The "Totana Cultural" program promoted by the Department of Culture of Totana City Council contains a total of twenty-two activities for the months of May and June, all related to cinema, exhibitions, concerts and musical performances, cultural visits, thematic market and Spaces of debate and reflection on different subjects.
Among these highlights is the monographic tribute entitled "A Time, Two Characters" on the figures of musician and composer Juan Miguel Marín Camacho and photographer Fernando Navarro, in compliance with a recent plenary agreement.
The Councilor for Culture, Eulalia Moreno, has presented the wide range of activities that will last during these two months, and that will count on the invaluable collaboration of the cultural associative fabric of the totanero municipality.
The film activities will be on Saturday and Sunday, May 6 and 7, with the animated film "The Smurfs: The Hidden Village";
And on Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21, with the screening "El baby jefazo".
The exhibitions included in the program start on Friday, May 12, with the inauguration of the painting exhibition of David Durán Tennoury, in the municipal hall "Gregorio Cebrián", which will remain open until May 26.
In addition, on Friday, June 2, the exhibition of embroidery, patchwork and painting "El viaje" will be inaugurated, as part of the work carried out in the workshops of the "La Cárcel-Formación" program, which will be open to the public until 11th of June.
Musical Activities
The music will take center stage on Saturday, May 13, with the concert XV anniversary of the group "Inkeys", to be held on the avenue rambla of La Santa, in front of the Center for Craft Technology.
Starting at 19:00 hours different musical activities will take place and at 22:00 a musical concert will be held.
In addition, that same day will be the masterclass of trombone and chamber music, at the Sociocultural Center "La Cárcel", from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., organized by the "Con Forza" Musical Association.
Those interested can make the inscriptions or request more information through the email asociacion.conforza@gmail.com or at the telephone 628 08 09 26 (Cristina).
Saturday, May 20, will be the activity "Totana dances", a salser @ s, to be held in the Plaza de la Balsa Vieja, starting at 10:00 pm, organized by the Association "Sin Salsa no There is Paradise ";
While Saturday, May 27, will take place the Masterclass of trumpet and chamber music, in the Sociocultural Center La Cárcel from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The musical activities also include the concert of folk music of Iberian root of the "Trio Manu Sequera" that presents his work "Honeysuckle";
A musical journey that will transport us to the essence of the traditional and traditional music of the Iberian Peninsula.
The concert will be on May 27, at the Centro Cultural Sociocultural La Cárcel, at 20:30 hours, with a single ticket at the price of five euros.
In addition, the program includes talks such as the roundtable that will be offered on Thursday, May 11, the poet and Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada, Luis García Montero, under the title "Invitation to Poetry", which will take place in The Sociocultural Center "La Cárcel", at 20:30 hours, organized by the Cultural and Worker Center and the Department of Culture.
Also on Thursday, June 8, the round table "The origins of Totana: the site of Las Cabezuelas" will be held, with the participation of Verónica Carricondo, José Antonio Guerao and Juan Antonio Ramírez, in the exhibition hall "Gregorio Cebrián ", At 20:30 hours, promoted by the Cultural and Workers Center
From the 2nd to the 4th of June, will take place the thematic market "Feria homenaje the Lord of the Rings";
A thematic fair set in the literary work of JRR Tolkien with products of crafts, food and gastronomy, children's zone and activities of animation.
The opening hours, in the Plaza de la Constitución and surrounding streets, will be from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. for craft and food stalls, and from 12:00 to 24:00 p.m. for gastronomy stalls;
Except on Friday, that all will open at 12:00 o'clock.
Cultural and tourist visits
The program includes a wide range of cultural and tourist visits starting on Saturday, May 20, coinciding with "The Night of Museums", an activity in which the city of Cartagena opens its doors to culture and art to commemorate The International Day of Museums.
The visit is free of charge to all of its museum spaces and to the many activities that take place in its surroundings, so that the exit will be on the side of the municipal park "Marcos Ortiz", at 18:00 hours, and the return at 3 : 00 hours, whose price is 10 euros and is organized by the Cultural Association "El Cañico".
Those interested can register by phone 660244671 and at the Centro Cultural Sociocultural "La Cárcel".
Also included, coinciding with International Museum Day, the theatrical visit to the La Bastida site, at 9:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., whose inscriptions are formalized at the Tourist Office, with the price of five euros entry General and 3 euros for the retired, unemployed and disabled.
Other cultural visits by Totana
The program includes other cultural visits by the municipality of Totana organized by the Department of Tourism, such as those scheduled to the Museum of the Tower of the Church of Santiago on Saturdays 6, 13, 20 and 27 May and 3, 10 and 24 of June;
And to commemorate the Night of the Museums, on May 18, at 9:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. (a meeting point at the door of the Church).
In addition, visits are included "In the heart of the Sierra Santa Espuña lives" (May 6), "Know Totana from the Tower of Santiago" (June 17) and "Argaric deposit of La Bastida, La Troya de Occidente" (Saturdays and Sundays 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28 May).
Monographic tribute to Juan Miguel Marín and Fernando Navarro
One of the great cultural attractions of the "Totana Cultural" program for this two-month period will be the tribute to the musician and composer Juan Miguel Marín Camacho and the photographer Fernando Navarro Ruiz, entitled "a time, two characters", which includes exhibitions , Concerts and talks.
In this way, on Friday, June 16, will be the inauguration of the exhibition "Musical Scores of the composer Juan Miguel Marín Camacho" and "Photograph of Fernando Navarro Ruiz", in the room "Gregorio Cebrián", from June 16 to 30.
In addition, on Thursday 22 June, the talk "Dialogue of the graphic work of Fernando Navarro" will be held in this same infrastructure (20:30 hours), by the photographer Juan Manuel Díaz Burgos, who promoted the creation of the Historical Photo Center Of the Region of Murcia (CEHIFORM) and directed from its birth in 2001 until 2007.
The next day, on Friday, June 23, will be the central event of this monographic cycle, in the parish of Santiago (21:00 hours), with the concert tribute to the composer and musician Marín Camacho, with the performance of the Orquesta de la Our Lady of Sorrows Brotherhood, the pianist and composer Juan Miguel Murani and the Polyphonic Choir "Vox musicalis".
The program will conclude on Wednesday, June 28 with the round table on the figure of the composer and musician totanero, with the participation of Juan Cánovas Mulero (chronicler of the City of Totana), Luis Ãngel Sánchez (director of the Orchestra of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Dolores) and Juan Miguel Murani (pianist and composer), in the exhibition hall "Gregorio Cebrián", at 20:30 hours.
