This professional gathering of Ibero-American music is held for the first time in Madrid, after a two-year career in the city of Buenos Aires under the name BAFIM (Buenos Aires International Music Fair), where it has become a benchmark for the fairs and music markets of the world.
The meeting is held from May 24 to May 26, 2018 at the
In its 6th edition, FIVER offers an immersive experience in the world of audiovisual dance composed of installations, screenings, and international video dance shows distributed, in a free movement, through various spaces of Naves Matadero and Cineteca Madrid. AC / E supports the participation of programmers and professionals of the sector of other countries so that they know the news
Naves Matadero-International Center for Living Arts is a space of contemporary creation and thought from the new scenic languages. For the first time, the center will hold an International Programmers Meeting this year from May 23 to May 26. During those four days it will be presented to foreign visitors the projects of Spanish artists who have been or will
PLATAFORMA is a space to support and promote the companies and artists that are developing their work at Teatros del Canal and Centro Danza Canal. An unmissable date for national and international professionals, where the work and projects of longstanding and emerging artists from the fields of theatre, dance, new languages and the arts of movement will be presented. Among
Assembly Point presents System Recovery, a new body of work by Fran Meana with the support of AC/E. The exhibition, Meana’s first solo project in the UK, is an exploration of the possibilities offered by digital tools to reactivate the recent past.
For this project the artist has recruited the help of a neural network – a type of machine learning algorithm
"Unspoken We" is an all-encompassing event that includes an exhibition and a number of parallel activities by international artists and theorists. With a focus on language, performativity and literature, the project explores the potentiality of the individual within a collaborative framework through notions of contamination, pollination, voice, scene construction and situation in order to stage the refrain of a future
"Unspoken We" is an all-encompassing event that includes an exhibition and a number of parallel activities by international artists and theorists. With a focus on language, performativity and literature, the project explores the potentiality of the individual within a collaborative framework through notions of contamination, pollination, voice, scene construction and situation in order to stage the refrain of a future
The DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival celebrates its 21st edition from May 16th to 27th, offering a selection of the best documentary films on the international scene. DocsBarcelona 2018 edition has a selection 41 films and it is internationally recognized for professionals from all over the world who come to present their films and projects.
In DocsBarcelona take place the best national
This exhibition for outdoor spaces has been designed to be shown chiefly in the context of the many film festivals held in Spain today.
The project includes works by approximately 40 photographers selected from among the principal artists in Spain who have contributed their particular approach to the film world at some point.
A talk by each of the participating photographers is planned
Between 1900 and 1936 the performing arts in Spain exchanged spaces and languages with other disciplines and art forms, creating curious subgenres that arose from the blend of complex and many-sided stage, literary and theatre-related expressions. This fascinating environment and period is the subject of a broad-ranging, open exhibition project.
During the first third of the twentieth century, Spanish culture was
Project competition with jury intervention, for the architecture project of the Spain Pavilion at the EXPO DUBAI 2020 Universal Exhibition. Until 03/04/2018 at 12:00
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The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) has designated Dubai
In 2015 it will be a century since the establishment of the women’s counterpart of the Residencia de Estudiantes, the Residencia de Señoritas. To celebrate this anniversary, the Residencia is preparing an exhibition about a group of women who were pioneers in the exercise of science, education and the arts – fields in which some were leading figures in Spain
"The Longest Voyage" is an exhibition and documentary programme that reflects on the attitude of man before a long trip into the unknown. It connects the first circumnavigation of the Earth with the individual challenges of the present and the collective challenges of the future. The project begins in 2018 with the exhibition following the steps of Magallanes and the
Through forty-two sets of clothing from different Spanish regions, all of them dated between the late eighteenth and early twentieth century, and a selection of the work of photographer José Ortiz Echagüe (1886-1980), this exhibition reveals the aesthetic and artisanal values of traditional Spanish making of clothing. Olivier Saillard, until very recently director of the Palais Galliera and curator of
The project, which was presented at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival this June, is now travelling to Barcelona. It has taken two years’ research to produce and has involved recovering materials, some of which were out of circulation on account of their condition. They will be screened in several sessions at the concert hall of the CCCB.
From 15 to
→ AC/E's PICE grants for visitors allow international agents, influencers and planners from different areas of culture and art to gain first-hand knowledge, in Spain, of what the country has to offer in their sector.
The artist selected for the WIELS Artistic Residency Programme 2018 is Oier Iruretagoiena (Errenteria, 1988) whose work develops between sculpture, sound and text. He graduated in Fine Arts from the UPV-EHU, and has individually exhibited the Carreras Múgica de Bilbao gallery (2015), the Halfhouse space in Barcelona (2014), the Egia Culture House (2013) and the Montehermoso cultural center in Vitoria. -Gasteiz
· 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
Acción Cultural Española continues its commitment to the internationalization of Spanish playwrights with a new cycle of contemporary theater and a second edition of Nueva Damaturgia Española. José Luis Alonso de Santos, Paloma Pedrero and José Sanchís Sinisterra, or Gon Ramos, Denise Despeyroux, Lucía Carballal, Paco Bezarra and Guillem Clua are part of his program.
Aguirre's project is based on the work of the Basque artists Itziar Okariz and Sergio Prego. Aguirre was elected on Monday by a jury chaired by the director of the Reina Sofía Museum, Manuel Borja-Villel.It is the first time that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of the Spanish representation in this important artistic event, selects the participants through
After the confirmation of the Participation of Spain in Expo Dubai 2020 in February 2017, on April 13, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) organized an open public contest to select the presentation of architectural proposals of the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020 .
On April 26, the jury of the contest, in accordance with the Rules, approved the selection of six
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".
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.
Publishers of the American label invited by Acción Cultural Española will meet artists at the fair, which this year pays tribute to the Spanish comic of the last 40 years.
Are you a publisher looking to translate European fiction into English? Apply to Creative Europe's Literary Translation funding opportunity.The 2018 call for Literary Translation is open with a deadline of 23 May at 11am (GMT). The opportunity supports the translation, production and promotion of literary works from one European language to another.
Among the gypsies of Southern Spain there are whole families who believe their own personal and interpretative style such as the legendary Habichuela Family, which will be presented next Saturday in the Town Hall thanks to Acción Cultural Española.
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.
The purpose of the Visitors grants of the AC/E Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE) is to facilitate the presence in Spain of prestigious international influencers, agents, professionals and programmers in the fields of the arts and culture, so that they can enjoy first-hand experience of various areas of Spain’s cultural and creative sector and establish direct and
The public programme of internationalization of culture, which finances the visits of national creators to foreign events, celebrates its first five years.
Acción Cultural Española presents an extensive programme of activities with Spanish authors and creators in several Colombian cities. Elvira Marco, director of AC/E, gives us the keys to the Spain-Colombia Culture Programme.
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.
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.
The Teatro Real will host the first edition of the World Opera Forum, from April 12 to 15, an international meeting of opera professionals that will bring together the Opera Europa, Opera America and Opera Latin America (OLA) associations, together with representatives from Africa, Asia and Oceania, with the support of AC/E.
These scholarships allow the realization of artistic projects abroad and the artistic training of excellence in higher education centers.
Deadline: March 26, 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,
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.
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.
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.
