The CBA is relaunching this initiative which consists of a weekly program of activities aimed at reflection away from the vice of headlines, that help us to a better interpretation of the society in which we live.

Building on a broad program of small and large exhibitions that aim to showcase and provoke thought, the lectures add a regular event to Madrid and our cultural calendar every Monday, featuring prominent figures in the arts. Alongside them, el Círculo It offers a new space where the following will be addressed poetic and artistic, political, cultural or social themes, which serve as a starting point for a profound debate, where the boundaries between disciplines are blurred.

All activities have Free entry until capacity is reached. Below is a preview with some of them:

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16.01.17. Screening · I Will Always Love You, Roberto Rossellini  [film studio]

Coinciding with the exhibition Colored layer, We screened one of the films whose filming was visited by Robert Capa and of which he made a color photographic report that will also be shown before the session.

23.01.17. Conversation · Pessoa / Lisbon revisited. Revisiting a film, a city, an identity · Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego y José Manuel Mouriño [Valle-Inclán Room]

Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego and José Manuel Mouriño are the curators of the exhibition Pessoa / LisbonBased on the projection of materials that were not included in the documentary of the same name, places in the Portuguese city will be revisited to explore the complex personality of Fernando Pessoa, with his infinite places of entry and passage.

30.01.17. Talk + concert · Singing to the Poets, Burlesque and other herbs · Javier Bergia y Begoña Olavide [Valle-Inclán Room]

From the point of view of musical adaptation, they will address texts from the album Burlesque, as well as some poems from the Arab, Sephardic and Jewish traditions.

06.02.17. Lecture · Fernando Pessoa in the City of No One · José Manuel Cuesta Abad [Valle-Inclán Room]

It will focus on the significance of Lisbon as a real and imaginary space in Pessoa's writing, with special attention to Book of Restlessness and the odes of Álvaro de Campos.

13.02.17.  Conversation · Umberto Guerini y Fernando Castro [Goya Room] [19:00 PM]

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Francis Bacon. The Question of Drawing, its commissioner, Fernando Castro, will hold a conversation with Umberto Guerini, President of the Francis Bacon Collection of the drawings donated to Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino.

20.02.17. Conference · Treatingor about the exhibition maker · Manuel Fontán [Goya Room]

In recent decades, the increase in exhibitions organized worldwide has been extraordinary. Alongside art institutions and the global market, the driving force behind this exhibition boom has been, and continues to be, the figure of the curator. This lecture addresses the origins of curating and its current state, whose very existence prompts a few questions: if curators exist, does that mean that works of art are diseased? And if they aren't, why would we need them?

27.02.17. Lecture · Fernando Pessoa, storyteller: detective novel, noir novel, and a couple of other short stories · Perfect Square [Valle-Inclán Room]

Pessoa's interest in the deductive-detective novel has only recently begun to be publicized: if we add to this a decidedly dark story and another that is exemplarily paradoxical, with a very particular sense of humor, and leaving aside the Book of Disquiet, we would have outlined an approximate portrait of another facet of the Pessoa polyhedron, that of the narrator or storyteller.

06.03.17. Conference · How to be contemporaries of Pessoa? Miguel Casado [Valle-Inclán Room]

Fernando Pessoa was capable of producing diverse poetics, all of high intensity, and of composing with the multitude of his voices a space inseparable from life, through which life flows detached from everything, objectified in beings that are made and unmade as they pass through. His work remains alive, not for biographical or psychological reasons, but for the power of his poetry, a work of language that perhaps we have not yet been able to fully explain.

13.03.17. Round table Cinema and grotesque · José Luis García Sánchez, Javier Huerta and Juan Barja [Valle-Inclán Room] [+ info]

27.03.17. Conversation · The theatre of Valle-Inclán Carlos Aladro, Ignacio Amestoy, Irina Kouberskaya and José García Velasco [valley-inclán room]

03.04.17.  Conference · At the end of time. [Francis Bacon and "joyful despair"] Fernando Castro [Goya Room]

Without a doubt, Francis Bacon is already a classic of modern art, an artist capable of reflecting the existential anguish of individuals in a horrific century. His figuration, beyond all academicism, conveys loneliness and could even be interpreted as reconceptualizing the problem of melancholy. This lecture will offer a panoramic overview of this artist's work to highlight his main aesthetic choices.

08.05.17 · Conference · Papers from Son Armadans: Cela and the abstract generation, Juan Manuel Bonet [19:30 PM, free admission until full capacity, Valle-Inclán Hall]

22.05.17 · Conference · The behavior of a star, the furrow of its trajectory, Miguel Fernández Cid [19:30 PM, free admission until full capacity, Valle-Inclán Hall]

A review of Camilo José Cela's ideas, writings, and collaborations with visual artists, through his texts and contributions to the magazine Papeles de Son Armadans and images of artists with whom he spoke.