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Year SOS combines culture and tourism and to become a series of "true cultural festivals that involve the largest number of people and where people not only going to consume culture, but also fun," said Minister of Culture
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today introduced the activities that comprise the SOS year, a proposal that mediates between the start of the year and the arrival of the Festival SOS 4.8 and Star Lift Double whose focus is "to provide a claim advertising for which is already one of the major cultural events in the region and the national scene and claim to use these strategies to instill a cultural sense smart, high quality and with an urban dimension, since most of these activities will be carried the scene of the city of Murcia, "said Cruz.
Thus, the actions are proposed to interact with human tissue and commercial city of Murcia.
The main feature of the actions that comprise the SOS Year to be held the last weekend of January to April 2009, is playing with one of the defining elements of the festival: time.
Thus, the activities will be multiplying their duration, culminating with the 48 uninterrupted hours of the festival and in a manner which will be held in January, devoted to dance, have a duration of 3 hours in February, the month that will take place the final of Talent 4.8, will last six hours, in March, will be held 12 hours of film, and, finally, in April, 24 hours of literature.
The first meeting with SOS 4.8 Year is 31 January in the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga, which will host various activities of dance in which "citizens can participate and be invited to dance."
These 3 hours of dance activities mark the beginning of the year SOS 4.8 with 'Caught by surprise', at 11 am, in charge of the company Ruedapiés, 'Dance in the street for children', at 12 hours, a children's show Media in children dancing with professional dancers and choreographers, the roundtable, 'Why dance in the street? ", at 17 hours, which will bring together artists invited to the dance action along with art curator Estrella Levante Festival SOS 4.8, Jota Castro, and the multimedia dance show by video art artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly, at 19 and 20.30, in which the public will have the opportunity to interact themselves becoming spectators in artists creating shapes and colors with their movements.
Year activities SOS 4.8 is also a link between regional artists and Star Lift SOS4.8 Festival, which returns this year with more international and regional musical offerings.
The Festival will, for the winners of Round 1 of Competition TalentoSOS4.8, a unique platform for promotion.
The contest, open to all groups, soloists and musical projects in the Region of Murcia, has received more than 60 models.
A jury chaired by Jam Albarracín, accompanied by Albert Salmerón, Musical Director of the Festival SOS 4.8, select the four groups, with the most votes from the public on the web, performing live in the finals to be held in room 12ymedio February 28 to 22 hours.
Besides the two winners will receive 1,500 euros and will open the two-day concert festival SOS4.8 Estrella Levante.
Music documentaries
On 28 March at the Plaza Artillery Barracks Párraga Center, is hosting the celebration of the first edition of the International Documentary Festival Music by SOS 4.8 YEAR IN-EDIT, the consolidated Musical Documentary Film Festival and one of our country (and one of the few in the world) dedicated to the musical documentary film exhibition and the organization of round tables and workshops on the genre.
The festival will include round table "The sustainability of the image ', which fans of the genre can hear and exchange views with some of the creators of music documentaries.
This table, modeled on the sustainability of the image through film and music documentaries will be moderated by Luis Hidalgo, artistic director of In-Edit Festival and music critic of El Pais, and be composed of the director Grant Gee (Joy Division "," Meeting People is Easy "...) next to a national director of prestige and Pedro Alberto Cruz.
The program includes documentaries about Kurt Cobain, Patty Smith and Joy Division, among others.
24 hours reading
Finally, on 25 and 26 April, using the World Book Day to be held on April 23, will take place 24 hours reading Belluga Cardinal Square and the Centre Párraga.
The conference is designed to integrate the whole family in literary activities ranging from storytelling to finished panels, after 23 hours in the Center Parraga, with readings of erotic literature, terrifying and transgressive.
Books, writers, editors and readers will Murcia in April.
In addition, conduct a web-broadcast of the talk shows and reading time and a literature contest dedicated to the Microfictions and in which participants must send the texts via mobile messages.
The cafes themselves are in the surroundings of the Cathedral will also take part in this activity by creating special menus, which would also "introduce the dimension of culture and hospitality and tourism will join that, ultimately, is what we want," he said Cruz. "
In short, this is a series of activities, such as Cruz said, "far from trying to target a specialized audience, they intend to become real popular events in real cultural festivals that involve the largest number of people and where people not only going to consume culture and, therefore, to learn, but also fun, because that, ultimately, is the philosophy of Star Lift Festival SOS 4.8: Reflection and entertainment, the avoidance as a form of culture ".
Photo: The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and the Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, at the launch of SOS Year.
Source: CARM
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