Events starting in June 2021

Events 1–15 of 15

Crossing Flavors: a Celebration of Spanish Immigrants in the US
  • Culinary Arts
  • Online

Crossing Flavors: a Celebration of Spanish Immigrants in the US

In light of the release of the “Illustrating Spain in the US” episode on Spanish immigrants in the United States, the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington has partnered with the Basque Culinary Center to celebrate some of the flavors that these immigrants may have longed for.

Jun 1 – Jun 30, 2021

Paint the Town Colorful with Pride
  • Urban Culture
  • Washington, D.C.

Paint the Town Colorful with Pride

The Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy in Washington D.C. joins Capital Pride Alliance’s Paint the Town Colorful with Pride with a crochet mural sporting a portrait of Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.

Jun 3 – Jun 30, 2021

EuroAsia Shorts 2021
  • Film
  • Online

EuroAsia Shorts 2021

“Euroasia Short” returns in 2021 to showcase a rich selection of short films from Asia and Europe, this year in an online streaming format.

Jun 4 – Jun 18, 2021

Spanish Cinema Now 2021
  • Film
  • Online

Spanish Cinema Now 2021

“Spanish Cinema Now” returns this year for its 4th edition bringing to our audiences the best cinema made in Spain in an all-virtual festival.

Jun 4 – Jun 20, 2021

Filmfest DC 2021
  • Film
  • Online

Filmfest DC 2021

Three Spanish films participate in the 35th anniversary edition of the annual Washington, D.C. International Film Festival.

Jun 4 – Jun 13, 2021

Kokedama Forest by Nomad Studio at the 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show
  • Design
  • Philadelphia

Kokedama Forest by Nomad Studio at the 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show

This miniature sculptural woodland by award-winning landscape architecture and design workshop Nomad Studio is made up of more than 1,200 kokedamas nested within an inverted dome.

Jun 5 – Jun 13, 2021

Around Nature
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Around Nature

Spanish artist Juanli Carrión has designed a garden that includes botanical species representing the different stops during the first trip around the world.

Jun 10 – Nov 7, 2021

Americans in Spain: Painting and travel, 1820-1920
  • Visual arts
  • Milwaukee

Americans in Spain: Painting and travel, 1820-1920

The exhibition explores a pivotal moment, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when American artists and their European counterparts flocked to Spain to capture its scenic charms and seemingly exotic customs.

Jun 11 – Oct 3, 2021

open [OUT]doors
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

open [OUT]doors

The Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain in Washington, DC opens its (out)doors to let you enjoy the art installations in the exterior of the beaux arts mansion.

Jun 11 – Jun 27, 2021

Teatro para dar la vuelta al mundo / Theater to circumnavigate the world
  • Performing arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Teatro para dar la vuelta al mundo / Theater to circumnavigate the world

Three emerging Spanish playwrights create new short plays on the occasion of the 5th Centenary of the first trip around the world.

Jun 16 – Jun 18, 2021

Distributed Monuments by Jorge Otero Pailos
  • Visual arts
  • New York

Distributed Monuments by Jorge Otero Pailos

Jorge Otero Pailos, a New York-based Spanish artist and preservationist best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings, presents the exhibition “Distributed Monuments” at the Sapar Contemporary gallery.

Jun 18 – Aug 14, 2021

AFI Docs 2021
  • Film
  • Washington, D.C.

AFI Docs 2021

This edition of AFI DOCS brings audiences in the nation’s capital the best in nonfiction filmmaking, including three Spanish documentaries “Mama”, “The Communion of my Cousin Andrea” and “Courtroom 3h”.

Jun 22 – Jun 27, 2021

REFLECTOR #3: DIY
  • Music
  • Online

REFLECTOR #3: DIY

“REFLECTOR #3” presents alternative proposals that are emerging in both Barcelona and LA local scenes with a live double set by Shelly + nara is neus and Koreatown Oddity.

Jun 24, 2021

CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK at Sound Scene 2021
  • Music
  • Washington, D.C.

CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK at Sound Scene 2021

As part of the “Sound Scene 2021” festival, “CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK” explores the sonic ecologies of the Canary Islands, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in the geographic region known as Macaronesia.

Jun 26 – Jun 27, 2021

Calder–Picasso
  • Visual arts
  • Atlanta

Calder–Picasso

“Calder–Picasso” presents more than one hundred paintings, sculptures, and works on paper spanning the two artists careers at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art.

Jun 26 – Sep 19, 2021