Community and Culture

One week of techno in Malaga: FLAMA festival June 28th- 29th

BIG NEWS The city of Malaga, as is made evident by the weekly versatile events that have been piling up in the “noteworthy section”, is about to add a highly anticipated event to the mix!  One month after Foolk, the first Sonovisual festival that returned in La Termica, Malaga, everything pointed in the direction that […]

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A guide to Malaga’s 7th Estival, the Contemporary Art Exhibition

The festival season is still underway, and the busiest city of Andalucia has yet another Art festival to offer to the art-thirsty locals and the curious tourists who will track down the street performances and could not resist joining in the fun! This “effervescent” version of Estival is all about the most positive, energetic, and

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Slam poetry “malaka” returns in Malaga

Today’s practices make it harder and harder to avoid being ethically jeopardized each day, with every lawful procedure being turned into a disgrace constantly. The new reality is for the “big names”, institutions, multinational companies, deciding to hold a “profile of neutrality”, which is marketed as just a refusal to take a stance, a statement

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One week of techno in Malaga: DJ sets from June 17th to the 22nd

If you live in Malaga, you probably have noticed that the atmosphere is super festive at all times. How is that possible? Even the Spaniards, who come from elsewhere and experience the city for the first time, cannot believe their eyes. It’s mid-week and nobody is just at home, chilling. From crazy-long queues the size

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Unicaja Foundation Malaga, the enviable exhibition “From Raphael to Bacon”

There are several pathways to follow to guarantee a polished, elevated result with coherence while curating an exhibition. Starting from the process of selection, all the artwork is categorized according to the artistic movement it belongs to, or the historical period in which its creation date falls. Most museums have a mentality of grouping together

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Chicago the Musical- a broadway play arrives in Malaga

Fresh from New York City, Broadway is “making the rounds” once again, doing one of its usual tours, this time with a production of the musical Chicago. If you are like me and have found yourself singing “All that Jazz,” flattening that C major that Catherine Zeta-Jones was singing in the motion picture, you would

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One week of techno in Malaga- DJ sets from June 10th to the 17th

Marking a progression in the weekly reports, this section is all about finding the right places for an expat to connect with more and more people who share a common love for high BPMs and even higher-quality entertainment. Each week, we are slowly mapping Malaga’s clubs, venues, event houses, and raver-friendly locations, providing a clear

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The most extra Queer event in Malaga- knowing the community better

Approaching your community as a queer person in a new city can be energy-draining and disappointing at first. Even the word “heart-wrenching” comes to mind… I avoided it, not to sound too dramatic… All of us have been there before. The loneliness does not last too long though; just until you make your first new

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On Boiler Room’s origins and Malaga welcoming the BR format

Going back fourteen years to 2010, a currently beloved version of “live-streaming” came into being: Boiler Room. Its rise in popularity had to go hand in hand with the mainstreamization of what was, up until that point, mainly an underground electronic scene. Certain DJs reached unprecedented viewership for YouTube content. A few for instance, are

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Queer travel agencies in Spain: useful tool for domestic or international travels

Pride month is upon us. It is self-evident that June, the month that has been recognized as the community’s celebration, was not arbitrarily picked out from the calendar. It is no coincidense that within the same month, falls the Summer Solstice marking the day with the most light and the start of summertime. Isn’t the

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