With the arrival of summer, Lanzarote is confirmed with an island cultural agenda full of music, theater, literature and cinema. In addition, the San Pedro festivities begin in Mácher, the San Juan festivities continue in Haría, and many other towns on the island such as Arrecife or Puerto del Carmen, which will celebrate San Juan's night in style.
MUSIC
- Soloists Festival. Teguise Cultural Plan
The traditional Teguise Soloists Festival returns on Friday, June 21 at 8:30 p.m. at the Soo Sociocultural Center. All the folklore schools of the municipality will be there.
When: Friday, June 21 at 8.30 pm.
Where: Soo. El Buen Lugar Sociocultural Center.
Free admission until full capacity.
- Vientar trio and Sergio Calleja
The festival "Proximity music, music from close by” continues, mixing the arts of narration and music neighborhood by neighborhood in Arrecife. This week the Vientar flute trio and the narrator Sergio Calleja combine their instruments to bring culture to the San Francisco Javier neighborhood.
When: Friday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Where: San Francisco Javier Sociocultural Center
- Mestisay and Olga Cerpa
The Mestisay group is one of the Canarian musical formations with the most tradition and international projection, so they have contributed to the dissemination of the culture of the islands.
The singer Olga Cerpa is considered one of the most outstanding female voices in the archipelago, she has been nominated twice for the Latin Grammy as Best Folk Album and Best Traditional Tropical Album.
When: Friday, June 21, at 9:00 p.m.
Where: Plaza de Haría
- Cruz Cafuné. Honor Canario UrbanFest
With millions of followers, the Tenerife rapper of Lanzarote origin Cruz Cafuné will offer a concert in Arrecife, as the main star of the first Honor Canario Urban Festival, better known as Honor Canario Urban Fest. Cruz Cafuné will be preceded by five emerging opening acts selected through the Lanzarote Urban Contest... and the party will continue with DJs Javi Fajardo and Ossorio.
When: Saturday, June 22 from 3:00 p.m.
Where: Lanzarote Sports City
Tickets at 10 euros.
- Strings. Orchestrated Neighborhoods
Strings is a multidisciplinary and interactive show organized by the Orchestrated Neighborhoods initiative that emerged in 2005 to bring culture closer to all sectors of society, and especially to those with greater socioeconomic vulnerability.
Students and families from the Argana and Altavista locations in Arrecife participate in this solidarity performance. The students will exhibit a work that weaves together singing, dance, dramaturgy and instrumentation.
When: Sunday, June 23 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Tías Municipal Theater.
Tickets at 7 euros
SAN JUAN NIGHT. Sunday, June 23.
- Arrecife. There will be musical performances between 11:00 a.m. and 00:00 a.m. Among the artists will be the urban merengue singer Omega el Grande, author of the hit Qué tengo que hacer with more than 20 million views on YouTube.
- Puerto del Carmen. From 8:00 p.m. the Banda 7 Jarvac orchestra and Los Conejeros will perform on Bajamar street.
- San Bartolomé. From 8:00 p.m. the group Maldita EGB performs and at 9:30 p.m. the group Treintytantos followed by DJ Ángel Pérez.
LITERATURE
- Lanzarote Literature Festival. Alberto Olmos
The second edition of the Lanzarote Literature Festival continues with the writer, literary critic and columnist, Alberto Olmos, who will talk about what it means to write about everything: from the novel to the column.
Olmos was born in Segovia in 1975 and debuted 23 years later with the novel “A bordo del naufragio”, finalist for the Herralde Prize from Editorial Anagrama. Six novels followed, including “Trenes hacia Tokio”, “Ejército enemigo” or “Alabanza”.
When: Friday, June 21 at 7.30 pm.
Where: Islote de Fermina
Free admission until full capacity.
TALKS
- Jacinto Vera
On Friday, June 21, at 8:00 p.m., in the Church of San Roque de Tinajo there is a conference on the blessed Jacinto Vera, the first bishop of Uruguay, who was born on a ship when his parents, both from Tinajo, were heading to America to achieve a better future.
The talk is given by the Bishop Emeritus of the same Uruguayan diocese in which Vera was bishop.
THEATER
- The name of the rose.
The Abubu kaka theater company offers a comedy version of the novel “The Name of the Rose” by the eminent professor of semiology and philosophy at the University of Bologna, who in his spare time wrote magnificent novels, the illustrious Umberto Eco.
In an era of hoaxes, this theatrical production seeks the truth through the lenses of Guillermo de Baskerville who, only once the source has been corroborated, is ready to issue a judgment. From 12 years old.
Where: Víctor Fernández Gopar Theater “El Salinero”
When: Saturday, June 22 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets at 10 euros.
- The Return of Peter Pan and Wendy
The Aplausos theater group offers this play at the Municipal Theater of Tinajo on Friday at 8:00 p.m.
Where: Municipal Theater of Tinajo
When: Friday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets available at the Casa de la Cultura de Tinajo (from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.).
- Sing!
The Aplausos theater group offers this play at the Municipal Theater of Tinajo on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Municipal Theater of Tinajo
When: Sunday, June 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets available at the Casa de la Cultura de Tinajo (from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.).
CINEMA
- Buñuel Cinema. Animalia
The Buñuel Cinema presents the film “Animalia” by the director of dual French and Moroccan nationality, Sofia Alaoui. This is her first feature film.
In it, she is very critical of the Moroccan regime, and she does so using a science fiction story as a backdrop. The film received the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival last year.
When: Thursday, June 20 at 8.30 pm.
Where: El Almacén, in Arrecife.
Tickets at 3 euros.
- Lanzarote Film Club. Rat film
Cine Club Lanzarote presents, also in El Almacén, the documentary Rat film, which explores the complex relationship between humans and rats in the American city of Baltimore.
This link serves the filmmaker Theo Anthony to reflect on segregation and social inequality. The film offers a provocative and reflective look at history and society. After the film there will be a discussion.
Before the screening, at 7:00 p.m., Ricardo Marichal from Tenerife will present his Ratatour project, which comes in handy, since Marichal triumphs on social networks with videos in which he shows how he enters prohibited, abandoned or ruined places, full, on many occasions of rats that guide him through Santa Cruz de Tenerife to discover what is hidden behind and vindicate the history of his city.
When: Saturday, June 22 at 8:00 p.m. the film and at 7:00 p.m. the presentation of the Ratatour project.
Where: El Almacén, in Arrecife.
Get free ticket.
- Buñuel Cinema. HLM Pussy
The Buñuel Cinema of El Almacén returns on Wednesday the 26th with the film “HLM Pussy”. This is the first film by another Franco-Moroccan director, in this case the filmmaker is called Nora El Hourch.
The film tells the story of three inseparable teenagers and best friends since they can remember. When one of them is harassed by her brother's best friend, another of the three decides to publish a compromising video on social networks in the hope that he will stop harassing her. What she doesn't know is that the video will endanger her safety and her friendship.
When: Wednesday, June 26 at 7.30 pm.
Where: El Almacén, in Arrecife.
Ticket at 3 euros.
EXHIBITIONS
- “Wearing white clothes: a look inside”
In the exhibitions section, the exhibition “Wearing white clothes: a look inside”, which opened in May in the El Aljibe de Haría Exhibition Hall, can be seen from yesterday until June 29 also in the afternoon. Between 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Until now it could only be seen in the morning.
The exhibition has been organized by the Agrupación Folclórica Malpaís de La Corona and its curator is Ricardo Reguera, one of the greatest experts in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands in traditional clothing, in this case the exhibition focuses on one of the least studied aspects of ancient clothing: lingerie and underwear.
When: Until June 29.
Where: El Aljibe de Haría.
Free admission.
