Activities

A lecture series about the opportunities that exist for building other types of societies and relations between peoples. The collective construction of alternatives is already underway and has become a fundamental means of opposing the dominant narratives that insist there is only one way forward.
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Phuc Long
A unique forum that invites the public to discuss with Spanish and British speakers how we are working to improve our cities.
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El hilo rojo
This cycle invites audiences to reflect on the migratory experience of different age groups among the Chinese population in Spain, focusing on their personal quests, continuing practice of cultural traditions associated with their origins, relationships with family and friends, sense of community, and the role of language as an element of cohesion.
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A flexible, provocative and innovative competition that constantly reflects on the direction in which cinema and contemporary society are headed. Each year the event mutates to adapt to new realities and needs.
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Coloquio con Gabriel Abrantes
In the "Monographics" film cycle we invite young film-makers, national and international, to present the short creations that best sum up the essence of their work.
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Ecuador Etxea
Women are leading the biggest and most ambitious social transformation the world has ever seen, attested by their progress in the arena of human rights, their occupation of decision-making spheres, and their global subversion of the subordinate position to which they have been relegated for centuries.
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Imagen de La Cíngara
New edition, same formula: power + puberty. The Puwerty festival is back for its second run, giving creators between ages 12 and 25 a chance to be heard. Multiple disciplines converge at this event where young artists present their work to audiences of all ages.
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Fotograma de Cantos del Hain, de Federico Vladimir Strate Pezdirc y Pablo Esbert
This cycle features a group of works that challenge the scientific and mediatic discourse on which ethnographic film has traditionally been predicated. At the intersection of documentary film, contemporary art and performance, the authors become objects of cultural study, consider themselves in relation to their environment, and approach other subjects without appropriating them.
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Happy Island 2018. La Ribot - Dançando com a diferenca
The sixth edition of IDEM will be held from 12 to 22 September. This year’s event will offer different artistic proposals that revolve around diversity (of languages, formats, disciplines, bodies, themes, etc.), maintaining a two-week-long open dialogue with citizens that will help to create new ways of seeing, thinking and feeling.
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Film plays with space and through its language tells us stories set in one or several locations that create a sense of enclosure, of the impossibility of finding an open door. On Tuesdays and Thursdays in July, La Casa Encendida invites us to enter the closed space of a cinema and experience stories bounded by four walls.
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19 July 2018Films, Screenings, Talks “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem” by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz

UNICEF-Etiopía
A four-part audiovisual cycle that narrates the experiences of some of the millions of people across the globe who have been displaced by poverty, social exclusion, climate change or armed conflict. As migrant numbers swell, they encounter an increasingly hostile response from an international community incapable of dealing with this crisis.
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Screening of the Avant-garde Section of FILMADRID, the international film festival that explores the novel, uncharted paths of contemporary cinema, and of the cycle dedicated to Israeli director Raquel Chalfi.
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From 13 to 15 June 2018

Over the weekends in July and August, the Terrace at La Casa Encendida will magically transform into La Terraza Magnética with its customary programme of music and cinema, this time featuring the cycle Carte Blanche for Gus Van Sant, a survey of the films that have most influenced the American director’s work.
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Futuro Studio
La Casa Encendida presents Gelatine, a festival of art and thought that aims to reflect on human beings who rewrite themselves in/with a contingent, constantly changing world.
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La Casa Encendida welcomes the fourth edition of the festival that uses guerrilla culture and humour to talk about feminisms. We’ll have Jessa Crispin, Puto Chino Maricón and Tríbade, drag and feminist self-defence workshops, Victoria Sin and the stand-up stylings of Ana Carolina and Jelen Morales, plus HJ Darger and Silvia Cruz in Vermouth, Press and Blablabla.
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Palabras de Caramelo
11th edition of this cycle of documentaries and debates on the topic of education for development.
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Courtesy of Audika Records
La Casa Encendida pays tribute to Arthur Russell, a musician, cellist, avant-garde composer, pop innovator, “disco-not-disco” forerunner and a pivotal figure on the downtown New York music scene of the 1970s and 80s.
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La Casa Encendida welcomes the 3rd First Person Madrid Festival, a leading event featuring creators from different artistic disciplines whose work is based on their own life experiences. Through lectures and talks, these creators will get up close and personal with the audience as they share snippets of their lives.
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From 20 to 22 April, La Casa Encendida will host a new edition of Libros Mutantes/Mutant Books, the Madrid Art Book Fair. Discover the projects of selected independent publishers, including experimental, self-published and art books, fascinating design and a non-stop programme of talks, workshops, music and other activities.
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