What is on in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 12 November?
World music comes free of charge: the WOMAD festival opens on 12 November in Parque Santa Catalina in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and runs until 15 November. The programme lists the main-stage concerts as free, so anyone who just wants to listen needs no ticket.
Alongside the open-air concerts there are art and dance workshops and film screenings. The details do not say whether these extras cost anything, or how much.
The third ExpoDeca, the Canaries’ fair for movement and sport, runs from 12 to 15 November. It takes place at Plaza de la Música and around Las Canteras beach, and entry is free.
Visitors can try open practice sessions in football, padel, beach tennis, fencing, hiking, bodyboarding and sailing. The details give no times and no sign-up procedure.
What else is on in Gran Canaria?
The Fiestas de San Gregorio (local festivities) in Telde run from 6 to 29 November. The details name no stage programme.
The exhibition REBEL WALLS. Urban Stories runs at the Castillo de Mata in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria until 31 December 2026.
What does Fuerteventura offer?
At night, 300 drones put on a show at the Muellito, and by day more than 200 kite flyers take to the sky, according to the organisers. The 39th International Kite Festival, Corralejo Kitefest, runs from 9 to 15 November at the Grandes Playas de Corralejo and in El Cotillo.
The show is free, and there are also family workshops, concerts and a market. One source gives different dates for 2026, but most say 9 to 15 November, so check with the organisers before you travel.
The Cabildo (island government) of Fuerteventura runs workshops at the Casa de la Cultura in Puerto del Rosario. Palm weaving is scheduled from 16:00 to 18:00 and hat making from 18:00 to 20:00, both until 25 November.
Anyone interested in the pottery of the island’s original inhabitants should head to Betancuria. A workshop runs at the Museo Arqueológico de Fuerteventura until 26 November, from 17:00 to 20:00, though the Cabildo does not say which weekdays apply.
The Cabildo released rescued shearwaters near Puerto Lajas in front of more than 30 spectators, and the rescue campaign runs until mid or late November. Macramé is on offer in La Oliva until 27 November and in Vega de Río Palmas from 2 to 25 November.
What is planned on La Palma?
Three jazz trios play in the new TriJazz concert series until 14 November in Santa Cruz de La Palma and Los Llanos de Aridane. The venues are the Museo de Arte and the Museo Arqueológico Benahoarita.
Free guided tours of the new Auditorio Insular Tomás Cabrera Martín in Los Llanos de Aridane end on 12 November. That is the last day.
Fuencaliente hosts the Canaries’ first wine marketing congress on 12 and 13 November, though the announcement does not give the exact venue. On the same two days, the Palacio de Salazar in Santa Cruz de La Palma runs a university course on machine learning and AI agents.
What is on in La Gomera, El Hierro and Lanzarote?
Talks, panel discussions and wine masterclasses fill the programme of the III Jornadas Técnicas Internacionales de Vitivinicultura Sostenible (technical conference on sustainable wine growing). They run from 12 to 14 November in San Sebastián de La Gomera.
The first international conference on renewable energy, ICEREH 2026, runs on El Hierro until 13 November. The Cabildo de El Hierro, Gorona del Viento and the Universidad de La Laguna organise it, and the announcement does not name the exact venue.
In Arrecife on Lanzarote, the Centro Sociocultural La Vega shows the exhibition Geografía de las Resistencias LGTBIQ+ en Canarias until 15 November, according to La Voz de Lanzarote. It documents places, documents and testimonies of persecution and resistance by the LGTBIQ+ community in the Canaries.