Cultural activities and events

Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles is involved in the dissemination of the cultures of all countries and regions that share the use of the Spanish language.

Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles, independently or in collaboration with cultural institutions and organizations in California, is a meeting place for specialists and creators from all fields of culture: literature, theater, dance, music, art, architecture, science, and gastronomy, from the most classic and consolidated to the most avant-garde manifestations.

Please write to acla@cervantes.es to ask us about the cultural activities we are developing at Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles or to request our collaboration in your cultural project.

Learning and teaching

Support for Spanish language and culture researchers

Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles organizes events to recognize the work of hispanists in California, facilitate the exchange of ideas among these experts and make their scientific production more visible. 

Mexico, Central America, South America, Spain, and the United States - not to mention other regions in the rest of the world - have a priceless production. 

Please send us an e-mail to cenla@cervantes.org to inquire about activities related to the promotion of Hispanism at Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles or to request our collaboration in your projects.

More information about the activity of hispanists in the world is available at https://hispanismo.cervantes.es/.

About us

Instituto Cervantes is a non-profit organization founded by the Spanish Government in 1991. Its mission is to promote the teaching of Spanish and the co-official languages of Spain, as well as to foster knowledge of the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries.

Instituto Cervantes is present in almost 90 cities in more than 40 countries on five continents. In Los Angeles —the sixth center opened in the United States, after Nueva York, Chicago, Albuquerque, the Observatory of Languaje and Hispanic Cultures at Harvard and the Seattle classroom— it is constituted as a non-profit organization whose mission is to give prestige to Spanish as a language of knowledge and to disseminate Hispanic culture in all its aspects.

Given the identity of the city of Los Angeles -the film capital of the world-, the Cervantes Institute will dedicate a special effort to promote the audiovisual arts in Spanish, but its purpose encompasses all manifestations of the Spanish language, which in the 21st century has undoubtedly become a language of influence: sports, music, literature, science, business, gastronomy, politics, and the visual arts. There is no field of human knowledge that does not owe an important part of its progress to the Spanish language and to the people who speak it. 

Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles aims to collaborate with public and private cultural institutions in California, especially those involved in the dissemination of Hispanic language and culture.

The Institute performs the following tasks:

• Organizes Spanish courses at different levels and forms: general language, specific skills, etcetera. It also offers courses in Catalan, Basque and Galician. 
• Organizes DELE Spanish exams and issues official DELE Spanish certificates and diplomas to its students.
• Advises and accompanies centers dedicated to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) to standardize their evaluation and quality procedures. 
• Offers professional development classes for Spanish teachers. 
• Supports researchers in Hispanic languages and cultures. 
• Promotes cultural activities and events in conjunction with other organizations.

Location

3375 Barham Blvd
90068 Los Angeles, CA

Tel.: +1 323 380 7187
Tel.: +1 323 822 5113

cenla@cervantes.org

Electronic Library

The electronic library is a set of online resources and services of the Instituto Cervantes through which you can borrow and read digital books, listen to music and audiobooks, access electronic resources (databases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories...) and participate in virtual reading clubs and virtual film clubs.

From anywhere, at any time, with any device: the Instituto Cervantes electronic library is accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with just an Internet connection.

To make use of the resources and services of the electronic library, you must become a member through the Instituto Cervantes e-commerce platform.

Please contact us at biblioteca.electronica@cervantes.es with any questions you may have about the electronic library of the Instituto Cervantes.