Queerolé by Patricia Langa
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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 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 among 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.
Queerolé! by Patricia Langa
The session revives flamenco’s queer and multicultural legacies. Echoing the Torrijos ceiling, it transforms erased histories into living spaces for reflection on memory, identity, and resilience, inviting participants to connect through dialogue, movement, and embodied heritage.
