After exhausting the first two batches of blind tickets (out of a total of 1,000) for the big concerts on January 2 and 3 at the UNIR Stage at a special price of 40 euros, the Current Festival has just activated a third of 500 subscriptions at €45.
This week the 36th edition of Actual was presented, the first festival of the year, promoted by the Government of La Rioja, which will take place from January 2 to 6, 2026. The Gonzalo de Berceo room has hosted the presentation of the image that will accompany the new edition with an essential and direct idea: the heartbeat: “Because Actual takes the pulse of culture at the beginning of the year, it inaugurates the calendar of the entire country. Through the heartbeat, a rhythm primal that nests inside each one and that is common to all the spectators who will be able to vibrate in unison during the festival.” The graphic image has been developed by the Riojan advertising agency, Sidecar Design.
The preview of the festival’s programming will be announced throughout the month of November and, as they point out, “it repeats the scheme that has been proposed in the last two years, with appointments for all audiences so that each person vibrates with their own festival, attending the activities that make them tick the most.” The main novelty this year is marked by the calendar since the two nights of big concerts at the UNIR Stage (Palacio de los Deportes de La Rioja) this time will be on January 2 and 3, with a final concert at Riojaforum on January 4. The only band included so far on the poster is Exuviaas winner of the eleventh edition of the ‘Gang War’ held during the last edition.
As usual, the cycles will extend throughout the day with a multitude of proposals spread across the extensive map of concerts that will spread throughout the capital of Rioja and whose content and program will be revealed throughout the month of November. A journey that, as is usual in each edition of Actual, “will think of all audiences and numerous musical genres and formats.”
Cinema will continue to be one of the mainstays of the festival in the 2026 edition with the Matinales of the Rafael Azcona Film Library, in the Gonzalo de Berceo room and the screenings, during the afternoons, at the Bretón Theater, which will be joined by the now traditional Sueños en Corto cycle of the Café Bretón. The arts will also have a special presence in this thirty-sixth edition of the Rioja festival with Escenario Insólito and Sala Negra, in the theatrical part, along with a large proposal of exhibitions that this year includes the Hotel Actual cycle, a contemporary art market in the rooms of the Hotel F&G. “A very complete and intense program with a multitude of appointments, which will be felt throughout the capital of Rioja and whose details will be known over the coming weeks.”
After launching the first two batches of blind tickets (1,000 tickets) at a special price of 40 euros for the big concerts at the UNIR Stage (Palacio de los Deportes de La Rioja), which will be held on the nights of January 2 and 3, a third of 500 tickets has just been launched. Available here.
