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Mucho Mas Mayo festival, organized by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena, again flooding the city of Cartagena de young talents from 9 to 18 May.
With three editions has been fully consolidated as a great festival of artistic interventions in urban space, as highlighted by the Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, at the launch event, which has also been Councilman Youth, Javier Herrero, and Injuve director, Teresa Moreno.
More than 300 young artists will participate in around the 61 performances and 14 workshops planned.
Disciplines scheduled in the festival, which takes place in the historic city center, are installations and interventions, film, photography, sculpture, video, music, theater, performance, literature, dance, street entertainment, circus ...
The festival goes beyond the local area in which it develops, and is more than 35 percent of the participants are from outside Cartagena.
There are artists of Murcia, Barcelona, Canary Islands, France, China and Bulgaria, to name just some of the sources.
Furthermore, the number, diversity, quality and innovation of proposals to shape the program is designated as one of the most unique cultural offerings and powerful in the region of Murcia.
Since its inception, Mucho Mas Mayo (MMM) is a festival that is exploring new ways for young artists can showcase their creations and in turn the citizens to be participants in the immense creative capital provided by these new values.
The spaces where they will develop MMM is the historic old city, which runs from the Plaza of Spain, to the port, along the pedestrian axis and transverse to the area.
This year also serve as a space for intervention in the neighborhoods of Cartagena, which will change each year.
This year the area chosen was the Barrio Virgen de la Caridad.
The festival is divided into several sections to make your programming time: projects selected by a committee of experts, through public competition, fixed projects that take place every year, activities produced by the festival itself, and cultural activities contracted.
Of all the works committee has selected 38 projects, including facilities to be poetic, such as those made Lola Nieto linking urban architecture and poetry, which uses the corners of buildings to place poetry, or Celebrity regular multidisciplinary work where underground artists of the city, living in obscurity and out of the music market have the opportunity to be released in different parts of the city.
Also photographic works have been selected as the Pablo Sanchez has organized the Valley with the title Freeland, a large-format photographic collective about multiculturalism, which includes photographs of over 20 artists, many press photographers.
Or the one conducted by Juan Carlos Campoy where 600 women from the neighborhood faces Virgen de la Caridad reflect the personality of the neighborhood.
Fixed and stable part of the festival consists of the Short Film Week, the series of conferences, workshops and a guest artist this year is Juan Delgado.
Short Film Week is the only example of short films in the port city, and has received 248 short this year, about sixty more than the previous sample.
Of these, the organization will select those projects later.
The short week has three sections: short sections of Cartagena, short section of regional and national short films section.
May 14 will be screened from 22:00 hours in the neighborhood Virgen de la Caridad, 15 and 16 May in the Plaza San Francisco.
The lecture series this year has the theme Transformations.
Art, thought and activism.
As May Offer Much More workshops in its third year courses 260 seats in film, photography, theater, jazz, comic books and rhymes of hip hop, where young people can participate in age between 14 and 35.
The guest at this year's festival is Juan Delgado, a young Cartagena based in the UK, a large operator of audiovisual, awarded in different festivals.
Festival, meanwhile, produces a series of activities such as Art Hotel, where the fifth floor of the NH of Cartagena will become a large exhibition room of contemporary art; One Urban World, where rapping, breakdancing, and graffiti deejaying will be present at the marina in Cartagena with the presence of African artists, Asians and Europeans, both in concert and in courses of graffiti and rap.
On the other hand, Lunatics different approach to the public to observe Cartagena penthouses multidisciplinary performances.
This section of the festival is complemented by Spoken World, poetic musical activities in bars, and multi-arch, architectural intervention in the neighborhood Virgen de la Caridad.
Also Much More May be supplemented by the Mestizos concert on Saturday 10 May with the live performance of Amparanoia, Chambao and Dedet Klan as the festival's closing night Volants special Plasticiens and the French group Wax Taylor.
The festival also integrates the awards ceremony for Young Readers Mandarache and Young Performers include strings and brass.
They have collaborated with the music festival La Mar, moving, and the Center Cehiform Párraga.
It has been supported by the Directorate General for Cultural Promotion of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, as well as collaboration with other municipal departments as the Department of Culture, Tourism through Decentralization, Public Roads and Sports.
Also the collaboration reaches a set of organizations, companies and associations of all kinds without which there could be the festival, from the Association of galleries in the region of Murcia, the Youth Council of Cartagena, Residents Association Our Lady of Charity The Mall Traders Association opened, the Port Authority, the Consortium Cartagena Puerto de Culturas, and companies such as: Alsa, the Cadena Ser, La Opinión, Hotel nh, Fj advertising, Setting advertising, etc. Tresorg.
or associations and cultural organizations such as the Collective Aver, independent film workshop, Malabagic Association, the Music Conservatory of Cartagena, or financial institutions such as the Cam and Cajamurcia.
The festival budget is around 165,000 euros, which must be added 35,000 as training (courses, workshops and conferences) and 100,000 other cultural programming.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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