There is a wide diversity of peasant winter evenings, as described by researchers such as José Luis Puerto. Among these peasant ways of being present in the world, creating and exchanging knowledge - today weakened by factors such as depopulation - the filandón is an oral and playful tradition recognised today as intangible heritage. In the province of León, intensely linked to practices of this nature, an extensive documentary record of its manifestations is preserved.
In a filandón, in the evening, a wide variety of situations can take place. Among them, and without wishing to be exhaustive, there is talking and doing, reading texts, eating and drinking, improvising, singing and dancing.
FCAYC's cycle of filandons seeks to make the institution a continuity with the neighbourhood to which it belongs, on an equal footing. It recognises the power of what it means to host a filandón, in the same way that its team has been welcomed throughout countless projects in neighbouring houses. From this point of view, the meeting, with no other aim than to share quality time collectively, reinforces the forms and methods of knowledge present in the place prior to the arrival of FCAYC. The filandones have been incorporated into all areas of the institution, which sometimes organises them on the basis of specific themes to avoid turning them into a formula, enjoys them together with those who attend and avoids romanticising them, thus helping to keep them alive and evolving.
