Centro Gabriela Mistral - GAM
Upcoming events at Centro Gabriela Mistral - GAM, Santiago, Santiago.
Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 227 · Santiago · Directions ↗ · 51 upcoming
FAMILY
BiblioGAM Reading Challenge 2026
A reading initiative rooted in Gabriela Mistral's philosophy: making reading a daily habit and natural joy, as essential as looking, nurturing a love of literature.
EXHIBITIONS
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An exhibition of Pedro Marinello's iconic photographs of Pedro Lemebel, exploring memory, dissidence and visual appropriation through his archival lens.
EXHIBITIONS
Made in China
Chinese objects from the Museo de Arte Popular Americano collection return to public view after more than fifty years. The exhibition traces cultural exchange and craftsmanship across decades.
THEATRE
Propaganda
Directed by Ana Luz Ormazábal, this GAM-Theater Heidelberg co-production, with Goethe-Institut Chile support, examines the seduction and mechanisms of political and social persuasion.
THEATRE
Elephant Head
Silencio Blanco returns to GAM with a premiere narrating a man's transformation as he loses memory and identity, becoming symbolically suspended between past and present.
READING
Citizen Reading and Writing Lab 60+
An inclusive workshop inviting older adults to explore reading and writing as spaces for memory, reflection, and personal expression, presented by SURA.
WORKSHOPS
Fábula Training Programme
An exchange platform for knowledge and creative experience that connects emerging talents with established practitioners in performing arts, fostering dialogue and artistic development.
WORKSHOPS
Citizen Theatre Laboratory 2026: Presented by SURA
Participate in ensemble performances led by Andrés Saavedra Castro. This collective creation space brings together participants from different backgrounds to develop theatrical work.
CONTEMPORARY
Movediza Festival
A diverse contemporary dance festival at GAM and multiple city venues. For adults: Excarnación and additional performances exploring movement, bodies and artistic expression.
FESTIVALS
¡Book Santiago la gran fiesta literaria que se toma el Cerro Santa Lucía!
La Ilustre Municipalidad de Santiago, a través de su Subdirección de Cultura, invita a toda la comunidad a vivir la
FESTIVALS
“Presentación de resultados de investigación sobre trayectorias lectoras en Biblioteca Nicomedes Guzmán”
El miércoles 29 de abril, a las 17:00 horas, se presentarán en la Biblioteca Nicomedes Guzmán los resultados de la
THEATRE
Purgatory
A new teacher from Santiago arrives at a rural school near Volcán Villarrica, disrupting a collusive system where educators exploit the weak oversight of vulnerable students.
THEATRE
The Boy of Fossils
Gabriel, a ten-year-old paleontologist by intuition and conviction, lives in Los Vilos and invites schoolfriends on adventures seeking fossils and uncovering the earth's ancient secrets.
CONTEMPORARY
BORANDA: Experiencias Latinas del Amor– Salsa, danza y pasión en CEINA
A través de la música salsa y un lenguaje coreográfico híbrido, la obra propone una relectura contemporánea de una herencia
INTERNATIONAL
Tras más de una década de circulación nacional e internacional, regresa
La obra tendrá temporada todos los domingos de mayo a las 19:00H en la Sala la Comedia de Teatro
MUSICAL
Canteen Loves
GAM's first 2011 production returns: a successful tragicomic musical written by Juan Radrigán, directed by Mariana Muñoz, exploring desire, longing and human connection in everyday spaces.
TALKS
Window to Alameda: The City of Lemebel
From BiblioGAM, this session honours the legacy and vision of Pedro Lemebel, examining his urban critique and queer activism in contemporary Santiago.
THEATRE
Villa Project
A performance based on houses that became torture and extermination centres during dictatorship. A space recovering memory, silence and the resilience of those who endured.
THEATRE
Brain
Actor Jorge Becker performs a solo piece about living with a condition that turns memory, vision and movement into a daily battle. A work exploring neurological change and resilience.
DANCE
Embers
A fire threatening to extinguish, tension between despair and a spark of life refusing to die. Movement and stillness clash as the body dances while the face guards silence.
TECH
Window to Alameda: Human Identity, Creativity and AI
From BiblioGAM, this conversation investigates the intersection of artificial intelligence and human creativity, asking how technology reshapes artistic practice and identity.
THEATRE
Rescue
Alejandro Moreno's staging and dramaturgy invites witnessing the abandoned Teatro Windsor of Chañaral in dialogue with performance, memory and the passage of time.
THEATRE
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet's Pulitzer-winning play arrives at GAM under Álvaro Espinoza's direction. Real estate salesmen on the brink compete, deceive and struggle for survival and dignity.
THEATRE
The Kiss of Rock Hudson
Built from testimonies and archives of HIV+ people and their circles, this dissenting performance examines intimacy, stigma and queer histories through a critical lens.
THEATRE
At the Foot of the Tree
The figure of Humberto Maturana is reborn through this theatrical intervention, drawing texts from 'The Tree of Knowledge'. A co-production examining philosophy and human understanding.
DANCE
Paulina Mellado: Remountings in Performance
Celebrated choreographer and director Paulina Mellado, 2022 National Performing Arts Award winner, presents two of her landmark works at GAM, exploring movement and theatrical composition.
FAMILY
Board Games at BiblioGAM
Free gatherings exploring board games from modern classics to Chilean creations. Celebrate tabletop gaming culture and discover new favorites in a community setting.
EXHIBITIONS
Guerrilla Girls
Chile's first exhibition of Guerrilla Girls and Guerrilla Girls Broadband traces their work from 1985 through posters, public actions, and archival materials documenting art activism.
TALKS
Window to Alameda: Data, Anonymity and Irony
From BiblioGAM, this session unpacks digital privacy, data collection, and how irony functions as a cultural response in an age of surveillance.
THEATRE
Infinite, Landscapes of Gabriela
La Llave Maestra's new work, developed in residency in 2025, launches a poetic journey through Gabriela Mistral's life and legacy, blending text, movement and visual storytelling.
THEATRE
El Dylan
When Dylan, a young woman, is murdered in the town of La Ligua, the community suspects a transfobic crime. Directed by Aliocha de la Sotta, the work confronts prejudice and collective responsibility.
THEATRE
Velociraptors
Three elderly women gain mysterious energy after witnessing an eclipse and spark a revolt at a wholesale supermarket. A darkly comic rebellion set to trap and cumbia rhythms.
THEATRE
Swamp Crows
Three swamp crows from Laguna Torca navigate oral traditions of the Maule Region in a scenic journey exploring life, death, and landscape through animal perspective and mythic storytelling.
THEATRE
The Unknown Dimension
Set during Chile's dictatorship, a haunted man confesses to a journalist: I tortured. This testimony opens a window into a life caught between violence, memory and redemption.
TALKS
Window to Alameda: The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist
From BiblioGAM, this session examines the specific challenges and strategies of women practitioners across disciplines, reframing barriers as sites of creative innovation.
DANCE
Majamama
A spectacle inspired by the classic Latin American postcard, with feathers, dances and recognizable rhythms that fragment and collapse. What begins as familiar iconography disintegrates.
THEATRE
The Old Wall Clock
Luis, an octogenarian clockmaker, faces emotional upheaval after his wife's death, wrestling with an unfixable clock and his young granddaughter's curiosity about time and loss.
CONTEMPORARY
Wuñelfe: Morning Star
Contemporary dance work directed by Ricardo Curaqueo that embodies the ancestral Mapuche story of Wuñelfe, the guiding star, weaving oral tradition with movement.
THEATRE
Sirens: GAM-Theater Basel Co-Production
In antiquity, sirens were hybrid creatures-part bird, part fish, part woman-claiming omniscience. This production explores hybridity, voice and transformation across cultures and time.
TALKS
Window to Alameda: Techno-feudalism and Culture
From BiblioGAM, this conversation traces how digital platforms concentrate power and reshape cultural production, exploring resistance and alternative creative models.
CIRCUS
Storm
A family circus arrives with Compañía El Límite de lo Propio, combining acrobatics, juggling, and dance to embody the forces and energies of a gathering storm.
CIRCUS
Seismic
Circo Virtual's multidisciplinary creation addresses seismic movement from material, philosophical and emotional perspectives, merging circus arts with contemporary concerns.
THEATRE
The Arbour of Flowers: GAM Production
Héctor Noguera's acclaimed version returns with over 30 performers bringing one of Chilean theatre's greatest classics to the stage, featuring original text and contemporary direction.
THEATRE
Three Marys and a Rose
Inspired by true events of the Chilean dictatorship, this work by Loreto Valenzuela with dramaturgy by David Benavente reconstructs testimonies of loss, resistance, and survival.
TALKS
Ventanal Alameda: Chilean Humour as Catharsis
The ninth session of Ventanal Alameda, hosted at BiblioGAM, creates a platform for contemporary thought and ideas against the backdrop of Santiago's cityscape.
WORKSHOPS
Citizen Dance Laboratory 2026: Presented by SURA
Second iteration of this collective creation space welcomes participants of all ages and backgrounds. Explore movement and dance-making in community with professional guidance.
THEATRE
Chiloé, Overcast Skies
A version by the National Dramatic Theatre with dramaturgy by María Asunción Requena portrays the lives of islanders in Curaco de Vélez during the 1970s, capturing community and change.
DANCE
Interlaced
Teatro del Lago's historic 'You Can Dance' programme presents Vivian Romo's creation at GAM, performed by nearly one hundred children and young people exploring movement and expression.
THEATRE
Furies
Written by Manuela Oyarzún and directed by Víctor Carrasco, this work traverses art, science and mental health, questioning their hierarchies and interconnections.
TALKS
Ventanal Alameda: Juan Radrigán
The tenth session of Ventanal Alameda, presented at BiblioGAM, continues the forum for contemporary ideas and debate set against Santiago's urban backdrop.
THEATRE
Pain Bears Something of Radrigán
Written by Leonardo González and directed by Juan Pablo Troncoso, this work reinterprets playwright Juan Radrigán through an intimate, contemporary lens.