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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

20/09/2025
21:00
The event Micro Abierto (Poetry & Music) will give each participant 6 minutes to share their poetry, music, or any other artistic proposal.

Dance

17/10/2025
20:00 | Palacio de Congresos e Exposicións de Galicia
El espectáculo Luna. Oda a Federico García Lorca, dirigido e interpretado por la bailaora Rocío Pozo, es una propuesta flamenca que rinde homenaje a la fascinación del poeta granadino por la luna. A través de la danza, la poesía y la música en...

Theatre

18/10/2025 - 19/10/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Converging Gazes transforms the second floor of the Museo Centro Gaiás into a living stage, where two actors, inspired by the lives and works of Castelao and Savelev, guide the audience through an immersive and participatory experience that innovatively combines theater and museum.
25/10/2025 - 26/10/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Converging Gazes transforms the second floor of the Museo Centro Gaiás into a living stage, where two actors, inspired by the lives and works of Castelao and Savelev, guide the audience through an immersive and participatory experience that innovatively combines theater and museum.
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...
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...
20/03/2026 - 03/05/2026
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Hamlet is undoubtedly the most famous play in history, written around 1600 by a man who, like Atlas, tried to take the globe into his hands, and with it all human affairs, and place them in his small theatre in south London, The Globe. From there, theatre would become a mirror in which humanity...

Gastronomy

20/02/2026 - 23/02/2026
Establishments in Santiago will offer Caldo de Gloria this weekend, as part of Rosalía's Day activities.

For children

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...
13/09/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by  Juste Kamishibai
27/09/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Rhymes, puns, songs and lots of humour. Migallas Teatro brings the show Brincadeiras de lingua to the Library of Galicia. A production that combines storytelling, puppets and music to rediscover the enormous wealth of Galician popular children's literature, on the occasion of the European Day...
Free
25/04/2026
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Show by Os contos de Pablísimo. 

Literature

16/05/2025 - 01/06/2025
Parque de la Alameda
Old and second-hand books, antique and rare books, out-of-print books and even some collectors' items that you can't miss.   Participants: - Madrid Books (Madrid)- O Fiandón (A Coruña)- A Tobeira de Oza (A Coruña)- Libros Quique (València)- Arcadia (A...
28/06/2025 - 06/07/2025
The Oral Storytelling Festival brings storytellers from around the world, and a wide range of Galician talent and new emerging voices.
01/07/2025
Iglesia y Convento de San Domingos de Bonaval
As Castelao used to say: public reading of texts on the 75th anniversary of the author’s death at the Panteón de galegas e galegos ilustres.
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.
28/01/2026
10:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
On the Work of Emily Brönte
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...
25/03/2026
10:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
A new session of Mañás poéticas, an open and free reading of texts by different authors, which in March we dedicate to the poet Alejandra Pizarnik.
29/04/2026
10:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Around the work of Nieves Neira.
02/10/2026 - 11/10/2026
Plaza de la Quintana
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. SELIC (Compostela Book Week) is the city’s main literary event. For several days, Plaza de la Quintana comes alive with books, authors and activities that celebrate reading through presentations, readings, workshops and events...

Courses and workshops

29/11/2025
11:30
Creative Writing Workshop “As Compostelas que hai en min”, with Daniel Asorey

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.
23/04/2026
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Guided walk by Maos Innovación Social.

Others

29/06/2025
11:30 | Museo-Fundación Eugenio Granell
This Sunday from 11:30 a.m., we celebrate Pride Day with LeComigo on the Foundation’s terrace. Guided by writer Eva Mejuto and coordinated by Mercedes Corbillón, we’ll welcome you with a coffee and begin with one hour of silent reading, followed by a chance to talk about our...
29/01/2026 - 07/02/2026
Área Central
Books written in Galician will take centre stage in the coming days at Outlet Área Central. From tomorrow, Thursday 29 January, until Saturday 7 February, Área Central and the Consorcio Editorial Galego are organising the 1st Galician Book Outlet.

Conferences

12/05/2025
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
Conference to commemorate Galician Literature Day titled «Eu cantar, cantar, cantei. As cantareiras e a poesía popular oral», to be given by Malores Villanueva, editor, literary critic, and Doctor in Galician Philology from USC.
16/04/2026
18:00
On Thursday, April 16 at 6:00 pm, the Faculty of Psychology at USC will host the presentation of the book Más barro y menos drama by artist and educator Renata Otero. This publication brings together years of research in an accessible and light way, offering a journey into memory and...

Debates - colloquy

16/04/2026
20:30 | Vide, Vide! Espazo Enocultural
Vide, Vide hosts a talk on O Imperialismo no século XXI, a book by professor and international analyst Duarte Correa Piñeiro, featuring the author alongside activist Anxo Louzao. The work offers a critical perspective on contemporary imperialism, challenging the idea that it...

Exhibitions

21/03/2025 - 19/04/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Bibliographic exhibition on the Sevillian poet
13/05/2025 - 14/06/2025
Mupega (Museo Pedagóxico de Galicia)
Exhibition on Castelao in his dual role as a teacher at the Pontevedra Institute and as a citizen who, through his work, shared a critical perspective on the state of education in the Galicia of his time.
25/05/2025
12:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The exhibition Ollos de Vidro. As formas doutra historia de Galicia concludes its run with an activity that goes beyond the exhibition space to bring the words of Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao to life on stage. Two exceptional storytellers, Quico Cadaval and Celso F....
06/06/2025 - 04/07/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The contact between Camilo José Cela and the women featured in this exhibition was mainly epistolary. Hence, the presence of various handwritten and/or typed letters, in which the words of both senders and recipients bear witness to their emotions.
26/06/2025 - 11/01/2026
(Castelao. Looking around Galicia) Castelao. Mirar por Galicia represents the most advanced technological-cultural experience to date on Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, a journey through the personal, literary, artistic and political evolution of one of the most outstanding...
03/07/2025 - 15/10/2025
Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Curated by Carmen Becerra Suárez, a specialist in the author’s work, the exhibition offers a vital and creative journey through the different stages of Torrente Ballester’s life, from his childhood in Ferrol to his final years in Salamanca, providing a deep insight into this...
18/07/2025 - 28/08/2025
Aenea was born twenty-six years ago with the aim of creating a space for meeting and mutual growth, both personal and collective. The group exhibition Tecendo o Un, on view from July 18 to August 28 at Aenea’s venue in Santiago, is a symbolic expression of this shared journey. Created by...
22/10/2025 - 28/11/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The exhibition “Lorca and Galicia: 90th Anniversary of the First Edition of Seis poemas galegos” opens on October 22 at the Colegio de Fonseca to commemorate ninety years since the publication of Federico García Lorca’s Galician work. Organized by the University Library...

Annual

Free
02/05/2026 - 10/05/2026
Parque de la Alameda
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. Annual fair that is held in the city’s most emblematic park, where you can find bargains in a great variety of publications, including books about Santiago and Galicia.  
27/06/2026 - 12/07/2026
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. Atlántica, Festival Internacional de Narración Oral, was born in 2013 with headquarters in Santiago de Compostela with a clear vocation of being an encounter of voices and stories with an atlanticist profile and now it is...