Residence of La Intrusa in the Creative Space Foundation 2018

12 November - 23 November 2018

Steps | Academia de Danzas Panamá (Ciudad de Panamá, Panama)

AC/E supports, through the PICE grants, the mobility of the Spanish artists La Intrusa to choreograph a presentation open to the public. This choreography is done at the end of the contemporary dance workshop organized by the Espacio Creativo Foundation from November 12 to 22, 2018, as part of the training program for local dancers, with the aim of offering more opportunities

L'Alternativa 2018, 25.º Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona

12 November - 18 November 2018

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) (Barcelona, Spain)

L’Alternativa is a festival that provides a unique opportunity to enjoy screenings and cinema-related activities in support of filmmakers’ creative independence, diversity, innovation, commitment and reflection. It has two competition sections, as well as featuring tributes, premieres, performances, Spanish films and a programme for families. It also offers masterclasses, roundtables, symposia, workshops for children and adults, and film school activities.

Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2018

10 November - 17 November 2018

Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

This Festival is a fundamental sample of development and exchange in the film and audiovisual arts industry and is a must for directors, actors, producers, distributors and film lovers. The 33rd edition will be held between 10th and 17th November, and is supported by AC/E through support for Mobility grants by PICE, defraying the travelling expenses of the Spanish film-makers

LOOP Barcelona 2018

12 November - 22 November 2018

Loop Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)

LOOP Barcelona is a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image. Founded in 2003, since its creation it has offered a specialised audience a curated selection of video-related content from different perspectives, while teaming up with an international community of artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and institution directors to develop projects which aim to explore the capacities

BullShit Festival de Artes Vivas2018

08 November - 17 November 2018

Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo (Montevideo, Uruguay)

Bullshit Mex is a show of stage pieces by Ibero-American artists that aims to further the exchange of knowledge with regard to the processes of research and creation in the living arts. The works presented over five days are multidisciplinary in character, incorporating elements of performance, dance, theatre and music. The spirit that brings together artists in this exhibition is the

FIDOCS 2018 Santiago International Documentary Festival

08 November - 14 November 2018

FIDOCS, Festival Internacional Documentales Santiago (Santiago de Chile, Chile)

The 2018 Santiago International Documentary Festival (FIDOCS) is the main space for meetings, dissemination and competition in the documentary film genre in Chile, and is one of the most important in Latin-America, ever since it was founded in 1997 by the director Patricio Guzmán. This 22nd edition will be held at 6 sites (Hoyts Cinema, Cineteca Nacional, Sala Cine UC,

Latin Beat Film Festival 2018

01 November - 25 November 2018

Latin Beat Film Festival (Tokio, Japan)

This 15th edition of the Latin Beat Film Festival, which celebrates Ibero-American film-making in Japan, commemorates the 150th anniversary of Spanish-Japanese diplomatic relations. It is held in the three main cities in the country: Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama, where a selection of around 15 previously unseen films in Japan will be shown, selected from films produced over the last year. Other

Blasco Ibáñez and the Face of Literature

30 October - 26 November 2018

Alcoi (Alcoi, Spain)

To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, the exhibition Blasco Ibáñez and the Face of Literature surveys the image of the great Valencian writers and the other prominent Spanish authors of his day through 48 photographs. Blasco Ibáñez (València, 1867‒Mentón, France, 1928) is one of the most important and most universally hailed Valencian writers. By the end of the nineteenth century, before

WIELS Artistic Residency Programme 2019

29 October - 30 November 2018

Convocatoria abierta

Call for Entry

The WIELS Residency Programme is an international laboratory for emerging artists from all over the world. It forms a key part of the overall programme of WIELS and is one of its core activities. WIELS provides a unique working environment for artists, so that they can pursue their work and participate in current debates and research regarding contemporary art practices. During six months, the residents are

Exhibition

31 October 2018 - 10 March 2019

IAACC Pablo Serrano. V Congreso Iberoamericano de la Cultura

Objetivo Mordzinski. Journey to the Heart of Spanish-American Literature

Objetivo Mordzinski is a photographic approach to Spanish-American literary creation through the gaze of artist Daniel Mordzinski, who has been making portraits of writers for more than three decades and has published many books of photographs on literature, particularly Spanish-language literature. The show is directly connected with the nature of the international Spanish-language conference that will host it for the first time: the

Exhibition

06 November 2018 - 06 January 2019

Parques del Río Medellín

The Prado Museum in Colombia

This exhibition brings together a collection of 54 photographs reproduced at original scale depicting some of the emblematic exhibits of the Prado National Museum which will be installed in the major plazas and pedestrian streets in Bogota and Medellin. The original idea for this project came about in 2011 as collaboration between the Prado National Museum and the Spanish Agency for

Exhibition

23 October - 18 November 2018

Casa de América

León Felipe. Who am I?

This exhibition is made up of about 150 documents, artworks and materials related to the great poet Leon Felipe, among which are photographs, paintings, sculpture, documents, press and books. Born in Tábara, Zamora on April 11 (1884), 2018 sees the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of his death in Mexico, where he lived in exile until his passing in 1968. Felipe Camino Galicia de la Rosa,

Commemoration

01 September - 31 December 2018

Commemoration of 40 years of the Spanish Constitution

#C40 1978 was a year that left a significant footprint on Spanish history. The draft Constitution was published in the Official State Journal in January, and voting took place on 31st October in the “Congreso de los Diputados” (Congress of Deputies). It was ratified in a referendum on 6th December and published in the Official State Journal on 29th December. That

International Expo

20 October 2020 - 10 April 2021

Spain Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020

The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) has designated Dubai as the city that will host the Universal Exhibition in 2020. The central theme of the Expo 2020 Dubai is "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future" and it will a platform to foster creativity, innovation, and global collaboration. The Expo wants to trigger new thinking for a long-term effect in the Middle

Exhibition

16 November 2018 - 06 January 2019

LECRAC. Centro Cultural Antigua Cárcel de Palencia

16 Characters to Marvel at and... Miguel de Cervantes

This exhibition traces the literary career of Cervantes (1547–1616) through his oeuvre, from his first work, La Galatea (1585), a pastoral novel, to the last one, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, a byzantine tale that was published posthumously in 1617. This exhibition paints with words and literary creations a historical portrait of Cervantes, guided by the literary characters who populate and give life to his

Exhibition

14 September - 25 November 2018

Biblioteca Pública del Estado Bartolomé J. Gallardo

Page-turner. An Invitation to Read

The exhibition takes an engaging and playful – though no less thorough – look at what reading and the pleasure of reading mean. It sets out to advocate reading, literature and book cathedrals, places whose goal is to create and encourage the enjoyment of reading. It is an exhibition designed to defend all the imaginary countries with vague borders to

Commemoration

01 January - 31 December 2019

V Centenario de la I Vuelta al Mundo

En 2019 España celebra el V Centenario de la expedición de la primera vuelta al mundo de Fernando de Magallanes y Juan Sebastián Elcano, un acontecimiento declarado de interés público por el Gobierno de España y cuyo programa de actividades está articulado por una comisión organizada desde la Secretaría de Estado de Cultura. Acción Cultural Española participa en la comisión

News

Longitud de onda. Interview with Arantxa Aguirre | RTVE.es

31 October 2018

We interviewed the director and screenwriter Arantxa Aguirre on the occasion of the premiere of her documentary about the life of the composer Enrique Granados: "Love and death."

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Tras la estela de Leon Felipe | El Cultural

23 October 2018

La Casa de América acoge en Madrid la exposición "León Felipe: ¿Quién soy yo?", una muestra organizada por Acción Cultural Española y la Fundación del poeta que aborda su legado.

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Rafa Esparza’s Latest Performance Uses Google Maps as a Time Machine | Hyperallergic

15 October 2018

As part of A new job to unwork at — a series exploring the many actions we classify as “work” — “Tezcatlipoca Memoirs,” Esparza’s latest performance at Participant Inc, offers a mixed media exploration of the artist’s collected projects.

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New life in old Palermo | EL PAÍS

08 October 2018

The co-curator of the biennial Manifesta 12, the Spanish architect Andrés Jaque, traces a route through the Italian city between urbanism and contemporary art...

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Ya está disponible el videojuego "Bailando un tesoro"

04 October 2018

Bailando un tesoro" es el primer videojuego de Danza española que existe. Un juego mágico y diferente que permite al jugador vivir la evolución de un bailarín desde sus primeros pasos hasta llegar a bailar con el Ballet Nacional de España. En esta historia virtual, el jugador avanza junto a compañeros y profesores para aprender y dominar los cuatro estilos de danza

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The lights and shadows of the photographer Alberto García Alix | RTVE

04 October 2018

With the documentary "La línea de sombra " the programme 'Imprescindibles' premieres its new season on Sunday, October 7 at 9:30 p.m.

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Arantxa Aguirre will premiere at the Seminci de Valladolid «Love and death»

04 October 2018

This documentary film recreates the passionate and stormy history of the composer Enrique Granados in the Barcelona of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his trips to Madrid, Paris and New York, the struggle for life and the first triumphs ...

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The European Union gives free rein to reduce the VAT on electronic books | EL PAÍS

03 October 2018

The European Union has approved the proposal that will allow countries that wish to apply the reduced VAT to electronic publications to match their tax to that of traditional books.

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Segovia, epicenter of world animation | El Cultural

01 October 2018

3D Wire, an animation, videogame and new media market that has become a global meeting point for the sector, brings together great professionals such as Edwina Liard, producer of Ikki Films, and José Iñesta, director of Pixelalt, thanks to the support of the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) of Spanish Cultural Action.

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"Principio Máquina de Coser" es el proyecto seleccionado para ser desarrollado en la residencia BAICC 2018

28 September 2018

Aitziber Olaskoaga, co-autora, junto a Pilar Monsell, del proyecto ganador "Principio Máquina de Coser" viajará a Toronto para crear el primer prototipo de su invención SEE-W-ING MACHINE, una máquina que, combinando un proyector de cine [ 16 mm y /o super 8 mm ] con una máquina de coser, permitirá coser tejidos y proyectar films a la vez. La comisión de valoración

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'¡Ay, Carmela!' or memory as resistance | El Mundo

27 September 2018

"As many of us are killed by the war, we can not all fit," Carmela tells her beloved Paulino in his first and sudden appearance. Paulino rubs his eyes and tar..

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«La zarzuela mecánica» analizará la influencia de la tecnología en el género lírico español | ABC

26 September 2018

Del 26 al 29 de septiembre se celebrarán en Cuenca las jornadas, dirigidas por Alberto González Lapuente

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Fecundidad y utilidad de las humanidades | El País

24 September 2018

Las Humanidades proporcionan beneficio económico y diseñan marcos de sentido que permiten a las sociedades comprenderse a sí mismas y orientar cambios hacia un auténtico progreso

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Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona: we stayed in the gallery | El Cultural

21 September 2018

Portuguese curator Miguel Von Hafe visits the Nit de l'Art in Palma de Mallorca and Carla Acevedo Yates participates in Barcelona Gallery Weekend thanks to the Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture of Spanish Cultural Action.

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The Amann-Cánovas-Maruri studio winner of the architecture competition of the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020

19 September 2018

El proyecto arquitectónico ganador del concurso del Pabellón de España para la Expo Dubái 2020, que ha sido elegido hoy por el jurado nombrado a tal efecto y ratificado por el Consejo de Administración de Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), ha sido propuesto por el estudio Amann-Cánovas-Maruri (Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectos S.L.P.). Bajo el lema "Personas y lugares" el proyecto ha sido especialmente valorado

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Publicados los ganadores de las residencias de circo y danza en Colombia

17 September 2018

Las primeras convocatorias dirigidas a coreógrafos y artistas circenses han dado a conocer hoy los nombres de los ganadores para realizar un periodo de residencia artística de un mes en cuatro compañías de danza y circo colombianas. Los ganadores de la Residencia para profesionales del circo en Colombia 2018 son Zenaida Alcalde que podrá disfrutarla en el Colectivo Escénico Teatro Transeúnte (Pasto, Nariño), entre

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El mundo del arte quiere que llames a su puerta | EL PAÍS

14 September 2018

Apertura celebra su novena edición con 50 galerías inaugurando exposiciones de más de 70 artistas

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'Las Meninas' arrive at the Plaza de Bolívar | EL PAÍS

11 September 2018

The Museo del Prado exhibits for the first time in Colombia an original canvas, the Agnus Dei, and carries 53 replicas to Bogotá ...

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Works of the Prado Museum in the Plaza de Bolívar and in the Parque de la 93 | ELTIEMPO.COM

10 September 2018

From this Thursday, the Prado Museum in Bogotá will be presented in Bogota, a show in which 53 reproductions and an original work of the best known pieces of the European art collection of that Madrid gallery will be exhibited.

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Digital, at night and female: the new music industry meets in Quito | The Cultural

23 August 2018

The International Music Industry Market celebrates its second edition in Quito. Its director, Steven Dagenais, gives us the keys to the meeting that aims to professionalize the local sector and connect it with the rest of the world. The DJ and producer from Barcelona AWWZ and the manager Agustín López, who attend the event with the sponsorship of the Program

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Interview with Ibán García del Blanco, president of AC/E, in La Hora Extra (SER)

05 August 2018

Ibán Gracía del Blanco, recently appointed executive president of Accion Cultural Española, AC / E, talk on Culture with Javier Torres in La Hora Extra. Among other topics have spoken about the need to project culture abroad and promote our artists, which are two of the main objectives of AC / E. Here is the audio >

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Interview with Ibán García del Blanco, president of AC/E, in La Hora Extra (SER)

05 August 2018

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#Entrevistamos a la ilustradora Ana Juan

23 July 2018

Entrevistamos a Ana Juan para que nos hable sobre su carrera, sus proyectos y, especialmente, sobre la exposición "Ana Juan. Dibujando al otro lado" que organiza AC/E junto a UNIT Experimental. De cara a quienes no te conocen, ¿cómo te presentarías? Soy Ilustradora; a la búsqueda de historias para contarlas historias a través de las imágenes. ¿Cómo te convertiste en ilustradora de libros? No hay

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Antonio Jiménez Morato seleccionado para la residencia de escritores en Les Récollets Paris 2018

06 July 2018

El ganador de esta convocatoria abierta ha sido Antonio Jiménez Morato con su proyecto "NOLA", quien dispondrá durante tres meses de un espacio de residencia y trabajo en Les Récollets de París para continuar con el desarrollo de este proyecto literario ya iniciado. Antonio Jiménez Morato (Madrid, 1976) ha publicado los libros "La piedra que se escribe" (Festina, 2016), "El sabor

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Acción Cultural Española recibe el premio Hispania Nostra a las Buenas Prácticas 2018

Convocados desde 2011, conjuntamente por Hispania Nostra y la Fundación Banco Santander, se han otorgado un total de cuatro premios, dos de ellos ex aequo. AC/E recibe el premio por la edición de la publicación digital “Numancia: arqueología e historia”. Se trata de un libro multimedia que se encuadra dentro de las actividades realizadas con motivo del 2150 aniversario de la toma y destrucción de

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León Felipe, the best exhibition hosted in Zamora| Periodistas en Español

03 July 2018

The exhibition 'León Felipe, Who am I?', about the life and work of the poet, in on show at the Ethnographic Museum of Castilla y León in Zamora. It has already been described as "the best exhibition that Zamora has ever hosted."

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Ana Juan: «Enlightenment allows me to express myself and have a relationship with the world»

02 July 2018

The Valencian artist, Spanish National Illustration Prize, inaugurates in A Coruña the exhibition «Debuxando ao alén» ...

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Spain addresses in Venice the future of architecture | Agencia EFE

04 June 2018

Spain reflects on the future of architecture from the point of view of researchers in the "Becoming" proposal, which presents a showcase at the XVI Venice Architecture Biennale. Spain addresses in Venice the future of architecture from training | Culture | Agencia EFE

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Aprobado el avance de actividades para la Conmemoración del V Centenario de la primera vuelta al mundo

16 May 2018

· En 2019 se inaugurará la gran exposición ‘El viaje más largo’, promovida por AC/E y la Secretaría de Estado de Cultura · Se han programado representaciones teatrales y operísticas, música, producciones audiovisuales, tanto documentales como de ficción · Están previstas diversas publicaciones, algunas especializadas, otras para todos los públicos, también en formato de cómic · Se organizará una regata especial, en julio

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"Rethinking Guernica" Awarded as Best cultural Institution Website Webby 2018

25 April 2018

The Reina Sofía National Museum receives the Webby award for the best cultural institution website for "Rethinking Guernica", a virtual space that allows free access to the "greatest documentary collection about Picasso's work".

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Trends in digital culture: the voice returns

19 April 2018

The AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report announces "the return of orality" thanks to the rise of podcasts, audiobooks and interaction with devices through voice. In addition, the publication proposes to expand, including these modalities, the definition of reading in the digital era.

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Time Out, the necessary break | El Cultural

23 March 2018

The company Aula3 Platform of creation presents its piece of contemporary dance in China, in the Shenzen Biennial, thanks to the PICE programme of Acción Cultural Española.

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Spanish artists, but also International| EL PAÍS

09 March 2018

The public programme of internationalization of culture, which finances the visits of national creators to foreign events, celebrates its first five years.

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The Spanish exhibition "Unfinished" brings to Berlin solutions to real estate challenges | La Vanguardia

09 February 2018

The photo exhibition "Unfinished", with which Spain won the Golden Lion for the best national participation in the 2016 Venice Biennale, arrived in Berlin today, to translate the great challenges of current architecture.

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Five years of culture with the PICE Programme | El Cultural

09 March 2018

More than four thousand artists and international professionals have benefited from the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE), Spanish Cultural Action since it started.

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The music will fill 16 museums with the 'MusaE' programme| La Vanguardia

28 February 2018

The National Archaeological, the Sorolla or the Cerralbo, in Madrid, are some of the 16 state museums that will be filled with music with the third edition of the programme 'MusaE: Music in the State Museums'. This circuit of concerts and acoustic micro-concerts, promoted by the Ministry with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), will open its third edition,

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Tradition and Avant-garde: the Silver Age of Dance| Navarra.com

25 January 2018

The spirit of those years is now presented in an exhibition at the Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid. With the title "Poets of the Body, The Dance of the Silver Age", the exhibition presents a journey from the early twentieth century to the 40s.

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Complicit journey through the recesses of literature | hoyesarte.com

16 January 2018

The National Library of Spain hosts "Turn the Page, an Invitation to Read" until May 20. It is a didactic and informative exhibition that encourages reading and enjoyment of books among all audiences. More than 10,000 people have already visited it.

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The journey through literature begins in adolescence| EL MUNDO

14 November 2017

The Spanish National Library hosts the exhibition 'Turn the Page. An Invitation to Read ', an approach to authors and genres of all times for the young.

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The most iconic works of the Prado Museum arrive in Medellín

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