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The music made by women has always had a prominent role in La Mar de Músicas, and for years is the festival that has bet more on the presence of bands led by women in their programming;
this year, forty percent.
Texas, Soleá Morente, Nathy Peluso, Fatoumata Diawara, Morcheeba, Totó la Momposina or Cécile McLorin Salvant are just some of the artists that will be from July 20 to 28 in Cartagena, a festival organized by the City of Cartagena that celebrates its edition its number 24, and that it will have Denmark as the guest country.
The commitment of La Mar de Músicas with equality will go beyond music, and that is that the parallel activities of the festival that are organized around Denmark, also includes a large group of artists, filmmakers and writers.
You can see films in Cartagena directed by Susanne Bier or Lisa Ohlin, exhibitions by Sophie Dupont or Julie Stavad or chat with writers like Kirsten Thorup.
A festival that also this year will begin to develop measures of sustainability and environmental awareness actions.
The act of presentation in Madrid was attended by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, who pointed out that from July 20 to 28, music, art, cinema and Danish literature will have a large window to be shown throughout Spain and Europe , at the same time that it has emphasized the cultural quality of Denmark and the quality of the artistic projects that will be shown in Cartagena.
He also indicated that La Mar de Arte, La Mar de Letras and La Mar de Cine will also have Denmark as the core of their programming, while underlining that the collaboration between the Embassy of this country and our coordinators has been exceptional in benefit of this great project that will be La Mar de Músicas 2018.
The mayor has taken advantage of her intervention to highlight the visibility of women in La Mar de Músicas, "who have as much prominence as men", since, "gender inequality on our scenarios does not exist, as some media have recognized. communication ", Castejón added.
He also pointed out that since the organization of the festival they want to join the work that some festivals are already doing and develop a strategic plan around sustainability.
Therefore, in this edition they will begin to develop sustainability policies, to which they will add more concrete actions.
"It's a long-term job that starts this year, added Castejón.
The mayor recalled that La Mar de Músicas has already started the year 2018 "giving us many joys because it has been recognized as the Best Small Format Festival in Spain at the Fest and Iberian Festival Awards."
"It was also recognized in our region this year as the best festival in the Region of Murcia," he added.
The philosophy of La Mar de Músicas continues to be that of betting on little-known bands in Spain and performing an eclectic program, with touches of exclusivity.
In fact of the 44 bands scheduled this year, 17 will act only in Cartagena, and four others will begin their Spanish tour in the port city.
The global sounds will continue to be the label of a festival that last year attracted 46 thousand people, and that has won the Best Short Film Festival in Spain both at the Fest Awards and at the Iberian Festival Awards in its latest editions.
The Sea of ​​Music will make the largest cultural landing made in Spain of Denmark.
For this, nine music bands, ten films, exhibitions with works by 17 artists have been programmed, there will be meetings with 4 writers and for the first time in the festival an activity to analyze the contemporary architecture of the invited country.
Cartagena will be missing only "The Little Mermaid" to be for a few days the cultural capital of Denmark, although the poster made for this edition by the Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero with a "siren" try to alleviate this absence.
In the musical, for the Special Denmark will happen well-known bands in the small Nordic country like Whomadewho, Afenginn, Eivør, The Savage Rose, Bisse, Wangel, The Kutimangoes, Liima and Den Sorte Skole, and who come wanting to make their way beyond its borders.
Road that have already been opened Ruben Blades, Morcheeba, Texas, Gregory Porter, Salvador Sobral, FASHION or The Human League;
the artists who will perform at the Parque Torres Auditorium, one of the seven stages of this urban festival, held in buildings and squares in the historic center of the port city.
If the Parque Torres Auditorium brings together the great figures of the festival, the Arab Castle is the venue for the most festive proposals.
This edition this space is reserved for the Brazilians Liniker e os Caramelows, the congoloses Kokoko!
and those already mentioned for being part of the Special Denmark Wangel, Liima and Den Sorte Skole.
The stage of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, in front of the most beautiful building in the city, will be an open window to the global sounds with the groups Betsayda Machado and Parranda El Clavo from Venezuela, Elkin Robinson from the Island of Providencia in Colombia, Wassoulou Groove from Mali, Nélida Karr and Alek Ikot from Equatorial Guinea, and Afenginn, The Kutimangoes and Eivør from Denmark.
New scenario this year will be the Patio del Antiguo Cuartel de Instrucción de Marineria de Cartagena, today the headquarters of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and which will host the most exquisite groups of this edition.
There will pass Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles, Banda Magda and Cécile McLorin Salvant from the United States, Songhoy Blues and Fatoumata Diawara from Mali, the institution of Danish rock The Savage Rose, from New Zealand Marlon Williams and finally, and giving the touch Spanish, Soleá Morente with Napoléon Solo, and Alba Molina singing to Lole and Manuel, accompanied by her mother Lole Montoya and Joselito Acedo.
The Plaza San Francisco, surrounded by large modernist buildings, hosts the concerts of Somos de Aquí, a program that brings together bands from the Region of Murcia and those from La Mar Chica each year, a program dedicated to the family audience.
This year the "Somos de Aquí" are Moy Gomar, Hams with Heels, Karmacadabra, Kuve and Poolshake.
For its part, the children's program of the festival, which also has workshops, will have the performances of Fuman Musicologist, No color for Karmacadabra and Don Fluor.
The Port of Cartagena is the venue chosen for the night sponsored by Repsol "La Barra Libre de La Mar" with the performances of Iseo & Dodosound, the Palestinians 47Soul and the premiere in Spain of the new formation of Visitor Calle 13 and the Dominican Vicente García "Trending Tropics".
In the same port is the El Batel Auditorium, where the La Mar de Músicas prize will be awarded to the queen of the cumbia, Toto la Momposina, who will perform accompanied by the Tibetan Yungchen Lhamo and the Guinean Djanka Diabaté.
But not only the music lives the festival.
Almost fifty activities are programmed in the parallel sections of La Mar de Músicas: art, film, literature and architecture.
"Beyond Lars Von Trier" is the title chosen for the contemporary Danish film series that will feature films by directors Thomas Vinterberg, Lisa Ohlin, Freerikke Aspöck, Tobias Lindholm, Michael Noer, Susanne Bier, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Bille August and Martin Zandvliet.
In addition to a cycle of musical documentaries.
The Sea of ​​Art will present this edition the work of eleven contemporary visual artists from Denmark in the exhibition "Tale of an ocean" where they will reflect on the creative force of the ocean and the abundance of stories linked to its mysterious immensity.
Through different disciplines, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, video, performance and laboratory experiments, the exhibition offers a multifaceted and poetic exchange of ideas that reflects the life of the sea through the ages.
This exhibition will be divided into five museum spaces in the city and will feature works by Sophie Dupont, Jacob Kirkegaard, Oskar Koliander, Rasmus Nilausen, Helene Nymann, Kaspar Oppen Samuelse & Marie-Louise Vittrup, Julie Stavad, Tove Storch, Superflex, Astrid Svangren and Mark Tholander.
Another great exhibition will be "Light and irony" that aims to provide a perspective of contemporary art in Denmark, one of the most open countries in the production of contemporary art and the proliferation of artists in a surprising number of languages.
Under this title you can see works by Asger Fon, Per Kirkeby, Elmgreen and Dragset, Olafur Eliasson and Troels Carlsen.
Within the artistic section of the festival, will also be exhibited the work that young local artists will do around the stay that had in Cartagena Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Little Mermaid or The Ugly Duckling, and that he collected in his book "A journey through Spain".
In this edition and for the first time, the festival will offer a new line dedicated to Architecture.
Two events will be held jointly in collaboration with the School of Architecture and Building of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena for this section: an exhibition on Danish architecture entitled 'Architecture for people' and an architecture workshop where the public spaces of the city ​​and its relationship with outdoor musical events, to be developed in the weeks leading up to the festival.
The literary section of the festival will have a Danish literary contextualization course by Enrique Bernárdez, Professor of the Complutense University of Madrid, and meetings with Kirsten Thorup, Thomas Rydahl, Lone Theils or the one that Isaac Rosa will maintain with Morten Dürr to reflect on the graphic novel.
All the parallel activities of the festival are free.
Tickets for the paid concerts are already on sale through the festival's website www.lamardemusicas.com As well as the two tickets for all concerts at the Parque Torres Auditorium or those held in the Patio del Antiguo CIM.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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