Concéntrico 2026 activities expand the festival as a space for gathering, learning and collective participation in the city. Workshops, music, theatre, conversations and public actions will activate the interventions through social, cultural and inclusive perspectives, in collaboration with local organisations and communities that work throughout the year in Logroño. All activities are open to diverse audiences. Schedules and specific access or participation requirements are detailed in the information for each activity.
Thursday 18 June 2026
10:00 Opening of Concéntrico 2026
Opening event of the twelfth edition of Concéntrico with institutional representatives, participants and collaborating organisations. The event will be followed by a guided tour of the festival interventions with the project authors. (Approximate duration: 3 hours)
[L] Portales
11:00–14:00 Sidelined: Rethinking the Game
Sidelined rethinks sport and play through an inclusive perspective. Developed by Gabriel Fontana in collaboration with curator Amanda Pinatih, local schools will present the games developed together with students and take part in a Multiform match.
[L] Parque Gallarza
18:00 Collective Percussion
The Percussion Group of the Eliseo Pinedo Professional Conservatory of Music activates A Soft Embassy, the intervention by DFDC, through a sound action open to gathering and collective participation.
[L] Plaza San Bartolomé
18:00 Disability and Urban Design
Public workshop led by Ignacio G. Galán, Ozaeta Fidalgo Architects and Jordan Whitewood-Neal, with the support of CERMI La Rioja. Starting from Plaza Diversidad, the activity will include a collective walk and mapping exercise focused on urban experiences, followed by an open assembly to share and discuss alternative ways of imagining the city.
[L] Plaza Diversidad
18:30 Collective Planting
Participatory session with Sahra Hersi to activate a collective garden connected to urban biodiversity, environmental care and social gathering, in collaboration with Biblioteca Rafael Azcona.
[L] Biblioteca Rafael Azcona
18:30 Sidelined – Multiform Play Session
We invite you to participate in Multiform, a team-based game open to everyone who is curious to redefine sports and social dynamics through design. Created by social designer Gabriel Fontana, this dynamic workshop combines transformable uniforms and an alternative sports field to collectively explore new forms of togetherness in public space.
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[L] Parque Gallarza
19:00 Guided Tour
Tour through a selection of festival interventions. (Approximate duration: 2 hours)
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
19:30 Boltshauser & Garbizu Collar Talk
Conversation with the authors about Terroir, a proposal built with rammed earth and reused barrels that explores the relationship between architecture, climate and wine-growing landscapes.
[L] Plaza de Santiago
21:00 Summer School Concéntrico × Distigmo Presentation
Public presentation of the Summer School Concéntrico × Distigmo programme. A gathering with participants and invited teams to share the methodologies and processes that will activate the city throughout the festival.
[L] COAR
Friday 19 June 2026
11:00 Educational Tours
Educational programme for schools, associations and groups with diverse abilities.
More information and bookings: visita@concentrico.es
11:00–14:00 Sidelined: Rethinking the Game
Sidelined rethinks sport and play through an inclusive perspective. Developed by Gabriel Fontana in collaboration with curator Amanda Pinatih, the programme proposes a team game with transformable uniforms and changing rules that invite participants to explore different forms of coexistence and collective participation in public space.
[L] Parque Gallarza
12:30 One Hundred Party
Celebration of the end of the academic year and the centenary of ESDIR in dialogue with Concéntrico. An intervention developed together with the Packaging Master’s programme and the Ephemeral Architecture course, transforming the school staircase into a shared space for exhibition, gathering and collective action.
[L] ESDIR
18:30 Sidelined – Multiform Play Session
We invite you to participate in Multiform, a team-based game open to everyone who is curious to redefine sports and social dynamics through design. Created by social designer Gabriel Fontana, this dynamic workshop combines transformable uniforms and an alternative sports field to collectively explore new forms of togetherness in public space.
Book your place
[L] Parque Gallarza
19:00 Guided Tour
Tour through a selection of festival interventions. (Approximate duration: 2 hours)
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
19:30 Rádio Jardim
Rádio Jardim presents a live listening and broadcasting session from the intervention by Taelon 7, exploring sound as a tool to activate public space and generate moments of collective gathering. Developed in Porto, the project understands radio as a curatorial and social practice connecting music, archives and community through mobile and open formats.
[L] República Argentina – Pilar Salarrullana
21:00 Vienna Design Week Anniversary Tour — Feral Feast
Culinary action created by Gaja Pegan Nahtigal and Liza Sočan for the final stop of the Vienna Design Week Anniversary Tour at Concéntrico. A collective experience bringing together design, food, ecology and material culture through local ingredients, ceramics and Slovenian cuisine.
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[L] Circo – Solar Calle Mayor
21:30 One Third of Life
Participatory overnight session inside the pavilion. A guided journey through planted thematic rooms, followed by a planting ritual, night tea and collective rest accompanied by a lullaby. At sunrise, participants will share their dreams through a drawing workshop and open conversation.
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[L] Marqués de San Nicolás 144/146
Saturday 20 June 2026
11:00 Guided Tour
Tour through a selection of festival interventions. (Approximate duration: 2 hours)
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
12:00 La Cháchara de Morrete
Open conversation forming part of the programme of Morrete Fest, La Rioja’s LGTBIQ+ festival. A space for reflection and dialogue from a queer perspective on activism, visibility, representation and culture in public space, with the participation of festival artists.
[L] Pasaje Chimenea
12:00–18:00 Meet! — Wine and Conversation
Collective gathering and wine tasting organised together with The Stressed Yeast Society around wine, conversation and forms of coexistence in the city.
[L] Plaza San Bartolomé
19:00 Guided Tour
Tour through a selection of festival interventions. (Approximate duration: 2 hours)
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
20:00 El Plano Latente
A collective choreography transforms Paseo del Espolón through light, movement and the displacement of wooden pieces, activating public space during the summer solstice.
Register through the form to participate or attend freely as part of the audience.
[L] Paseo del Espolón
21:30 Sounds of Architecture x Concéntrico
Listening session, live conversation and DJ set with Marie-Hélène Fabre, Didier Fiúza Faustino and AAU Anastas, exploring the soundscape of Beirut and the role of architecture in contemporary public space.
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[L] Nave 31
21:30 One Third of Life
Participatory overnight session inside the pavilion. A guided journey through planted thematic rooms, followed by a planting ritual, night tea and collective rest accompanied by a lullaby. At sunrise, participants will share their dreams through a drawing workshop and open conversation.
Book your place
[L] Marqués de San Nicolás 144/146
Sunday 21 June 2026
10:30 Bicycle Tour
Bicycle tour through a selection of interventions and spaces of Concéntrico 2026, exploring the city through alternative forms of mobility and urban perception.
[L] Plaza Diversidad
11:00 Guided Tour
Tour through a selection of festival interventions. (Approximate duration: 2 hours)
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
11:00 Dixie Brassas — Music Day
Wind ensemble from Escuela Píccolo y Saxo performing a festive repertoire to celebrate Music Day.
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
12:00 String Orchestra — Music Day
Young performers from Escuela Píccolo y Saxo present a concert featuring classical pieces, film soundtracks and contemporary arrangements.
[L] Circo – Solar Calle Mayor
13:00 Trío del Pozo — Music Day
Acoustic concert by Escuela Píccolo y Saxo as part of the Music Day programme.
[L] Arco de San Bernabé
18:00 Intercultural Parade
Parade of traditional costumes representing the different cultures and communities that form part of the city, organised by Red Intercultural de Logroño in relation to the intervention by Matilde Cassani Studio for Concéntrico 2026, inspired by the serrana skirt of the traditional regional costume of La Rioja.
[L] Arco de San Bernabé
19:00 Guided Tour
Tour through a selection of festival interventions. (Approximate duration: 2 hours)
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
19:30 Zanfoña — Music Day
Musical performance by Escuela Píccolo y Saxo as part of the Music Day programme.
[L] Pasaje Chimenea
Monday 22 June 2026
11:00 Educational Tours
Educational programme for schools, associations and groups with diverse abilities.
More information and bookings: visita@concentrico.es
13:00 Produce! — Cooking the City
Chef Juan Carlos Ferrando cooks with ingredients grown in the city in an activity exploring the relationship between food, proximity and urban space.
[L] Plaza San Bartolomé
19:00 Guided Tour
Tour through a selection of festival interventions. (Approximate duration: 2 hours)
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
19:30 Mover Montañas with Alberto Velasco
As part of the cultural programme of La Rioja Orgullo, led by the local association Gylda LGTBI+, this street performance combines dramaturgy, dance, folklore, legend and tradition. Actor and dancer Alberto Velasco becomes like an earthquake that cracks the mountain and shifts the established paradigm with the agility of something that emerges freely and naturally. A metaphor for human realities that exist even when they cannot yet be named.
[L] Plaza del Mercado
20:00 Surface Tremors. Wine and Smithson
Gathering around the intervention by BEar for Viña Lanciano, a proposal exploring the relationship between landscape, geological time and wine culture through a temporary structure inserted within the vineyard rows.
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[L] Viña Lanciano – El Cortijo
Tuesday 23 June 2026
11:00 Educational Tours
Educational programme for schools, associations and groups with diverse abilities. More information and bookings: visita@concentrico.es
10:00–14:00 Seed Library
Participatory gathering mediated by Biblioteca Rafael Azcona to imagine and design a collective garden supporting urban biodiversity and encouraging social gathering.
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[L] Biblioteca Rafael Azcona
19:00 Guided Tour
Tour through a selection of festival interventions. (Approximate duration: 2 hours)
[L] Gran Vía – San Antón
19:00–21:00 Final Exhibition — Summer School Concéntrico × Distigmo
Closing gathering of the Summer School Concéntrico × Distigmo programme with a public exhibition of the processes, prototypes and actions developed during the festival. An open session to share the work carried out together with participants and invited teams, revisiting the methodologies and spatial experiments activated throughout the city during the week.
[L] COAR
20:00 Smiljan Radić Talk
Conversation with the Chilean architect about Circo, an ephemeral structure inspired by travelling circuses and temporary architectures linked to observation, play, and collective gathering.
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[L] Solar en calle Mayor
21:30 Architecture for Ritual — San Juan Bonfire Closing
Final action within the intervention by CENTRAL & Maxime Delvaux for the San Juan bonfires.
[L] Plaza del Mercado
