring Compostela’s enclosed convents. The guided tours, free and lasting 90 minutes, delve into the history of women who governed complex...
18/10/2025
12:00
Tour organized by the Cultural Association O Galo and led by Antonia Pérez, as part of the series Santiago de Compostela 1923-1936.
29/10/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C return with the proposal titled “Servas de Deus, donas de si”, exploring Compostela’s enclosed convents. The guided tours, free and lasting 90 minutes, delve into the history of women who governed complex...
12/11/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C return with the proposal titled “Servas de Deus, donas de si”, exploring Compostela’s enclosed convents. The guided tours, free and lasting 90 minutes, delve into the history of women who governed complex...
26/11/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C return with the proposal titled “Servas de Deus, donas de si”, exploring Compostela’s enclosed convents. The guided tours, free and lasting 90 minutes, delve into the history of women who governed complex...
10/12/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C present Servas de Deus, donas de si, a free tour through Compostela’s enclosed convents that reveals the stories of power, resistance, and protagonism of the women who lived there, blending heritage interpretation and...
17/12/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C present Servas de Deus, donas de si, a free tour through Compostela’s enclosed convents that reveals the stories of power, resistance, and protagonism of the women who lived there, blending heritage interpretation and...

Others

23/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
Área Central
First big Rallyslot event in Galicia
06/06/2025 - 07/06/2025
Casa das Máquinas
Self-publishing festival and independent designed band
24/06/2025
18:00 | Casa do Cabido
 As part of the exhibition ‘Tras a pegada das musas’, the artist Mareiras from Compostela will paint a live painting. This action seeks to vindicate the role of women as creators, beyond the traditional muse or pupil.  
11/08/2025 - 14/08/2025
Casa das Máquinas
The RPM Collective, in collaboration with the Auditorio de Galicia, is launching a workshop with artist Tânia Carvalho aimed at artists in the field of performing arts interested in sharing a collective experience around the artistic universe of this Portuguese choreographer.
05/09/2025 - 12/09/2025
Centro Sociocultural de Conxo
The 38th Cultural Week of Conxo will take place from September 5 to 12, offering a diverse program of exhibitions, talks, concerts, intercultural workshops, sports, theater, traditional games, and routes through the local area. The event opens with Gabriel Tizón’s photo exhibition...
01/10/2025 - 04/10/2025
Debates, humor and live music come to Santiago with the second edition of Mover os Marcos, taking place from October 1 to 4. The event combines conversations on language, ecology, identities and housing with spoken concerts, live podcasts, urban dance and musical performances. This cultural and...

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.

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