SIMOF 30 Edition 2025 * ‘We are all SIMOF’
Cádiz: A Gateway to the superb Andalusian city & region in the south of Spain
SIMOF 2024 * More Than Fashion… An Experience!
‘TABLAO’ with Grammy© Award-winning Cantaor ARCANGEL
Chicago Flamenco Festival returns to the Instituto Cervantes Chicago, March 1-17
March 1 – 17, 2026
Instituto Cervantes Chicago, 31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the multi-cultural art form of flamenco, Chicago Flamenco Festival returns to the Instituto Cervantes Chicago, celebrating its XXIV anniversary.
Since 2002, the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago has organized and hosted the Chicago Flamenco Festival, bringing together the world’s finest flamenco artists to the city via live performances, workshops, lectures, and films. The festival honors the roots and traditions of flamenco while also embracing the new, modern interpretations of this rich art form that arose from the mixing of many cultures.
Hailing from southern Spain’s outcast populations, flamenco dance and music drew early influences from the Greeks and Romans, and later from the folk traditions of Sephardic Jews, Arabs, and gypsies from northern India. While nobody really knows where the term “flamenco” originated, all agree that the art form began in Spain’s Andalusia and Murcia but was also shaped and influenced by musicians and performers in the Caribbean, Latin America, India, North Africa, and Europe.
In 2010, UNESCO inscribed flamenco on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
***
El Chicago Flamenco Festival, organizado por el Instituto Cervantes de Chicago, regresa del 1 al 17 de marzo de 2026 para conmemorar su vigésimo tercer aniversario como parte del prestigioso Congreso Mundial del Flamenco, una iniciativa de alcance global promovida por la sede el Instituto Cervantes en Madrid (España).
Desde su creación en 2002, este festival multidisciplinar se ha consolidado como un pilar de la escena cultural de Chicago, destacándose por reunir a renombrados artistas internacionales y talentos del Medio Oeste. A través de una programación diversa, el festival combina la profundidad de las raíces flamencas con propuestas contemporáneas que revitalizan y transforman este arte único.
El festival cuenta con el valioso apoyo y colaboración de instituciones como el International Latino Cultural Center, Wendy Clinard Theatre, Ensemble Español, entre otras destacadas entidades.
Reconocido como Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad por la UNESCO en 2010, el flamenco simboliza la riqueza y diversidad de la cultura española. Este evento invita al público a sumergirse en una experiencia única, celebrando la creatividad y la vigencia del flamenco en el dinámico panorama cultural de Chicago.
Irene Morales, RAW
Sunday, March 1, 6 pm
https://irenemorales.eventbrite.com
Dani de Morón
Friday, March 6, 7 pm
https://danidemoron.eventbrite.com
Kukai Dantza YARIN. Where Flamenco Meets Basque Dance: A Conversation in Motion
Saturday, March 7, 6 pm
https://yarin.eventbrite.com
A Night of Flamenco Guitar with José Antonio Rodríguez
Saturday, March 14, 7 pm
https://ilcc-programs.eventive.org/…/6981238a79a241fe4a…
Seffarine De Fez a Jerez
Tuesday, March 17, 7 pm
https://ilcc-programs.eventive.org/…/69811df52766735d05…
Omayra Amaya Dance Company. 5-Day Workshop Series
Feb 18–22, 2026
https://www.omayraamaya.com/…/chicago-flamenco-dance…/
