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Cartagena are in luck.
This has been sentenced Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejon, when proclaimed from the lectern placed in front of the facade of the cathedral that the festival of emerging art Much More May is recovering after four years of break and, with it, becomes one of the great cultural events of the city.
A great week, from 22 to 29 May, in which it has made a commitment to gender equality in culture, which has become the main theme of the festival - no genre is represented below 40% - and in which it charges special prominence the neighborhood of San Anton, acting as a guest and who has worked from within their associations.
However, one of the strengths of this event is occupying any space in the city: streets, squares, areas of archaeological remains, restaurants, museums or the lawn of the Wall;
the important thing is to avoid conventional spaces and show that any canvas is good to offer touches of culture.
New this year the area of ​​Economic Strategy has encouraged Music Markets project, which aims about the music of small format bustle places such as markets, starting from the emblematic Municipal Market Santa Florentina.
Also the councilman of Youth and Archaeological Heritage, Ricardo Segado and the delegate mayor of Culture, David Martinez, have highlighted the enormous effort that has been carried out to return to take off this festival returning modern, updated and cross, ready energize the city and spread joy and liveliness to all who are part of it.
A total of 15 facilities populate the city, as well as other temporary interventions over 300 creadoresque give an international flavor to the festival, as there will be artists from Italy, UK, Norway, Chile and Syria, which make a total of about one hundred activities, including 20 in San Anton.
Music for all tastes, theater, photography, performance, novel, poetry, theater, philosophy, murals urban art, educational workshops that are already underway and many impossible hybrid works to classify: Mucho Mas Mayo is all this, and much more.
PROGRAMMING
This year acquire a specific weight training activities, it has been highly successful documentary social in collaboration with film school La Base) with a total of five courses and workshops and other graffiti, dance family or found footage.
Within the performing arts will be up to 10 proposals for dance, theater, puppetry, clowning and arts alive with very innovative proposals such as mechanical Onírica, or original ideas like intimate theater is done in a room of a hotel in the city to viewers one by one, and more unclassifiable as Blue Kieslowsky, with a strong social character, plus the return to Cartagena de Isabel lavella or proposals of dance that include two dancers Cartagena this year have been finalists in the awards Max.
the short week, with 11 short films, a documentary project in the neighborhood of San Anton, and the course of social documentary school Base, which will also produce work for show: a space for cinema remains.
Moreover, there will be a place for performance through Open Action with interesting proposals on the history of performance now marks the 100th anniversary of the first actions of the Dadaists in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, one with performers Norwegian.
Between poetry and literature Syrian poet Maram highlights al-Masri, who will discuss the dramatic context of his country.
Musically, Silvia Marquez stands with his key addition to innovation Markets Music Festival or the diversity that will be in San Anton.
For urban art, there will be extraordinary Italian and Spanish artists in the world of graffiti and street art.
Also a series of lectures will talk about art and gender, with prominent speakers with solid careers as researchers and teachers.
Other notable proposals have to do with the creative applications of new technologies and the Internet, as the proposals of spoken streets, Clara Boj and Diego Diaz, or the various experiences that are being reviewed in lasJornadas Digital Expansion of the City for the Collective knowledge.
The festival will also enable the presentation to the general public of the new cultural program Cartagena thinks, about the democratization of knowledge and specifically science and philosophy, with an event at the casino with representatives from the two public universities in the region that they are participating with a group of citizens in this new program and which will see a curious theater-philosophical, tea show with Kant.
Finally, new proposals have been accepted as the First Meeting of Urban Sketchers organized by the group Four Cats, on the new urban drawing.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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