The twenty-third edition of the festival Venagua.
Art and Consciousness-An open look at the diversity brought to the stage and squares of Murcia organized by the association Columbares from 14 to 25 October.
Venagua is a project that opens the view to experience the city and its periphery through the culture through theater, music, photography, visual arts, cinema and thought.
One issue in which live two supporting pillars: community intervention project intercultural neighborhood of Los Rosales of El Palmar;
and essence that created Venagua: theater and music as spaces of encounter and dialogue between cultures and identities betting on coexistence, respect and tolerance.
The opening of the festival will take place on October 14 by the Madrid company TeatrodeFondo with musical Opera Malandro by Chico Buarque at the Teatro Circo Murcia, an adaptation of the celebrated work of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera with four musicians nine actors on stage.
The rest of the week until 18 October, the festival moves to El Palmar where documentary film work on Barrio Los Rosales by Damian Rubio, a project that explores the identity through which people present inhabit their own neighborhood.
Fireplace Stage Collective Cabaret Circus take your garden to the 16th power, a commitment to bring the performing arts to the street and permeate the public fancy.
The challenge of intercultural coexistence comes from the hand of the music of Morocco and Brazil, who will share the stage with Hamal and Mr. Kaddouri Quartet Friday 17 Dengue Urban culture arrive on Saturday 18 with a day where there will be workshops, exhibitions, competitions and three generations coexist in the world of Hip Hop that will have to cap participation Picolo, a member of the ZNP and pioneer of this cultural phenomenon since his arrival at Spanish state.
The proposed Venagua has always had a special place for children: this year the company has Rizo Madrid Theatre, presenting his show of black theater in Prague entitled "Journey Through the Impossible".
The magic of the luminescent puppets take the little ones to a trip through the imagination on Thursday 23 at the Youth Center of El Palmar.
In the same vein is the large exhibition of collages by young Retales format of the districts, under the direction of artist Eduardo Thomas in a journey that has stretched four years and will be released in the Youth Space Ship Bacons Bridge October 24.
The second week of the festival, the epicenter moves to the Barrio del Carmen where the workshop will take place on Gentrification is not a lady's name by the collective Left Hand Routetion, which after passing through five countries and 14 cities address the issue of city ​​and capitalism from artistic intervention and critical analysis.
It is proposed to start a traveling Wednesday 22 CENDEAC and will run for 4 days in the public spaces of the city actively participating in a collective reflection on the processes of construction of urban identity and lifestyles.
In the same quarter of artillery will be the opening of the exhibition Recycled Lives photographer Manuel Zamora of Murcia on 23 October in Hall 1 A job that has won the social values ​​that gives the magazine in collaboration with PHE Ojodepez prize.
The closing of the festival will be borne saxophonist Patxi Valverde Quartet on Friday 24 October in the courtyard of the Museum of Fine Arts in the City, which will have as guest artist Fabio Miano, one of the most important pianists of the European jazz scene.
In this closure as proposed in the rest of the festival tries to value the artists living in our region and lacking the minimum visibility and support to continue their creative work.
Venagua is a coherent proposal within the heterogeneity of the challenges facing activities with the support of artists and technicians that allow adding continuity festival artistic excellence and social commitment.
Culture in the districts and neighborhoods with spaces downtown traffic and to create a dialogue that cohesione territory and facilitate the coexistence of different cultures living in our society.
This edition Venagua poster design has been done by illustrator Rosa Tortosa, which gives the image of an open and intercultural dialogue through color process.
This project was conducted with funding from the Ministry of Employment and Social Security through the European fund for the integration and collaboration features of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Murcia City Hall, Youth Council, Municipal Board Palmar, Fundación Caja Murcia and Iberpiano.
All information and www.columbares.org www.festivalvenagua.es
Operational
Tuesday, 14 October.
21:00.
TCMurcia.
Theatre.
Opera Malandro.
Chico Buarque.
I teatrodefondo.
Octubre.20 Wednesday 15: 00 hours.
Fountain Garden, El Palmar.
Theater Square.
Thursday, 16 October.
20:00 Fountain Garden, El Palmar.
Documentary Presentation Rosales.
Damian Rubio.
Delivery contest balconies and corners of Los Rosales awards.
21:00 Teatro street.
Circus Cabaret.
Scenic Fireplace.
Friday, October 17.
Fountain Garden, El Palmar.
21:00
Concert: Mr. Dengue, Hamal Kaddouri Quartet.
Saturday, October 18.
Fountain Garden, El Palmar.
19:00.
Break Dance Contest.
Exhibition skateboards.
21:00.
Concert.
BMS, Yakuzza and Dj Tano, Picolo ZNP
Tuesday, October 21.
Fountain Garden, El Palmar.
20:00.
Theater Square.
Wednesday 22 / Octubre.18 Saturday 25: 00 hours.
Artillery Barracks.
CENDEAC.
Workshop.
Gentrification is not a lady's name.
Left Hand Routetion.
Thursday, 23 October.
Youth Center El Palmar.
10:30 & 13:00.
Theatre: Journey through the impossible.
Rizo Theatre.
Artillery Barracks.
Hall 1 20:00
Exhibition: Recycled Lives.
Manuel Zamora.
Friday, October 24.
Youth Space Ship.
Bacons Bridge.
20:00.
Exhibition: Retales.
Edward Thomas.
Courtyard of the Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia.
22:00.
Concert: Patxi Valverde & Fabio Miano Quartet.
Saturday, October 25.
Cafeteria Ithaca.
Master class with Fabio Miano.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia