The Department of Culture of the City of Totana has organized, with the collaboration of associations and cultural and social groups and a technical committee of experts, more than a score of varied activities aimed at all audiences in the first seven months of the commemoration of the Centennial from the city.
The municipality of Totana commemorates during this year 2018 the concession of the title of City granted to Totana in 1918 by King Alfonso XIII;
and to celebrate this event since January a wide range of activities coordinated by this department has been developed through a technical commission created in 2017, and composed by the chronicler Juan Cánovas Mulero and several municipal technicians.
In addition, the organization of this program has the collaboration of different associations and citizens involved from the start in the implementation of this project.
Among the actions already carried out, a corporate image of the centenary has been drawn up and brochures have been published with the programming of activities corresponding to the period from January to July of the present.
Among the activities already carried out and those that will be developed soon, the following should be highlighted:
Friday, January 26, CENTRAL INAUGURAL CONCERT, with the performance of the composer and musician Juan Miguel Murani.
Thursday, February 1 INAUGURATION of the Photography Exhibition "Tribute to Mateo García".
Perspective of the past, vision of the future and SAMPLE of Totanera Traditional Pottery (exhibition from 1 to 15 February).
Thursday, February 8 ROUND TABLE "Tradition and future of Pottery in Totana", with the participation of the Historian José Antonio Sánchez Pravia and Potters of Totana.
Friday, February 16 PREMIERE OF THE DOCUMENTARY ON GEOLOGY OF THE REGION OF MURCIA.
Speaker: D. Gregorio Romero Sánchez, Geologist.
Sunday, March 4 PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK "UNDER THE HEAVEN OF TOTANA, A ROUTE FOR ITS URBAN EMBLEMS", by Juan Cánovas Mulero, Official Chronicler of Totana.
Saturday, March 10 CONCERT of the Orchestra of the Brotherhood Our Lady of Sorrows.
Saturday, March 24 CONCERT of the Friends of Music Association of El Paretón.
Monday, March 26 CONCERT of Passionary Marches by the Band of the Musical Group of Totana.
THE MUSEUM NIGHT:
Friday, May 18:
GUIDED VISIT TO THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF SANTIAGO, in the afternoon.
CONCERT OF ANCIENT MUSIC "MUSIC FOR THE APOSTLE SANTIAGO".
Schola Gregoriana de Murcia (Eduardo Martínez, director) and Ensemble ECOS of Sierra Espuña (Jorge Losana, director).
GUIDED VISIT TO THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF SANTIAGO, at night.
Saturday, May 19:
VISIT "IN THE HEART OF SIERRA ESPUÑA VIVE LA SANTA".
GUIDED VISIT TO THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF SANTIAGO, in the afternoon.
CONCERT VOX MUSICALIS "Membra Jesu Nostri" for Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists (BuxWV 75).
Dietrich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707).
GUIDED VISIT TO THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF SANTIAGO, at night.
Thursday, May 24 INAUGURATION EXHIBITION "YOUTH LOOK AT A CENTENNIAL (1918-2018)", with the participation of students and students from the educational centers of Totana.
Wednesday, June 6 PROJECTION OF THE DOCUMENTARY "LOOKING BACK IN SUPER 8" by José Carreño Carlos.
Friday, June 8 CONCERT OF PIANO by Juan Francisco Ayala Moreno.
Saturday, June 9 FOLKLORIC FESTIVAL AND COSTUMBRISTA PARADE, organized by Choirs and Dances Ciudad de Totana and Peña Mantellina.
Thursday, June 14 INAUGURATION EXHIBITION OF PAINTING "TOTANA, THE COLOR OF A CENTENARY", of the CONTRASTE Association (from June 14 to 28).
Thursday, June 21 CONFERENCE "AGRICULTURE IN TOTANA, A HISTORICAL AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE".
Wednesday, June 27 ROUND TABLE "THE ARRIVAL OF DEMOCRACY TO TOTANA COUNTED BY ITS PROTAGONISTS, THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS".
Thursday, July 5 PRESENTATION OF THE SECOND PART OF THE BOOK "UNDER THE HEAVEN OF TOTANA, A ROUTE FOR ITS URBAN EMBLEMS", by Juan Cánovas Mulero, Official Chronicler of Totana.
Saturday, July 21 XXVIII FESTIVAL OF BANDS OF MUSIC CITY OF TOTANA.
Sunday, July 22 CONCERT OF ANCIENT MUSIC.
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC ANTIGUA "ECOS of Sierra Espuña", in the Sanctuary of La Santa.
Tuesday, July 24 CONCERT OF ANCIENT MUSIC.
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC ANTIGUA "ECOS of Sierra Espuña", in the Church of Santiago el Mayor.
Friday, July 27 CELEBRATION OF HABANERAS AND POPULAR SONGS.
For the last four months of the year some activities are already contemplated, although the programming is not yet closed, and we are currently in the elaboration phase of said programming.
Among these activities, the following can be advanced:
For the month of October:
INAUGURATION OF THE EXHIBITION "Totana in its First Centenary" (1918-2018).
PRESENTATION OF A FACSIMILE on the historical document of the year 1918.
PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK "ALEDO AND TOTANA IN THE XV AND XVI CENTURIES, TERRITORY, LANDSCAPE, HISTORY", by the historian José Antonio Sánchez Pravia.
ROUND TABLE "The arrival of the Transfer to Totana: Finally Water !, with the participation of Felipe Andreo Andreo, President of the Irrigation Community of the Tajo-Segura Transfer, Fernando Costa Crespo, Agricultural Entrepreneur and Fernando Costa Hernández, Project Engineer Public of the Irrigation Community of the Tajo-Segura Transfer.
CONFERENCE "Urban evolution of Totana in the middle of the XX century".
Speakers Antonio Campos Cánovas and María Dolores López Lorca.
And for the month of December, as the closing and closing of the Centenary, it is planned to hold a Concert with an orchestra of recognized prestige.
