Past events / 2831 past events around the U.S.

Jaume Plensa: Talking Continents
  • Visual arts
  • Memphis

Jaume Plensa: Talking Continents

Jaume Plensa presents large-scale sculptures and installations that use language, history, literature and psychology to draw attention to the barriers that separate and divide humanity.

Sep 22 – Jan 6, 2019

Impugning Impunity Film Festival
  • Film
  • New York

Impugning Impunity Film Festival

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) presents three days of groundbreaking documentaries from around the world on social and political struggles.

Sep 21 – Sep 23, 2018

LA Escena: Los Angeles Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater
  • Performing arts
  • Los Angeles

LA Escena: Los Angeles Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater

The first Los Angeles Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater presents some Hispanic classical theater plays by renowned authors, as well as contemporary adaptations for Los Angeles audience.

Sep 21 – Sep 23, 2018

Theaters of Marginality
  • Performing arts
  • Amherst, MA

Theaters of Marginality

“Theaters of Marginality” is the Second Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network, which will include panels, a keynote talk, and performances to address the transhistorical persistence of marginality.

Sep 21 – Sep 22, 2018

Shoes (1916) with live film score by Alexis Cuadrado
  • Music
  • Washington, D.C.

Shoes (1916) with live film score by Alexis Cuadrado

Spanish bassist and composer Alexis Cuadrado performs the new original film score composed for the 1916 silent film, “Shoes,” directed by the American pioneer female filmmaker Lois Weber.

Sep 18, 2018

Parallel looks. Iran-Spain: Photographers in the mirror
  • Visual arts
  • New York

Parallel looks. Iran-Spain: Photographers in the mirror

The exhibition represents the first encounter of twelve female photographers from Iran and Spain who share suprising affinities.

Sep 18 – Dec 9, 2018

Dominio Público (Public Space) by Roger Bernat
  • Performing arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Dominio Público (Public Space) by Roger Bernat

Award-winning Spanish artist Roger Bernat presents the U.S. premiere of “Dominio Público,” a unique participatory theater spectacle that aims to map societal structures.

Sep 17, 2018

Urban Crisis & Creative Destruction: Barcelona Resilient City
  • Design
  • Washington, D.C.

Urban Crisis & Creative Destruction: Barcelona Resilient City

Rafael de Balanzo, director of the Action Without Borders Project for the Social Habitat Work Program, offers a Q&A session after the screening of “Encaixonats,” a documentary about urban resilience in Barcelona.

Sep 17, 2018

Emma Ríos at SPX 2018
  • Literature
  • Washington, D.C.

Emma Ríos at SPX 2018

SPX (Small Press Expo) 2018, the premier event for indie comics, cartooning and graphic novels, presents Spanish graphic novelist Emma Ríos.

Sep 15 – Sep 16, 2018

Nosotros at Moving Parts Film Festival
  • Film
  • Los Angeles

Nosotros at Moving Parts Film Festival

Returning for its second year, MPFF brings together artist-driven filmmakers whose independent films and web series address some of today’s most important social justice issues from all over the world.

Sep 14, 2018

Penal de Ocaña by Nao d'amores
  • Performing arts
  • Miami

Penal de Ocaña by Nao d'amores

The Spanish theater company Nao D’amores presents “Penal de Ocaña,” a play revealing the journal of a philosophy student in Madrid in 1936.

Sep 14 – Sep 15, 2018

Prologue
  • Performing arts
  • New York

Prologue

Directed by Maria Litvan with Laia Cabrera and Ignacio García-Bustelo, “Prologue” is a mixed-media performance created as a composition of moments, snapshots into the life and thought of French philosopher and activist Simone Weil.

Sep 14 – Sep 30, 2018