Andorra's Weekend Cultural Highlights: Art, Cinema, Music & Traditions

### Andorra's Weekend Cultural Highlights: Art, Exhibitions, Cinema, Music and Traditions

Andorra's parishes offer a diverse cultural lineup this weekend, including immersive exhibitions, live performances, film screenings, workshops and a traditional market, with many events continuing into spring.

In Andorra la Vella, the fourth Video Mapping Night features interactive projections, sound and animations across the historic centre's buildings from 6pm to 9pm. Comedian Abián Díaz follows at 9.30pm with 90 minutes of piano-accompanied stand-up at the Congress Centre.

The Encants de Sant Antoni market unfolds from 11.30am at Església de Sant Pere Màrtir in Escaldes-Engordany, a longstanding tradition blending festive sales and charitable aims as Candelera approaches.

Film enthusiasts can catch mountain cinema at ACCO-Andorra Congrés Centre in Ordino and La Massana. At 9pm, "Border to Border" documents a seven-day, 415km cross-country ski traverse through Finnish Lapland from the Russian to Swedish border. "Esquí Nòrdic a Latitud 70" screens at the same time, showcasing ski adventures around the Finnish village of Saariselkä and one of the country's largest Nordic ski resorts.

Exhibitions remain on view across venues. In Escaldes-Engordany, Centre d’Art hosts "From Birth to Rebirth: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt," displaying artefacts from Barcelona's Egyptian Museum for a glimpse into everyday ancient life, until 21 February. "Van Gogh Alive" at Sala Prat del Roure delivers giant, immersive projections of the artist's works until 6 April. Espai Caldes presents French street artist C215's (Christian Guémy) "Figures of Emancipation," honouring key figures in France's fight for freedom, until 13 March.

Andorra la Vella features Bici Lab Andorra's "Cities at Human Scale" at the Bicycle Museum, open 10am to 6pm with Playmobil models and projections of car-free urban designs, until 28 February; "The Nude and the Emotional Object" at Centre Cultural La Llacuna, examining body-object interactions, until 27 February; and the government exhibition hall's "Pioneers 1884-1954: Andorra's First Photographers," drawn from national archives, until 7 March. In Canillo, Naiara Escabias's "Breaths of Canillo" continues at Cal Federico until 31 March.

Workshops include "Little Archaeologists" from 4.30pm to 6.30pm at Centre d’Art, where participants dig and analyse Egyptian finds. A poetry-writing session runs 10am to 1pm at the government public library.

Theatre brings history to life in Encamp. "Fhasa, the Light of its Home" at 6pm in the MW Electricity Museum recounts the 1930s power plant construction and its community impact. "PICASSa," starring Lorena Nogal and echoing Picasso's style, explores transience at 8.30pm in Ràdio Andorra.

Music spotlights Andorran hard rock band Waver at 7pm in Ordino's Era del Raser. Líquid Dansa hosts a health and wellbeing day centred on movement at their Escaldes-Engordany school. Ordino's Magic Circle factory offers tours on reindeer flour production and elf workshops until 1 March.

These events highlight Andorra's dynamic winter cultural scene.