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Promoted by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Sports with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), the MusaE project is articulated as a circuit of acoustic concerts and micro-concerts that circulates through the network of State Museums. The testimony of its success can be found in the words of the protagonists of the 2022 edition.

On March 15, 2022, the transmedia memory of the Spain Guest of Honor project at the Frankfurt Book Fair was presented at the Goethe-Institut Madrid with the participation of María Jesús Montero Cuadrado, Minister of Finance and Public Function, María José Gálvez Salvador, General Director of the Book and Promotion of Reading, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Marián del Egido Rodríguez, director of the "Carlos Saura Center for the Conservation and Restoration of Film Collections" of the Spanish Film Library, Rosa Montero, writer and journalist, Roger Casas-Alatriste , CEO and founder of El Cañonazo Transmedia, and José Andrés Torres Mora, president of Acción Cultural Española.

In this playlist, you can access the videos with all the recordings of the meetings that took place in the Guest of Honor Spanish Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022.

AC/E presented in this edition of Pública its project “Xacobeo. A route through the territories of our imaginary”. A multidisciplinary conversation that shows first-hand a collaborative project around intangible cultural heritage and artistic creation that has addressed gender, sustainability, transversality and social inclusion criteria from its outset. Artists, curators, anthropologists, photographers and participating citizens.

In this video, Isabel Izquierdo, director of programming at AC/E, together with some coordinators and collaborators of our institution, present the activity program for 2023 at Pública 2023.

Making of the Exhibition "Nebrija, the pride of being a grammarian" at the National Library of Spain, (2022-2023) on the occasion of the V centenary of the death of Antonio de Nebrija.

Teresa Jiménez Calvente reflects on Nebrija's legacy. The exhibition brings together more than a hundred works from the National Library collections, along with others on loan from a dozen Spanish institutions, follows Nebrija's footsteps and invites you to tour Spain at the time and its centers of knowledge.

A tour of the paintings that are part of the exhibition, by the hand of s and curator, Teresa Jiménez Calvente. The exhibition brings together more than a hundred works from the National Library collections, along with others on loan from a dozen Spanish institutions, follows Nebrija's footsteps and invites you to tour Spain at the time and its centers of knowledge.

We approach this piece of the exhibition, the Bull of Alejandro VI for the foundation of the University of Alcalá, by the hand of the curator of the exhibition, Teresa Jiménez Calvente. he exhibition, in which, in addition to this work, you can visit more than a hundred works from the National Library collections, along with others on loan from a dozen Spanish institutions, follows in Nebrija's footsteps and invites you to tour the Spain of the time and its centers of knowledge.

The curator of the exhibition, Teresa Jiménez Calvente, reflects on the Humanist training of Nebrija in some of the works in the exhibition. The exhibition includes a hundred works from the National Library collections, along with others on loan from a dozen Spanish institutions, follows in the footsteps of Nebrija and invites you to tour Spain at the time and its centers of knowledge.

The curator of the exhibition, Teresa Jiménez Calvente, reflects on the main work of Antonio de Nebrija, "Introductiones Latinae", which constitutes the first manual of Latin grammar written in Spain and the most important text of the time for the study of Latin. The exhibition, in which, in addition to this work, you can visit more than a hundred works from the National Library collections, along with others on loan from a dozen Spanish institutions, follows Nebrija's footsteps and invites you to tour the Spain of the time and its centers of knowledge.

Short video about CIMAM 2022 Annual Conference, hosted by Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma (Mallorca).

The curator of the exhibition, Teresa Jiménez Calvente, reflects on the main milestones of the exhibition. In July 2022, it will be five hundred years since the death of Elio Antonio de Nebrija (c. 1444-1522), who wanted to go down to posterity with the nickname of 'Grammarian'.

The curator of the exhibition, Teresa Jiménez Calvente, invites us to visit the exhibition. In July 2022, it will be five hundred years since the death of Elio Antonio de Nebrija (c. 1444-1522), who wanted to go down to posterity with the nickname of 'Grammarian'.

The performative action brings together a group of people who present themselves to the public in sign language and in various spoken languages. Performance at the Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, October 16, 2022.

For a year, Spain has been the Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the most important in the world. From October 18 to 23, our pavilion 'The theory of cherries' has conquered all visitors with its #OverflowingCreativity, thanks to an extensive literary, cultural and professional programme. This has been our passage through the Frankfurter Buchmesse!

Acción Cultural Española collaborates with Valencia World Design Capital 2022, promoted by the Associació València Capital del Disseny, organizing the Internationalization of Design conference. How to make yourself known in the world?, on September 29, at 10:30 at Plató The Sea, World Design Capital Valencia 2022, Edificio Veles & Vents de La Marina de Valencia.

UBU is a live, one-hour performance, devised and directed by Robert Wilson, commissioned as the finale of the exhibition Personae - Masks Against Barbarism, inspired by Joan Miró’s exploration of the work of Alfred Jarry, curated and presented by Museu Es Baluard in Mallorca in October 2022.

El proyecto Xacobeo desarrollado por AC/E organiza un encuentro para la puesta en común de los resultados conseguidos a través de una iniciativa, que impulsa el patrimonio cultural inmaterial y la creación artística contemporánea.

The exhibition, organized by the Secretary of State for Historical Memory, the National Library of Spain and Acción Cultural Española, aims to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Clara Campoamor (April 30, 1972), a lawyer, writer, politician and defender of the rights of Spanish women. During the Second Spanish Republic, she created the Women's Republican Union and was one of the main promoters of women's suffrage in Spain, which was included in the Republican Constitution of 1931 and was exercised for the first time in the 1933 elections. Because of the War Civil had to flee from Spain and died in exile in Switzerland.

Promoted by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Sports with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), the MusaE project is articulated as a circuit of acoustic concerts and micro-concerts that circulates through the network of State Museums.

The video covers the historical context in which Clara Campoamor (April 30, 1972), lawyer, writer, politician and defender of the rights of Spanish women, lived. During the Second Spanish Republic, she created the Unión Republicana Femenina and was one of the main promoters of women's suffrage in Spain.

This video is part of the contents of the exhibition "Clara Campoamor. Woman and citizen (1888 – 1972)", organized by the Secretary of State for Historical Memory, the National Library of Spain and Acción Cultural Española. The video traces the life of Clara Campoamor (April 30, 1972), lawyer, writer, politician and defender of the rights of Spanish women.

The Music and Performing Arts Program of the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai was the result of a public call that received more than 400 proposals. With it, the opportunity was offered to present their work in Dubai to the largest possible number of Spanish artists. The result was a diverse program for all kinds of audiences, based on Spanish culture and integrating traditional proposals with more contemporary and innovative ones.

The Music and Performing Arts Program of the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai was the result of a public call that received more than 400 proposals. With that, it offered the opportunity to present the work in Dubai of many Spanish artists. The result was a diverse programme for all types of audiences, based on Spanish culture and integrating traditional proposals with other more contemporary and innovative ones. 

The Spain Pavilion is creating a more sustainable future for all and aims to become an example of intelligent creativity, capable of uniting people around sustainable projects in the fields of science, technology, production, education and art.

The curators of "Around the Pillars of Hercules. The ancient relations between Morocco and Spain", Eduardo Galán Domingo and Abdelaziz El Idrissi, and the Director of Programming for AC/E, tour the exhibition and tell us what the main pieces are that we should not miss.

Eduardo Galán Domingo, curator of the exhibition, goes through the main pieces that he brings together from Spanish and Moroccan museums that illustrate the temporal evolution of these relationships from Prehistory to the Middle Ages.