59th BFI London Film Festival Wed 7 – Sun 10 October BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry, LFF positions London as the world’s leading creative city. Instituto Cervantes supports the Spanish and Latin American films included in the general programme of the festival. Tickets and further information www.bfi.org.uk/lff

Latin American Dictatorships Series: Venezuela Wed 28, 6.30pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN Canning House and Instituto Cervantes areco-presenting this series of talks that looks at military dictatorships in 20th Century Latin America and their legacies to present day. Each talk focuseson a different country. General Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935: 27 years as the necessary gendarme?With Dr Brian S McBeth, British Venezuelan Society.

Organised by Canning House and Instituto Cervantes

Tickets £10, conc. £5Bookings and further information www.canninghouse.org/events/

Cervantes Prize Winners Series: Antonio Buero Vallejo Mon 19, 6.30pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN The fifth lecture of the series is dedicated to Antonio Buero Vallejo, one of the greatest dramatists of twentieth-century Spain and is given by Dr Catherine O’Leary, Head of the Department of Spanish atUniversity of St Andrews.

Organised by the Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain in the UK and Instituto Cervantes Tickets Free, Booking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es,By phone 0207 201 0752 Further information www.londres.cervantes.es

Dr Gregorio Marañón-Man of Letters, Man of Science Thu 1, 6.30pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN Gregorio Marañón, one of the greatest Spaniards of the 20th century. Premier London showing of Spanish TV documentary Gregorio Marañón. Médico,humanista y liberal (in Spanish with English subtitles) directed by Jose Luis López Linares. Followed by panel discussion in English with his critically acclaimed biogropher Antonio López Vega and his grandson, the author and journalist Tom Burns Marañón (OBE). Organized by the British-Spanish Society and theSociety of Spanish Scientists and Researchers in the UK (SRUK) in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes. Tickets BSS & Cervantes members £10, conc. £5Non members: £20Bookings and further information info@britishspanishsociety.org

2nd Festival of Spanish Song and Zarzuela Concert

Airs of Latin America Sun 11, 4.00pm Omnibus, 1 Clapham Common North Side London, SW4 0QW Tickets £12

Screening

El terrible Pérez Wed 14, 6.30pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN Tickets Free Concert

A Spanish promenade Fri 23, 1.00pm St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square London, WC2N 4JJ Tickets Free

Lecture

Sibling Rivalries – Zarzuela and Operetta Fri 23, 6.30pm nstituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN Tickets Free

Concert

Souvenirs from Mexico Fri 30, 1.10pm St James’s Church, Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly London, W1J 9LL Tickets Free

Lecture

From El Cid to twelve-tonetechnique: the vocal music of Spanish exiled composers Fri 30, 6.30pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN Tickets Free

The Festival of Spanish Song and Zarzuela isorganised by London Lyric Arts with the collaboration of Fundación Guerrero, ILAMS and Instituto Cervantes

Tickets and further information www.spanishsongfestival.co.uk/www.londres.cervantes.es/

Cultural ProgrammeOctober 2015