Caspervek. Sherlock Jr. eszenAZ / Family programme. Silent film, live music
El callejón del gato
La niña de las trenzas al revés. eszenAZ / Family programme. Theatre
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Olatz Gorrotxategi
Progreso. El último lugar sobre la tierra. eszenAZ / Family programme. Theatre
elPetit & Imaginart
La guarida de los sentidos. eszenAZ / Family programme. Installation 22
Lari Produkzioak. Zaintzaren dantza. eszenAZ / Family programme. Theatre
Khea Ziater. SCROOGE y los fantasmas. eszenAZ / Family programme. Theatre
Idoia Zabaleta. Pupa, pupita, pupila. Masaje de la visión. eszenAZ. Immersive theatre
Irratia. Podcast
Cinema-Literature Event: El amor de Feliz final a Nosotros
Marta Cartu, Pauline Lecerf and Cole Degenstein showcase their creative process at the Mediateka Gallery. 2025 International Comic Residency
Culture Testbeds for Performing Arts and New Technology
Dejabu Konpainia. Itzulera. eszenAZ / eskola
Olatz Gorrotxategi. Progresoa. eszenAZ / eskola
Lari Produkzioak. Zaintzaren dantza. eszenAZ / eskola
Khea Ziater. SCROOGE eta mamuak. eszenAZ / eskola
Classique = Moderne.
New History of the Zinemateka II. Zinemateka
at Azkuna
Zentroa
Accompanying us this quarter are:
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao programme arises from the complicity of people from different disciplines who give value, contribute and enrich our proposals aimed at the different audience communities. The projects and people accompanying us this quarter, who form part of the conversations we started this year, are shown here.
Lore Stessel AZ Associated Artist
Amaia Molinet AZ Associated Artist
Idoia Zabaleta AZ Associated Artist
Olatz de Andrés AZ Associated Artist
Ça Marche AZ Associated Artist
Rosa Casado AZ Associated Researcher
Ixiar Rozas AZ Associated Researcher
Elena Aitzkoa Artist
Abel Jaramillo Babestu. Creation Support Programme
Inés García. Babestu. Creation Support Programme
Ivonne Villamil Babestu. Creation Support Programme
Silvia Zayas Lanean. Support for Stage Processes
Tripak Lanean. Support for Stage Processes
Beatriz Sánchez Babestu. Creation Support Programme
The Allora & Calzadilla: KLIMA exhibition, a seven-month project that has drawn over 40.000 visitors, will come to a close on January 6th, 2025. The exhibition displays the recent work carried out by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, leading figures of international contemporary art.
KLIMA highlights both the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of Allora & Calzadilla’s practice, and the themes that run throughout their oeuvre: geological time and the evolutionary history of life on Earth, the postcolonial condition, environmental justice, climate debt, geopolitics and energy resources.
It also showcases the creation of the artists´ performancebased sculpture works, such as Entelechy (2020) and Lifespan (2014), which have been regularly staged throughout the course of the exhibition in collaboration with local musicians. On the occasion of the closing, these performances will take place in the Exhibition Hall on January 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th.
Additionally, The Great Silence (2014), the audio-visual work focused on the world´s largest single-aperture radio telescope, which has been part of the exhibition, will be screened on January 6th in the Auditorium.
UNTIL JANUARY 6, 2025
Exhibition Hall Free admission
EXHIBITION CLOSING PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 3, SATURDAY, 4 JANUARY
Performances in the Exhibition Hall 6:00 p.m - Entelechy (2020) 7:00 p.m - Lifespan (2014)
Screening of The great Silence (2014) in the Auditorium
ALLORA & CALZADILLA
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have developed an experimental work that combines sculpture, performance, video, audio and photography. Based on a complex practice oriented towards research, the couple, based in Puerto Rico, critically treats the intersections and complicities between cultural, historical and geopolitical fact.
His work has been exhibited, among others, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Tate Modern in London, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao or the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
In 2011 they represented the United States of America at the 54th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition.
#visualarts #photography
Ixone Sádaba
Escala 1:1
Curator: Carles Guerra
Azkuna Zentroa kicks off its 2025 exhibition programme with Escala 1:1, a project by artist Ixone Sádaba.
Escala 1:1 is the product of the photographic research conducted by Ixone Sádaba (Bilbao, 1977) regarding the material, symbolic, and political legacy of the Lemoiz nuclear power plant. The remains of this facility which never became operational are marked by relentless and programmed decay. On the brink of disappearance, this concrete monolith encapsulates all the layers of its history and the potential future that its fragile state still allows us to envision.
Access to the area surrounding the plant remains restricted, as the legacy of a history defined by violence and civil unrest. Curated by Carles Guerra, this artistic project invites audiences to imagine new policies that would transform the plant into a focal point for a presentday public debate about memory.
Ixone Sádaba approaches this restitution exercise by screening life-sized fragments of the structures at the Lemoiz facility, recreating the complex with presumably unmediated views. By recreating the plant on a 1:1 scale inside the Alhóndiga, the project challenges the incomprehensibility of this immense space, albeit at the expense of a fragmented and incomplete presentation.
IXONE SÁDABA
(Bilbao, 1977) An artist and researcher, Ixone Sádaba earned a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country and completed coursework in the Postgraduate Program at the International Center of Photography in New York. She currently lives and works in London.
With over 20 years of experience in the art world, has exhibited at major venues including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Reina Sofía National Art Museum in Madrid, the MoCCa Contemporary Art Museum in Toronto and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.
CARLES GUERRA
(Amposta, 1965) An art critic, professor, and researcher, Carles Guerra has held the post of Director at the Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya, Director at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Chief Curator at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and, from 2015 to 2020, Director at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
In addition to an extensive list of monographic exhibitions, he has curated projects such as 1979. Un monumento a instantes radicales and Antoni Tàpies. Biografía política y Tosquelles. Como una máquina de coser en un campo de trigo.
FROM 6 FEBRUARY TO 27 APRIL 2025
Exhibition Hall Free admission
EXHIBITION OPENING PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, 6 FEBRUARY:
6:00 p.m. - Inaugural conference: Conversation between artist Ixone Sádaba and curator Carles Guerra. Bastida Hall
7:00 p.m - Opening of the exhibition to the public. Exhibition Hall
PROGRAMME OF VISITS
Visits with the artist Wednesday, 19 February and 26 March 2025
6:00 p.m. - Exhibition Hall
Free admission with prior online registration, until full capacity is reached
Introductory visits
Every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. (30 min.) in the Exhibition Hall
Free admission prior online registration, until full capacity is reached
ACTIVITIES
13 February, 20 March, 10 April
Workshop for school students with artist José Ramón Ais
#visualarts #sculpture #poetry
Elena Aitzkoa
Azkuna Zentroa Associated Artist
Ur Aitzak
Ur Aitzak, the sculpture set created over the last two years by artist Elena Aitzkoa as Azkuna Zentroa Associated Artist, is displayed in the Atrium.
During this time, the Atrium has been both her workshop and exhibition space, and has formed part of the dayto-day life of the Centre and of the people who make their way around it. Elena Aitzkoa has shared with them the details of the process, the techniques used and the poems that accompany each of the pieces.
Ciénaga estrellada, Arrebol, Luz cauce, Horizonte nuca, Cisne and Sombra clara have grown organically until they have generated an archipelago of forms that are now part of the Atrium of Cultures of the Alhóndiga.
A video of Elena Aitzkoa's creative process and its contextualisation in Azkuna Zentroa will be shown in the Iparraguirre Hall, located in the Atrium. Until January 6th
UNTIL APRIL 2025
Atrium of Cultures
Free admission
ELENA AITZKOA
(Apodaka, 1984).
Artist. Her work involves sculpture, drawing, poetry, performance and film. Her creations form a heterogeneous eco-system feeding on the emotional and physical elements of the surroundings and life experience. Among her latest project is Lendia Song (Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, 2021). She has taken part in Estudio III. Salir al Encuentro. Hablar al lugar, a cycle curated by Isabel de Naverán at the Reina Sofia Museum (2021)
#visualarts #installation
Leticia Paschetta Foggy Playscapes
Artist and architect Leticia Paschetta is presenting a new proposal of her “ludic landscapes” at the Mediateka Gallery, a work based on spatial experiences that merge art, design and structural innovation.
Foggy Playscapes consists of hanging textile spaces into which bodies sink and rise at the same time in an indeterminate, changing, ludic and free movement.
“Fog and mist are fascinating concepts that have inspired artists throughout history. These notions have served to explore the nature of reality, memory, and perception, symbolising mystery, emotional states, uncertainty and identity. The boundaries between fantasy and reality blur to create an ambiguous and complex space where anything we are able to envisage is completed by our imagination”, as explained by Leticia Paschetta.
From this stage, she invites the audience to “play within the Ludic Space of FOG, between the unclear and the blurred, with whatever is sensed, appears, hides, is discovered, and surprises us.”
17TH DECEMBER, 2024 TO 2ND MARCH, 2025
Mediateka Gallery
Free admission
ACTIVITIES
Introductory visits Friday 10, 17, 24, 31 of January and 7, 14, 21, 28 of February 6:30 p.m. (15')
Abel Jaramillo
Ninguna noche en llamas
Abel Jaramillo concludes his residency at Azkuna Zentroa within the framework of Babestu, the Centre´s Creation Support Programme, with an exhibition of his work Ninguna noche en llamas.
It is a multidisciplinary project that takes moving images and the written word as its starting point to undertake storytelling, the narrative mechanisms of the story, the concept of transformation through language, and images that cross over and echo through different times.
Based on a series of stories that converse with fire, the artist works on a “modular film” that reflects on seeing and listening, the connections between places and times, and the narrative potential of fiction.
FROM 4 DECEMBER 2024 TO 12 JANUARY 2025
BAT Espazioa. Lantegia 2
ABEL JARAMILLO
(Badajoz, 1993)
A visual artist whose work revolves around the cracks and margins of a story, narrations and poetry linked to specific contexts and political tensions projected in our day-to-day. His work tackles the construction of a story from the foundations, the production of fictions from historical events and the relationship between stories, territories, margins, and outskirts.
#reading #voice #language #sound
Ixiar Rozas
Erritmoen segida
Writer and researcher-in-residence at Azkuna Zentroa, Ixiar Rozas, works with voice and language, and their sounds. During her residency at the Centre, she is working on A Series of Rhythms, a continuum of prior zones. As part of this research, she will read Narrugorrik in its entirety over three evenings.
“Narrugorrik is a long-form book set to be published in 2025. It is composed of short texts, poems, and materials that have emerged from listening, from rhythm, from a way of breathing and energy. Reading it aloud while still in progress allows it to reach other listeners, other bodies, who hear the rhythm as it unfolds. And in so doing, uphold the writing” as explained by the author.
More information about Ixiar Rozas available on page 43
READINGS: 14, 15, AND 16 JANUARY (TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY)
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
CONVERSATION: THURSDAY, 16 JANUARY
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Language: Basque Lantegia 1
Free admission with prior registration at azkunazentroa.eus
#liveart #eszenAZ #theatre #roadmovie
Dejabu Konpainia
Itzulera
Itzulera, Dejabu Company’s new stage project, is a theatre piece full of humour, poetry and action. It is also a self-fiction work, where the company members question the meaning of their creativity and identity. The company narrates their trip to Mexico in 2024 and how an unexpected incident changed the course of their adventure.
This work is structured like a live Road movie constantly playing around reality and fiction. In addition to stage actors, a filmmaker creates and projects live images, turning each performance into a once-in-a-lifetime experience. A story where the limits between what is represented and what is experienced become blurred, inviting the audience to join them on that journey and its outcome.
Dejabu delves into new stage narratives and devices enabling the audience to experience live arts in a different way.
THURSDAY, 23 JANUARY
7:00 p.m / 90´
Auditorium
Age: +14 years / Basque
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Direction & idea: Dejabu konpainia
Performers: Ainara Gurrutxaga, Miren Alcaláz, Urko Redondo & David Aguilar
Artistic assistance: Iara Solano
Script: Compañía Dejabu, accompanied by Mariana de la Mata
Live video creation: David Aguilar
Music: Ander Fernandez
Costume design: Barbara Rasso
Lighting design: Andoni
Mendizabal
Light & sound technicians: Andoni
Mendizabal & Itziar Bote
Staging: Dejabu konpainia
Communication & graphic design: Rodriguez & Ndungmandum
Closka is a stage experience designed for children that immerses the audience in a reflection on the beauty of nature and the importance of respecting the environment through a captivating journey led by a turtle.
In its latest work, PanicMap displays its distinctive artistic language, where dramaturgy, visual arts, and emerging technologies such as video mapping and live cinema are woven together. Closka´s journey is enhanced by the use of technology and visual arts, creating a more immersive and dynamic experience to both the narrative and the aesthetic of the performance.
The artistic platform PanicMap, founded by Juan Pablo Mendiola and Margarita Burbano, has been committed for over a decade to the development of a distinctive language that integrates narrative, body movement, space, and technology to transcend the boundaries of performance. This multidisciplinary approach opens a dialogue between visual arts, music, digital arts, and dramaturgy, aimed at stimulating the imagination and curiosity of the audience.
SUNDAY, 2 FEBRUARY
12:00 p.m / 40’
Bastida Hall
Age: +3 years / Spanish
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Performers: Joan Ballester/Laura Valero
Author: Juan Pablo Mendiola
Direction: Juan Pablo Mendiola
Stage design: Los Reyes del Mambo
Costume design: María Almudéver
Sound design: Isabel Latorre
Lightning design: Radiantelab
Production: PanicMap
Technician: Isaac Rovira
Choreography: Isabel Abril
#liveart #eszenAZ #silentfilm #livemusic
Caspervek
Buster Keaton´s Sherlock Jr. (“El moderno Sherlock Holmes”)
Caspervek premiered their soundtrack for the film Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. in 2016, for a trio comprising violin, percussion and piano. In 2024, on the occasion of their performance during the Teatro Real season in Madrid, the composer Brais González modified the score adding new instruments as well as new musical sections to the work. This resulted in a work for flute, clarinet, trombone, percussion and piano, which explores the synchronic elements of Buster Keaton’s physical comedy.
Following last season’s success, the Galician ensemble returns to Azkuna Zentroa with a soundtrack in line with their usual approach of composing comedies by alternating swing and classical jazz, while also adding a few twists of the screw to the music style of detective films.
SUNDAY, 2 FEBRUARY
1:00 p.m / 47´
Auditorium
Age: +6 years / OVSS
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Composition & direction: Brais González
Flute: Laura Lorenzo
Clarinet: Virginia Lis
Trombone: Óscar Presa
Percussion: Blas Castañer
Piano: Brais González
FAMILY PROGRAMME
#liveart #eszenAZ #theatre #objectpuppets
El callejón del gato
La niña de las trenzas al revés
La niña de las trenzas al revés is a show that explores curiosity and imagination, highlighting the importance of communication to understand different perspectives on life.
El Callejón del Gato, a leading performing arts company for children and young audiences, known for its commitment to innovative theatrical languages, presents a performance featuring puppets, objects and screenings. This performance shows that, no matter how different other cultures or individuals may seem, what brings us together is always stronger than what keeps us apart. We simply need to be guided by curiosity rather than prejudice.
La niña de las trenzas al revés has been awarded the Feten Prize in 2021 for Best Staging Adaptation for its interpretation of the eponymous text by Iris Díaz Trancho. It has also received the Territorio Violeta Prize in Performing Arts for Equality in 2021 and the Teatro Jovellanos Prize for Stage Production in 2020.
SUNDAY, 9 FEBRUARY
12:00 p.m / 45´
Bastida Hall
Age: +4 years / Spanish
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Direction: Ana Eva Guerra and Moisés González Egilea
Authors: Ana Eva Guerra and Moisés González
Performers: Ana Eva Guerra and Moisés González
Technique: Object puppetry
In conjunction with Centro Internacional del Títere de Tolosa (Topic)
#liveart #eszenAZ #theatre #audiovisuals
Olatz Gorrotxategi
Progreso. El último lugar sobre la tierra
An Antarctic iceberg sheds its final piece of ice and vanishes forever. A previously unseen gull soars over Greenland. In Nepal, a fast-food multinational drops 10,000 leaflets over the Himalayas. A plastic bottle washes up on the shores of an island in the Moluccan Sea. On the other side of the world, at the antipodes, an unknown tribe is uprooted. Progress has arrived.
The latest work by playwright Olatz Gorrotxategi is a studio piece that combines object theatre, audiovisuals, sound fiction, and theatrical text as performative languages to explore the universe and our place within it.
This performative work of Documentary Theatre is not a children's show, but rather a production designed to entertain and engage audiences aged 10 and above.
SUNDAY, 9 FEBRUARY
PREMIERE
1:00 p.m / 60´
Auditorium
Age: +12 years / Spanish
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Direction and dramaturgy: Olatz Gorrotxategi
Audiovisuals: Indi Costa
Performers: Olatz Gorrotxategi, Indi Costa
Audio: Alberto de la Hoz
Technician: Imanol García Iturrioz
FAMILY PROGRAMME
#liveart #eszenAZ #sensoryinstallation
elPetit & Imaginart
La guarida de los sentidos
Pillows that talk, snore, laugh, and sing. A small village formed by lairs of clothing and fabrics, built like animals do in the wild, with materials of different textures and scents. A place to hide and observe the world from within.
La guarida de los sentidos, winner of the 2024 FETEN Award for Best Installation, is a space where babies can relax, play, and bond with their families in a cosy and comfortable environment.
This immersive sensory experience offers young children a safe and stimulating environment to explore and discover, guided by their curiosity and accompanied by their caregivers. It is an immersive experience to discover, imagine, and dream.
SUNDAY, 16 FEBRUARY
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. / 30' Bastida Hall
Age: 0-2 years
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Direction and Creation: Eulàlia Ribera and Sergi Ots.
Design and Construction: Txell Janot, Isabel Palazón, Miquel Ruiz and Jaume Nieto.
Performance: Claudia Lizeth and Gloria Román / David Gastelú and Jaume Nieto.
Stage Direction: Eulàlia Ribera.
Stage Lighting: Artur Gavaldà
Images and Video: Artur Gavaldà y Platea Films
Tour Management and Production: Jaume Nieto / Imagin.art
A co-production of laSala | elPetit and Imaginart
#liveart #eszenAZ #theatre #music
Lari Produkzioak
Zaintzaren dantza
Lari Produkzioak premieres Zaintzaren dantza at Azkuna Zentroa. It is a play aimed at children and young audiences, with a focus on diversity.
The group´s first production was Meri, Mari eta Lari in 2019, a play that explores the multiplicity of genders and sexes, different family models, overcoming fears, and ultimately, the concept of freedom.
Zaintzaren dantza continues with this purpose by focusing on various aspects of care: establishing shared responsibility models, promoting self-care and self-esteem, advocating for environmental protection, and fostering an inclusive society that protects diversity.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16
PREMIERE
13:00 / 60´
Auditorium
Age: +6 years / Basque
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Performance: Jon Casamayor, Maria Urcelay
Text: Maria Urcelay
Songs: Yogurinha Borova
Creation and direction: Yogurinha Borova, Na Gomes, Maria Urcelay
Sound technician: Na Gomes
Graphic design: Pedro de Madrazo
Costumes: Miguel Biurrun
Set design: Yogurinha BorovaMaria Urcelay, Katamalo eszenografiak.
Production company: Lari Produkzioak
FAMILY PROGRAMME
#liveart #eszenAZ #theatre #stage-film
Khea Ziater
SCROOGE y los fantasmas
SCROOGE y los fantasmas is the first children’s stage film by the company Khea Ziater. It is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol, but transferred to the present day. It is produced for the stage in the manner and style of Khea Ziater creations, where stage and film codes come together going further, in this case, with a triple combination of actors, cinema and puppets.
After a production career aimed at adult audiences, the company has taken on the challenge to bring film format to children’s theatre, with a proposal combining film and theatre on both aesthetic and narrative planes.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21
6:00 p.m. / 60´
Auditorim
Age: +5 years / Spanish
Price: check the website and AZ Info
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Performers: Na Gomes, Sandra Fdez. Aguirre
Original Text: Charles Dickens
Adaptation: Alex Gerediaga
Text in Basque: Kepa Errasti
Stage Design & Wardrobe: Azegiñe Urigoitia
Stage Construction: Atx Sorkuntza
Doll Design: Iker García & Marta Álvarez (La Enanaranja)
Doll Making: Iker Garcia, Marta Álvarez & Javi Tirado
Idoia Zabaleta is one of the most outstanding creators on the current contemporary scene and an Associated Artist at Azkuna Zentroa. Her specialisation in ecosystems and population dynamics is the foundation of her work. Pupa, pupa, pupila. Masaje de la visión is part of her line of individual performances such as massages and other devices, based on body perception or what she calls “Dance movement 0”.
Masaje de la visión is a play in the form of a massage. An individual experience, an artistic "one-on-one” which reminds us that we continue to see in our dreams. A person who has reserved this time, someone who welcomes you and invites you to lie down on the massage table, to close your eyes and leave them behind, a touch always mediated by objects. It is a unique opportunity to receive a singular massage or to give it as a gift.
Voices: Camila Tellez, Miriam Inza and Ainara Legardón
You can listen to The Most Dramatic Panda EVER by M. Benito and An acoustic ballad by Ode Aseguinolaza from the album Stolen Voices
Acknowledgements: Rebecca Collins, M. Benito, Karlos Martínez B. and Pablo Marte
Azala creative residencies, EiMa, L'animal a l'esquena and Casa Vella
AZ Irratia.
The Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao Radio
Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao programme functions in various formats disseminating, expanding and maximising contemporary culture. Thus, the AZ Irratia programme, the experimental radio focused on the current podcasting format, is a new way of experimenting culture by promoting sound creation and reflection on contemporary artistic practices. It offers sections and topics that dialogue with the cultural programme lines, and highlights the complicity of the creators, curators and social and cultural agents that comprise the Centre’s artistic community.
PROGRAMME
AZzabalik PRO 2024. Think, do, live. A professional encounter on artistic residencies
A podcast about the professional encounter held within the framework of AZzabalik, which addresses the reality of artistic residences through the experience of cultural institutions from both local and international backgrounds, and the artists that inhabit them.
Diálogos, historietas y bocadillos
This podcast is part of the Essential Comic Dialogues cycle held monthly at the Mediateka BBK.
Podcast de Papel. subterfugeradio.com Podcast de papel is a fortnightly radio programme, hosted and presented by Félix Linares and Kike Martín, aimed at showcasing the latest literary releases and exploring the world of books. During its second season, it will be broadcast at AZ Irratia, Azkuna Zentroa´s radio station.
PODCAST PROGRAMMING
Subscribe to AZ Irratia on the Ivoox platform to listen to our programming
Listen to the podcasts here:
GUTUN ZURIA BILBAO
25.02-01.03
#gutunzuriazabalik #literature #cinema
Cinema-Literature Event: El amor de Feliz final a Nosotros
On Wednesday, 19 February, Azkuna Zentroa will host the advance screening of the film Nosotros, adapted from the novel Feliz final.
As part of this presentation, the Gutun Zuria Zabalik cinemaliterature event titled El amor de Feliz final a Nosotros will feature the participation of the director of the film, Helena Taberna, and the author of the novel, Isaac Rosa.
Nosotros reconstructs a great love story, starting from the end: Ángela and Antonio are a couple like so many others who fell in love, experienced joy, had children, fought to persevere, and stumbled many times.
“When I read Feliz final by Isaac Rosa, I felt deeply connected to this beautiful novel," says Helena Taberna. "I was aware of what a significant challenge it would be to make a film from such a complex novel, but that didn’t deter my desire to bring Ángela and Antonio’s story of love and heartbreak to life on screen.”
Isaac Rosa highlights the “radical and deeply personal way Helena constructs the story, rearranging and reordering time, exploring the visual and sound possibilities with sensitivity, to create a film unlike any other.”
7:00 p.m.: Advance screening of the film Nosotros at Golem Alhóndiga
Price: Check the website or AZ Info
HELENA TABERNA
Helena Taberna began her career as a filmmaker in the mid-1990s, writing, directing, and producing short fiction films and documentaries. Her debut feature film, Yoyes (2000), garnered critical acclaim, awards, and box office success. She would go on to direct Extranjera s (2003), La buena nueva (2008), Nagore (2010), Acantilado (2016), and Varados (2019).
ISAAC ROSA CAMACHO
Isaac Rosa Camacho is a writer with an established career as a columnist for various media outlets. His most notable novels include El vano ayer (2004), El país del miedo (2008), La habitación oscura (2013), and Feliz final (2018). Through his writing he aims to make fiction a space for reflection.
Helena Taberna Filmmaker
Isaac Rosa Writer
#zinemateka #cinema
Classique = Moderne. A New History of the Zinemateka II
Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao is putting together the second part of its Classique = Moderne programme as a tribute to 40 years of the Zinemateka in Bilbao. The cycle takes the form of a series spread over 3 years – 2024, 2025 and 2026 – with 45 films selected in conjunction with José Julián Baquedano, who was a programme-compiler for this space when it was just starting out. These films are essential viewing more because of their impact on the history of cinema than the significance of their directors.
With this principle in mind, the second chapter of Classique = Moderne. A New History of the Zinemateka, offers us the opportunity to watch 12 masterpieces of cinematic production.
FROM JANUARY 14TH TO APRIL 10TH, 2025
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas
5€ / 4€ with AZ Card
Tuesday, +65 years: €2
(sale only at the box office)
Tickets: Cines Golem Alhóndiga box office and at golem.es
INFORMATION
Every projection is in Original Version
Order the cycle hand program in AZ Info, download it on azkunazentroa.eus or request it by sending an email with your details to info@azkunazentroa.eus, and we will get back to you.
ABREVIATURES
D: Director
OVSS: Original Version with Subtitles in Spanish
OV: Original Version
Bande à part (1964). Jean-Luc Godard
PROGRAMME
January 14, Tuesday l 17:00
January 16, Thursday l 19:00
Presents: José Julián Baquedano
Ugetsu monogatari
(Cuentos de la luna pálida) (1953)
97’ l OVSS l DCP
D: Kenji Mizoguchi
January 21, Tuesday l 17:00
January 23, Thursday l 19:00
Tokyo monogatari (Cuentos de Tokio) (1953)
139’ l OVSS l DCP
D: Yasujirō Ozu
January 28, Tuesday l 17:00
January 30, Thursday l 19:00
Pickpocket (1959)
75’ l OVSS l DCP
D: Robert Bresson
February 4, Tuesday l 17:00
February 6, Thursday l 19:00
The Apartment (1960)
125’ l OVSS l 35 mm
D: Billy Wilder
February 11, Tuesday l 17:00
February 13, Thursday l 19:00
Plácido (1961)
85’ l OV l DCP
D: Luis García Berlanga
February 18, Tuesday l 17:00
February 20, Thursday l 19:00
Los olvidados (1950)
88’ l OV l DCP
D: Luis Buñuel
March 4, Tuesday l 17:00
March 6, Thursday l 19:00
His Girl Friday (Luna nueva) (1940)
92’ l OVSS l DCP
D: Howard Hawks
March 11, Tuesday l 17:00
March 13, Thursday l 19:00
Amarcord (1973)
127’ l OVSS l 35 mm
D: Federico Fellini
March 18, Tuesday l 17:00
March 20, Thursday l 19:00
Jules et Jim (1962)
104’ l OVSS l DCP
D: François Truffaut
March 25, Tuesday l 17:00
March 27, Thursday l 19:00
Oktyabr (October) (1927)
100’ l OVSS l DCP
D: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
April 1, Tuesday l 17:00
April 3, Thursday l 19:00
Presents: José Julián Baquedano
Othello (1951)
91’ l OVSS l DCP
D: Orson Welles
April 8, Tuesday l 17:00
April 10, Thursday l 19:00
The General (1926)
74’ l OVSS l DCP
D: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
AZKUNA ZENTROA, THE FILM SPOT IN BILBAO
Film Sozialak
International Invisible Film Festival
Zinemakumeak gara!
Film Festival produced by women
ZINEBI
Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film
Zinexit
Film & Human Rights Festival
FANT
Fantasy Film Festival
Zinemateka
Stable programming with classic and contemporary film cycles
Zinemaldia
Donostia Zinemaldia at Azkuna Zentroa
Zinegoak
Bilbao LGTBIQ+ Film & Performing Arts Festival
Basque Dok Festival
Bilbao International Festival of Contemporary Image
Golem Alhóndiga Cinema
Commitment to films throughout the year
It happened at Azkuna Zentroa
Lorea Burge. AZzabalik. Meeting Around Artistic
Creation September 25, 2024
Donostia Zinemaldia Azkuna Zentroan September 30, 2024
eszenAZ. Elahood. Intempestiva September 25, 2024
eszenAZ Olatz de Andrés Time is a Muscle October 17, 2024
October 22, 2024
eszenAZ.
Guillermo Weickert. Luz sobre las Cosas. October 24, 2024
November
December
Nicola Galli. Deserto Tattile
7, 2024
Gutun Zuria Zabalik Bertso Saioa Espekulatiboa
Abel Jaramillo. Ninguna noche en llamas
4, 2024
Amaia Molinet. AZ Associated Artist. Tierra Quemada
CREATION
Times is a muscle. Olatz de Andrés. AZ Associated Artist.
Artistic Residencies
Promote, Support, Share
Artistic creation thrives in spaces where experimentation, reflection, and dialogue with other ideas can flourish. This is the driving force behind Azkuna Zentroa's artistic residencies, designed as dynamic laboratories for mid-career artists. These residencies offer a supportive and collaborative environment, fostering mutual growth and exchange while respecting the unique rhythms of the creative process. The programme is thoughtfully structured to encompass every aspect of artistic creation including research, development, technical innovation, and a bold commitment to multidisciplinary approaches.
These initiatives serve as a means of connecting the local creative network with the international cultural scene within the Centre and around the city. Each project aligns with the Centre's programming and always includes a public-facing component, be it showcasing the finished work or sharing the creative process behind it.
The methodology, based on a preliminary approach, a process, and a production across diverse formats, facilitates the creation of creative material that broadens Azkuna Zentroa’s perspective on
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao’s Artistic Residencies Programme is supported by the Etxepare Basque Institute
Society and Contemporary Culture, and contributes to the valuable body of work of the Centre expressed in films, exhibitions, podcasts, stage performances, and books.
2025: New Artistic Residencies
Each year, the Babestu. Creation Support Programme launches a call for proposals. This programme invites mid-career artists to submit projects and research that offer insights into the new artistic narratives. Of the 86 artists and collectives who submitted applications in the latest edition, Beatriz Sánchez, Estibaliz Sádaba Murguía, Inés García, and Ivonne Villamil were selected to conduct their research and develop their projects over the next year. At the same time, filmmaker Silvia Zayas and the Tripak theatre company were chosen from among the 56 submissions received in response to the latest call from Lanean, which supports performance-based projects.
These artists join the vibrant creative community at Azkuna Zentroa, which has welcomed and supported over a hundred artists in the past five years, fostering a space for artistic development and sharing.
The Collective Residents program in Azkuna Zentroa has the support of Urbegi.
2025 International Comic Residency Marta Cartu, Pauline Lecerf and Cole Degenstein showcase their creative process at the Mediateka Gallery
The fourth edition of the International Comic Residency driven by Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao, the Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de L'image (Angoulême), and the Maison de la Littérature (Quebec) kicks off in January. In this call, Artists Marta Cartu, Pauline Lecerf and Cole Degenstein will be sharing a workspace at Azkuna Zentroa.
After a first stage in France, they arrive at Bilbao coinciding with Gutun Zuria Bilbao, the Azkuna Zentroa International Literature Festival, where they will have the opportunity to build professional relationships, engage in activities, and meet with the audience. Additionally, during their residency at Azkuna Zentroa, they will be showcasing their creative process in a space within the Meditaeka Gallery designated for this purpose. The residency will conclude at the end of April in Quebec.
As part of Azkuna Zentroa´s Contemporary Creation Support and Accompaniment Programme, the International Comic Residency is aimed at fostering encounters
between people from different countries in key professional environments of graphic novel. This goal is achieved by creating connections between the resident artists and artists from other contemporary disciplines.
The residency format allows creators to benefit from each other by exploring the unique cultural environments of each participating city. Furthermore, their creativity is enhanced by cross influences and a variety of artistic approaches through the exchange of experiences and ideas.
Azkuna Zentroa frames this residency within the Mediateka BBK´s programme. Comics play a key role in the Mediateka´s collection and are the most frequently consulted sections by the Centre's diverse audiences. The Komikteka, the secondfloor space dedicated to this genre, holds over 6,000 volumes and features an expanded podcast programme with an annual audience of over 40,000 people.
Marta Cartu
Marta Cartu is a comic creator working in the field of artistic creation and education. In recent years, she has published her first comic album, Hola Siri (2021), and self-published various short stories. Likewise she has taken part in collective exhibitions such as: Constelación Gráfica (CCCB, 2022), Cómic. Sueños e historias (Caixa forum, 2022) and Revuelta en el cómic (MACBA, 2018). She has designed educational activities and interventions for several cultural bodies like: CCCB, MNAC and Born CCM. .
Cole Degenstein
Hailing from the prairies and based in Montréal, Cole Degenstein is an artist whose work comes in the form of illustration, comics, and poetry. Tenderness is at the core of his work, which centres itself in storytelling about intimacy, rural life, gay history, and domesticity. Cole is very active in the Canadian comic and fanzine community as shown by his numerous publications, anthologies and collective exhibitions. His graphic novel 10-10 to the Wind was awarded the Center for Cartoon Studies 2024 Cartoonist Studio award.
Pauline Lecerf
Pauline Lecerf lives and works in Brussels at the Atelier Meyboom. She writes comics and produces documentaries which end up adopting formats unrelated to film: performances, guided tours, sports classes, games, music on hold competitions or sound pieces. Her first comic TUT, histoires au-delà du langage, was published by Magnani in February 2024; moreover, she has also collaborated with the magazines: Mon Lapin quotidien, published by L'Association; Nicole, published by Cornélius; and Lagon
ACuTe. Culture Testbeds for Performing Arts and New Technology - 2025
Ziomara Hormaetxe
LĀTTICE (provisional title)
The Basque choreographer Ziomara Hormaetxe will be completing the creation of L TTICE (provisional title) during this term. This new performative piece in motion, produced by Azkuna Zentroa, is part of the European project ACuTe. Culture Testbeds for Performing Arts and New Technology, in which the Centre is a strategic partner with the support of Creative Europe. European Commission.
Through an ongoing dialogue between body and technology, "this piece explores gravity as an omnipresent force that permeates the body in multiple layers: from the physical to the quantum, thus shaping the ways in which we experience space and movement," states the creator. The piece suggests "a journey through virtual spaces and multiverses, where each layer of reality unveils new possibilities for existence and connection, thereby broadening the ways in which contemporary collaborative narratives reshape our understanding of reality," explains Ziomara Hormaetxe.
L TTICE will be premiered on May as part of eszenAZ, the Live Arts Season at Azkuna Zentroa.
Babestu. Creation Support Programme - 2025
Beatriz Sánchez
Fórmulas de Cinética Doméstica [3]
Audiovisual creation and digital art are at the centre of Beatriz Sánchez's career. Her artistic practice blends traditional media such as drawing and sculpture with video, digital tools, and live performances.
In 2025, Sánchez will begin her residency at Azkuna Zentroa as part of the Babestu programme with Fórmulas de Cinética Doméstica [3], a project that keeps the focus on animation and the moving image whilst also returning to hands-on work, giving free rein to her imagination.
With Fórmulas de Cinética Doméstica [3], the artist envisions transforming her workspace into an experimental research lab where she will develop a series of mechanised sculptural artifacts. “These moving parts consist of engines, mini video projections, everyday objects, and figures, combining to form dynamic assemblies that seem to come to life (automatons)”, explains the artist. They are “lowtech, decadent, and poetic artifacts that precariously balance various fragile elements in an awkward mechanical dance.”
#laboratory #sculpturalartifacts #movingImage
Estibaliz Sádaba Murguía
RUINAS (cuaderno de notas experimental)
Through her work, Estibaliz Sádaba Murguía aims to create a space for reflection and debate to facilitate an artistic and feminist exploration of the context in which we live.
In recent years she has focused her work on the relationship between women´s bodies and the inhabited space, examining how these two elements interact in both public and private environments, placing a particular emphasis on gender perspective.
During her Babestu residency, she will be developing RUINAS (cuaderno de notas experimental), a work that will include a set of texts, sounds and performances. To this end, the artist draws on the writing of poetic experimental texts and manifestos in the first person as a starting point, which will subsequently be developed through the aforementioned sound, graphic and performative resources. “These texts, along with their derivative products, aim to highlight the work that women have carried out within the domestic sphere, and reveal their discomfort (Friedan)”, as explained by Estibaliz Sádaba.
#experimentalwriting #texts #sounds #performance
Inés García
El tacto del contacto
Sight, sound, and touch traverse the installations, sculptures, and recent experimental films of artist and filmmaker Inés García . Her latest project, El tacto del contacto, explores the development of cinematic language and its arrangement within the exhibition space.
The work, which began in 2024, captures the creative processes behind handmade objects such as a wooden bowling pin, a spherical cake, and lace embroidery. Her first “projection booth,” developed in collaboration with architect Diego Sologuren, will be expanded and solidified in 2025 during her residency at Azkuna Zentroa as part of the Babestu programme.
In El tacto del contacto the artist immerses herself with her analogue camera in “the art of working with the hands, where repetitive, rhythmic movements reveal a silent dialogue with time and material”. She conceives the editing of images “from a state in which a firm gaze attempts to understand the encounter with the image as though it were a tactile experience, an editing process that can be seen and heard as much as it is touched”. The ultimate goal is to create a new "projection booth" specifically designed for viewing one of the film pieces.
#installation #experimentalcinema
Ivonne Villamil Meteoro
Ivonne Villamil, a visual and sound artist, works at the intersection of art and science using accessible practices and technologies that focus on listening devices and methods. Her work explores the intimate connections between matter, memory, and territory, drawing from geophony, or the sounds of the earth.
Meteoro, a project she is developing as a resident of the Babestu programme, arises from the urgent need for social and cultural action and reflection on climate change.
“I aim to work collaboratively in the realms of sound and visual art, using listening methods and devices to capture atmospheric phenomena on earth and in the cosmos, employing open-source software, DIY methods, and low-tech field recording”, the artist explains. The goal is “to provoke immersive, experiential situations, encounters, and spaces that bridge art and science, connected to earth and cosmic sciences (meteorology, space weather, astrophysics)”.
#sound #climate #cosmos #science
Lanean Residency 2025. Support for Stage Processes
Silvia Zayas
Material girls
Artist Silvia Zayas will launch her new project, Material Girls, in 2025, as part of the “Lanean. Stage Processes Support Programme”.
According to the author, her work “draws on the autobiographical to explore the collective trauma inherited by a second generation of young girls. They are the daughters/nieces of ex-combatants (conscripted by the Portuguese regime) who recently returned from Guinea-Bissau and other former colonies after the war for independence from Portugal. The story is re-imagined through childhood memories filled with silences, syncretisms, and ghosts”.
The project will take the form of a “live piece developed through collective experiences with ex-combatants and women of my generation from various suburban and domestic settings in Porto. It will combine elements from childhood imagination, without hierarchies between elements”.
During her residency at Azkuna Zentroa, she plans to develop the formal and choreographic aspects of the project using live cinema devices, and share experimental bodily practices to generate mental imagery.
Tripak ENCOUNTERS
Two years after the premiere of Platea, Tripak has started outlining ENCOUNTERS (tentative title), their new stage project. Part of their creative process will take place in 2025 at Azkuna Zentroa within the framework of the Lanean programme, which supports live arts creation.
According to the Basque performing arts company, ENCOUNTERS "explores 'abandoned' spaces where we find overlooked human traces that, though grey, reveal a wildness. (...) The space we inhabit is an open interior where mundane, unremarkable objects lose their purpose in the open air, becoming discarded items that decorate the bedroom of an unknown host who welcomes us into its intimacy without ever looking at us”.
The residency at Azkuna Zentroa marks a starting point for this new project, where the team conjure up an envisioned place. “From there, we invent the remaining elements of the work - materials that gradually come together to create the scene, like a painting in motion,” they explain. #stage #theatre #newlanguages
Azkuna Zentroa Associated Researchers2024-2025
A programme aimed at supporting and fostering the analysis and production related to current creation, that favours the exchange between artistic communities, audiences and other professionals.
Rosa Casado
A multidiscipline artist and researcher, Rosa Casado’s work focuses on questions related to performance and critical spatial practice. In 2025 she is developing the sound and performative piece Here Be Dragons as part of La ilusoria estabilidad del suelo, a project undertaken in her role as an Associate Researcher at Azkuna Zentroa. Through this work, she explores which elements fade away, become blurred, or emerge when the terrestrial is considered from the perspective of the aqueous bodies covering the planet.
Here Be Dragons is an attempt to map the planet’s twilight areas. Above sea level, twilight refers to the space and time when the world sways between night and day. Whereas below sea level, twilight refers to the ocean’s intermediate area where little sunlight penetrates, a dark, cold, high pressure environment that is unimaginably vast, barely known, relatively unexplored and highly vulnerable, where the planet’s largest migration travels its waters daily in an immense wave of life.
#performativepractices
Ixiar Rozas
Una serie de ritmos
As a writer and researcher, Ixiar Rozas works with voice, language and sounds. Her research is a continuum of previous spaces.
To listen to Una serie de ritmos and, right there, to hold the writing. That material contains a rhythmic breathing, a source of energy. And new fermentations will emerge from those compositions. There are ancient words that we use in Basque to denote nudity. And there are words, perhaps on the verge of disappearing, with their own phonetic variants and phonemes which can be heard echoing through the valleys. These materials will be deployed at Azkuna Zentroa to work with other artists and to continue sharing.
Artistic creation support programme that accompanies artists whose works represent an inspiring look at artistic languages.
Ça Marche
Ça Marche is a performing arts company founded in 2015 and based in Barcelona Its creative projects reflect on the dialogue between theatre, performance, movement and visual arts.
In their research as Associated Artists at Azkuna Zentroa they have worked on Incendis, a stage-installation setup that deals with historical, emotional, documentary and artistic aspects regarding fire and blazes.
They are likewise developing the Trabajos forzados stage project, which will be presented at Prototipoak Bilbao, the International Biennial of New Artistic Forms at Azkuna Zentroa. The piece questions the dynamics of language and its relationship with the body based on the idea of silence, both elected and imposed.
#theatre #performance #movement
Idoia Zabaleta
Idoia Zabaleta (Vitoria, 1970) is a choreographer and biologist. Her research and production proposal entitled Zintza Lilura consists of the development of a device in relation to the bodily axis, holding fast, and balance, in which kinetic art, bodily health, and kinesiological tuning all converge. During the creation stage, she will work with artists from the Basque context, and the device will be tested with personnel from the Centre. The project concludes with the unveiling and testing by the community of different audiences at Azkuna Zentroa.
As part of this process, the work Pupa, pupita, pupila. Masaje de la vision will be presented in March at the Auditorium. This work is part of her line of individual performances such as massages and other devices, based on body perception or what she calls “Dance movement 0”. Further information on page 24.
#movement #kineticart #corporalhealth
Lore Stessel
Flemish artist Lore Stessel (Bélgica, 1987) explores the interrelationship between photography and painting. Through her project Poetry of the Gang, she explores working on the beauty of daily routines, small gestures, and the power of movement. explores working on the beauty of daily routines, small gestures, and the power of movement. This quarter she will start meeting dancers from this background to create spaces for what is ‘accidental’ and ‘unexpected’, capturing them photographically.
#photography #dance #movement
#photography #memory #territory
Olatz de Andrés
Amaia Molinet
Artist Amaia Molinet (Lodosa, 1988) works through the medium of photography, embracing it as an expansive field. As an AZ Associated Artist, her project Tierra Quemada offers a healing gaze towards places within the natural landscape of our nearby surroundings where some form of harm or violence has taken place. Although such harm or violence has never been repaired, she rechannels the energy of that violence into a force for regeneration
At the intersection of art, archaeology and magic, she has carried out fieldwork through the vestiges of Biscay’s Iron Belt. She is currently working on the publication that will provide printed support for these experiences.
Following a career as a dancer and choreographer, Olatz de Andrés has set up the company L ŏkke, a structure for choreographic development. As an AZ Associated Artist, she has created Tiempo como cuerpo, a work focused on time as a choreographic tool.
So far, the four-hour-long durational piece-experience Time is a Muscle was premiered in October at the Centre, and an exhibition featuring the Hacer Tiempo, Entre 26 y 62 Artean, and Time is a Muscle research and creation processes has been held. She is currently working on the publication as a record of this entire process.
#dance #movement #body
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME
Film dialogues. Lights, camera, action!
Tuesday, January 21
Tim Burton. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Edward Scissorhands is considered Tim Burton's best film and also the most “Burtonesque” due to its gothic and eccentric aesthetic, its outcast and marginalised characters, and a blend of horror and comedy that characterises the American director's work.
Tuesday, February 18
Howard Hawks. His Girl Friday (1940)
The session focuses on the figure of the American director and scriptwriter Howard Hawks through His Girl Friday (1940) as part of the Classique = Moderne: A New History of the Zinemateka II cycle. This hilarious comedy is actually a fierce critique of the newspaper industry.
Tuesday, March 11
Steven Spielberg. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Steven Spielberg is one of the leading filmmakers in today’s cinematic landscape. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of his most heartfelt and highest-grossing films. An unforgettable classic, it elevated him to the ranks of the top directors of his time.
Essential Comic Dialogues
Wednesday, January 23
Joe Sacco. Gorazde Zona Segura (2000)
Joe Sacco, author of the highly acclaimed Palestine (1996), later turned his attention to the Balkan War, particularly the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, which was severely battered by the Serb-Bosnian troops.
Wednesday, February 19
Jacques Tardí. La guerra de las trincheras War is so horrific that it is impossible to find the words to describe it. Jacques Tardi attempts to do just that through a series of short stories about real soldiers in World War I.
Wednesday, March 19
Shigeru Mizuki. Operación muerte (2010)
Shigeru Mizuki examines the toll of World War II, specifically the practice of gyokusai (literally, "attack until death with dignity"), a euphemism used to mask the harsh reality: an offensive in which all attackers were expected to die.
TUESDAY: JANUARY 21, FEBRUARY 18, MARCH 11
6:30 p.m / 60’
Mediateka BBK: TK101
Free admission upon registration on the website until full capacity is reached
WEDNESDAY: JANUARY 23, FEBRUARY 13, MARCH 19
6:30 p.m / 60’
Mediateka BBK: TK202
Free admission upon registration on the website until full capacity is reached
Reading and artistic creation sessions in Leticia Paschetta's art installation at the Mediateka Gallery. As they wander through the mist of this art installation, children can discover books and improbable places where they can read and share creative experiences.
SATURDAY: JANUARY 11, 25; FEBRUARY 8, 22
5:30 p.m / 60’
6-12 years old
Mediateka BBK: TK101
Max capacity – 15 pax (minimum 2 pax)
Free admission prior registration at the Txikiteka attention point on the same day as the activity
Ipuin txiki
A family activity to encourage reading at an early age likewise a habit of reading outside school. We will learn about the book as an object together with some narrative techniques to enjoy reading as a family.
Free admission prior registration at the Txikiteka attention point on the same day as the activity
Dejabu Itzulera
Dejabu delves into new stage narratives and devices enabling the audience to experience live arts in a different way. Itzulera, their latest creation, is a work that combines film and theatre, full of humour and poetry. In it, the company narrates their trip to Mexico in 2024 and how an unexpected incident changed the course of their adventure.
ESKOLA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23
11:30 a.m
Auditorium
Basque
Aimed at students from 3rd year Secondary Education to 6th Form
Arranged with schools
Olatz Gorrotxategi
Progresoa
Progresoa is a performative piece of Documentary Theatre that tells the story of humanity and its relationship with the planet it inhabits. The latest work by playwright Olatz Gorrotxategi is a studio piece that combines object theatre, audiovisuals, sound fiction, and theatrical text as performative languages to explore the universe and our place within it.
ESKOLA
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10
11:00 a.m
Auditorium
Basque
Aimed at students from 1st year Secondary Education onwards Arranged with schools
Lari Produkzioak
Zaintzaren dantza
Lari Produkzioak premieres Zaintzaren dantza at Azkuna Zentroa. It is a play aimed at children and young audiences, with a focus on diversity.
The group´s first production was Meri, Mari eta Lari in 2019, a play that explores the multiplicity of genders and sexes, different family models, overcoming fears, and ultimately, the concept of freedom.
ESKOLA
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18
11:00 a.m
Auditorium
Basque
Aimed at primary school students
Arranged with schools
Khea Ziater
SCROOGE eta mamuak
SCROOGE eta mamuak is the first children’s stage film by the company Khea Ziater. It is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol, but transferred to the present day. It is produced for the stage in the manner and style of Khea Ziater creations, where stage and film codes come together. Furthermore, in this instance the use of dolls has been added to the creation equation.
ESKOLA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21
11:00 a.m
Auditorium
Basque
Aimed at primary school students
Arranged with schools
AZ publications
Azkuna Zentroa publications contain contemporary artistic practice for your knowledge and dissemination.
The following publications will shortly be on sale: Urbanbat, Ion Munduate, Simposio Internacional de Comisariado, Gala Knörr & Lorea Burge
Book
La ola en la mente
Isabel de Naverán
Spanish Pages: 252
13 x 21 cm
18€
Book-Exhibition catalogue
Somewhere From Here to Heaven
Spanish / English / Basque
Pages: 112
24,5 × 32 cm
33€
Book-Exhibition catalogue
Decrecer
Spanish / English / Basque
Pages: 200 24 × 24 cm 24€
Metakoadernoak
Metakoadernoak. The creative notebooks of Azkuna ZentroaAlhóndiga Bilbao Macarena Recuerda Shepher, Amparo Badiola, Gema Intxausti, Susana Talayero, Ander Pérez Puelles, M. Benito Píriz, Julia Martos, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Jon Gerediaga
Una voz para Erauso. Epílogo para un tiempo trans Cabello/Carceller
Spanish / English / Basque
Pages: 316 24€
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Azkuna Zentroa is a friendly, open and accessible space for everyone.
We work on the continuous improvement of the space and the programme to ensure that all audiences have a rewarding experience, are able to participate in the creative processes, and experience, share and enjoy culture on equal terms. Should you require any specific information, please proceed to Az Info, the information point located in the Atrium.
Azkuna Zentroa has the AENOR certificate of Universal Accessibility according to the UNE 170001-1 Standard
Check the Center's accessibility measures on our website: azkunazentroa.eus
