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The International Folklore Festival in the Mediterranean, declared of regional tourist interest, advances its date of execution and will take place from 15 to 19 July 2013 the forty-sixth edition.
It is the longest running festival of all festivals that take place not only in the city of Murcia and Murcia but throughout the Spanish state.
The International Folklore Festival in the Mediterranean acts as an integrator between the different sensitivities of folklore, based solely on the quality factor for selecting the participating groups.
Also, the festival aims to approach the public presenting folklore so easy and enjoyable, while people bring to their field, trying to achieve a symbiosis with the city.
It also aims to combine the character of modernity to tradition and give, content and philosophy, greater cultural content and study and research.
Grupo Folklorico Virgen de la Vega (Murcia), Geghard Folk Dance Ensemble (Armenia), Grup de Danses de Moncada (Valencia), Folk Group City of Cartagena (Murcia), chloric Fol Storici Grouping contrade Sbandieratori delle di Cori (Italy) , Zulu Folklore Dance Ensemble (South Africa), Chorus and Dance Association Mazantini (Ciudad Real - Spain), Chorus and Dance Group Christ of Mercy (Murcia), Folk Dance Company "Strong Breed Panama" (Panama), Folk Dance CAJAVEC Ensemble (Bosnia Herzegovina) and Songs and Dances of Murcia Regional Association "Francisco Salzillo" (Murcia).
The festival can be structured in different blocks: choirs and dance groups, choirs and dance groups, exhibitions, studies, presentations and performances of traditional folklore.
The program is as follows:
PROGRAM
Monday, July 15
11 h.
Opening of the exhibition of manners Corpus Murcia, in the Museum Ramon Gaya, and Course of traditional dances from seven years.
Entries in the museum.
20 h.
Opening of the exhibition This blue sea.
Antonio Martinez Mengual, at the Museum of the City.
20.30 h.
Opening of the exhibition of The Auroros of the Region of Murcia.
Photographs of Bartolomé García Martínez, in the Museum of Mills River, with the participation of Lorca Auroros Gang
21.30 h.
The musical heritage of the auroros Murcia and liturgical cycles, traditional activity in the Plaza de la Cruz.
(Brotherhood of Blessed Souls, Patino).
Tuesday, July 16
11 h.
Course of traditional dances from 7 years in the Museum Ramon Gaya.
Entries in the museum.
20.00 h.
City Parade of folklore groups participating in the 46 International Folklore Festival in the Mediterranean.
From the Square of Spain to Plaza del Romea.
At the end of the parade, to 20.30, in the Plaza del Romea, will be the act of Lighting the Torch of Friendship and hoisting of flags.
24 h.
Garden City Museum.
Trasnochando.
Gloriana, or music.
Freedom festive profuse pace.
Readings of poems and literary texts by different authors.
Admission free to fill seats.
Wednesday, July 17
11 h.
Course of traditional dances from 7 years in the Museum Ramon Gaya.
Entries in the museum.
12 hours.
Welcome to the groups participating in the festival by the municipal authorities, in the Plenary Hall of the city of Murcia.
18 h.
Moneo building.
Hall.
Film and folklore.
Film screening of Edgar Neville Flamenco Duende and Mystery (1952).
Admission free to fill seats.
19 h.
City Museum.
Folklore and Ethnography Seminar.
Reading the papers Dawn Murcia, Intangible Heritage of Humanity, and emblem of tradition and cultural identity of the garden of Murcia.
Past, present and future.
20 h.
Come dance with us.
Performance group: Folk Dance Ensemble CAJAVEC (Bosnia Herzegovina), in Avenida de la Libertad Sbandieratori Storici Folk Group delle contrade di Cori (Italy), in Plaza Santo Domingo.
21.30 h.
Belluga Cardinal Square.
Opening session of the Festival.
Performance of the ensembles.
24 h.
Garden City Museum.
Trasnochando.
Gloriana, or music.
Andantino, molto vivace.
Readings of poems and literary texts by different authors.
Thursday, July 18
11 h.
Course of traditional dances from 7 years in the Museum Ramon Gaya.
Entries in the museum.
12.30 h.
Shrine of Our Lady of Fuensanta.
Floral tribute to the Virgin of Fuensanta, by groups participating in the festival.
18 h.
Moneo building.
Hall.
Film and folklore.
Film screening of Carlos Saura Iberia (2005).
Admission free to fill seats.
19 h.
City Museum.
Folklore and Ethnography Seminar.
Reading the papers Folklore.
Social impact and the music and dance of oral transmission and their contexts in the Spanish southeast.
20 h.
Come dance with us.
Performance of the groups.
21.30 h.
Belluga Cardinal Square.
Session Festival.
Performance of folklore groups.
24 h.
Garden City Museum.
Trasnochando.
Gloriana, or music.
The trill hidden, the Aeolian harp.
Readings of poems and literary texts by different authors
Friday, July 19
11 h.
Course of traditional dances from 7 years in the Museum Ramon Gaya.
Entries in the museum.
12 hours.
Come dance with us.
Performance of the groups.
12.30 h.
City Museum.
Presentation of the publication Traditional Clothing Spain by FACYDE (Federation of Songs and Dances of Spain).
18 h.
Moneo building.
Hall.
Film and folklore.
Screening of the film King Nobility baturra Florian (1935).
21 h.
Off the Torch of Friendship.
Square of Spain, in the presence of all the groups participating in the festival.
21.30 h.
Belluga Cardinal Square.
Closing session of the Festival.
Performance of folklore groups participating in the festival.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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