Free live music and stuff in Las Palmas, October 2026

Some stuff that we saw this October.

• 1 October: «L’Effet Mère» @ Casa África, Calle Alfonso XIII, 5, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  The opening show of the Masdanza 2026 festival. Created and performed by Carmel Loanga (dance, narration).

• 2 October: Anna Starobinets @ Centro Cívico Suárez Naranjo, Calle Pamochamoso, 38
  Anna Starobinets interviewed by Paco Sánchez. Presentation of El vado de los zorros, the Spanish translation of the novel «Лисьи броды», published by Editorial Impedimenta. A part of the literary cycle «Pella de Libros».

  

6 October: «Camille Saint-Saëns y sus coetáneos franceses. Una mirada a España» @ Casa de Colón, Calle Colón, 1

Featuring Ana Marqués (soprano), Jennibel Hernández (soprano), Celia Jiménez (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Marrero (tenor), Julián Padilla (barítone) and Nauzet Mederos (piano); coordinated and presented by Dionisio Rodríguez. The programme included:
• Cécile Chaminade: La lisonjera (solo piano)
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Guitares et mandolines
• Charles Gounod: La siesta (duet)
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Si je l’osais
• Cécile Chaminade: L’été
• Pauline Viardot: Canción de la Infanta
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Panis Angelicus
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonnet. Souvenir de Las Palmas
• Pauline Viardot: Havanaise (duet)
• Enrique Granados: Danza nº 5. Andaluza (solo piano)
• Manuel de Falla: El paño moruno
• Charles Gounod: Bolero
• Pauline Viardot: Les filles de Cadix
• Émile Paladilhe: La Isleña
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Deseo de amor (Desir d’amour)
• Cécile Chaminade: Chanson espagnole
• Francis Poulenc: Toreador
• Camille Saint-Saëns: El desdichado (duet)

9 October: «Colón en Danza» @ Casa de Colón

The programme included:
• Mobile Load
  Iván Sier & Sandra Egido (Alicante)
• Lola y los lamentos
  Andrea Castro Fernández (A Coruña)
• Pies de gallina
  Ana F. Melero & Luna Sánchez (Sevilla); original music by Xerach Peñate
• Trïade
  Esther Latorre, Paula Serrano & Sybila Gutiérrez (Lugo)

13 October: Your Name @ Teatro Guiniguada, Plaza F. Mesa de León

Some nine years ago we watched this film in the cinema, dubbed to Spanish. Now we had a chance to see it in the original Japanese. Your Name opened the cycle «Japón se anima» organised by Filmoteca Canaria. And it is free!

20 October: Quiero comerme tu páncreas @ Teatro Guiniguada

This film continued the cycle «Japón se anima».

28 October: Ülker Tümer and Miguel Ángel Ortega Chavaldas @ Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Calle de los Balcones, 9

Ülker Tümer (cello) and Miguel Ángel Ortega Chavaldas (piano). The third concert from this year’s cycle CAAMclásico coordinated by Ángel Luis Quintana. The programme included:
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for cello and piano No. 4 in C major, Op. 102, No. 1
  1. Andante — Allegro vivace
  2. Adagio — Tempo d’andante — Allegro vivace
• Igor Stravinsky: Suite italienne for cello and piano
• Clara Wieck Schumann: Drei Romanzen
  • Andante molto
  • Allegretto
  • Leidenschaftlich schnell
• César Franck: Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano (arranged for cello)
  1. Allegretto ben moderato
  2. Allegro
  3. Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia
  4. Allegretto poco mosso

Two exhibitions:

• 8 October — 6 November: «Tránsito» @ Centro de Artes Plásticas (CAP), Calle Colón, 8
  Works by Laura Valverde Herrando. Apparently, the last event in CAP as it is closing down (or so I heard).

  

• 15 October 2026 — 7 February 2027: «Barreras de la visión» @ CAAM – San Antonio Abad, Plaza San Antonio Abad
  Photography by Tim Parchikov.

  

And that was it for October. Happy Halloween!