Cancionero del Palacio
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Instituto Cervantes in London is collaborating with the V&A East Storehouse to celebrate Spain’s National Day by organizing a cultural programme centered around the carved wooden ceiling from the Torrijos Palace. The programme includes a day of talks, workshops, pop-up performances, and a classical music concert.
V&A East Storehouse aims to activate the ceiling as a point of connection between past and present, and between diverse communities—especially the Spanish and Latin American populations of East London.
The Torrijos ceiling is one of five large-scale objects being unveiled to the public. Through the lens of the “Torrijos ceiling,” we seek to explore the multicultural stories embedded in this exceptional 15th-century Spanish ceiling, now part of the V&A collection, and the dynamic cultural exchanges that shaped it.
Cancionero del Palacio
A singer of Spanish and Sephardic heritage, García will present a selection of songs
from the Cancionero del Palacio (15th–16th c.), alongside traditional Sephardic (Ladino)
songs preserved in the Moroccan diaspora. Interweaving history and voice, her
performance connects audiences to the cultural exchanges of medieval Iberia through
stories carried in music.
