This weekend’s plans in Madrid are already looking ahead to autumn, the new season is here. This weekend’s plans focus on the German beer festival: the Oktoberfest.
It is also a good time to visit the exhibitions that are premiering, get to know and enjoy the palaces of Madrid and take advantage of the free leisure that the city offers.
*In a previous update of this article, we mentioned the All Those Food Market event, which has just announced its cancellation this weekend.
Autoplacer
CA2M celebrates another edition of Autplacer, one that comes with a celebration for its 15th anniversary. And for this party of self-managed projects and underground bands, this Saturday opens its doors to Las Petunias, Bicho Bola, Igor, Bsilisque, Adrián Bremner DJ, Fantasmage, Corte!, Sin Bragas, ¡Miau!, Marcelo Criminal, Megane Mercury and Elena de Frade. In addition, different projects (such as the store La Integral or Autsaider Cómics) will be present to complete the day.
📍Location:Avenida de la Constitución, 23 (Móstoles)
🗓️ Dates: September 21
Madrid Vegan Market
On Sunday September 22, from 10am to 4pm, the second edition of the Madrid Vegan Market will be held at Espacio Rastro (Calle San Cayetano, 5), an ephemeral event that will bring together small vegan producers and entrepreneurs from Madrid. This pop-up market will offer food products, cosmetics, crafts and more, focused on the vegan lifestyle. It will also feature talks and surprises, creating a unique space to explore veganism in the capital.
📍 Location: Espacio Rastro (Calle San Cayetano, 5).
L.E.V Matadero
LEV is not just any festival: it is a creative space for the most innovative and groundbreaking proposals of the audiovisual experimentation scene. Among all the activities (check them all out here), highlights include the installation INITI. Save the Planet; the piece by Hsin-Chien Huang in collaboration with Jean Michel Jarre The Eye and I (through virtual reality, both artists theorize and experiment with the notion of social surveillance); the screening of the immersive film The Alluvials, by Alice Bucknell; or the musical performances by Plus44kaligula and NAH, Keeley Forsyth + Axontorr…
📍 Location: Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
Roller disco a step away from Cibeles
On Sunday, September 22, roller skating lovers have an appointment at Paisaje de la Luz: the iconic Paseo del Prado is going to turn into a roller disco where 70’s and 80’s hits will be played from 4:00 pm. For those who do not dare to dance on wheels, there will be skating lessons and exhibitions from morning until noon.
This activity will be organized in the framework of the European Mobility Week, which will have in its program many more activities such as walking routes through emblematic places of the city, road safety circuits and even a mobile gym for the most energetic.
📍 Location: Paseo del Prado (Downtown)
Exhibitions you can see this weekend in Madrid
31 women. An exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim
Fundación Mapfre kicks off the season with two jewels. On the one hand, 31 Women. An exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim, an exhibition that was born in 1943, in the middle of World War II. In that year, the American patron of the arts decided to give a voice to those who had never been given one: women artists. Thus was born Exhibition by 31 Women, which occupied her own New York gallery, Art of This Century. There she gave space to women creators, to artists, at a time when women were invisible.
At Mapfre we will be able to see the works of Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Kay Sage? In addition, a series of musealized pieces to understand and enter into the context of the time (photographs, works of art, publications of the time).
📍 Location: Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Chueca)
🗓️ Dates: until January 5
Weegee. Autopsy of the Spectacle
The iconic photographs of Arthur H. Fellig, A.K.A Weegee, changed the paradigm of journalism. The exhibition brings together some of the photographs that he published in different New York newspapers between 1935 and 1945 and that, with his peculiar style, transformed event photography into a visual spectacle. We will also find some of the photographs he captured of different Hollywood stars from a critical and satirical point of view towards stardom.
📍 Location: Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Chueca)
🗓️ Dates: until January 5
Seventy great masters from the Pérez Simón collection.
A selection of the most remarkable private collection of our country (consisting of more than 4000 pieces of sculpture, drawing, manuscripts…). This CentroCentro exhibition is divided into three themes with artists from different periods, from Rubens to Eduard Munch, from Canaletto to Paul Cézanne or from Van Dyck to Rothko.
📍 Location: Plaza de Cibeles, 1 (Center)
🗓️ Dates: until January 12
Vallecas Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest Vallecas celebrates its second and last weekend. This year, the event will move to the sports courts of the Javier de Miguel Park, near the Assembly of Madrid. It will offer foodtrucks, concerts, children’s activities and beers of the brands HB Munchen and Weihenstephaner.
📍 Location: Sports courts of the Javier de Miguel Park (Vallecas)
The Medieval Market of Alpedrete
A perfect plan for this weekend is to go to Alpedrete to enjoy its lively medieval market. There, craft and gastronomic stalls await you in an atmosphere that will transport you back centuries in time with street entertainment, music, shows and activities among which there is even a stonemasonry workshop.
📍Location: Town Hall Square and surroundings (Alpedrete).
🗓️ Dates: September 20th to 22nd
Sierra Norte Fair
If family plans are your thing, come to the Sierra Norte Fair. Donkey or buggy rides, go-karts, honey extraction and pottery workshops, concerts of traditional music… There are activities for all tastes and ages and, of course, also gastronomy: from craft beer tastings to tastings of migas or paella.
📍Location: Venturada Fairgrounds
🗓️ Dates: 21 and 22 September
The Berlin Wall. A World Divided
What if a plan for this weekend would be to visit more than 20 original meters of the Berlin Wall without leaving Madrid?
The Berlin Wall. A Divided World is an exhibition that shows how life was lived, during the presence of this great dividing line, on both sides: the rhythms of life, the separated families and friends, the spy networks? all through more than 300 objects and witnesses.
📍 Location: Paseo de la Castellana, 214 (Castellana)
💸 Price : Tickets from 15,80€.
The Royal Collections Gallery
More than 650 works of art, including jewelry, tapestries, sculptures, works by Titian, Goya, Caravaggio, Velázquez, Rubens… await us inside. A great sample of the artistic treasures of the Spanish Crown among which we find The Buen Retiro Palace of Jusepe Leonardo (which opens a window to what Madrid was like in the seventeenth century), the armor of Charles I, the first edition of Don Quixote ( given to Alfonso XIII by his cousin Luisa de Orleans) and countless pieces of incalculable historical value.
📍 Location: Plaza de Oriente
💸 Price: Tickets: from 14€.
Popular Race of La Elipa
The Popular Race on Sunday 22 closes the festivities of La Elipa. This classic activity starts and ends in the Dragon Park. At 10.00h will be the schedule for the Benjamín race, for the youngest (up to 10 years old); at 10.30 for young people between 10 and 15 years old; and at 11.00h will start the “Absolute Race”, 2 laps of a 5km circuit through the streets of the neighborhood.
📍 Location: Parque del Dragón (La Elipa)
Check out the new Green Routes of Madrid
The Community of Madrid has incorporated four new Green Routes to know and enjoy the nature and history of the region. With this inclusion there are now 51 routes totaling nearly 900 kilometers starting and ending at some point in the regional public transport network.
Specifically, the new hiking routes organized by the Regional Transport Consortium (CRTM), propose alternatives for walking or cycling through the northern mountains of Madrid.
The shortest is a circular circuit that crosses Guadarrama with a length of 18.5 kilometers. The second links Cercedilla with Guadarrama and a distance of 21 km. The third starts in Guadarrama and ends in El Escorial with about 30 km. The fourth new proposal connects Cercedilla with El Escorial, the longest, through 32.7 km. You can consult all the itineraries in this link.
📍Location: Various locations
Enjoying a concert by candlelight
Candlelight ‘s candlelight concerts have already illuminated a multitude of spaces in the city. Historical buildings such as the Ateneo de Madrid or the Círculo de Bellas Artes, hotels like the Wellington or the Four Seasons or new additions such as the Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Médicos or the Galería de las Colecciones Reales are some of its many scenarios.
This weekend, like almost all of them, these venues and many others are hosting Candlelight concerts for all tastes and ages. From tributes to classical composers to more current artists through tributes to the creepiest horror movies or series like the Bridgertons or Game of Thrones. A different show that will make your weekend shine even more.
📍Location: Various locations
💸 Price: From 11 €.
This article has been written by Isabel Nieto, Alberto del Castillo, Helena Menéndez, María F. Carballo and Elena Francés .