The White Night, today in Malaga: 150 cultural activities for this Saturday

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This Saturday, Málaga once again transforms into a grand cultural stage with the White Night event, featuring nearly 150 activities across 98 venues throughout the city under the theme 'Málaga, the future is written with music' in a comprehensive program. The event, organized by the Málaga City Council through the Department of Culture and Historical Heritage, takes place from 8:00 PM to 1:00 AM on the day of reflection before the Andalusian elections.

The Unicaja Foundation and Cervezas Victoria participate as sponsors of an edition that also involves the involvement of the Junta de Andalucía, the Provincial Council, and the University of Málaga, among other public and private cultural entities.

Music is the central theme of the programming for this edition, with options ranging from classical music and flamenco to jazz, rock, tango, funk, or traditional Malagueñan culture. Among the most unique initiatives is 'Balcones en canto', a show produced by the Department of Culture alongside Intermezzo Musical Programs where various artists perform opera, zarzuela, or pop pieces from different balconies on Larios Street and Constitution Square in six scheduled sessions throughout the night.

The Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra will offer the concert 'A Night of Spanish Inspiration' in Marina Square, while the Superior Conservatory of Music will accompany guided tours of the Alcazaba with guitar recitals. Tabacalera Square will host a concert of music bands with the groups from Expiración, Cruz de Humilladero, and Las Flores, while the Pergola de la Coracha and MUCAC La Coracha will be the stage for performances by verdiales bands.

The Naval Command of Málaga will hold open days featuring military marches and audiovisual material related to the city's naval history.

The musical program also includes participation from the Superior Conservatory of Dance with a showcase of Spanish dance in Marina Square, as well as a performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks by the wind and percussion group of the Superior Conservatory of Music. In the Patio de las Cadenas of the Cathedral, the program Travel Memories. Musical Impressions of Picasso's Paris will be performed by professor Antonio Ortiz along with students Antonio Martínez Pareja and Adara Campoy Reviriego.

Music will also reach Merced Square with performances by Nathael Ospina Torres, Sergio Márquez Castro, and Iván Santiandreu Valle, as well as participation from various choral groups such as Coro Hoy es tiempo, Coro Joven Málaga, Asociación Cultural Torre Fuerte, Coro La Mar de Voces, and the choir of the Spanish Association Against Cancer.

The Municipal Music Band will perform in Hoyo de Esparteros Square alongside students from the Pepa Flores Professional Dance Conservatory. The María Victoria Atencia Cultural Center will host the performance of 'El amor brujo', by Manuel de Falla, promoted by the Provincial Council.

Band music will be present with the concert Music through the Ages organized by the Brotherhoods Association in the church of San Julián and the courtyard of the San Julián Hospital. Rock will have its space in the Eduardo Ocón venue with performances by Rockschool Málaga and Los Fulanoides.

Flamenco will feature proposals at the Peña Juan Breva, the MIMMA, and ELCAMM, while the Málaga Music Foundation will gather young performers in Bishop's Square and Fundación Málaga will present the scholars of its Talent program at the Málaga Museum.

The Gerald Brenan House will offer the recital Between Letters and Bemols, with soprano Klaudia and pianist Pedro Gordillo. Jazz will be present in the square of the Carmen Thyssen Museum with Málaga Female Jazz, performed by a female ensemble. The Historic Cemetery of San Miguel will host the performance by the Lumen Laudis Choir.

The EMT will participate with the initiative Musical Metaphors on lines 3, 7, and 11, while SMASSA will schedule Suburban Music in the Tejón and Rodríguez, Salitre, and Marina Square parking lots.

The program also includes proposals related to carnival, tango with Tango: the Heart of Buenos Aires Beats in Málaga, funk with Funky and Law at the College of Lawyers, and street music with Honkytonk Street Company and its New Orleans-inspired route.

The city's museums will open their doors with visits to permanent and temporary exhibitions in spaces such as the Picasso Museum Málaga, Carmen Thyssen Museum Málaga, Málaga Museum, Interactive Music Museum (MIMMA), Revello de Toro Museum, Málaga Wine Museum, Aeronautical Museum, Unicaja Foundation Cultural Center, Unicaja Foundation Museum of Popular Arts and Customs, Generation of '27 Center, Picasso Birthplace Museum, and the Centre Pompidou Málaga.

At the Picasso Birthplace Museum, flash visits will be offered to the exhibitions Neither Muses nor Models. Women Artists in the Collections of the Picasso Birthplace Museum and From the Pictorial. Photographic Discourses Around Art History, in collaboration with the San Telmo Art School.

The Centre Pompidou Málaga will allow visits to the exhibitions To Open Eyes. Artist's Views and The Gesture and the Material. International Abstractions (1945-1965), as well as the youth space Maison Magique + Jeux des Volumes.

The Tabacalera space will host visits to the Russian Museum Collection with the exhibitions Anna Pavlova: A Life Without Borders and Valery Kaksuba. Romantic Realism I (Photographs 2000-2025), as well as proposals in MEET like Marisa Flórez. A Time to Look and The Art of Painting. Confluences in the Time of the Austrias in the collection of Alejandro Sanz Peinado.

The MUCAC La Coracha will offer visits to A Recent History of Textile Art: Weaving Stories, Women Goddesses in the Work of Ricard Terré, Val del Omar: the PLAT Laboratory, Architecture Without Center. Archipelagos and Yesterday. Collection 1940-1990, in addition to a Verdiales Party.

Also opening their doors will be the OXO Video Game Museum, the Flamenco Art Museum of the Peña Juan Breva, and the Aeronautical Museum.

The exhibition program also includes proposals in the Mingorance Rooms of the Municipal Archive with Women, Music and Creation. From Cosima Wagner to Contemporary Malagueñan Composers; the Vice-Rectorate of the University of Málaga with the exhibition Delicious Gardinum alongside the concert of the University Orfeón; the Unicaja Foundation Cultural Center with The Journey of Light. From Guido Reni to Murillo; the Economic Society of Friends of the Country with Binomios. Art x 2; IES Nuestra Señora de la Victoria with Classroom 7; CEIP Miguel de Cervantes with AMAS Malagueñas Over Time; APLAMA with Musicarte; the Benedito Gallery with work by Svetlana Kalachnik; the Cochera Cabaret and the Brotherhood House of the Holy Sepulcher with work by Ana Roldán and Ángel Saavedra.

In performing arts, notable are the theatrical visits A Journey Through Music, by the Unicaja Foundation; The Musical Ticket, by the Association of Neighbors El Perchel; A Carmelite Refectory that Exudes Historical Music, by the Association Torrijos 1831; Free and Crazy, by the Ocio Cultural Terrazas Association; the free tour The Practice No. 1 to the Sound of Its History; A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the Maynake Collective; and Blue Show: Water, Rhythm and Enchantment, at the Real Club Mediterráneo.

In street art, Urban Symphonies, by the Kartio Women's Association, have been scheduled in Merced Square and San Julián Wall Street, as well as Drift in Pier One.

In audiovisual arts, notable are Say It With Music, a participatory installation at MUCAC Wholesalers, and The Opera Singer. Metallica Holographic, at the Rafael Pérez Estrada Foundation.

Extraordinary visits will include guided tours of the Alcazaba with musical guitar accompaniment in five sessions, as well as theatrical visits to the English Cemetery, with prior registration required.

La Nochecita en Blanco will concentrate much of its programming in Soho, with workshops inspired by the guitar, rhythm, and the body as a musical instrument, in addition to shows like The Great Musical Contest or Beat and Melody, the activity The Musical Notes of the Earth or the proposal The Time in Key of Sun by the Time Banks.

The Information Point located at the entrance of Larios Street will transform into Recording, a participatory recording studio where attendees can leave their sound imprint to create a collective melody for the 2026 edition under the coordination of artist Julia Martín.

Civil Protection will deploy a special security plan with volunteers and vehicles equipped with defibrillators, as well as QR code identification bracelets for minors and elderly people with orientation problems.

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