Printed magazine AU May 2026

One more May, Valencia is bursting with cultural proposals of all sizes and colors: the Book Fair, ValenciaPhoto, the sample of street art Pollinated, the multidisciplinary festival 10 Senses, l’OceanFest, the Celebrate Alternative, Black Valencia and the Borders Festival, meeting point between music and literature. Two film festivals are distributed in the month: in mid-May we will have DocsValencia, dedicated to non-fiction cinema, i a finals, he Humans Fest, focused on productions that revolve around human rights. He captains the music section of the festival Deleste, with such juicy guests as Primal Scream, Device, The Molotovs by Anna Calvi; and is accompanied by the great hall concerts ofEdwin Collins, AnimalPersona, Redd Kross o the end, among others.

Keep resisting the Cabanyal Intimate in a neighborhood that is gentrifying every second that passes and we highlight four small works that will pay off: Arden premieres a new historical play called Epilogue, Mathilde Carmen Chan Winter dismantles toxic masculinity in Bell end, Toni Agustí and Marina Alegre laugh at the "model" tourist in Original Greek and the Talia Theater premieres the Valencian version of The tenderness. Besides, we will receive a very special visit that was expected for a long time: Cirque du Soleil brings to Valencia the new version of its success Happiness. the cartoonist Miguel Calatayud it stars in the AU's big exhibition in May, but we also have the landscapes of Calo Carratala, the sculptures of Julio González, the serigraphs of Pep Carrion, the feminist work ofIsabel Oliver (on the cover), the pieces of the Victoria and Albert Museum related to Lewis Carroll's Alice in The worlds of Alice and the works of great totems of art such as Picasso, Braque or Kandinsky in the exhibition Commitment to art. Finally, we interview the clown Maria Andrés, we see the series Spider-Black from Prime Video, we cook rice with fava beans and squid and we eat some delicious scallop and truffle croquettes Thousand Cranes.

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