The Big Week of the Cajamurcia Foundation is back

culture cycle. Mayumana, ‘El Médico’, the heirs of Tricicle and two pictorial examples, among the programming starting today

The thirtieth Big Week of the Cajamurcia Foundation will be held again this fall after two years of being interrupted by the pandemic. This edition is dedicated to musical shows and humor in its purest form with the programming of four great ‘shows’ that will be performed at the Teatro Circo Murcia, the Regional Auditorium, in Murcia, and at the El Batel Auditorium (Cartagena) . In addition, there are two exhibitions on display at the Cajamurcia Foundation’s Las Claras Cultural Center.

The cycle begins today in the Regional Auditorium with the staging of ‘Currents’, the new Mayumana show. With the collaboration of the Municipal Council of Murcia and the Institute of Cultural Industries and the Arts of the Region of Murcia (ICA), the Cajamurcia Foundation has programmed, within its Big Week, the aforementioned Mayumana ‘show’, the musical ‘El Doctor’, the humorous play ‘Hotel Flamingo’ and the children’s show, for the whole family, ‘Alice in Wonderland musical’.

Art will also take center stage with two exhibitions at the Las Claras Cultural Center. There are two examples of paintings on display: ‘Velázquez and Juan de Córdoba’, open on September 8 and open until October 12; and ‘Esteban Vicente. A personal view of reality’, which opens on 27 October.

Created for the Jerusalem Light Festival, the show ‘Currents’ features electronic sounds added to percussion that enhance the proposal. On stage, a ‘show’ of pure dance and percussion is presented, a true journey of two sectors with different artistic aesthetics that, in dialogue with their own light and sound, show what seems to be a dispute. The company has been performing on the stages of more than 20 countries for more than 20 years.

After the success of two seasons in Madrid, the musical ‘El Médico’, based on Noah Gordon’s bestseller, arrives at the El Batel Auditorium in Cartagena. The story tells the life of little Rob J. Cole and how it changes when he is orphaned and discovers that he has a gift: predicting death. The production of this show has the support of the author herself, who assured that “the emotion of the novel has passed into the music so you can hear my book.”

‘Hotel Flamingo’ is Clownic’s unique tribute to his theatrical parents, Tricicle. Clownic was created by the famous Catalan trio and for many years represented his shows where they could not go. They have been making their own productions for ten years. A hotel reception whose owner is a business visionary decides to reopen amid a pandemic, believing it’s the best time to fill it with tourists. This is the storyline of ‘Hotel Flamingo’, a show of gesture humor, full of ‘gags’ and a frenzied rhythm.

‘Alice in Wonderland Musical’ is a journey from the screens to the books; from Youtube to the power of imagination; from the ‘real’ characters of social networks to the fantastic creatures we can imagine. A children’s performance for the whole family presented as a return to the essence of the children’s world, an inner journey into the fantasy of childhood. With this version of Lewis Carroll’s classic, the usual characters will try to find answers to questions arising from the new challenges of the information society. Is coordination between screens and books possible? Is there room for imagination in the digital society?

As for the visual arts, the Grote Week offers two exhibitions. The first of these is ‘Velázquez and Juan de Córdoba’. Organized by the Cajamurcia Foundation, the exhibition was made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Visitors have the opportunity to see the only painting by Velázquez -‘Portrait of Juan de Córdoba’- preserved in a public collection in Rome, in the Pinacoteca of the Capitoline Museums, in whose main space it takes pride of place alongside paintings by Titian , Caravaggio and Rubens.

Exceptionally, the portrait left Rome several months ago to be exhibited for the first time in Spain after the character was identified. In our country it can only be seen in two cities: Madrid and now Murcia. Juan de Córdoba was canon of the chapter of the Cathedral of Murcia in the mid-seventeenth century, something unknown.

A selection of 50 works will be presented in the exhibition ‘Esteban Vicente. An individual vision of reality’, through which it aims to outline a journey through the different vital and artistic stages of one of the Spanish representatives of American abstract expressionism (he died in New York in 2001). The sample will be available from October 27.

Source: La Verdad

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