Word artists, jugglers, storytellers, or ballads repentistas will meet in San Javier next week to mark the First International Jugglers to be held from 26 to 30 August in San Javier and Roda, organized by the Department of Culture of the City of San Javier, and coordinated by Matthias Tárraga, local minstrel profession and vocation.
The minstrels who came from Cuba, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Cameroon, Costa Rica and other parts of Spain will act in formal meetings of the Meeting in Roda, at 20.00 h.
and Municipal Auditorium in San Javier Almansa park at 22.00h, from 26 to 29 August.
On August 30, last day will be a special day in which the activity will move to Santiago de la Ribera in the hamlet of San Blas, a martyr who has decided to appoint the minstrels pattern under its "miraculous hand" with sore throats, an essential tool for magicians of orality.
That day, from 12.00.
there will be a public meeting and jugglers around a lunch in the pine forest of San Blas.
In the evening at 20.00h.
leave a pilgrimage from the esplanade Barnuevo to the hermitage of San Blas, accompanied by Maracaibo Teatro that display an impressive road show in which the pagan meeting with the divine.
Once in San Blas, the pine forest will host a grand finale promising that attendees can enjoy and dance to the dulzainero of Aragon.
In addition to San Javier, Roda, and Santiago de la Ribera, jugglers will also come with their show to La Manga in Castillo de Mar, and El Mirador in civic center 27 and August 28 at 20.00h.
As a complementary activity of Meeting, from 27 to 30 August, held talks with the three minstrels who acted the day before and the interested public on the minstrel profession and experiences of its participants.
It will be at the civic center of Santiago de la Ribera at 18.00.
Jugglers and program participants
Colombian Carlos Ortiz, the greatest exponent of the oral tradition in Colombia and one of the best storytellers of his country, will be responsible for opening the meeting on 26 August in the more intimate setting of Roda pine forest.
That night will perform in the auditorium of San Javier, Aragonese Luis Felipe Alegre, the teacher of Spanish minstrels, and the Cuban Alexis Diaz-Pimenta, poet and genius of improvisation.
On day 27, in Roda you can see the company's Pep Gómez, Dean of puppets and origami will present their "Cabaret of paper."
In the auditorium act Catalan Vilardebó Arnau, a showman of the minstrel, an expert in Greek mythology, and the German, Christian Athanasius, a clown from jugglers, polypoetry grower.
Roda, on August 28, act Carlos Alba, to show that the stand-up comedians in fashion has its roots in the Asturian oral tradition of the eighteenth century.
At night, park in the auditorium of Almansa was able to see the Mexican Martha Escudero sings and recites account both the oral tradition as the text of the author, and the Castilian-Manchego, Alberto Perez, whose show "More beyond the mandrake, remember that there is life beyond the famous TV show.
The last day of performances, August 29, Cameroon Ofog Boniface, who renounced his title of prince of the tribe Yambasa to the astonishment of his father, the King, by the fact that in Europe you will pay for storytelling, Roda tell African stories.
The audience will dismiss the Festival with performances by Juan Madrigal, Costa Rica, and Javier Tárraga, a native of San Javier which perform for the first time and which may prove to be one of the largest growers of romance, a genre that deals with large care and originality.
The farewell meeting was held with an intense day on August 30 in the hamlet of San Blas.
Jugglers and the public will participate at 24:00.
lunch in the pine forest of San Blas.
In the afternoon they held a procession that will leave at 20.00 from the esplanade Barnuevo of Santiago de la Ribera to the hermitage of San Blas, whose miraculous power to cure sore throats, have served to name the patron saint of minstrels.
The procession will be accompanied by the group Maracaibo Theatre, with an extravaganza of street, and the arrival in the pine forest, and so there will be a dance party with low dulzainero Aragon.
The outdoor performances of Roda in the pine forest, are free and begin at 8:00 p.m..
The entrance to the shows in the park's auditorium begin at 22.0h Almansa.
and will cost 5 euros as a single price, and can be purchased at the Festival office (968 19 15 68-88).
The workshop-seminar, in which interested parties can learn directly from the participating artists will be held at the civic center of Santiago de la Ribera prior registration with free assistance in the office of Culture of the City of San Javier (968 57 37 00. Ext 212).
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier