SGM Program By Dates

SGM PROGRAM
BY DATES

From Wednesday 03.10.2018 to Friday 05.10.2018

SGM Congress

VII Congress on art, literature and urban gothic subculture. See full program at Besarilia Cultural Association‘s site.

Place: Faculty of Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid – Conference Hall.

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Saturday 06.10.2018

SGM Science

12:00. “Alchemy: Philosophy and Protoculture in the Hermetic Tradition”. Round table with Gonzalo Rodríguez, Doctor in History, and Jacqueline Pingarrón, Graduate in Geophysics.

Place: National Museum of Natural Sciences. C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2 – 28006 Madrid.

Price: Free access with the Museum ticket (*).

(*) General rate: 7 euros | Reduced (unemployed people, students and kids from 4 to 16 years): 3.50 euros. You must request the ticket for this event when you get the Museum entrance ticket at the box office. If you have purchased your event ticket online, you must pick it up at the MNCN’s information point. The tickets for the round table will be handed out on a first come, first served basis, until seating capacity is reached.

Sunday 07.10.2018

SGM Kids

13:00. “Magic letters”. Magic and literature show for children.

Place: Auditorium of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum. C/ de Serrano, 122 – 28006 Madrid.

More information coming soon.

Tuesday 09.10.2018

SGM Literature

From 19:00 to 19:30. Presentation of the magazine Herejía y Belleza by Pedro Ortega Ventureira.

From 19:30 to 20:45. “The femme fatale in comic”. Round table with Elisa McCausland and Fernando Ángel Moreno.

Place: Generación X. C/ de la Puebla, 15 – 28004 Madrid.

Free access.

Wednesday 10.10.2018

SGM Literature

From 19:00 to 19:30. Release of the anthology Gritos Sucios (Ediciones Vernacci) and talk about splatterpunk with David Hidalgo Ramos and José Ángel Conde.

From 19:30 a 20:00. Release of the anthology Diodati, la cuna del monstruo with the writer Francisco Javier Guerrero, editorial coordinator (Editorial Adeshoras).

From 20:00 to 20:30. Release of the book El Diablo en Casa: el Expediente Vallecas by Alberto Ávila Salazar (VK Libros).

From 20:30 to 21:00. Talk about youth fantasy literature and release of the book Dulces, Espadas y Dragones by Enrique Dueñas (Apache Libros), with the author and the editor José Luis del Río Fortich.

Place: Estudio en Escarlata. C/ de Guzmán el Bueno, 46 – 28015 Madrid.

Free access.

Thursday 11.10.2018

SGM Literature

Colloquium on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, on the Bicentennial of its publication.

19:00. Round table: Frankenstein in the light of contemporary modern thought. Moderator: Cristina Oñoro (Theory of Literature professor at UCM). Participants: Ana Carrasco Conde (professor of Philosophy at UCM) and Fernando Ángel Moreno (Theory of Literature professor at UCM).

19:45. Round table: Monsters and angels of home: the own room of Mary Shelley and Jane Austen. Moderator: Cristina Oñoro (Theory of Literature professor at UCM). Participants: José C. Valés (writer and translator of Mary Shelley and Jane Austen) and Julia García Felipe (Graduated in General and Comparative Literature from the UCM, specialist in Jane Austen).

20:30. Julia Piera poetry recital. Poet, author of Conversations with Mary Shelley, Icaria, 2006.

Place: National Museum of Romanticism. Access by c/ Beneficencia, 14 – 28004 Madrid.

Free entry.

More information coming soon.

Saturday 13.10.2018

SGM Cinema and SGM Literature

16:00. Round table: “All of you monsters: the monster in popular cultura (films, literature and television)”. With Eva Astorga, Pedro Angosto and Andrés Peláez.

17:00. Round table: “The femme fatale and female power in Game of Thrones”, with Carmen Méndez, Marjorie Eljach and Rocío Tizón.

18:00. Round table: “The inner monster: the internal conflict and the doppelganger”, with Fernando Cámara, Ángel Ortega and Camilo Iriarte.

19:00. Round table: “Literature and occult cinema”. With Grace Morales and Carlos Maroto Pla.

20:00. Round table: Short Film Show.

Place: FNAC Callao. C/ Preciados, 28 – 28013 Madrid.

Free access.

More information coming soon.

Monday 15.10.2018

SGM Literature

19:00. “The metaphor of the inner monster: From Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Hannibal Lecter: a legal, criminological and psychological approach”. Round table with the criminalist Juan Enrique Soto, the psychologist Luis Muiño and the lawyer and writer Alberto Ávila Salazar.

20:00. “Great occultist authors and literary works on occultism”. Round table with the writers Gervasio Posadas, Daniel P. Espinosa and Oscar Mariscal.

Place: Ámbito Cultural of El Corte Inglés Callao. C/ Preciados, 3 – 28013 Madrid.

Free access.

More information coming soon.

Tuesday 16.10.2018 to Friday 02.11.2018

SGM Art and SGM Fashion

19:00. Monographic exhibition: “Ten years of Madrid Gothic Week”. Design, photography, illustration and fashion. After the opening of the exhibition the award ceremony of the Sheridan le Fanu prize will take place

Place: Joaquín Leguina Madrid Regional Library. C/ de Ramírez de Prado, 3 – 28045 Madrid.

Free access.

More information coming soon.

Wednesday 17.10.2018

SGM Literature

19:00. “Buffy in the days of Tinder: how to survive Dracula without dying in the attempt. An approach to the evolution of the figure of the seductive monster and its female victims turned into heroines.” Round table with the writer Manuel Riquelme and the film specialist Beatriz Obeso. (Amor de Madre Publisher).

20:00.“Starry speculative corpse: the pessimistic thinking of Eugene Thacker” Round table with the writers Alberto Ávila Salazar y David Bizarro.

Place: Ámbito Cultural of El Corte Inglés Callao. C/ Preciados, 3 – 28013 Madrid.

Free access.

More information coming soon.

Friday 19.10.2018 to Sunday 21.10.2018

SGM Fest

Built in the 15th century, in a perfect condition, considered an asset of cultural interest and located in a recognized historical and natural heritage area 45 minutes from Madrid, the Manzanares el Real Castle is the place chosen by Sui Generis Madrid on the occasion of its tenth anniversary to celebrate the SGM Fest from 19th to 21st of October 2018.

A unique date in a magical environment with live performances, post-concert party, short films show, exhibition, virtual reality experience, guided and dramatized visits to the Castle prior to reservation, round tables with the participation of writers, musicians, artists and stands of publishers and music labels.

Place: Manzanares el Real Castle.

Free access (*) to all SGM activities, except for the concerts.

Full information about SGM Fest

(*) With the Castle’s ticket (5 euros/day, sale at the box office)

DAY 1 – Friday 19.10.2018

Restitched Frankenstein

Art and literature exhibition.
Opened to the public visiting the Castle during the weekend of 19th to 21st October.

Place: Exhibition Hall.

Free access with the Castle’s ticket.

Concerts

From 18:00 to 19:00: NEØNYMUS (Spain).

Place: Weapons Courtyard | Price: 5 euros | Buy tickets

19:30: VARSOVIE (France).
20:30: RITUAL HOWLS (US).
21:30: SOROR DOLOROSA (France).

Place: Palenque | Precio: 5 euros | Buy tickets

DAY 2 – Saturday 20.10.2018

Mystery Hall

Mystery Hall is an initiative organized by the alternative culture festival Sui Generis Madrid and the magazine Mistérica Ars Secreta.

From 10:00 to 10:50: “Doctor Moorne and the first Spanish Tarot”, conference with the tarot reader Victoria Braojos.

From 10:50 to 11:50: “Secret art: alchemical dyes and psychopainting”, lecture by the mystery writer Francisco González.

From 12:10 to 13:00: “What the magic mirrors hide”, lecture by the journalist Jesús Callejo.

From 13:00 to 14:00: “Occult and hidden characters”, round table with the writer Javier Sierra and Guillermo Solana, artistic director of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Moderator: Pedro Ortega, director of the magazine Mistérica Ars Secreta.

From 16:00 to 17:00: Live recording of Mistérica Radio Secreta program.

Place: Exhibition Hall.

Free access with the Castle’s ticket.

Short Film Show I

From 14:00 to 15:30.

Place: Projection Hall.

Free access with the Castle’s ticket.

Concerts

18:00: 1919 (UK).
19:00: THE DEVIL & THE UNIVERSE (Austria).
20:00: THEN COMES SILENCE (Sweden).
21:00: ATARAXIA (Italy).

Place: Palenque | Price: 5 euros | Buy tickets

Official After-party

From 00:00 to 06:00.

Place: 13-58 Mombasa.

Tickets at the venue: 5 euros (refreshments are not included).
Affordable drink prices.

More information coming soon.

Day 3 – Sunday 21.10.2018

Virtual Reality Experience

From 12:00 to 17:00: The most modern technology and the medieval coexist in this proposal based on video game engines that simulate the presence of monsters in the Castle.

Place: Interpretation Centre.

Free access with the Castle’s ticket.

SGM Literature

200 Years of Frankenstein.

16:00: “Mad doctors: when science goes mad”, talk by the writer César Mallorquí.

17:00: “Restitched Frankenstein” book release by the writer Fernando Marías with reading stories and the participation of the writers Valeria Correa Fiz and Lorenzo Luengo, who will read the texts they wrote for the book.

Place: Maea Hall.

Free access with the Castle’s ticket.