Stick to the center of Arrecife, the Insular Center of Culture (CIC ) The Warehouse hosts multiple cultural activities such as exhibitions, conferences, cinematographic reproductions, training courses; you can also enjoy live music.

To accommodate this cultural dynamism, the CIC El Almacén currently has:

• A cinema (buñuel),
• Two exhibition halls (El Aljibe, El Patio),
• A point of cultural information and ticket sales,
• A bar-cafeteria. (Picasso)

The Cine Buñuel has a stable annual program of alternative films in the original version. This room, and to a lesser extent the Picasso Bar, are also used to accommodate the center's musical programming.

The two exhibition halls alternate in their programming and generally follow two lines of work: young or new artists and consolidated and recognized creators from Lanzarote and the entire Canary Islands.

Origins

The CIC El Almacén was born from the union of two residential dwellings, prototypes of 19th century architecture.

It was at the beginning of the 20th century that the he is Until the 1960s, it was the headquarters of the Escuela de Artes y Oficios, until in 1973 it was acquired by the artist from Lanzarote César Manrique.

After making some modifications, Manrique inaugurated the in 1974 the El Almacén Polydimensional Center, a space that for almost two decades became It became a cultural reference on the Island, since it was the only place where you could enjoy avant-garde artistic manifestations.

In 1989, César Manrique sold El Almacén to the Cabildo de Lanzarote and they moved there. the dependencies of the Education and Culture Area. Since then, the space has been called Centro Insular de Cultura El Almacén and the headquarters of the Cabildo Culture Service are located there.

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