One of the innovations that brings the VIII edition of the Mucho Más Mayo Festival is the opening day of studies and spaces of artistic creation of the municipality of Cartagena, in order to bring art and different artistic disciplines to the public.
'Mayo Abierto', the name given to this new section, is being held for the first time in Cartagena in the program of the Emerging Art Festival More May and will take place on Saturday, May 13, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Free of charge for all audiences.
The artists will open their studies to all the interested people to carry out different demonstrative and formative activities.
This is a novel way that facilitates a direct approach between the artist and the public to know their work space and their work.
Through May Open, professionalism is promoted, the education and artistic training of new audiences is sought.
This new section of the Mucho Más Mayo Festival proposes two different routes.
The first one is the urban route, which will be carried out by the studies located in the urban area of ​​Cartagena.
On Saturday 13 May, the second visit will take place with the route of the neighborhoods and councils, where a minibus, leaving at 10:00 hours from the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center, will take charge of taking visitors To the different workshops of deputations and neighborhoods of Cartagena.
To attend this last route is necessary to pre-register through the mail: muchomasmayo@ayto-cartagena.es.
The duration of the visits in each one of the workshops, of both routes programmed, is of approximately 30 minutes.
These visits are free and open access, to fill capacity.
With this initiative, the Festival Mucho Más Mayo aims to bring contemporary art to the public and facilitate access to culture through art, in a free and close manner.
Artists are also given the opportunity to display in an accessible way their work, their way of working and their environment, as well as to spread their artistic production.
Among the artists and professionals involved are Enrique Vicente Navarro Carretero, Paca Calvo, Jesús Ingles, Angel Maciá, Antonio Vidal, Jose Manuel Chacón, Salvi Vivancos, Jesús Nieto, Fernando Sáenz de Elorrieta, Luis Guerrero, Carmen Matrán, HUMA Architecture Studio , Alfonso and Jorge García Arnar, José Betanzos, Antonio López Mateo and Jose L. López Sarget.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena