Andorra's Vibrant Weekend Cultural Events: Workshops, Music, and Exhibitions
Family workshops, live music, dance, and organ concerts light up Andorra's parishes this weekend, alongside ongoing exhibitions on comics,.
Key Points
- La Massana: Christmas crafts, face-painting, choirs, bands, and bubble experiments in Plaça de l’Església.
- Escaldes-Engordany: Family dance workshop and kids' Egyptian archaeology dig at Centre d’Art.
- Andorra la Vella: XXVI Festival d’Orgue&ND with Alma Bettencourt at 21:30 in Església de Sant Esteve.
- Ongoing exhibitions: Comics, Egyptian artifacts, early photographers, and Romanesque art across parishes.
Andorra's weekend cultural scene offers family workshops, live music performances, and new exhibitions, with events spanning crafts, dance, bubbles, archaeology, and concerts across parishes.
In La Massana's Plaça de l’Església, the Estelàrium hosts multiple family activities: Martexu leads a Christmas decoration workshop and a 19:00 face-painting session; the Coral de Sant Antoni performs at 17:00; and the traditional music show "Qui no vulgui pols, que no vagi a l’era" starts at 18:00. De Banda a Banda delivers an energetic band concert from 17:30 to 19:00 in the same square. Enlaire's "Bufa i Rebufa" provides interactive bubble experiments for families.
Escaldes-Engordany features a family dance workshop at Plaça Coprínceps and the Centre d’Art's "Petites i Petits Arqueòlegs" from 16:30 to 18:30, where children explore an Egyptian dig site.
The evening peaks with the XXVI Festival d’Orgue&ND, "A la Llum de París," as organist Alma Bettencourt plays works by Langlais, Dupré, Duruflé, Messiaen, and Leguay at 21:30 in Andorra la Vella's Església de Sant Esteve.
Late-night music includes Black Andorra and Reaktor Group TGN with headliner Amygdala at 23:00 in Arinsal's sociocultural building.
Ongoing exhibitions include La Massana's Museu del Còmic with Oscar Martin's "Solo," tracing his Tom and Jerry-linked hero, until 16 January; Bici Lab Andorra's "Ciutats a Escala Humana," using Playmobil and mappings to explore car-free urban models, until 28 December; the CEE and Centre d’Art's "Del Néixer al Renéixer: Vivències a l’Antic Egipte," featuring Barcelona's Egyptian Museum artifacts on daily life, until 21 February; the government exhibition hall's "Pioners 1884-1954: L’Andorra dels Primers Fotògrafs" from national archives, until 7 March; La Massana's Biblioteca Comunal with Carles Pellejero's illustrations from "El Museu de l’Elefant," until 5 January; and Canillo's Museu de la Moto presenting Francesc Galobardes' ink-and-cane drawings of Andorran Romanesque art, until 31 December.
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