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Much More May returns to the streets of Cartagena.
Under the slogan "Interdependent, Ecodependientes", the festival of Emerging Art, organized by the City of Cartagena through the Department of Culture, which will run from May 25 to June 5, has scheduled 127 activities in which 800 people intervene, between creators and artists, of different nationalities.
To give an account of all the details of the activities that will be developed in the municipality, the mayor of Culture, Education and Youth, David Martínez;
the artist and collaborator, Belén Orta and the artist and the component of the group of urban cartoonists 'Los gatos USK', Mateo Ripoll.
The IX edition of Mucho Más Mayo brings 127 activities from all the creative registers, from music or muralism to the performing arts - theater, dance, circus - or the plastic arts.
In addition, it covers disciplines such as literature, performance, cinema, short films, long films, experimental cinema, street installations and video projections.
The mayor of Culture, David Martinez, said that in this year's program involved 361 creators and artists, and another 400 diverse participants, in total almost 800 people.
Among the artists there are multiple nationalities: from the USA, Croatia, Italy, Uruguay, Yemen, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, Poland, Morocco, as well as Spaniards.
In this edition, the guest district is Los Dolores-Barriada Hispanoamérica- El Bohío, whose presence in the program is very remarkable "and will live for ten days a great cultural mobilization", said the mayor of Culture, Education and Youth, David Martínez.
In addition, to program all activities, which follow the line of the theme chosen for this edition, 17 associations of all kinds, international, such as Greenpeace or Amnesty International, regional, local and neighborhood participated.
They will also participate in 11 educational centers, universities throughout the Region, schools and institutes.
A total of 60 collective collaborators participate in this year's program.
On the other hand, under the slogan "Interdependent, ecodependent", the festival is committed to cultural innovation through environmental sustainability.
In addition, it is the only festival of contemporary art produced in the Region of Murcia, which functions as a platform for cultural innovation and which respects gender equality and the requirements of the Equality Law in its programming, as highlighted by the edil de Cultura, David Martínez.
OUTSTANDING ACTIVITIES
The program of this festival includes 13 training workshops, a documentary film series dedicated to environmental problems, a short film show -Semana Corta-, a musical festival -Mucha Más Música- .A program of large mural paintings of which the festival has already left witness in the urban landscape these 9 years;
artistic installations in the streets and squares and a program of 13 activities around the so-called Sustainable Development Goals that make up the UN 2030 Agenda.
As indicated by the artist and responsible for the programming of activities, Belén Orta, "all the activities follow the line chosen as the central axis of the festival".
Therefore, this local artist has created an installation that aims to raise awareness about the impact of pollution on the environment.
His work 'Go full of plastic' will remain exposed at the Gates of Murcia from May 25 to June 5.
On the other hand, highlights the activity 'One Urban World', which will involve artists of international projection as the American of Miami Ernesto Maranjo, who comes to work in Paris and Greece, or the Italian Fabio Petani.
Joining them will be Yemeni Abdullah Alshani, who is protected in Spain for being persecuted in his country, or the Spanish Sealtres - National Engraving Award - or Kraser, best known for being the coordinator of this program, as well as other mural creators.
For the Short Week, in which 230 short films of which 11 have been selected, the filmmaker Luis López Carrasco will be invited, will present his latest short film "Aliens" at the festival, a work around the life of the artist Tesa Arranz and the cultural environment that surrounded her in what is known as "movida madrileña".
With regard to dance activities, the workshop 'The courage of the possibilities' that will be taught by Virginia García and Damián Muñoz, National Dance Award 2015, has a leading role.
Among all the activities, there is also the workshop given by the illustrator Miguel Gallardo, author of the award-winning 'María y yo'.
The exhibition of ultra efficient electric vehicles and the activity 'Cartagena en Pelotas', in which giant balls - up to 4.5 meters in diameter - will tour the center of the municipality.
In addition, an activity has been organized for beach cleaning.
This event has the collaboration of ANSE and the Port of Cultures, which on May 26 has lent its tourist boat to transport volunteers to clean the coastal area near Christmas Fort.
The activities will take place until June 5, World Environment Day, dedicated this year to 'A planet without contamination by plastics'.
Various artistic activities have been organized for that day in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, and a call has been made to the citizenship to participate in a living experience "24 Hours Without Plastics".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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