The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through the Data Center and the Digital Memory of Lanzarote project, presented this morning the third edition of the conference series Memoria de los Jueves, an initiative that consolidates its trajectory as a space for reflection on the memory, image, and audiovisual heritage of Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
The cycle will take place every Thursday, between January 15 and February 5, 2026, starting at 7:00 PM, in the Sala José Saramago, located in Plaza de la Constitución in Arrecife. Admission to all sessions will be free and open until full capacity is reached, and the lectures can also be followed live via the YouTube channel of Memoria Digital de Lanzarote.
In this third edition, Memoria de los Jueves proposes a journey through different ways of understanding and constructing memory from photographic and audiovisual archives, addressing areas such as propaganda, cinema, music, or the visual memory of love in Lanzarote.
The cycle will open on Thursday, January 15, with the talk Lanzarote through NO-DO: propaganda and memory, which will analyze how an official image of the island was constructed during Francoism and the early years of the Transition through newsreels, highlighting its dual role as a propaganda tool and historical source. The historian Mario Ferrer Peñate will give the lecture.
The second session, on January 22, will be dedicated to *Lanzarote's Rock Memory*, a roundtable discussion that will reconstruct the island's recent rock history through direct testimonies and materials left by this cultural scene: posters, photographs, recordings, demos, or fanzines, raising the need to preserve these traces as part of the cultural heritage. The moderator of the talk will be the journalist, writer, and musician José María de Páiz, and the participants will be musicians Mame Spínola, Elio Pérez Morales, Óscar Pérez Cabrera, and promoter Neftalí Acosta.
On January 29, the cycle will offer A Visual Journey Through Love in Lanzarote, a proposal that combines visual arts, literature, and personal memory to explore different ways of looking at and loving the island, understanding the archive not only as a document, but also as emotion and intimate narrative. The speakers for this talk will be the couple formed by writer and illustrator Lana Corujo and cultural manager David Machado.
The cycle will conclude on February 5 with the talk Island of Cinema. The Cinematic Memory of Lanzarote, which will review the filming carried out in Lanzarote and La Graciosa and present the Lanzarote Cinematic Memory project, a web portal dedicated to collecting and preserving images, locations, and data on cinematographic activity on both islands. The talk will be given by Saúl Rojas, a researcher specializing in cinema.
The full program was detailed by the head of the Lanzarote Island Council's Data Center, Miguel Ángel Martín Rosa, who, during the press conference, revealed the intricacies of this third edition. For her part, although she could not attend the event, the Lanzarote Island Council's Data Center counselor, Ascension Toledo, wanted to convey that "photographic and audiovisual archives are not just repositories of the past, but living tools that help us understand who we are and decide what we want to preserve for the future," further emphasizing the importance of initiatives like Memoria de los Jueves in fostering a critical and shared perspective on the island's memory.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote thanks the César Manrique Foundation for its collaboration, as well as the work of the team at the Lanzarote Data and Digital Memory Center, and invites citizens to participate in this third cycle of conferences, conceived as an open space for meeting, reflection, and collective memory building.
On the other hand, the Corporation's Publishing Service will also collaborate in the cycle, which will make copies of some cultural books published by the Cabildo available to attendees of the talks.
The Thursday Memory lecture series is organized by the Cabildo de Lanzarote through the Data Center, with the collaboration of the César Manrique Foundation.
Thursdays, January 15, 22, and 29, and February 5, 2026. Always at 7:00 PM and in the Sala José Saramago of the César Manrique Foundation, in Arrecife.
Admission is free and open to the public, until capacity is reached. The maximum capacity of the room is 100 people. It is advisable to arrive well in advance to secure a seat.
The five conferences will be streamed on the websites: www.memoriadelanzarote.com and www.memoriadelosjueves.com.
