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The International Folklore Festival in the Mediterranean, declared of Regional Tourist Interest, held from 7 to September 11, 2009 its forty-second edition, which makes it the longest lived of all the festivals that are celebrated not only in the city Murcia and Murcia but throughout the Spanish state.

Eleven groups Murcia-three of them participate in this event.

The young artist Ruben Murcia Zambudio is the author of this year's poster, presented today by the council of Festivals and Popular Culture, Rafael Gomez.

Over these forty years have seen the confederations that bind to the festival organizers, associations of different folk groups.

Therefore, the Festival of Folklore in the Mediterranean at this time poses a goal integrator between the different federations keeping its doors open to all, based solely on the quality factor for the selection of participating groups.

The festival has as general objectives the approximation of folklore to the public making it easy and fun, join the nature of modernity to tradition, providing the festival with more cultural content and to study and promote the city of Murcia, customs and heritage .

We propose to make the city live on stage and continued through the empowerment of the parade and the lighting of "the torch of friendship", performances in streets and squares and off the stage and a series of parallel activities at festival give that touch of modernity, study and cultural content that raise awareness to all citizens who have a tradition and a culture typically Mediterranean.

For this, the festival will consist of choirs and dance groups performing on different streets and squares as well as the headquarters of the festival stage, exhibitions that will complement and will equip the festival its foundation and rationale.

· Studies and papers on folklore that will generate a seminar and a database for researchers of folklore.

· Actions of traditional folklore groups who visit aimed at spreading our tradition.

· Views, declamations, dialogues ... taking as central the sea, and in particular the Mediterranean.

• The festival as a stove made of the traditional type activities.

The festival also includes other activities:

"COME DANCE WITH U.S.": Performances in plazas, roads, markets and Senior Center of San Basilio.

Dances of folklore groups participating in the main city in the afternoon of the festival, surprising people in their walk, before proceeding to carry on center stage in University Square, interacting with the public and inviting him to dance ..

EXHIBITIONS: "Mediterranean.

The sea and the cities. "

Ten artists from Murcia: Manolo Belz, Antonio Ballester, Esteban Bernal, M ª Carmen Cantabella, Miguel Fructuoso, Ana Martínez, Emilio Pascual, Manuel Pérez, Eduardo Pérez Salgado and Ruben Zambudio will meet at the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga for painting before the public his vision on "The Sea and the Cities."

City Museum.

Exhibition of works by these painters.

· Space Río_Caballerizas Mills.

Opening Spain.

Festivals and Rites Cristina Garcia Rodero (Magnum Photos) (exhibition until November 9)

9 th WORKSHOP ON FOLKLORE AND ETHNOGRAPHY: To create a documentary in which stakeholders and researchers to work and study on folklore and traditions of our region, with presentations on the tower houses the garden, water, street parties and Corpus.

CYCLE "FILM AND FOLKLORE": Screening of three films in the Spanish films marking content ethnographic, anthropological or folklore, which show the different aspects of dance, music, traditions, lifestyles, work, etc ....

With images of NO-DO in the Region of Murcia: stories about people in the Region of Murcia (Abarán, Cavaraca Cross, Yecla, Aledo, La Union, La Manga, Aguilas, Murcia).

"Hours": A physical space and time for the creation and recreation, for sensitivity.

At the Museum of the City will create a physical space and time at which readings were made, declamations and dialogues.

Reading of poems and literary texts by various authors on the sea and cities.

Eloy Sánchez Rosillo poems set to music by Sebastian Mondéjar, Andrés Santos and Miguel Angel Mondo.

Soren coordinates Peñalver.

On this occasion we will have the presence of "The Mayo" in Alhama de Murcia, accompanied by the "corremayos."

The groups participating in the festival are:

- Gauteng Provincial Assembly (South Africa)

- Conjunto Folklorico Nairi (Armenia)

- "I Burgisi di Marsala (Italy)

- "Shilpagya" Indian Traditional Arts (India)

- International Folk Dance Company Zazaribacoa (Venezuela)

- "Crabots of semi-Lous (France)

- Songs and Dances Canary Islands La Palma Nambroque

- Songs and Dances "Francisco de Goya" (Madrid. Spain)

- Murcia - Spain "Folklore Group" Virgen de la Vega "

- Association Murcia-Murcia Songs and Dances of Salzillo Fco

- Murcia - Spain Songs and Dances "Virgen de la Fuensanta"

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia