Free cookie consent management tool by TermsFeed
Guide day by dayFind what you are looking for
print

Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

20/12/2024
20:00 | Iglesia de la Compañía o de la Universidad
The Orchestra and Choir of the University of Santiago de Compostela will give as every year its Christmas concert. The recital will be on Friday 20 December at 20.00 hours in the University Church.
26/02/2025
19:00 | Facultad de Filología
Concert for the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Philology of the USC
26/02/2025
21:00 | Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
Concert as part of the Primavera Cultural cycle organised by the University of Santiago. 
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.
18/04/2025
20:00 | Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
Concert by Ramón Pérez-Sindín Blanco as part of the cycle ‘De Lugares e Órganos’.
26/04/2025
20:00 | Convento e Iglesia de Santo Agostiño
The Orchestra and Choir of the USC offers on Saturday 26 April at 20.00 hours in the Church of San Agostiño its Spring concert, an activity included in the programming of the Cultural Spring. Previously, at 13.00 hours, there will be a rehearsal open to the public.
04/06/2025 - 05/06/2025
19:30
The Escola de Altos Estudos Musicais will offer a series of concerts as part of the training programme for students of the Advanced Course in Orchestral Specialisation (CAEO). This initiative, part of the “A Escola na Cidade” cycle, will take place in the Auditorium of the USC...
09/06/2025 - 11/06/2025
19:30 | Facultade de Xeografía e Historia
The Escola de Altos Estudos Musicais will offer a series of concerts as part of the training programme for students of the Advanced Course in Orchestral Specialisation (CAEO). This initiative, part of the “A Escola na Cidade” cycle, will take place in the Auditorium of the USC...
25/09/2025
20:30
Mondra, together with Ulex, will perform at the BenVidaUSC 2025/26 welcome events, with a concert at Praza de Mazarelos in Santiago de Compostela. The performance is free of charge.
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...

Dance

14/05/2025
20:00 | Colexio de Fonseca
The milonga is a place where people who love tango and milonga meet to dance and socialise, to share experiences in a place where you can breathe the tango atmosphere and share the passion for the dance.

Theatre

09/02/2026 - 15/02/2026
20:30 | Salón Teatro
The XXIX International University Theatre Festival of the USC opens in Compostela from 11 to 15 February a window to the theatrical creations developed by university theatre companies at Galician, national and European level.

Others

08/11/2025
10:00
The Network of Singular Research Centers of the University of Santiago de Compostela opens its doors to the public once again on Saturday, November 8, for the ninth edition of Ciencia Singular. Hundreds of visitors will be able to explore, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., leading research...

Congresses and meetings

14/07/2025 - 17/07/2025
Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
The Museum of Pilgrimages in Santiago de Compostela will host the 16th edition of the International Jacobean Lectures this coming July, under the title Scholars of the Camino de Santiago and Pilgrimage. 

Conferences

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.
27/11/2024
20:00 | Auditorio Abanca
The Greek-French physicist Jean Iliopoulos is one of the key figures in the consolidation of the Standard Model of particle physics. One of the three authors (together with the Nobel Prize in Physics Sheldon Glashow and Luciano Maiani) of the GIM mechanism, the theoretical proposal that, in...
29/11/2024
19:30
The series of dialogues Transfronterizas, which has already included more than a dozen sessions, brings together figures from the cultural field to explore the intersections between art and science together with the research staff of the IGFAE. This initiative is part of the ArtLAB programme,...
22/01/2025
19:00 | Colexio de Fonseca
Ryosuke Takahashi, one of the founders of Japanese anime together with Tadahiko Horiguchi.
19/03/2025
18:00
Round table around the book Galicia Distrito Industrial organised by the association StartupGalicia in which they will approach the network of innovative, internationalised and high added value Galician companies and discuss how startups can drive innovation and transform the country, taking...
13/06/2025
09:30 | Facultade de Xeografía e Historia
An open session for local residents focusing on initiatives that are currently underway — or that have already delivered positive results — in other cities across the country and that face similar challenges to those of Santiago de Compostela.

Exhibitions

07/11/2024 - 28/11/2024
Colexio de Fonseca
The exhibition was developed from Claudia Silva's travels to Tamil Nadu from 2012 to the present. This project is part of her audiovisual research on oral tradition practices in different cultures and their relationship with art and science. Walking through the streets is a regular activity.
28/11/2024 - 28/02/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
How are our affective relationships being transformed by the emergence of digital media? This and other questions are raised in the exhibition Afectos Dixitais, a USC's own production around which the Cultural Faísca is structured, which is being developed in several educational centres...
20/01/2025 - 28/02/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
On display are 28 paintings by Tadahiko Horiguchi, one of the first creators of Japanese anime and disciple of the god of manga, Osamu Tezuka.
03/02/2025 - 31/03/2025
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
This exhibition shows the reality of Gaza through the eyes of Gazan photojournalists Mohammed Zaanoun, Ahmed Zakot and Abood Abu Salama.
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...
05/03/2025 - 28/03/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Exhibition organised by the USC as part of the Women's Day celebrations. 
05/03/2025 - 31/03/2025
Facultad de Filología
Exhibition on the author of great works of children's and young people's literature.
11/03/2025 - 26/04/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
An exhibition-collaborative project of emotional, plastic and aesthetic research on narcissistic disorder conceived by Ana Costas for eight artists with the collaboration of Carlos Villanueva.
09/04/2025 - 30/05/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Rosalía de Castro was born the same year that, for the first time, a woman gained entry to the National Library of Spain. It is not known whether the Galician writer repeated such a feat during her years in Madrid, but the truth is that she was never able to pursue university studies....
23/04/2025 - 26/05/2025
Facultade de Filosofía
Leandro Barea (Lugo, 1974) is one of the most compelling graphic artists, illustrators, and muralists in Galicia today, with an extensive list of national and international awards. 
24/04/2025 - 24/05/2025
Facultad de Filología
As part of the activities organized for the Faculty of Philology Week, coinciding with the celebration of its patron saint, Isidore of Seville, the faculty is launching the exhibition Isidorus relectus: The Power of the Word on the first floor. The aim is to promote the heritage of the...
15/05/2025 - 28/06/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Exhibition by Madrid-based artists Consuelo Chacón and Patricia Mateo, and fellow Madrilenian artist José Luis López Moral.  
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.
07/07/2025 - 30/08/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
In the context of Castelao Year 2025, the exhibition project Costumes and Colors of Galicia. National Identity in the Art of Castelao aims to showcase the rich and significant presence of traditional clothing in the pictorial and graphic work of Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao.
08/07/2025 - 26/09/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Twenty-five years ago, an exceptional archaeological discovery took place in the city of Lugo. During the renovation of the Pazo de Montenegro to convert it into the headquarters of the Campus Vice-Rectorate, the remains of a well-preserved Roman domus were found, which contained a mithraeum...
05/09/2025 - 30/09/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The exhibition “Lying with Mastery. Photographic Montages by Augusto Pacheco (1948-1973)”, curated by photographers Vítor Vaquero and Manuel Pérez Rúa and visual artist Ánxel Huete.
Free
17/09/2025 - 31/10/2025
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
The artist Amabel Míguez de la Sierra presents the exhibition ‘Abuso’ at the University Church. On this occasion, the creator shows works on paper, mainly drawings, sometimes of large format, allowing her to combine a technique as basic as drawing with an original...
16/10/2025 - 28/02/2026
Colexio de Fonseca
The Colexio de Fonseca will host the exhibition Speculative Fictions from October 16, a collective show exploring how contemporary artists use science fiction, dreams, and oracles as tools to construct alternative visions of the world and the future. 
17/10/2025 - 28/11/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The Upper Cloister of the Colexio de Fonseca hosts the exhibition The First Female Professors of the Complutense University of Madrid, which highlights the pioneering women in teaching and research at the UCM, including the Galician scholars Emilia Pardo Bazán, Antonia Ferrín...
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...
05/11/2025 - 19/12/2025
On the 75th anniversary of Daniel Castelao’s passing, the University of Santiago joins the commemorative events with the exhibition Cousas de Familia. Galician family law on the 75th anniversary of Castelao’s cabodano and the 30th anniversary of Law 4/1995, of May 24, on Civil...

Annual

18/02/2019 - 24/03/2019
Facultade de Xeografía e Historia
The Concert Cycle Novos Talentos Musicais is aimed at Galician chamber musicians living in Galicia or students of Galician Music Centres up to 32 years of age. It is an initiative promoted by the Compostela Sound Association and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).

Content not available in English. Sorry for the inconvenience