FUENCARRAL - EL PARDO
Avenida Santo Domingo de la Calzada
LAS TABLAS CHRISTMAS FAIRGROUNDS
From 1 December to 7 January
Children’s attractions, street fair stalls. A churro stand, a big tent for the children’s activities.
La Vaguada Shopping Centre
No. 38 Avenida Monforte De Lemos
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Getting ready for Christmas. Make your own Christmas decorations
9 December, from 4.30 to 6.30pm
Together we’ll make a range of different Christmas decorations to brighten up the house, including tree ornaments, bells and tree toppers, garlands, bunting and table centrepieces.
Recommended age: From 5 to 12 years of age
20 places are available
Getting ready for Christmas. Christmas cards
16 December, from 4.30 to 6.30pm
We’ll design and make our own Christmas cards, drawing, painting and creating lots of different ones with loads of imagination.
Recommended age: from 5 to 12 years of age
20 places are available
Peter Pan en el país de la Ópera
Educational concert
The Ópera y Tú Company
16 December, 12 noon
A dynamic work, with plenty of fun, so that boys and girls can discover some of the most representative works of the lyrical world in the company of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Wendy, her brothers and sisters and even Captain Hook, all of whom who will lead them through the wonderful world of opera.
Recommended age: from 4 to 10 years of age
Navidad a ritmo de Góspel y Espirituales negros
Concert. The Matritum Cantat Choir and prestigious soloists
16 December, 6pm
We will enjoy some of the most popular songs of the season in a programme that explores the history of Negro Spirituals and Gospel music.
Recommended for all ages
Little Coalie, the Page Boy (El Paje Carbonilla)
Puppets
The Moraleja Marionetas Company
22 December, 6pm
Legend has it that one of the Three Kings’ pages tells them how all the boys and girls have behaved during the year. But he also decides who’s been naughty and should receive coal instead of a present! His name is Carbonilla, the page boy. Would you like to meet him?
Recommended age: +3 years of age
Alfonso XII Social and Cultural Centre
No 4 Calle Mira El Río
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Getting ready for Christmas. Make your own Christmas decorations
13 December, from 6 to 8pm
Together we’ll make a range of different Christmas decorations to brighten up the house, including tree ornaments, bells and tree toppers, garlands, bunting and table centrepieces.
Recommended age: from 5 to 12 years of age
20 places are available
El show de Chavi en Navidad
Artist: Javier Guisado
15 December, 6.30pm
A comedy and visual show that mixes three types of humour: pantomime, imitation and games with the audience.
Recommended age: adults
Christmas Carols
Concert. Adagio Group
16 December, 6.30pm
Let’s celebrate the arrival of Christmas with a carol concert by the Adagio Group!
Recommended for all ages
Calixta and the Nativity Scene (Calixta y el Pesebre)
Puppets
The Moraleja Marionetas Company.
17 December, 12 noon
An adorable little rat will discover Christmas and go on an incredible adventure to show everyone that the Three Kings also bring presents to animals.
Recommended age: +3 years.
Getting ready for Christmas. Christmas cards
20 December, from 6 to 8pm
We’ll design and make our own Christmas cards, drawing, painting and creating lots of different ones with loads of imagination.
Recommended age: from 5 to 12 years of age
20 places are available
Cantemos juntos por Navidad
Concert. Eva María del Moral (soprano), Ángel del Palacio (piano).
22 December, 6.30pm
Christmas music from Spain and abroad, including the most famous Spanish Christmas carols, Negro spirituals and Irish songs.
Recommended for all ages
Montecarmelo Social and Cultural Centre
Carretera M 607; km 13. Use the entrance opposite No. 114-b Avenida Santuario de Valverde
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Getting ready for Christmas. Christmas presents
9 December, from 5 to 7pm
We will make small decorations that the children can give to their families for Christmas. We’ll discover all sorts of stories related to this special time of the year.
Recommended age: from 5 to 12 years of age
20 places are available
Getting ready for Christmas. Christmas Cards
16 December, from 5 to 7pm
We will use pop-up and origami techniques to make beautiful cards we can write our best wishes on. And we’ll see how people celebrate Christmas in other parts of the world.
Recommended age: from 5 to 12 years of age
20 places are available
The Bazaar of the Three Kings
Storytelling for children
The ¡Títiri! Cuenta Company
9 December, 12 noon
Two friends will visit the most magical place in the world: The place they keep all the toys. There’s just one rule they have to abide by: they’re not allowed to touch them!
Recommended age: +3 years of age
A Christmas Carol
Puppets
The ¡Títiri! Cuenta Company
16 December, 12 noon
The whole family is sure to enjoy this endearing adaptation for children of Charles Dickens' Christmas story.
Recommended age: +3 years of age
Viaje al corazón de la música
Storytelling for children
The Perros De Amor Producciones and the Pequeritmo Companies
22 December, 6.30pm
Our protagonists will take us on a musical journey to Latin America with traditional songs from that continent, rhythmic and melodic games and incredible instruments that will help us to find the heart of the music.
Recommended age: families
Christmas Concert
Concert. The Barbees Choir
23 December, 12 noon
Madrid’s only female barbershop choir invites you to discover Christmas through song.
Recommended for all ages
Rafael de Leon Social and Cultural Centre
No. 14 Calle Isla de Ons
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Amidst laughter, love and tears (Entre risas, amor y lágrimas)
Theatre for adults
The Y la obra sería Company
15 December, 7pm
A show that combines drama and humour, made up of three short plays, two of them by the writer Luz Bartivas, entitled: “The Man of my Life” (El hombre de mi vida) and “Soul Sisters” (Hermanas del alma). The third play is the entremés “Looking for a Quarrel” (Ganas de reñir) by the Álvarez-Quintero brothers.
Recommended age: adults
Montando el Belén
Clown show
The Terapia Clown Company
16 December, 12 noon
Christmas is here and “Terapia Clown” presents this entertaining clown-humour show inspired by traditional Christmas activities.
Recommended age: from 3 years of age
Valverde Social and Cultural Centre
No. 1 Plaza de Islas Azores
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Copla Carols (Villancicos Copleros)
Musical show. Manuel de Segura
14 December, 7pm
If the copla genre is all about the people and their stories, so are carols, and what’s more, many of the best legends and settings of copla songs take place at Christmas.
Recommended for all ages
La carta de Papá Noel de Cascarilla y Taponeta
Storytelling for children
Cascarilla and Taponeta.
15 December, 6pm
The clowns Cascarilla and Taponeta are going to write the craziest letter you can imagine to Father Christmas. Can you help them to make it better?
Recommended age: +3 years of age
Surprise yourself with a touch of magic this Christmas! (¡Sorpréndete, a golpe de magia, en Navidad!)
Magic for adults
Artist: Carlos Devanti
21 December, 7pm
Our country has lots of really successful magic shows. There are also lots of comedy shows that triumph because of the quality of the stand-up comedians. But... Is it possible to have both in the same performance? Carlos Devanti thinks it is possible and he’s keen to offer you the perfect mix in a show that will have you split your sides laughing and not believing what you see!
Recommended age: adults and children over 13 years of age
Alfredo Kraus Cultural Centre
Glorieta Pradera de Vaquerizas, s/n
Free admission until full capacity is reached
I’m JAZZ HERE for Christmas (JAZZTOY AQUÍ en Navidad)
Monologue with music. Theatre for adults
Artist: Jesús Arenas
15 December, 6.30pm. Well-known tunes such as : The Girl from Ipanema, Bésame Mucho and I feel good, narrated by
Jesús Arenas on solo clarinet, all interspersed with funny monologues and countless stories related to these songs.
Recommended age: adults
Patachicle at Christmas
A show that includes improv, clowns, music, storytelling and a bucketful of humour.
La Excéntrica Company
16 December, at 6pm
A really funny show in which both young and old can participate and make suggestions.
Recommended age: from 3 years of age
Cántame un cuento
Concert. Academic Orchestral Ensemble of Madrid
16 December, 12 noon
It’s Christmas! Let’s celebrate!
Recommended for all ages
Christmas
Concert. Orchestras from the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Carmelo Alonso Bernaola and Federico Chueca Municipal Music Schools.
18 December, 12 noon
It’s Christmas! Let’s celebrate!
Recommended for all ages
Christmas film music played on the piano (Música de películas de Navidad al piano)
Concert. Musicarte. Directed by Cristina Tamariz
21 December, 6pm
It’s Christmas! Let’s celebrate!
Recommended for all ages
Father Christmas’ Journey (El viaje de Papá Noel)
Puppets
The Cambiando cuentos Company
22 December, 6pm
Alert in Lapland! (¡Alerta en Laponia!) Father Christmas can’t set off on his journey this year because his favourite reindeer is missing: Where on earth is Rudolph?
Recommended age: +3 years of age.
Classic carols
Concert. Group: Adagio
23 December, 12 noon
Let’s celebrate Christmas with a repertoire of Christmas carols.
Recommended for all ages
Valle-Inclán Social and Cultural Centre
Calle Arzobispo Morcillo, s/n
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Merry Xmas!
Concert. Blue Moon Jazz Trio
15 December, 7pm
The Blue Moon Jazz trio consists of a pianist, a double bassist and a vocalist who reinterpret unforgettable moments from films and jazz, soul and blues hits from the 1930s to the present day. They will treat us to a special Christmas repertoire with a touch of gospel music to get the festive season off to a flying start.
Recommended for all ages
Hans Christian Andersen’s Winter Tales (Los cuentos de invierno de Hans Christian Andersen)
Conference. Elisa Martín Ortega (UAM) and Susana Gala Pellicer (UAM)
19 December, 7.30pm
A look at the famous Danish writer’s short stories.
Recommended age: adults
Great Works of the Christmas Cycle in Spanish Art Collections (Grandes obras del ciclo de la Navidad en las colecciones artísticas españolas)
Conference. Patricia Alonso de Agustín. Historian
21 December, 7pm
The catalogue of works held in Spanish Art Collections includes a wide variety of works directly related to the Christmas cycle.
Recommended age: adults
Montecarmelo Nature Interpretation Centre
Carretera M-607, Km 13. Use the entrance on No. 114 b Avenida Santuario de Valverde
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
Admission: Free (advance registration is required)
Registration: [email protected]
Destellos de Navidad
Aimed at adults and accompanied children over 10 years of age
22 December, from 5 to 6pm and from 6 to 7pm
Christmas Games and Workshops
23 December, from 11am to 12.30pm
For families with children over 6 years of age
Urban Camp at the Nature Interpretation Centre
Recycled Christmas
From 26 to 30 December and from 2 to 5 January, from 9am to 2pm
Age: Children born between 2011 and 2017
Registration is open from 3 December until all 20 places are filled, at the following email address: [email protected].
PLAY CENTRES
Christmas Special: To celebrate Christmas, and to bid farewell to the year, we are putting on a special Christmas programme in the play centres.
Aimed at children between 4 and 10 years of age.
Free admission until full capacity is reached
16 and 23 December, from 11am to 1pm
Alfonso XII Social and Cultural Centre. Calle Mira el Río, 4 (El Pardo)
VALVERDE Social and Cultural Centre. Plaza Islas Azores, 1
CHRISTMAS SCHOOL FOR LITTLE ARTISTS
Creative activities: modelling, drawing and painting, music and dance, theatre
From 26 to 29 December and from 2 to 5 January, from 9am to 2pm
Ages: from 6 to 12
Available places: 20 in each centre.
Registration: Please send an email to the Cultural Centre of your choice between 11 and 13 December.
ALFONSO XII SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE. No. 4 Calle Mira el Río (28048 Madrid). Telephone number: 913 762 060 Email address: [email protected]
ALFREDO KRAUS CULTURAL CENTRE. Glorieta Pradera de Vaquerizas, s/n (28035 Madrid). Telephone number: 913 767 085 Email address: [email protected]
RAFAEL DE LEÓN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE. No. 14 Calle Isla de Ons (28035 Madrid). Telephone number: 917 310 350 Email address: [email protected]
LA VAGUADA CULTURAL CENTRE. No. 38 Avenida Monforte de Lemos (28029 Madrid). Telephone number: 915 886 883 Email address: [email protected]
MONTECARMELO SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE. Carretera de Colmenar Viejo, km. 13 (28049 Madrid). Telephone number: 917364151 Email address: [email protected]
VALVERDE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE. No. 1 Plaza de las Islas Azores (28034 Madrid). Telephone number: 917 364 760 Email address: [email protected]
VALLE-INCLÁN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE. Calle Arzobispo Morcillo, s/n (28034 Madrid). Telephone number: 913230805 Email address: [email protected]
A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS IN THE STREET
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Recommended for all ages
Palo Santo
A flamenco duo formed by Julia Trujillo (cantaora) and Miguel Vega (guitar), with a repertoire of flamenco carols.
21 December, 12.30pm. Avenida Monforte de Lemos, in front of number 38
22 December, 12.30pm. Calle Fermín Caballero
23 December, 12.30pm. Plaza Islas Azores
26 December, 12.30pm. Las Tablas. No. 29 Avenida Camino de Santiago
27 December, 12.30pm. Plaza de El Pardo
28 December, 12.30pm. Montecarmelo. Avenida Monasterio de las Huelgas, corner of Calle Monasterio de Silos
Chapeau Duo
A group formed by the violinist Andrea Szamek and the accordionist Alfredo Valero. A classic Christmas repertoire with a few folk songs thrown in for good measure.
21 December, 12.30pm. Plaza de El Pardo
22 December, 12.30pm. Las Tablas. Calle María Tubau
23 December, 12.30pm. Avenida Monforte de Lemos, in front of number 38
26 December, 12.30pm. Montecarmelo. Avenida Monasterio de El Escorial, corner of Avenida Montesclaros
27 December, 12.30pm. Plaza Islas Azores
28 December, 12.30pm. Calle Fermín Caballero
Accordion music
A programme of Christmas music Scott. A. Singer. A micro-concert by an accordionist dressed in the style of the Belle Époque.
3 January, 12 noon. Avenida Monforte de Lemos, in front of number 38
3 January, 1.30pm. Plaza de El Pardo
4 January, 12 noon. Plaza Isla de Java
4 January, 1.30pm. MONTECARMELO, Plaza del Metro between Calle Monasterio de Silos, Calle Monasterio de El Escorial and Calle Monasterio de Samos
Saxophone music
A programme of Christmas music Espinosax. A musical journey through different styles and rhythms played on the saxophone.
2 January, 12 noon. Calle Fermín Caballero, beside number 69
2 January, 1.30pm. Plaza Islas Azores
5 January, 12 noon. Las Tablas. Avenida Santo Domingo de la Calzada beside the metro ligero tram station.
5 January, 1.30pm. Avenida Monforte de Lemos, in front of number 38
