With the arrival of the new year, the Culture area of the Cabildo of Lanzarote launches "a busy cultural program for the first month of the year focused on the performing arts and the agenda of the International Music Festival of the Canary Islands." In addition, "film and literary activities complete a varied agenda," they point out from the Cabildo.
The Minister of Culture of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Alberto Aguiar, highlights "the important number" of cultural events scheduled. "We are very happy to be able to offer a wide variety of activities for all tastes and ages. We invite the public to participate and enjoy the culture in this new year," Aguiar declared. "We continue to promote the rich cultural scene of Lanzarote thanks to an interesting program for culture lovers," he added.
The dates, times and all the detailed information about each of the activities, and ticket sales, are available here.
MalabHaría
One more January, the clown and circus festival MalabHaría returns to welcome the new year "with its pirouettes, with its impossible movements and with the most physical humor for the whole family." The sixteenth edition "offers the opportunity to see the best of this genre in the municipality of Haría until January 5," they indicate from the Cabildo.
International Music Festival of the Canary Islands
"Those people who love quality classical music have an unavoidable appointment with the always prestigious International Music Festival of the Canary Islands that returns in 2023 to Lanzarote and La Graciosa in a new edition that will bring to the two islands great soloists and orchestras of the highest international level," indicates the first Island Institution.
The recitals that can be seen include the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eiji Oue; "Desconcerto", by Jordi Purtí and Orthemis Orquestra; Casals Quartet; Gabrieli Consort, conducted by Paul McCreesh; and the concerts "Consonancias" with the Canary Guitar Quartet and Timples and other small guitars of the world.
Performing arts
Escena Lanzarote presents the multidisciplinary project Tránsito by Paco Navarro, a sound and visual journey through the fusion of percussion and contemporary dance "where the viewer can move through different mental and emotional states as part of the evolutionary process of our own existence".
XI Lanzarote Art Biennial
This art meeting on the island presents to the public three new artistic proposals. One of them is the participatory workshop "We will be what we eat", by the photographer Gerson Díaz, for young people under 17 years old. In addition, Costa Badía will present a performance in which emphasis is placed in a visible and palpable way on the many difficulties that women with disabilities have in carrying out daily activities in numerous situations. Finally, the conference "The role of the judge in social justice", given by Adalberto de la Cruz Correa, will also be offered.
Isolated Letters
In the Isolated Letters project, different cultural agents linked to literature and publishing will meet, as well as those directly or indirectly related to the borders and peripheries of the geography of the literary, with the "objective of addressing and discussing not only the processes of literary creation but also other actions and synergies linked to writing such as plastic creation, poetic training or editing", they point out from the Cabildo. It will take place between January 23 and 27.
More music
Falla Ensemble presents at the Víctor Fernández Gopar 'El Salinero' Theater its first record work “Apenas un roce”, an exquisite proposal, with five works that are five different, but complementary, visions of European musical creation in the last hundred years.
Also, the Festival Internacional Flamenco Romí presents "Gitanas", a show by the Asociación Festival Flamenco Romí that puts the accent on the voice and dance of gypsy women to recognize their contribution to flamenco art despite the enormous difficulties they have had throughout history.
Cinema
The Buñuel Room of El Almacén hosts two cinematographic proposals of very diverse natures. On the one hand, "The Revolution of the Moderns", by the Lanzarote journalist Andrés Martinón, which reviews the circumstances and events that occurred at the time when famous figures such as Rosana Arbelo, Paco Delgado, Pedro Paz, Carmela García or Benito Cabrera, among others, were forged.
On the other hand, "Il Buco" by Michelangelo Frammartino, a drama based on real events in which we discover, together with a speleology group, one of the deepest caves in the world. "The film constructs a story that connects through sounds and images and that invites us to observe, wander through the planes and get excited with the magical simplicity of a sublime landscape", they point out from the first Island Institution.
Talks
The artistic curator Adonay Bermúdez proposes a meeting with the painter Eloy Arribas, who is in the artistic residence of the Hotel Nautilus, in order to talk with him about "aspects related to his vibrant and solid artistic production". In addition, the professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Art of the UNED, Jordi Claramonte together with the visual artist Iván Vilella will dialogue and reflect in El Almacén on art and truth, in the context of the exhibition “Fake”. "They will address concepts such as modal aesthetics, the state of intellectual alienation, sleepwalking and cultural anesthesia in which we live within a world dominated by falsifications and post-truth", they conclude from the Cabildo.
