Cuidar es Punk Festival

Madrid

The Cuidar es Punk Festival addresses the urgent need to reclaim the space, time, and place to care for ourselves and rest in times of imposed frenzy. Caring for one another by building strong bonds, weaving relationships that empower us. Caring is conspiring: breathing together and keeping each other company. Cuidar es Punk places us within a framework of interdependence, in the recognition of a mutual connection through which we nurture our sense of community.
This first edition of the Cuidar es Punk Festival, curated by hablarenarte, stems from a collaborative invitation extended to Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol, drawing on a shared history and experience rooted in the Cumbre de Sanadoras—a collective healing space held at the association’s Planta Baja venue in 2023.
It will take place on October 11th, 15th, and 16th, with the following program:

A crowd of lovers dancing—it can never go wrong. Sound performance with Magui Dávila (aka Las Lindas Pobres) and Fefa Vila

• Date: October 11, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
• Location: C.A.L.A. (Club Atlético Lxs Amores), 24 Antonio Vicent Street (garage entrance)
• Free admission until capacity is reached

Magui Dávila (aka Las Lindas Pobres) and Fefa Vila are united by friendship and strength. Both are experts in caring through love, anger, illness, and struggle. In Cuidar es Punk, they will share a space for experimentation and sound performance where they can dream up sounds, words, and glances.

The Milky Way, a performance by María García Vera

• Date: October 15, 2026, at 7:00 p.m.
• Venue: Infinito Delicias (Auditorium)
• Free admission with registration here.
  

“In a context where imagining alternatives to our ways of life and production seems increasingly difficult, I wonder how to take a first step that sets us on a different path, no matter how small it may be.”

The Milky Way is a performative lecture centered on the concept of beginning: the beginning of a process, an action, a journey. María explores how to take a first step that sets a new course in motion.The piece is structured as an accumulation of beginnings and poses the question: How can we remain in the moment when something new emerges, when we’re moving so fast that we can’t stay put?

The Fourth Encounter with Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol, in collaboration with Alessandra García.

• Date: October 16, 2026, at 7:00 p.m.
• Location: Infinito Delicias (Auditorium)
• Free admission with registration here.

Alessandra, Jorge, and Guillem invite us to conspire together and shape this ceremony to connect with hope and joy as a powerful state of transformation: working from the politics of enthusiasm rooted in the body and strategies of autofiction to generate a dramaturgy of sharing. The Fourth Encounter is full of contagious energy; it seeks to navigate a collective sense of sustenance in the face of exhaustion.

Jorge and Guillem have been a couple for nearly 20 years and work—through the performing arts—with the body, the voice, and language, for the sake of opening consciousness, evolution, and healing. Alessandra García is a creator, performer, organizer, agitator, programmer, supporter, companion, and coordinator of it all.

The “Festival de la Cuidar es Punk” is supported by the Madrid City Council’s 2026–2027 Grant Program for Festivals and Cultural Fairs.

Artists:

Alessandra García. Creator and performer. Her work focuses on participatory and relational theater and the performing arts. She is the creator and curator of the collective performance Vulva and the creator of the piece Patrimonio as part of the #Portals project by Shared Studios between Málaga and San Francisco. She balances her artistic work with programming for the performing arts and music at the University of Málaga’s Contenedor Cultural. She is currently touring with her latest solo piece, Mujer en cinta de correr sobre fondo negro.

Fefa Vila Núñez holds a Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology with her dissertation Tósigo, Deseo y Revuelta: El Madrid cuir de los 90. She is a professor of sociology at the UCM. She was a founder of the LSD queer action and creative group in the 1990s. For three decades, she has balanced her work as a professor and researcher with cultural research, writing, artistic creation, curation, and independent queer-feminist cultural production, where the interplay of desire, memory, and archive has been a central theme throughout her career.  In this field, her work has included, among many others: directing the research project for the MNCARS, ¿Archivo queer? (2011); serving as artistic director of the program El porvenir de la revuelta. LGTBI-Q Memory and Desire (2017); curating Con-Tacto: Politics and Poetics of Touch (UMH, 2021); and the recent performance “Me aCUIRdo” (Ministry of Historical Memory, 2026). She is currently part of the research and curatorial team for “El género de la democracia,” within the programming series “50 Years of Freedom in Spain,” the result of which is a documentary being presented at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol are a renowned duo of performing artists, performers, and choreographers with extensive professional—and international—experience, whose work focuses—indirectly—on exploring different themes and media, such as the body, the voice, and language, in order to foster, through art, the opening of consciousness, evolution, and healing among different communities.

Magui Dávila (aka) Las Lindas Pobres. Born and raised in Southern Patagonia. She works independently, bridging research and artistic creation through image, body, and sound, exploring ways to engage in politics through m4rr0n techno electronic music. Ph.D. in Artistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies from the UAM (2022) with a thesis soon to be published by the TraTraTrax label. Curator of sound programs such as Sonido por fricción at Intermediae Matadero, Manuales de Reparaciones / Soném at MACBA, and ArcoParty at the Reina Sofía Museum. Creator of La ficción de la maleta de discos, a radio program on Radio Relativa and La Casa Encendida Radio, where I tell performative stories about electronic music from the perspective of a feminist brown suitcase. She currently teaches at the University of Design, Innovation, and Technology (UDIT) in Madrid, where she is also engaged in scientific research and development.

María García Vera. Performer and creator. She develops projects at the intersection of theater, dance, and the visual arts, often infused with humor and exploring the relationship between the body, language, and image. She is co-director of the performing arts company Los Detectives, whose productions Kopfkino (2016), Pienso casa Digo Silla (2019), Concrete Matter (2022), and Les Chevaliers, Chapters 1 and 2 have premiered and been presented at theaters, festivals, and museums both nationally and internationally. At the same time, she works as a performer in the performing arts, performance art, and film.