The week kicks off with the Lanzarote Visual Music Festival, featuring a multitude of film and music proposals. This Thursday also marks the start of the Lanzarote Literature Festival with writer Fernando Aramburu. In addition, silent film returns accompanied by chirping at the Warehouse, the Yoruba Festival of La Villa, there's theater, several conferences and book presentations, a performance workshop, and the fourth big Friday of Arrecife en Vivo, among other cultural surprises.
CINEMA
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Last and First Men. (VAFV)
The Lanzarote Visual Music Festival brings us the posthumous film by acclaimed Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. Freely based on the 1930 science fiction novel of the same name, the film is a meditation on the evolution, decay, and destiny of humanity, two billion years in the future.
The central premise is a message that the last human civilization, on the verge of extinction, sends to humanity in the present.
Where: El Almacén, Arrecife.
When: Wednesday, October 15. At 8:00 PM.
Tickets €3.
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Under the Mask of Pleasure. Modern Times Festival
The Modern Times Festival invites you to the screening of “The Joyless Street” (Die Freudlose Gasse, 1925, Germany), a masterpiece of the New Objectivity movement.
With stark realism in its social themes and direct staging, it moves away from expressionist stylization to offer a critical and penetrating look at its time. On piano will be Lisandro Rodríguez, who composes and performs the music in real time, generating an intimate connection between image, sound, and audience.
Where: Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture. Arrecife.
When: Saturday, October 11. At 8:00 PM.
Free admission until full capacity.
LITERATURE
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Fernando Aramburu. Lanzarote Literature Festival
The Lanzarote Literature Festival 2025 kicks off with major writers from the national literary scene. The first event is with writer and essayist Fernando Aramburu, who will talk about how literature can become a tool for memory and reparation in the face of collective trauma.
The author of Patria will reflect, in a conversation moderated by the Festival Director Carlos Battaglini, on the role of the writer in the face of historical conflicts and the way to narrate pain with an intimate perspective.
When: Thursday, October 9th at 7:30 PM
Where: Tías Municipal Theater.
Free entry with registration.
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Ten Books for an Island. Book presentation.
In parallel with the programming of the exhibition Ten Books for an Island at the Casa Amarilla, the Publications Service of the Cabildo de Lanzarote proposed to a group of researchers and personalities from the island's cultural world the elaboration of ten works of essayistic reflection on the authors and books that were addressed in the exhibition.
The books are ‘The French Chronicles of Le Canarien’, ‘Los Majos’, ‘Among the Lava Fields’, ‘Lanzarote’, ‘Unpublished Lanzarote Architecture’, ‘Treasures of the Island’, ‘Lancelot 28º-7º’, ‘La Lapa’, ‘Mararía’ and ‘Lanzarote Notebooks’.
When: Tuesday, October 14th at 7:00 PM.
Where: El Almacén, Arrecife.
Free admission.
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The Beat of Desire. Book presentation.
Presentation of the book The Heartbeats of Desire by the writer José Antonio Martín Corujo at the Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture.
When: Wednesday, October 15th at 12:00 PM.
Where: Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture, Arrecife.
Free admission.
THEATER
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Siempre: Three Poems, Two Chronicles, and a Cello
This work, which merges music and word, invites you on an intimate and profound journey through the work of Alonso Quesada. The author's voice, through MariCarmen Sánchez, Víctor Formoso, and Rubén Dario, intertwines with the cello, performed by Paula Torres Vega, to bring to life a selection of his most emblematic poems and chronicles.
When: Saturday, October 11th at 8:00 PM.
Where: ‘El Salinero’ Theater, Arrecife.
Free admission with invitation.
CONFERENCES
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Transformative Housing - The Shapeless House. Architecture Week
The Official College of Architects of Lanzarote is organizing a double conference as part of the program of events for Architecture Week 2025.
Ernest Garrica presents the talk "Transformative Housing," in which he will share his experiences creating cooperative housing, and Guillermo López, who will share, with his talk "The Shapeless House," his perspectives on innovation and sustainability in architectural design and the creation of social housing.
When: Thursday, October 9th at 6:00 PM.
Where: El Almacén, Arrecife.
Free entry with invitation.
PERFORMANCE
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Workshop. Le Salon des Refusés
In this workshop taught by Ana Esmith, failure is experienced, with all those times we've been told no. The participants are the protagonists of their own Salon de Refusés, and at the end of the course, our particular Salon of the Rejected will be open to the public.
When: From Tuesday, October 14 to Thursday, October 16. The 27th from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Where: El Almacén, Arrecife.
Entrance 5 euros
MUSIC
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YorùbáFest
The YorùbáFest in Villa de Teguise includes a lot of music, dances, conferences, ceremonies, gastronomy, experiential workshops, and activities for the whole family. It is the biggest event about Yoruba culture in the Spanish-speaking world.
When: Saturday, October 11, and Sunday, October 12, at 8:00 PM.
Where: Municipal Marquee, Villa de Teguise.
Free entry with registration. Sign up and access the program.
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Mette Henriette. Lanzarote Visual Music Festival (FMVL)
The collaboration between Norwegian saxophonist and composer Mette Henriette, pianist Johan Lindvall, and Australian cellist Judith Hamann results in contemporary chamber music that defies labels and moves between avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, and modern classical music.
When: Thursday, October 9th at 8:00 PM.
Where: Jameos del Agua.
Tickets: 15 euros.
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Bugge Wesseltoft, Arild Andersen, and Sanskriti Shrestha. (FMLV)
This will be a unique night of experimental jazz with a trio of virtuosos who are redefining the boundaries of the genre. The incomparable pianist Bugge Wesseltoft is joined by the legendary double bassist Arild Andersen and the innovative percussionist Sanskriti Shrestha to present a repertoire that fuses the established with the unexpected. Jameos del Agua Auditorium
When: Friday, October 10th at 8:00 PM.
Where: Jameos del Agua.
Entrance: 20 euros.
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Alizulh. (FMLV)
Alizulh is a sound research and electronic music project originating from Gran Canaria. It is a duo formed by Héctor Matacherry, also known as Anhelo, and Santi Pérez, also known as Svesda. Alizulh means joy, and it is what the Phoenicians named the Canary Islands upon their arrival.
When: Saturday, October 11th at 8:00 PM.
Where: El Almacén, Arrecife.
Entrance: 5 euros.
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Timples and Other Guitars of the World
This unique project, which brings together the talents of Germán López, Beselch Rodriguez, Leando Ojeda, Yone Rodriguez, and Altahay Páez, is celebrating its 10th anniversary and they are coming to celebrate with a show that revisits their best moments.
When: Friday, October 10th at 8:30 PM.
Where: Timple House Museum, Villa de Teguise.
Ticket for 10 euros
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Arrecife Live. Fourth Friday.
Carlos Ares, Himalayas, and Niños Bravos headline the fourth big Friday of the Arrecife en Vivo Festival. With styles ranging from alternative pop and indie rock to more experimental sounds, the day brings together several proposals with their own identity.
Niños Bravos will perform at 6:00 p.m. on the Islote de Fermina; Himalayas will play at 7:30 p.m. in the Parque Islas Canarias, while Carlos Ares will be at Marina Lanzarote starting at 9:00 p.m.
The day closes with the adults-only session at the cruise ship dock starting at 10:30 PM with SVR Sexy Zebras and Virginia Díaz dj.
When: Friday, October 10th, from 6:00 PM.
Where: Various locations by the sea, Arrecife. Complete program.
Free admission.
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Impromptu Quartet. Noon Festival
The Noon Canarias 2025 Festival brings Cuarteto Imprevisto to Arrecife this Saturday, who, with string instruments, will delight those who come to the Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture.
When: Saturday, October 11th at 12:00 PM.
Where: Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture, Arrecife.
Free entry until full capacity is reached.
