Events taking place on September 17, 2021

Events 1–16 of 19

AFI Latin American Film Festival 2021
  • Film
  • Washington, D.C.

AFI Latin American Film Festival 2021

“The AFI Latin American Film Festival” showcases the best filmmaking from Latin America and celebrates Ibero-American cultural connections, with the inclusion of films from Spain and Portugal.

Sep 15 – Oct 13, 2021

Hispanic Golden Age Classics: Sor Juana
  • Performing arts
  • Online

Hispanic Golden Age Classics: Sor Juana

This four-part series of online events will focus on a play by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the famous playwright, poet, and nun writing in Mexico in the latter half of the 17th-century.

Sep 15 – Oct 15, 2021

Amalgama El Prado by Daniel Canogar
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Amalgama El Prado by Daniel Canogar

The Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain joins the Phillips Collection to celebrate its 100th anniversary with “Amalgama El Prado,” a project by Spanish artist Daniel Canogar that will be presented at the same time as “Amalgama Phillips.”

Sep 15 – Nov 5, 2021

Amalgama Phillips by Daniel Canogar
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Amalgama Phillips by Daniel Canogar

The Phillips Collection celebrates its 100th anniversary with “Amalgama Phillips,” a project by Daniel Canogar that will be presented at the same time as “Amalgama El Prado.”

Sep 14 – Jan 30, 2022

Color and Illusion: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris
  • Visual arts
  • Baltimore

Color and Illusion: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris

The first U.S. exhibition in over 35 years dedicated to Spanish artist Juan Gris highlights his pioneering and revolutionary contributions to the Cubist movement by focusing on his fascination with subjects drawn from everyday life.

Sep 12 – Jan 9, 2022

Doña Rosita la soltera
  • Performing arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Doña Rosita la soltera

GALA opens its 46th season at full capacity with a new adaptation by Nando López of Federico García Lorca’s classic “Doña Rosita the Spinster,” a play about the passage of time.

Sep 9 – Oct 3, 2021

The Restless Muses by Chechu Álava
  • Visual arts
  • New York

The Restless Muses by Chechu Álava

“The Restless Muses” presents 10 new paitings that are homages to the many women –creators, models, authors, muses– who have inspired the Spanish painter.

Sep 9 – Oct 29, 2021

Unseen Picasso
  • Visual arts
  • Los Angeles

Unseen Picasso

This exhibition features 16 exceptional prints made between the 1930s and 1960s that illustrate the artist’s bold experiments, technically and stylistically, in the graphic arts.

Sep 3 – Jan 10, 2022

Spain 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith
  • Heritage
  • New York

Spain 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith

For the first time the Fuentidueña Chapel gallery, which typically focuses on the Christian tradition, presents a group of works that testify to the diversity of Spanish medieval art.

Aug 30 – Jan 30, 2022

Sound Art Residency 2021: Juanjo Palacios & María Gaspar
  • Music
  • Online

Sound Art Residency 2021: Juanjo Palacios & María Gaspar

The Sound Art Residency organized by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and Experimental Sound Studio offers a unique experience for artists working in sound and experimental music.

residency preview

Jul 15 – Oct 30, 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

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

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

Transformando lo físico
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Transformando lo físico

“Transformando lo Físico” invites 12 Spanish creators to come up with 12 different artistic proposals for the façade of our building that will be shown monthly in the garden, allowing a dialog between the building and its representation.

Apr 14 – Apr 14, 2022

50 fotografías con historia
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

50 fotografías con historia

“50 Fotografías con Historia,” an open air-exhibition at our Cultural Center’s exterior fence, reviews the history of photography in the last 80 years in Spain.

Mar 26 – Mar 14, 2022

The Great Journey by Adolfo Serra
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

The Great Journey by Adolfo Serra

Spanish illustrator Adolfo Serra explores the concept of the First Circumnavigation of the World in this second intervention on the windows of the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain in Washington, D.C.

Mar 12 – Nov 12, 2021