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Just moved to Bilbao? Pick your language: your first month step by step, and events you can go to on your own.
Four friends meet on stage to celebrate the promises and disappointments that bind them, in a playful piece that invites the audience into the game. The show at Kafe Antzokia is free and performed in Basque.
The Salbatzaile dance group hosts a romería, an open-air Basque folk dance gathering, in Plaza Santiago in the Old Town, as part of the city's free Dantza Plazetan programme. Street dances like this are open to passers-by, so joining in alone is natural.
Company 7 grados performs La risa, a 70-minute comedy directed by Itziar Lazkano, as part of the city's touring neighbourhood circuit. Entry is free. Local community-centre theatre is relaxed and welcoming for solo visitors.
Bilbao's municipal wind band, conducted by Iñaki Urkizu, plays its season programme Caminos in the hall of the city conservatory. Municipal band concerts draw a broad local audience and are easy to attend alone; check the listing for ticket details.
A concert by Synchresis and Paula Palencia within Kuraia's 2026–2027 contemporary music encounters, held at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The listing does not show a price. Contemporary music audiences are small and curious, which makes it easy to talk with neighbours.
The Dantzaldia festival presents three short pieces at the Fine Arts Museum, including 'El demà d'ahir', where Baroque and contemporary music meet movement inspired by poet Etel Adnan. It is free with registration. Watching dance in a museum is a calm outing alone, with an easy conversation starter afterwards.
An eleven-piece band revives the golden age of soul with songs associated with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Etta James and Nina Simone. Doors open at 8:30 pm and tickets are listed at 13 € or 15 €. A dance-friendly soul night in a busy café-theatre is easy to enjoy alone.
As part of Bilbao's Dantza Plazetan street-dance programme, the Ondalan giants troupe parades its towering figures through Calle Luzarra in Deusto on the morning of 31 December. It is a free open-air street event, so you can simply turn up and walk along with the crowd. Neighbourhood parades like this are a friendly way to feel part of the city's end-of-year mood.
As part of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra's season, this chamber concert pairs two Romantic piano quartets: Schumann's Quartet in E-flat major and Brahms's First Quartet in G minor. It takes place at the Euskalduna conference and concert hall. Tickets are 12 euros, and a chamber recital is a calm, easy night out alone.
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