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The National Archaeological Museum, with the support of Spanish Cultural Action (AC/E), is hosting from October 31 to March 30 an exhibition that explores the deep connection the ancient Greeks established with nature. From lush gardens to cosmic forces, nature was to them much more than a mere environment: it was the stage of their myths, the reflection of their beliefs and the engine of their daily lives.

presentación del Anuario AC/E de cultura digital el 28 de mayo en el Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid con la participación de los autores y el comité asesor: Javier Celaya, Eugenia San Segundo, Mauro Canut, Mariana Toro Nader, Alfredo Marcos, Nuria Rodríguez, Michael McLoughlin, Chema Galante, Maite Ortega, Bibiana Ricciardi y Carlos Tardón

The Sibiŀla is a wise woman believed to embody a prophetic spirit. Her voice foretells the fate of the year accompanied by a choir and ancient instruments. Even though it is a pagan ritual, this song is typically performed on the night of December 24, before the Midnight Mass, in churches and cathedrals in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencia, Sardinia (Alghero) and French Roussillon.

The Aguilandeiros de San Xuan is a winter masquerade like many others on the peninsula and in much of Europe. This winter solstice tradition brings masked characters that walk the streets of villages asking for a Christmas present.

Desde su llegada a Europa en el siglo XIII, procedentes del noroeste de la India, y con una población actual en el continente de unos 8 millones de personas, los gitanos son la minoría más numerosa en la actual Unión Europea.

In today’s Europe, there are only two regions in which long-distance seasonal movement of livestock continues: in the region of Scandinavia with the transhumance of reindeer and in the Iberian Peninsula with sheep.

'Avetimología-Birdtymology' is the animated short film commissioned by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) to Sygnatia within the framework of the Cultural Program of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which tells the history of Europe and Spain through different species of birds that accompany us on a journey through history, art and nature.

The Vallfogona Parade” was an unrealized 1879 project by the modernist architect Antoni Gaudí. Gaudí wished to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of the Rector of Vallfogona, a priest and poet of the small Catalan village of Vallfogona, with a parade with floats

One of the most important missions of European Union is to ensure democracy and the rule of law, as well as to promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. To confront the hatred imposed by dictatorships of some parts of Europe and the rest of the world, education is the key. This short piece of animation aims to remind us of this history to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. .

This oneiric piece tells the story of how the hurdy-gurdy originated. This string instrument left its monastic and church settings to become a popular instrument amongst minstrels and troubadours. It was later played by pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago, and then became known throughout Europe.

The short film, commissioned by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) from Sygnatia within the framework of the Cultural Program of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and directed by Xosé Zapata, includes tributes to our cultural heritage, from the painting of Velázquez , Dürer or Picasso, to our most recent history.

Wolf Vostell, a Spanish German artist of worldwide prestige, arrived from Leverkusen to Malpartida de Cáceres in 1976 and founded the Museo Vostell, turning this Lavadero de Lanas into a critical space for the European artistic avant-garde.

This audiovisual piece, illustrated by Andalusian cartoonist Grillante and animated by Alfonso Benítez, portrays the living tradition of improvisation, taking us a on a journey through the south of Europe whilst showing a 28-verse poem composed and told by seven different voices, each poet adding to the other’s preceding verses, very much like an exquisite cadaver.

The accordion, invented in Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century, quickly became the ideal instrument for popular music. It arrived in Spain through the Italian workers who worked on the construction of the northern railways. From that moment on it was the instrument par excellence in parties and festivals, and with it came the dance in pairs, the "agarrao" dance.

The Silbo Gomero is a language, a basic tool for shepherds who were far from each other and in turn from the towns.

"pUEnte, Illustrated Encounters" is a set of 11 short animation pieces whose protagonists are musical instruments, traditions, arts, artists, stories and places that will make visible little-known and unique aspects that unite us citizens of the European Union…

Spain has given the go-ahead to the presidency of the Council of the European Union with the inauguration of the artistic project 'Solar Landscape' by the artist Rocío Asensi, which has two installations in the Council building that hosts the meetings of the Twenty-seven and the European leaders summit.

Light, sun, ecological transition, energy, European values, all this is what this work wants to represent. Artistic creation is the soul of European culture and European culture is the basis of the entire construction of Europe", said the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and the European Union, Jose Manuel Albares from Brussels.

In this video, the curator of the exhibition, Ernesto Estrella Cózar, presents this exhibition that reconstructs the broad context of Spanish intellectual exile in Puerto Rico, paying attention to the daily cultural life of these exiles (their projects, their publications, their collaborations and friendships ). Among the Spanish intellectuals and artists who made Puerto Rico their home and who participated intensely in the sociocultural life of the island are: Juan Ramón Jiménez and Zenobia Camprubí, Pau Casals, Pedro Salinas, María Zambrano, Jorge Guillén, Francisco Ayala, Federico de Onís or Aurora de Albornoz.

In this video, the curator of the exhibition, Ernesto Estrella Cózar, presents this exhibition that reconstructs the broad context of Spanish intellectual exile in Puerto Rico, paying attention to the daily cultural life of these exiles (their projects, their publications, their collaborations and friendships ). Among the Spanish intellectuals and artists who made Puerto Rico their home and who participated intensely in the sociocultural life of the island are: Juan Ramón Jiménez and Zenobia Camprubí, Pau Casals, Pedro Salinas, María Zambrano, Jorge Guillén, Francisco Ayala, Federico de Onís or Aurora de Albornoz.

On the occasion of the publication of the 2023 Yearbook, AC/E convened several panels of experts at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica with the authors and advisors of this year's edition to discuss the main topics of the Focus and the articles…

Promoted by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Sports with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), the MusaE project is articulated as a circuit of acoustic concerts and micro-concerts that circulates through the network of State Museums. The testimony of its success can be found in the words of the protagonists of the 2022 edition.

On March 15, 2022, the transmedia memory of the Spain Guest of Honor project at the Frankfurt Book Fair was presented at the Goethe-Institut Madrid with the participation of María Jesús Montero Cuadrado, Minister of Finance and Public Function, María José Gálvez Salvador, General Director of the Book and Promotion of Reading, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Marián del Egido Rodríguez, director of the "Carlos Saura Center for the Conservation and Restoration of Film Collections" of the Spanish Film Library, Rosa Montero, writer and journalist, Roger Casas-Alatriste , CEO and founder of El Cañonazo Transmedia, and José Andrés Torres Mora, president of Acción Cultural Española.

In this playlist, you can access the videos with all the recordings of the meetings that took place in the Guest of Honor Spanish Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022.

AC/E presented in this edition of Pública its project “Xacobeo. A route through the territories of our imaginary”. A multidisciplinary conversation that shows first-hand a collaborative project around intangible cultural heritage and artistic creation that has addressed gender, sustainability, transversality and social inclusion criteria from its outset. Artists, curators, anthropologists, photographers and participating citizens.

In this video, Isabel Izquierdo, director of programming at AC/E, together with some coordinators and collaborators of our institution, present the activity program for 2023 at Pública 2023.

Making of the Exhibition "Nebrija, the pride of being a grammarian" at the National Library of Spain, (2022-2023) on the occasion of the V centenary of the death of Antonio de Nebrija.

Teresa Jiménez Calvente reflects on Nebrija's legacy. The exhibition brings together more than a hundred works from the National Library collections, along with others on loan from a dozen Spanish institutions, follows Nebrija's footsteps and invites you to tour Spain at the time and its centers of knowledge.