The municipal auditoriums of La Alberca, Algezares, Beniaján, Cabezo de Torres and Guadalupe will offer until the month of June a total of 115 shows, of which a hundred will be represented by Murcian entities, which is more than 87% of the total.
The Councilor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, explained that "we make available to the public over 1,400 seats from which to enjoy a wide and varied programming aimed at different sectors of the population."
The main objectives are, according to Pacheco, "to invigorate the cultural aspects of the municipality, contribute to enhance the cultural offer of the municipality, facilitate access to culture to the citizen and encourage the production and development of cultural proposals."
Within the programming for the first semester of the year, the activities related to music that always occupy a large space in the municipal auditoriums stand out and, on this occasion they represent almost a third of the programmed activities.
In terms of genres, a wide variety is represented as classical, band, jazz, flamenco, lyrical ...
This season highlights the beginning of the Music Cycle up close in Beniaján, Encuentro de Coros, the celebration of the Flemish Music Final with the performance of Raúl Corredor as a guest in Guadalupe, the concert of Claudia Dafne Sevilla Carrión in La Alberca, and the show of Zarzuela by Federico Chueca in Algezares.
The musical associations resident in the auditoriums also have their space in the programming.
Thus, concerts of the Musical Group of Beniaján (Festival of Band School and Holder and Didactic Concert), the Youth Musical Group of Cabezo de Torres (Band Festival), the Musician Association of Las Musas de Guadalupe or the program of activities will be held. of Musicalberca.
In addition, four concerts will be held in collaboration with the Conservatory of Murcia in the different auditoriums.
In terms of theater activities, the vast majority will be offered by Murcian companies with classic theater, avant-garde, humor, drama ... Regional releases are also staged and in some of them they collaborate in their production by performing artistic residency as in the case of Open in Action in Algezares.
Within the programming, the celebration of the Edmundo Chacour Theater Festival in Beniaján and the staging of 'Juana, the Queen who did not want to reign' by Histrión Teatro in Guadalupe, the II Festival of theater and happiness in Cabezo de Torres, and the social theater with Perigallo theater 'Space available' in Algezares.
Regarding the public, it has tried to include the youngest by arranging some shows with secondary schools and looking for productions that fit with the curricular projects of this stage of education and with the interests of this sector of society.
Likewise, in the auditoriums project, special attention is given to children and families, highlighting within the 'Rain' program, the FETEN 2017 Best Show Award in La Alberca;
'Moniquilla and the Nutcracker' children's dance show in Cabezo de Torres, 'Loo' of the Company Stand up in Guadalupe, 'Jo Mamá' by Regomello children's musical show in Algezares and 'No será moverán' by the Puppeteers of Binefar in Beniaján
Within the framework of this children's and youth programming, we must highlight a short series of dramatized stories in English and the theatrical experience 'El Código', directed by Cristina Ramos, whose direct recipients are teenagers in collaboration with the Secondary Centers from the area of ​​each auditorium.
The forum theater is a tool of artistic and social intervention in which the audience is physically integrated into the show to try to change the end of a story.
It is facilitated with this tool that age groups such as adolescents, express fears, worries and even conflictive situations and solutions that arise from themselves.
In the dance section, the Spanish Dance Cycle initiated last season will be consolidated, obeying the following criteria:
- Schedule a dance cycle of quality and with a format and price accessible to the citizens of the municipality
- Count with some of the first figures of the national ballet to look for a greater reach and repercussion of the dance in the context of our districts
Another line of work are collaborations, those activities that respond to the objective of supporting different entities, associations and groups and the promotion of local events, highlighting the following:
With the Bands of Music: Festivals, Encounters and didactic concerts
With Culturalberca: cultural week with theater, concerts, children, literary talks, cinema, etc.
With Músicalberca: musical week with performances of jazz, pop-rock, choirs, chamber music, etc.
With Peńas Huertanas: celebration of festivals and other events.
With the Carnivals: Chirigotas contests
With the Dance Conservatory: Galas of the superior cycles of each specialty
With the Conservatory of Music: the celebration of concert of different formations of students.
With the Superior School of Dramatic Art: the staging of the creation specialties and stage direction.
With the Cultural Centers: end-of-course samples from different workshops
Support to the productions of different collectives such as: Cultural Association Alfandarín, Ugteatro, Ditirambo, AR5, Asociacion Arte y Lírica XXI.
With the Educational Institutions: support for the production of a musical by IES José Planes.
With the Festival of Art and Social Action of VENAGUA: with the staging of a social theater play for children.
With general character, the entrance of the spectacles for adults costs 4 euros and the infantile ones 3 euros although there are also free with invitation.
As a novelty this year the Spanish Dance Cycle will have a subscription with a price of € 15 that will facilitate attendance at the 5 shows.
The pre-sale of tickets is done at www.enclavecultura.com and www.entradasatualcance.com, while box office sales will be two hours before each show at the box office of each auditorium.
The complete program can be found at www.enclavecultura.com and at eventos.murcia.es or on the Facebook account www.facebook.com/enclaveculturamurcia.
More than 25,000 spectators in the last quarter of 2017
A total of 25,051 spectators participated in the activities of the municipal auditoriums during the period October, December 2017. Of this number of shows, attendance was distributed in 13,887 spectators in assignments of the spaces of the 5 Auditoriums and 11,164 in their own activities.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia