Portal de Cartagena

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Figures of the Sea Music 2008 (28/07/2008)

Nearly 60,000 people have participated in activities organized the festival.

Despite the crisis and the abundance of festivals in the region and in the country, the organizers were worried about a decline in public.

The result has been very satisfying to have the same public that in the last edition.

50% of tickets have been sold over the internet and from points across Spain, including La Coruña, Madrid, Tarragona, Guipúzcoa, Navarra, Vizcaya, Barcelona, Baleares, Álava, Cádiz ...

About 35% of the public has been from outside the region.

The festival hung the sign "No Money" in 11 concerts: Orchestre National de Barbes with Café Tacvba, Toumani Diabaté, Djavan, Camille, Oscar D'Leon, Rene Aubry, Alpha Blondy, Michel Portal and Richard Galliano, Yasmin Levy, Morente Omega Lizard Nick and Ruben Blades.

The concerts of the old cathedral, where it sold out, have been widely praised by both critics and audiences, the atmosphere created there.

Enhance this space.

The Concert Hall Square has been a great success, so the festival will continue to develop this scenario.

In total we sold 80% of capacity.

Without the public, the festival has mobilized more than 600 people.

We've had housed more than 300 artists, some 60 technicians and about 50 managers in Cartagena.

The festival has had 40 performances, 12 exhibitions, 20 films and 40 writers.

Have been established more than eighty journalists have come to the festival Spanish TV, BBC, Telecinco, Canal Cuatro, El Pais, El Mundo, Public Television of Galicia, Tele Madrid, La Razon, El Semanal, ABC, La Vanguardia ... .

The festival has had 17 appearances in various television stations nationwide broadcast, appearing mainly in news.

La Mar de Músicas has had more than a hundred cultural.

Plossu exposures Bernard, Antoine D'Agata, Pierre Gonord, Sophie Calle, Abdelkader Benchamma, Moses Ruiz, JR will be in the exhibition halls and the streets of Cartagena until 29 August.

JR draft and the impact it has had in the city will motivate us to make in the next edition art projects through the streets of Cartagena.

La Mar de Músicas has had a more prominent presence in the programming of Radio 3.

The station is a contributor from the first year the festival has made a major commitment and has issued four and ten live concerts recorded for later broadcast.

Our website has had 1,165,256 visitors since May.

Some 400,000 visitors last year.

This finding led us to give more importance to the network in coming years.

The festival has been edited:

The festival catalog

Catalogue of the exhibition of Pierre Gonnord

Exhibition catalog of Bernard Plossu

Catalogue of Moses Ruiz

Sophie Calle catalog

International Fiction Book Award for Diversity, La Mar de Letras.

"It blew the cuff" of Jean Rolin, in collaboration with Ediciones El Cobre.

The next edition will be dedicated to Morocco.