International Women's Day
#8M
El Círculo We join the 8M movement to demand true equality and gender justice, supporting the fight for an inclusive and pluralistic future. We believe in the urgent need for a critical culture informed by feminism, one that helps us focus on the main problems of today's world and understand their complexity. Furthermore, it is essential that this perspective not only looks to the present but also to the past, promoting a restorative reflection on history and its impact on our current society.
As a cultural institution, we understand that we must constantly review our practices and ways of doing things, evaluating how we position ourselves and what we propose in the fight for gender equality.
We know that the greatest challenge is ensuring that this feminist perspective is not limited to the weeks leading up to March 8th, but rather permeates all aspects of our institution deeply and lastingly. Even in 2025, it remains vital to emphasize: without feminism there is no culture, and without a critical and transformative culture, there will be no future. This is a commitment we make to continue moving towards a freer, more dignified, and more diverse future.
Activities
Young Poetry
IV Witches' Sabbath of Women Poets
03/03/25
To mark International Women's Day (March 8), the Witches' Sabbath of Women Poets returns to CírculoThis time, it's a traveling experience. Led by Carla Nyman, our poets will guide you on a poetic journey through different spaces of the building, culminating in a final celebration in the María Zambrano Room. It will be a tribute to words, women, and empowerment.
Debate
'The Second Sex' and its legacy 75 years later
05/03/25
We invite you to a panel discussion on Simone de Beauvoir's *The Second Sex* , a key work of feminism. Seventy-five years after its publication, we will explore its philosophical impact and how it continues to engage with contemporary struggles such as Marxism and decolonial critique. Nuria Sánchez Madrid, Clara Navarro, and Laila Yousef will guide us in this analysis of the work and its relevance today.
Workshop
07/03/25
Artist Marta Velázquez will lead a free workshop where participants can design a personalized typographic composition using letter stamps and a grid. Guided by her expertise, they will explore different options to create a visually balanced piece, ideal for the March 8th march.
Registration required.
Homenaje
Paquita, we're going to miss you
07/03/25
We celebrate the "queen of the people" and champion of women: Paquita la del Barrio. Jesús Burrola and Bárbara Fabiana Hernández present a performance in honor of the Veracruz native. Come grab a taco and sing along to "Las mujeres mandan" (Women Rule), "Cheque en blanco" (Blank Check), "Me saludas a la tuya" (Say Hi to Yours), "Piérdeme el respeto" (Lose My Respect), or the well-known "Rata de dos patas" (Two-Legged Rat).
Poetic Encounter
08/03/24
Three authors, Mercedes Folgueira, Eva Palacios, and Raquel Martínez, will share their recent poetic works in a dialogue about women's literary creation. In their texts, the poetic emerges as a space where body and word intertwine, evoking a longing for origins.
Readings
Minerva
Feminism is not for women.
With Clara Serra.
“ Workers' rights positions and classical feminism share something: an uncomfortable feeling that the advance of feminism has displaced them from the place that belonged to them.”
The feminist vanguard. A radical transvaluation.
With Gabriele Schor and Ana Useros.
“It is therefore necessary to explore archives and legacies of still unknown women and their works, to investigate their biographies, their artistic careers, their participation in exhibitions, their writings and other relevant materials.”
Virginia Woolf would have been a great tweeter.
With Itziar Hernández, Lucía Lijtmaer, Santiago Gerchunoff and Gonzalo Torné
“ Beyond feminism, what makes her contemporary is that she is a writer who develops responses to things she doesn’t like.”
The museum is by definition a colonial apparatus
With Elvira Dyangani Ose, Coro J. and A. Juanena
“ Audre Lorde used to say that the master’s house could not be dismantled with the master’s tools. My reading of that is that the museum platform must be distorted, redefined from its meanings, its structures.”
Editions Círculo de Bellas Artes and Rag Language
Feminisms and cultural industries. Conversations with women in Spanish culture.
This book gathers the opinions of writers, film producers, actresses, stage directors, comic artists, curators, cultural managers, singers, journalists or visual artists who represent different sectors and generations of culture in our country.