El Five Days Festival. Flamenco before and after flamenco, curated by Peter G. Romero in the context of Europalia Spain Festival 2025, will flood the city of Brussels from November 26 to 30, 2025, mainly in Bozar and other places such as the Cervantes Institute of Brussels, the La Clef d'Or bar, or the Continental.
The Europalia Spain 2025/2026 Festival, a significant project supporting the internationalization of Spanish artists and promoting Spanish culture, is one of the longest-running cultural events, held biennially since 1969. This multidisciplinary festival offers an extensive artistic program encompassing exhibitions, performing arts, music, literature, lectures, and film, with the aim of providing a deep and comprehensive view of the culture of the guest country, in this case, Spain. Between October 7, 2025, and February 1, 2026, in collaboration with Belgium's leading cultural institutions, the festival will feature activities in the country's main concert halls, museums, and theaters.
On the Spanish side, this project is led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, through the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Spanish Cultural Action (AC/E).
"This multidisciplinary festival offers an extensive artistic program encompassing exhibitions, performing arts, music, literature, lectures and film, with the purpose of providing a deep and complete vision of the culture of the guest country, in this case Spain."
Flamenco in the XXI century
This is the question posed by Pedro G. Romero, artist, curator, researcher, and artistic director and collaborator of great figures of the flamenco such as Israel Galván, Rocío Molina, Rocío Márquez, Niño de Elche, Luz Arcas, and Inés Bacán, among many others. He was awarded the National Prize for Visual Arts in 2024. Through his projects 'Archivo FX' and 'Máquina PH', he promotes the Independent Platform for Studies FlamencoModern and Contemporary Studies (PIE.FMC) whose main objective is to broaden the field of study of flamencoFurthermore, he has promoted projects on a European scale, such as 'forma-de-vida', on art in flamencos, gypsies and Romani for the Bergen Assembly in Norway and the Kunstverein in Stuttgart (Germany).
These five days contain a multidisciplinary program including concerts, films, lectures, and interventions within the exhibition itself. Light and shadow: Goya and Spanish realismWithin this framework, Pedro G. Romero intends for the public to have a broad perspective and tools for understanding what it is. flamenco, which has been the flamenco and even to imagine what it will be like flamenco to come.
With sessions dedicated to flamenco music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and a long day of flamencoelectronics and noise. With The Butterfly's Spell / Untitled Comedy, productions of the Ursula Lopez Company, where the entire history of flamencoWith sessions dedicated to what is considered traditional —Carmen Ledesma, Pastora Galván, La Piñona— but that is as contemporary as the opening of the field that the new choreographers —Luz Arcas, Patricia Caballero, Laila Tafur—, they are exploring, and with many of the most representative artists of flamenco figure.
