Continuing the wake of recent years, the twenty-second edition of the Sea of ​​Music Festival is enriched with parallel activities that allow more intensive approach to the culture of the guest country in this edition way: Sweden.
For example La Mar de Letras, dedicated to the Swedish literary creation, start with a course of contextualization week prior to the festival and will this year with prominent authors of the guest country, accompanied by national, regional and local authors about various topics.
They will pass through Cartagena Wattin writers like Danny, who will talk about his latest work;
Clara Janes, which will introduce to the public in the Swedish poetry;
Martin Lexell, translator of the Millennium saga;
and authors and Hakan Eriksson Jerker Axlander Sundquist presented by the tireless announcer of Radio 3 Lara Lopez.
There will also be time for poetry reading about the voice of Tomas Tranströmer with Aurora Saura, Natalia Carbajosa, Vega Cerezo, Carmen Piqueras and Beatriz Miralles, journalist and writer Mons Kallentoft, or the winner of the last Herralde Prize novel, Marta Sanz , which has just joined the program.
For its part, La Mar de Arte provide multiple exposures and interventions in various areas of the city, among which the installation around the Swedish whaler Los Johansson, curated by gallery T-20;
exhibitions of prominent Swedish artists Isak Sundström and Tova Mozard;
or Enjoysweden initiative that collects the best pictures of Sweden in Instagram.
It may also cover the exhibition 7 + 7, dedicated to the value of local and regional artists younger, or Sommarlek sound intervention in the Plaza San Francisco who lives in Barcelona cartagenero Fito Conesa.
The Sea Film no slouch and collects in projection in the Cultural Hall of Caja Mediterráneo Foundation, some of the most prominent and honored as stories Stockholm, Karin Fahlén Swedish films;
Hotel, Lisa Langseth;
Underdog and Ronnie Sandahl, among others.
Younger also have their place in La Mar Chica with literature workshops, Swedish pastries, Swedish handicrafts and traditional music.
The Sea of ​​Music and turns 22 and celebrates it in the best way possible, delivering a rich program of parallel activities that complement its powerful music programming.
From 15 to July 23 will be held in Cartagena (Murcia) a festival for gourmets and where they will perform international figures like Julian Marley & Upresing, Cheikh Lô the prize of the festival takes his entire career this year, Omara Portuando & Diego Cigala, Earth Wind & Fire Experience, Mariza, Tindersticks, Damien Jurado, Emir Kusturica or Chambao, among many others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena