Máquina Festival 2025

Máquina, the art and thought festival of Alicante’s Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, returns on 14 and 15 November for its fifth edition.
This new edition brings more than twenty artists to Alicante with the aim of giving visibility to some of the most innovative proposals on today’s creative scene. Once again, the festival offers a programme especially designed for young audiences, featuring concerts, performances, workshops and artistic interventions that invite us to reflect on the question: What is a young body?

In this edition, audiences will enjoy concerts by Corte!, Gazella and Svsto, as well as two performance pieces by Héctor Fuertes and Meritxell de Soto. Máquina 2025 also includes a space dedicated to creative writing led by Juanpe Sánchez López, along with an artistic intervention by Marcos Pizarro.

The festival also strengthens its commitment to the local creative community, with the participation of collectives such as Mistela Punx, who will not only deliver a workshop but also offer a DJ set, and the Torrevieja-based collective Las Precarias, making their festival debut with a special DJ session created for the occasion.

As a major new feature, Máquina is launching an open call for programmers for its next edition, Máquina 2026, with the aim of continuing to broaden the diversity of perspectives and voices shaping its programme.

Programme:

Friday 14 November

Workshop “Do It Yourself, Do It Together, Do It Now”
Mistela Punx
17:00–19:00

Workshop “Writing About Nonsense”
Juanpe Sánchez López
18:00–20:00

DJ Set Mistela Punx
20:00–21:00

Concert Corte!
21:00–22:00

Saturday 15 November

Workshop “Writing About Nonsense”
Juanpe Sánchez López
12:00–14:00

Performance “Devotion” (poetic)
Héctor Fuertes
18:00–18:50

Performance “Ultra Femme Frequencies”
Meritxell de Soto
20:15–21:15

DJ Set Las Precarias (Torrevieja)
20:00–21:00

Concert Gazella
21:30–22:15

Concert Svsto
22:30–23:30

ℹ️ Notes

• Free admission until capacity is reached.

• Workshops require prior registration via the festival’s Instagram account @maquina_festival or by emailing hola@todobien.org.

• The open call for programmers for Máquina 2026 will be announced during the event.

Máquina Festival 2025

📅 14–15 November
📍 Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras (Alicante)
💸 Free activities (workshops require prior registration via Instagram @maquina_festival or hola@todobien.org)
👥 Organised by Leti Cano and Movidas Ardilla
🎛️ Produced by Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras and Cervezas Alhambra