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More than a hundred activities throughout this month will form the emerging art festival Mucho Más Mayo 2017, which reaches its eighth edition, the second since the recovery of the festival by the City of Cartagena last year.
The presentation took place today, Thursday May 4, and has been run by the Councilor for Culture, David Martinez, the Culture coordinator, Patricio Hernandez and the coordinator of the activities in the invited neighborhoods, Belén Orta.
This year the festival will take place between May 12 and May 21, although it will already deploy a program of training workshops of great interest with artists and creators of the first level that will begin on May 8.
In addition the festival integrates the Museum Night this Saturday, May 20, which was born within this initiative.
Martínez has encouraged citizens to participate in an active way, "because Mucho Más Mayo is a festival that seeks to involve and actively engage people, artists, groups, associations, schools."
This year one of the most defining sections of the sense of the festival is recovered: Arte al centro, Festival de los Estudiantes.
This section links the festival with the educational centers of the municipality, especially those in the neighborhood of Peral and the neighborhood Jose Maria Lapuerta, which this year are the neighborhoods invited to the festival this year, sharing prominence with the historic center of Cartagena.
Also among the novelties are the May Open initiative, the first experience in Cartagena to open studies and spaces for the creation of artists, in which up to 16 artists or spaces will participate, opening their doors to the public to show how and where they work Saturday, May 13.
All these innovations add to the already existing sections: One Urban World, which is responsible for the graffiti or murals that enrich our urban landscape;
The short film show Semana Corta, the section of Installations and Interventions that will change the look of the city, or the musical event Mucha Más Música, the most outstanding musical event, not the only one, to be held on Saturday, May 13 In the Wall of Carlos III, where we already made it to the previous year.
In total more than 400 artists and creators of all kinds will meet during the 9 days of the festival, of which 53% are men and 47% women.
"As is customary in our programming, the festival reaffirms its commitment to gender equality in culture, which is a commitment of the Department," said Martínez.
The overall budget of the festival has amounted to 80,000 euros.
The councilman did not want to end without "underlining that other characteristic that has made popular Mucho Más Mayo: presenting artistic proposals in places not usual or conventional for art and culture" that will allow this year to find activities in markets, City buses, public advertising stands, walls, classical ruins, courtyards ...
Among the artists participating in this year's edition are creators from Argentina, Italy, Brazil or Australia, as well as Spain.
Special mention should be made of the names of visual artists such as Rogelio Lopez Cuenca and Elo Vega;
The narrator transmedia Belén Santa-Olalla, artists María Cañas, street-artists Mario Mankey, Vesod, Refreshink, or Kraser, journalist and poet Javier Gallego, architect Jose Maria Lapuerta, filmmakers David Macián, Luis López Carrasco or Victor Brown;
The dancers and choreographers Isabel Lavella or Marisa Brigarolas;
Miguel Angel Montilla, actor;
The creator Guiliana Grippo, and many other names known as DosJotas, Mawatres, Juan de Dios Martínez Domingo Llor, Ursula Bravo, Belén Orta, Lola Nieto, Jesús Nieto, Miguel Olmo, Pedro Guirao, etc.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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