The Provincial Government brings Malaga theater to the stage and dedicates a series of events to María Victoria Atencia and an exhibition to José Seguí.

The Provincial Council of Malaga is kicking off the last four months of the year with 263 cultural activities, both in the capital and throughout the province, covering the performing arts, music, documentaries and exhibitions, both at Culturama and at the Generación del 27 centre and the Cánovas del Castillo Provincial Library. This extensive programme includes the performance of plays by Malaga authors, a series of conferences on María Victoria Atencia, an exhibition on the architect José Seguí, lectures on the Imprenta Sur printing press, the “Málaga Negra” cycle and Science Week.

Under the vertical garden dedicated to Imprenta SUR in Plaza Pepe Mena, the vice-president of the Provincial Council and deputy for Culture, Manuel López Mestanza, presented the programme on Friday, accompanied by some of the protagonists, such as dancers and choreographers Nieves Rosales and Fernando Hurtado; actors Paco Pozo, Andrés Suárez and Pilar Esteban; architect José Seguí, painter Conchi Quesada and the president of the Malaga Provincial Youth Orchestra, Antonio César Muñoz, among others.

López Mestanza highlighted ‘the history of the María Victoria Atencia Cultural Centre as the backbone of culture in the province, always in collaboration with local councils and private cultural entities’. He also explained that local artists have been taken into account in the programme, giving visibility to their work and showcasing new creations from Malaga.

Manuel López Mestanza explains that the programme gives ‘visibility’ to the works of local artists as a ‘showcase’ for new creations.

In the field of the performing arts, the Provincial Council opens the province's stage to companies that have been awarded the 2025 Ateneo Theatre Prize, as a result of the agreement between the institution and the Ateneo de Málaga. Philia Teatro won the award for best original play, “Canaan”, which will be performed on 3 October in Alhaurín de la Torre. Meanwhile, Nieves Rosales, who received the award for best dance performance with “Mujer silencio”, will perform in Coín, also on 3 October.

On 15 November, Nerja will host “Soledad, el tiempo de María” by the La Pili company, winner of the Ateneo award for best musical theatre. And on 28 November, in Benagalbón, the La Pescadería Ambulante company will stage “La casa de Sorora”, which won the awards for best theatre show for adults, best female performer, best direction and best lighting design.

On the other hand, the author's cycle, coordinated by Paco Bernal and Fernando Jiménez, highlights Malaga playwrights for the fourth consecutive year, giving visibility to their works. It is a successful format. Along with the dramatised reading by the author, there is live music and a meeting with the author, which takes place in Malaga and its province. It is a showcase for new creations born in Malaga.

The circus will be present in the last four months of the year in the Escénik Cycle. Federico Menini's company brings “Llar” to the MVA, an encounter between architecture and the circus arts with wood as the protagonist. In this same cycle there will be space for dance, with “Oblivion” by Silvia Batet's company, as well as several theatre companies.

Pop, rock, jazz and flamenco

The musical programme at the MVA is organised around two well-established cycles: “Entrance” and “Con sello propio”. The first is dedicated to pop, rock, indie, alternative, electronic and similar styles of popular music. The second includes folk, traditional, world music and singer-songwriter music. Highlights of the programme include Irish Treble, one of the leading Irish dance companies in our country, and the Belgian band Aérokorda, which will evoke the magic and beauty of Celtic tradition.

The MVA brings together a wide variety of music with bands such as Irish Treble, Aérokorda, Caamaño & Ameixeiras and Acetre

On 23 October, the MVA will welcome one of the leading international exponents of new traditional Galician music, Caamaño & Ameixeiras, a duo that reinterprets traditional music and dance with more contemporary sounds. The cycle will close on 22 November with Acetre, one of the most veteran and emblematic groups on the Extremadura folk scene. Their music is essential for understanding the history of folk music in Spain.

The symphonic section of the MVA will be provided by the Malaga Provincial Youth Orchestra and the Santa María de la Victoria Choir, who will offer the “Christmas Concert” on Sunday 23 November.

Music will also be touring the province in the last four months of the year, in close collaboration with local councils to enrich their programming. The activities are numerous and varied, depending on the needs of each municipality and in accordance with the Culturama Catalogue. In addition, the Provincial Council is making concerts by the Malaga Symphony Orchestra and the Malaga Provincial Youth Orchestra available to the towns.

The “Nos vemos en tu peña” cycle will visit 32 municipalities with more than 100 flamenco artists from the three disciplines.

Furthermore, the Culture Delegation will continue to collaborate with the Jazz Seminar through the “MVA Jazz Festival”, bringing the last concert of the last four months to a municipality yet to be decided.

This quarter will see the development of the “Nos vemos en tu peña” programme, in collaboration with the Provincial Federation of Flamenco Clubs of Malaga. It consists of three cycles: “Baile por bandera” (Dance for the flag), “De peña en peña” (From club to club) and “Málaga cantaora” (Malaga sings), and will feature more than 100 artists from the worlds of singing, guitar playing and dancing, including Antonia Contreras, El Polaco, José Mijita de Jerez, Luisa Chicano, Carmen Camacho, Isabel Guerrero, Francis Bonela, Virginia Gámez, Rocío Bazán and Fátima Navarro, among others. In total, there will be 40 performances in 32 municipalities in the province.

Finally, on 14 November, the Provincial Council will celebrate International Flamenco Day in the auditorium on Calle Ollerías, with the programme to be announced shortly. 16 November will mark 15 years since flamenco was declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

Cinema and Centre of the 27

The Mexican film “Miralles”, by María Mauti, opened the “Documentaries at the MVA” cycle, which already has a solid track record and a loyal audience, who fill the screening room every Thursday to enjoy the most current and controversial films, many of them with an extensive list of festivals and awards behind them and some premiering for the first time in Spain.

The eight screenings for the rest of the year cover a wide range of interesting topics, including nature, biographies, cinema, music, education and human rights. All screenings will take place at the MVA (Calle Ollerías) at 8.30 pm. Admission to the theatre will be free until full capacity is reached.

For its part, the Generación del 27 Cultural Centre will hold the presentation of four books by their authors: Juan José Téllez, Andrés García Cerdán, Rosa Romojaro and Álvaro Galán. In addition, three new lectures on the Sur printing press will be given by José Infante, Javier La Beira and María Dolores Gutiérrez Navas, as a continuation of the series “A printing press in the shape of a ship. Centenary of Sur (1925-2025)”. Lydia Rodríguez Mata will give lectures on the Malaga poet José María Hinojosa to mark the centenary of the publication of “Poema del campo”, his first book.

Thanks to the collaboration of the José Ortega y Gasset Foundation with the Centro del 27 in Malaga, there will be a celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of “La deshumanización del arte” (The Dehumanisation of Art) and “Ideas sobre la novela” (Ideas on the Novel) which, under the title “Ortega y el 27” (Ortega and the 27), will bring together a select group of university specialists for a round table discussion to analyse the different impact that José Ortega y Gasset's essay had on the younger authors of the aesthetic movement in the fields of literature, music, the plastic arts and theatre.

Likewise, a series of conferences dedicated to María Victoria Atencia will be held, following the transfer of her legacy and that of her husband Rafael León to the Centro del 27 last year, in which experts on the poetic work of the Malaga-born author will participate.

As has been the norm since its creation, the closing ceremony of the 14th Irreconciliables Poetry Festival will take place at the MVA. And, once again, the Eñe Poetry Festival returns to Malaga and its province with an intense programme that brings together the most interesting voices in contemporary literature.

The series “Tecleando el misterio. Jazz & poesía bajo las estrellas” (Typing the mystery. Jazz & poetry under the stars) returns in autumn with four sessions, two of them in Alhaurín de la Torre and the other two in Fuengirola and Benalmádena. Finally, in autumn, as is customary, the winners of the three literary prizes of the Generation of '27 will be announced: the poetry prize, the Emilio Prados prize - also for poetry but reserved for authors under 35 years of age - and the María Zambrano prize for essays.

Cánovas del Castillo Library

The Cánovas del Castillo Library of the Provincial Council of Malaga has prepared a diverse cultural and educational agenda for the last four months of the year, which seeks to bring reading, science, heritage and creativity to audiences of all ages.

Storytelling and oral narrations for babies, children and adults will continue at its facilities on Calle Ollerías. Renowned storytellers will participate, including Juan Gamba with “Cuentos bufonescos” and “Leonas”; Paula Mandarina with “Que llueva, que llueva” and “Salitre”; Olga López with “Breve encuentro con doña Emilia”; and Diego Magdaleno and Elena Jiménez with “El belén encuentado”.

Educational consulting, one of the most sought-after and fastest-growing services, will be provided by Jorge Álvaro Recena, while Rocío Antón, Lorena Cabrera and Isabel Umbría will be in charge of the age-specific reading clubs.

The CODI Project creative workshops on digital skills, writing (Pedro Ramos and Ana Aranda), illustration (Omar Janaan) and aeromodelling (Feada) will continue, as well as board game sessions with Lex Ludi Malacitana and Ajedrezfacil.

Juan Galdón will lead a photography project entitled “Málaga social y cultural” (Social and Cultural Málaga), which portrays the richness of local life. The ultimate goal is to present a portfolio of the workshop's work to the public in January 2026 at the Cánovas del Castillo Library.

'Málaga lectora. Tejiendo historias' (Málaga reads. Weaving stories) is an initiative promoted by the Escuela Metáfora, in collaboration with the Library. Through creative writing workshops, meetings with writers and the creation of a collective anthology, this project seeks to encourage reading among young people, give visibility to women in literature and include the voices of young immigrants. Its provincial tour will begin in the towns of Istán and Coín.

Meanwhile, the sixth edition of the “Málaga eterna” (Eternal Málaga) cycle is dedicated to promoting Málaga's heritage. This year's programme includes conferences on a wide range of topics, such as wine, Málaga's Iberian pork products, the Civil War and the important figure of María Rosa de Gálvez, as well as guided tours of the Cathedral, the Alcazaba and the Wine Museum.

Library Day will be celebrated on 30 October with the Karma Duo, who are coming from Cuba to give a concert for the school community.

The programme includes “Málaga negra”, an annual meeting with authors of the noir genre, with round tables on cinema and novels, and live podcast recordings. It will take place on 13, 14 and 15 November. The following week, Science Week will be held in collaboration with Mad Science. There will be workshops, interactive activities and an authentic STEM adventure, with morning programmes for primary school children and afternoon sessions open to the general public.

For its part, Mangata Estudio Cultural will coordinate the now classic and well-received “Coffee with Science”, in which researchers will share their lines of research in an entertaining and simple way. It will take place every Tuesday in November at Reviv Café.

There will also be a visit to a research centre (to be confirmed) and on 21 November, from 4.30 pm, the Science Fair will take place in the main hall of the Library, which this year is reinforcing its participatory and informative approach, with activities aimed especially at families and schoolchildren.

It will bring together workshops and interactive experiences run by organisations specialising in technology, astronomy, the environment and agroecology. Participants will include the Honey Museum, the Oceanographic Museum, the Sirio Association, Educagamer, the Planetarium, etc., as well as new additions yet to be confirmed. Younger children will enjoy a scientific gymkhana to obtain their “science explorer” passport.

Exhibitions

The two exhibition halls of the MVA, “José Nogales” and “Denis Belgrano”, are opening their doors to four exhibitions in the last four months of 2025. “Entropic Natures” by Pablo Mercado, which gives visible form to the invisible impact of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), will be open until 14 November.

For its part, the exhibition “Arquitecturas dibujadas” (Drawn Architectures) aims to show a series of graphic essays that attempt to use creative imagination to approach the processes of building and urbanity in cities. Drawings that capture dreamlike urban landscapes as a result of these approaches, which in the case of José Seguí move towards reality in search of their destiny to be built, and in the case of Benito García attempt to imagine the utopian city as a plastic expression of its reality.

The exhibition “25 Years in Motion: Discovering More Than Inventing” is a proposal by Fernando Hurtado's independent company to mark a quarter of a century of its creation and experience. It is a brief overview of the company, simply showing moments, each with a long history behind it.

Finally, “Ecologías de lo INperceptible” (Ecologies of the Imperceptible) by Belén Millán shows a forest, a sea and a mountain: territories that were once pristine, but are now traversed by the artificial. In them, plastic ceases to be inert matter and becomes an ontological being that traverses landscapes and bodies.

The Pacífico 54 hall, headquarters of the Provincial Council, presents an inclusive exhibition whose theme, through the Museum of the Senses, is entitled “Las palabras perdidas” (The Lost Words), by the cultural and social association Bib Azahar, promoted in the artistic field by the Igneo Group. In the same venue, the Association of Plastic Artists (APLAMA) is presenting the collective exhibition “Presencias 60 - Málaga, en el corazón del arte” (Presences 60 - Málaga, at the heart of art).

Finally, Malaga artist Conchi Quesada will exhibit at the Provincial Council Art Museum (MAD) in Antequera between 4 November and 25 January. “Tradition, Realism and Feeling” is the title of the exhibition, which will be curated by art historian Eduardo Nieto Cruz and will include a guided tour.

Mediation and training

In the mediation section, there will be no open calls on this occasion, as the teams are addressing specific audiences directly. “Territorio incandescente II” (Incandescent Territory II), the project being developed with women at the Alhaurín de la Torre Penitentiary Centre, will close on 21 October at the MVA. A round table discussion will address “The performing arts as a tool for social transformation”. In another vein, mental health, care for the environment and anorexia will be addressed in “Deplano teatro”, with three actions.

Experiencing cinema as a family is the proposal of a training workshop, “Contigo”, which will be taught by Andrés Suárez and Miguel A. Almanza. There are 26 places available and it is essential to enjoy this experience with a family member.

Also in training, a workshop is offered to generate collective stories, entitled “Lo que dicen en el parque” (What they say in the park). It will be taught by Violeta Niebla and Cristian Alcaraz. This training activity is aimed at neighbours, curious people, the elderly, young people, shy people, retirees and teenagers with no age limit. No previous experience is necessary. There are 15 places available.

'La Zaranda Theatre: Craft, Image and Essence' is aimed at theatre companies, drama students or graduates interested in stage photography. It is an intimate and reflective approach to the theatrical universe of La Zaranda, a key company in contemporary Spanish theatre. The teachers are Eugenio Calonge and Víctor Iglesias.