Sunday 5th February Read Not Dead: Shakespeare and his Spanish contemporaries.

The series opens with a lecture on La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream), Pedro Calderón de la Barca's 1635 philosophical allegory on the human condition and the mystery of life, followed by the reading at 3pm. The play, still one of the great Spanish dramatist's best-known and most studied works, explores the conflict between free will and fate. like La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
Giving the lecture is Rodrigo Cacho Casal, senior Lecturer in Spanish Golden Age culture at Cambridge University. His principal research subjects are comparative literature, burlesque poetry and prose, European mock-heroic poetry and work of Francisco de Quevedo.
12 noon lecture followed by 3pm staged reading SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE, GLOBE THEATRE, 21 NEW GLOBE WALK, BANKSIDE, LONDON SE1 9DT. In English. In collaboration with Shakespeare's Globe.         
Monday 6th February - The Annual Sebald Lecture on Literary Translation and Valle Inclán Award
The Society of Authors' Translation Prizes from Arabic, Ducht/Flemish, French, German and Spanish into English event will be presented by Sir Peter Stothard, Editor of the Times Literary Supplement, followed by The Annual Sebald Lecture. The lecture will be given by the poet Sean O'Brien.
Sean O'Brien is a poet, critic, broadcaster, anthologist and editor. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His selected poems, Cousin Coat; Selected Poems 1976-2001 was published in 2002 and his new verse of Dante's Inferno in 2006. His work has received major awards.
7pm King's Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG. In English.  
Monday 6th - Sunday 19th February: Flamenco Festival London 2012
Since it started, back in 2003, the Flamenco Festival London has become London's must go event, not only for Flamenco aficionados, but also for all performing arts lovers. More than 175,000 spectators have attended the Festival, and in most cases, tickets have been sold out for all 115 performances. Flamenco Festival London season blends the young vanguards artistic performances with the finest well established maestros. Supported by the Instituto Cervantes, The 2012 edition, will bring the following outstanding artists:    

Tuesday 7th: Vicente Amigo
Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th: Compañía de Manuela Carrasco
Friday 10th: Company Compañía de Olga Pericet
Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th: Company Flamenco Gala
Monday 13th: Gerardo Núñez with Carmen Cortés
Tuesday 14th & Thursday 16th: Compañía de Antonio Gades
Friday 17th & Saturday 18th:  Rafael Amargo Company
Saturday 18th: La Shica
Sunday 19th: José Mercé
As part of Flamenco Festival London 2012 The Instituto Cervantes presents:       
Monday 13th February - Fuenteovejuna: An introduction to Spanish folk dancing     
"Some people think that to dance you need to be young, good-looking, tall and slim. Total rubbish! Dance is about expressing a feeling through movement, and anyone can do that."
Antonio Gades

Based on this Gadesian theory, dancers from the company will put on a mini-workshop interested in the performances of the ballet Fuenteovejuna. This introduction to the folk dances that form the basis of this piece, will be a unique experience for the audiences who have seen or plan to see the performances of this work at Sadler's Wells.

FREE Workshop. 6PM INSTITUTO CERVANTES LONDRES, 102 EATON SQUARE, LONDON SW1W 9AN. In Spanish with simultaneous translation. Booking compulsory: [email protected]     
Saturday 18th February - La Shica in concert @ The Flamenco Festival London 2012  
An alternative flamenco act from Madrid based around vocalist and dancer Elsa Rovayo, La Shica. Her music is derived from flamenco as well as copla, which incorporates aspects of both hip-hop and pop. La Shica has achieved popularity with audiences and critics alike. This one-off performance is a unique opportunity to see La Shica perform in the intimate setting of the Lilian Baylis Studio.     
8pm LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO, SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE, ROSEBERY AVENUE, LONDON EC1R
Thursday 16th February - Vicente del Bosque, Spain's World Cup-winning football manager, in conversaton with Jimmy Burns. Documentary screening of The Soul of La Roja.
Screening as part of Documentary film festival Ready, Steady... Doc, El Alma de La Roja (The Soul of La Roja) traces the different eras of the Spanish national football team, who were in the spotlight at the time following their victory in the European Football Championship in 2008 and because of their status as favourite for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.   
In the film, directed by Santiago Zannou (winner of a Goya award for best new director for El Truco del Manco), we are taken on a journey through the different periods of La Roja, from the beginning of the last century to the present day, via important protagonists in the historyof football such as Di Stéfano, Ramallets, Pepe Claramunt, Víctor Muñoz, Luis Aragonés, Vicente Miera and Luis Sánchez, and more recently the likes of Torres, Villa, Senna, Casillas and Cesc, not to forget the recent past with Hierro, Gordillo, Butragueño, Luis Enrique and Zubizarreta, among many others.  
Special guest: Vicente del Bosque, manager to the Spanish national football team, in conversation with    
author and journalist Jimmy Burns, vice-chairman of the Anglo-Spanish Society whose book La Roja:A Journey through Spanish Football is published this Spring by Simon & Schuster.
6:15PM CINE LUMIÈRE, 17 QUEENSBERRY PLACE, SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON SW7 2DT.