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The squares, gardens and other enclaves of the city will become an explosion of rhythms, cultures and diverse sensibilities, combining art and tolerance, in the XIX edition of the Murcia Tres Culturas Festival, whose poster has been created by the artist Manuel Pérez
It is a festival that promotes the exchange between peoples, through its artistic manifestations.
Musicians, singers and dancers from different countries, such as Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Greece, France, Venezuela, Israel, Belgium and Palestine, and cultures, will occupy the squares and streets of the city of Murcia, forming a great date with tolerance and the miscegenation, in which the coexistence of music of different styles and traditions is lived as a form of artistic and cultural enrichment.
The Department of Economic Promotion, Culture and European Programs has scheduled almost thirty activities that will take place from May 11 to 26 and whose objective is "to promote a meeting point between the peoples, over any political or religious difference, to The spirit of the Murcia Tres Culturas International Festival is to promote respect among different peoples through art, generate and promote solidarity and tolerance between different cultures, "explained Council Member Jesús Pacheco.
"The city of Murcia is a stage and a valuable example of the cultural enrichment that diversity implies, as well as a vehicle for spreading solidarity, dialogue, peace and respect." The Murcia Three Cultures International Festival has a special essence and artistic sensitivity in order to reconcile different ideas and beliefs in a great celebration of understanding and tolerance, "said Pacheco.
The music and dance programming of the XIX edition of the festival includes various activities aimed at the promotion of tolerance, coexistence and dialogue between artists of different cultural or religious origin without forgetting that thread, which is the Mediterranean, as a bridge of cultures.
The cultures of the different shores of the Mediterranean, spirituality and mysticism, proposals of coexistence and artistic dialogue between cultures and beliefs, the average age in Spain, the children's audience and the celebration of tolerance are present in the programming.
In this edition, will also remember the constitution of the Council of Murcia at the ceremony of delivery of the honors of favorite sons of Murcia that makes the City of Murcia, which will be present Jota Martinez and his memories of the work of King Alfonso X The wise.
Among the proposals stands out Dorantes, with its multicultural show and solidarity 'A Mediterranean without walls !!!!', which aims to tear down walls and prejudices, to open doors and borders, to broaden hearts and smiles and achieve integration, in all areas ;
Faluka, maintainers of the enormous musical wealth that there was in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, fruit of the coexistence of the three cultures, and that today is dispersed by the shores of the Mediterranean;
Hamid Ajbar Ensemble, Moroccan and Spanish culture in Andalusian, Arabic and flamenco music;
Hamsa Hamsa, who through ancestral rhythms and melodies work in respect towards life and towards all cultures;
and Savina Yannatou & Primavera in Salónico, which connects the modal music of the East with the equivalent music of Western Europe, the music of the Middle Ages and the popular polyphonies of the Mediterranean.
Of a prominent role, as it can not be otherwise, enjoy the artistic proposals of Murcia artists and creators: the Ensemble Ecos de Sierra Espuña and the Gregorian Scholla de Murcia presenting a mass dedicated to the apostle Santiago, officiated at the Cathedral of Murcia towards the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries;
and the Old Chapel of Murcia with the program Sacred music of the Levantine Renaissance, both proposals product of an enormous and discreet work of investigation in the archives.
The program has a variety of styles and musical proposals such as Sephardic music, with Noam Vazana and Savina Yannatou;
andalusí, named after the cultured or classical music of Morocco, with the Orchestra of the Tetuán Conservatory and the music and poetry of Emilio Villalba and Sara Marina;
the music of the spirit that includes sacred music, Sufi and Christian mysticism, with the proposals of the two murcian formations and the Sufi of Hamid Ajbar;
the legacy of the Sephardic diaspora, through the Capella de Ministrers, and who have obtained the International Prize for Classical Music 2018 (ICMA International Classical Music Awards);
music of daily life in Palestine that expresses the hopes of a people who love to live, laugh and sing, Ramzi Aburedwan & Dal'Ouna;
music belonging to the rich Hebrew, Arab and Christian cultures that have developed their splendor next to the luminous and fertile shores of the Mediterranean, with the Zejel group;
and music with instruments represented in the Codices of Alfonso X El Sabio and the Spanish Middle Ages, Jota Martínez.
There are also artistic proposals aimed at children and family and those that make up the Festival for Tolerance or Festival of the Three Cultures that will take place on the last weekend and for more than twenty-four hours can be enjoyed through different types of proposals and in different parts of the city: the Murcian Puppetry Company Los Claveles tells the youngest that the important thing about people is not their physical aspect, nor their tastes, nor their way of thinking, but the respect they show to others;
the Balkanic fusion group La Trocamba Matanusca that will perform some morning parades;
and Fetén Fetén that will perform street performances and a family concert transmitting values ​​about reuse, poverty, imagination and the importance of knowing our traditions using some of the most incredible instruments in the history of music.
At the closing of the festival, the last concert that will be offered at the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga, you can hear the voice of Estrella Morente, one of the maximum expressions of flamenco, which is an artistic expression born of the mixture of many cultures (Arabic, Jewish, Castilian, gypsies - arrived in Spain in the fifteenth century and many stayed in Andalusia - the Andalusian) that then occurred in Andalusia.
PROGRAM
- Friday, May 11th.
* Plaza de Belluga.
22 h.
Dorantes (Spain - Morocco - Tunisia - Greece - France).
A Mediterranean without walls!
- Wednesday, May 16th.
* Plaza of the Apostles.
21 h.
Jota Martínez (Spain - Greece).
Alfonsí Musical Instrumentarium
- Thursday, May 17.
* Sta. Cathedral Church of Murcia.
20.30 h.
Ecos Ensemble of Sierra Espuña & Schola Gregoriana de Murcia (Spain).
Mass of Santiago Apostle.
Music of the Cathedral of Murcia
- Friday, May 18th.
* Pza. Sto.
Sunday.
20 h.
Faluka (Spain - Morocco - Venezuela).
Territories of the diaspora, a journey through the musical memory of the Iberian exile.
* Pza. Of the Apostles.
21.00 h.
Orchestra of the Tetuán Conservatory (Morocco) Andalusian music
- Saturday, May 19th.
* Avda. Libertad.
19.30 h.
Puppets Los Claveles (Spain).
Three cultures of children.
Miau, wow, kikirikí.
* Pza. Apostles.
21 h.
Hamid Ajbar Ensemble Sufí.
(Spain - Morocco).
A spiritual journey from Cordoba to Damascus
* Terrace Molinos del Río.
23.30 h.
(Spain -Israel - France).
Hamsa Hamsa Sephardic tradition, middle east and influences of flamenco, jazz, and Balkan music.
- Monday, May 21.
* Church of the Anas.
20.30 h.
Ancient Chapel of Murcia (Spain).
Sacred music of the Levantine Renaissance.
- Wednesday, May 23rd.
* Courtyard of San Esteban.
20 h.
Capella de Ministrers (Spain).
Music Enclosed: the oral legacy of the Sephardic diaspora
- Thursday, May 24th.
* Courtyard of San Esteban.
20 h.
Emilio Villalba & Sara Marina (Spain).
Andalusian music and poetry
* Cloister of Mercy - University.
21.30 h.
Noam Vazana Trio (Israel).
Sephardic and Israeli melodies
- Friday, May 25th.
* Pza. Of Europe.
20.30 h.
Ramzi Aburedwan & Dal'Ouna (Belgium - Palestine).
Classical music and Arabic folklore from the Middle East
* Pza. De Belluga.
22 h.
Savina Yannatou & Primavera in Thessaloniki (Greece).
The Mediterranean bridge of cultures
- Saturday.
May 26th
The Festival of the Three Cultures.
* Pza. De la Cruz.
12 h.
and Pza. San Bartolomé.
13 h.
Fetén Fetén (Spain)
* Pza. San Bartolomé.
12 h.
and Calle Apostles (School of Dramatic Art).
13 h.
Parade of Trocamba Matanusca (Spain)
* Pza. De Sto.
Sunday.
7pm
Fetén Fetén (Spain) Concert in family.
Three cultures of children.
* Pza. Of Europe.
20.30 h.
Zejel (Morocco and Spain).
Memory of the east.
Christian, Arab and Sephardic traditions.
* Pza. Belluga.
22 h.
Estrella Morente (Spain).
Flamenco opens the heart
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES OF SEPHARDY STUDIES: LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CULTURE.
University of Murcia.
Letters faculty.
Days 3 and 4 of May.
Information: antonmar@um.es and alessandra.dolce@um.es
Registration: https://casiopea.um.es/cursospe/casiopea.portal.inicio.do
VIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: IBN ARABI: HIMMA, THE CREATIVE FORCE
May 25-27
Hemicycle of the Faculty of Letters.
University of Murcia.
Organized by: MIAS - Latina, Puertas de Castilla Center and University of Murcia.
Information: https://ibnarabisociety.es/index.php?pagina=138&lang=
e-mail: miaslatina@ibnarabisociety.es
CINEMA THREE CULTURES
Puertas de Castilla Cultural Center
Tuesday May 15, 20 h.
- Interiors and exteriors.
Director: Ashique Mostafa.
Bangladesh.
2017
- Let the summer never come again.
Director: Alexandre Koberidze.
Germany.
2017
Wednesday May 16, 20 h.
- Retouch.
Director: Kaveh Mazaheri.
Iran.
2017
- La nuit oú j'ai nagé.
Directors: Damien Manivel, Kohei Igarashi.
France - Japan.
2017
Free access until full capacity
EXHIBITIONS
Cultural Center of San Ginés
Until May 18 (from 4.30 pm to 9.00 pm)
ASSAQYA exhibition.
Acequias de Era Alta and San Ginés
Photographs by Frederic Volkringer
THEATER
Saturday, May 19.
20.30 h.
Romea Theater
Ibn Hud, the last Andalusian sigh.
1228 - 1238
Theater Company of the Federation of Moors and Christians of Murcia
Access with invitation to withdraw at the theater box office from May 18.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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