Free live music and stuff in Las Palmas, November 2025

What we’ve seen in November:

• 6 November: «Con el Latido de la Madre Tierra» @ Castillo de la Luz, Calle Juan Rejón, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  A concert of La Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria conducted by Teresa Hernández Vega. The programme included works by Alfred Reed, Satoshi Yagisawa, Giancarlo Castro D’Addona, Jesús Agomar and Moisés Moleiro.

  

• 8 November: «Calles con Arte» @ Calle Taliarte and Calle Guaires, La Isleta
  A Saturday full of cultural activities, all just a block away from us. We went to see pole dance by No Limits Pole Dance Studios; tango dance by Abrazos en movimiento accompanied by Atorrantes Tango Club; Bollywood dance workshop with Lavina Saradangani; and «El coro de La Luz» by Chelys Odalis.

  

• 11 November: Taller de danzas folklóricas venezolanas @ Casa de Colón, Calle Colón, 1
  The first event from the cycle «Américas» organised by Casa de Colón and produced by Tájara producciones: a Venezuelan dance workshop by the Asociación Cultural Cambur Pintón.

  

• 13 November: Conciertos de música popular venezolana @ Casa de Colón
  Mestizo feauturing Marcel Montcourt (cuatro venezolano), Danny Martínez (guitar), Óscar Sánchez (flute), Kiko González (percussion), Winter Sánchez (double bass) and Adrián Brito (vocals), plus a special guest Claudia Álamo (vocals).

• 14 November: «Américas» @ Plaza del Pilar Nuevo
  With crowd-pleasers such as Libertango, Oblivion and Tico Tico, La Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria conducted by Juan Roda Sapiña closed the cycle «Américas».

• 18 November: Arrorró solidario @ Casa de Colón
  Featuring Guada Márquez, Ángel Ravelo, Luis Quintana, Sixto Armas, Esther Rodríguez, Helena González, Sylvie Hernández, Daniel Lamb, Cinzia Mare, Marta Bolaños, Cira Rodríguez, Tite Fernández, Misael Jordán and others. Presented by Tonono González and Nanda Santana.

  

• 27 November: «Una noche vieja» @ Biblioteca Pública Municipal Josefina de la Torre, Paseo de las Canteras
  A very amateur comedy performed by Teatro Mínimo XXI. The audience was full of Rabbit’s friends-and-relations. Everybody was given a cup with twelve grapes, which was nice.

  

Is it the end of November already? Unbelievable.

Seven short films

The screening of Latin American documentary shorts organised by Asociación ProDocumentales Cine y TV and Casa de Colón. La Sombra de Don Roberto is probably the most powerful film of the lot but my favourite was Mini Cine Tupy.

El Tambor Mayor by Carlos Lamaitre (Bolivia, 1999) Los Ojos de la Habana by Osvaldo Daicich (Argentina—Cuba, 2000) Road Coffee by Ricardo Benet (Mexico, 1997/2000) Mini Cine Tupy by Sergio Bloch (Brazil, 2003) Comadronas, guardianas de la salud by Rafael Quinteros González (Guatemala, 2004) PTT by Alicia Mata Tur (Venezuela, 2010) La Sombra de Don Roberto by Juan Diego Spoerer and Håkan Engström (Chile—Sweden, 2006)

Zafari

a film by Mariana Rondón
screenplay by Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás

I went to see the closing screening of this year’s Ibértigo, expecting to see a bit of comedy. Well Wikipedia says “dystopian black comedy-drama”, surely it must have some comedy in it?

Not really. There was not a single moment that made me laugh. So it doesn’t count.

Even so, Zafari was well worth watching. The film’s setting — the apartment block, its swimming pool and a neighboouring zoo — is a microcosm of an unnamed Latin American country clearly inspired by the director’s motherland, Venezuela. Things ain’t going well and the arrival of Zafari the hippo doesn’t help... Prepare to be disturbed, but — the only spoiler I’ll give you — there is a glimpse of hope, if not exactly an happy end, for the protagonist. Starring Daniela Ramírez, Francisco Denis and Samantha Castillo.