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The annual Hocus Pocus Festival fills the city of Granada with fascinating magic. Enjoy events for both the public and professionals, including HocusNights (magic shows), lectures and workshops at venues throughout the city.

This year’s Hocus Pocus Festival will feature performances by magicians and masters of illusion from Spain, China, France and Argentina. There will even be gala performances and clown workshops as well!

Come to Granada and be mystified by illusions beyond your wildest imagination

Visit the Festival Programme here!

The Jazz Festival in Granada is brilliant.If you like Jazz it would be a great time to visit Granada. The weather is often really good in November and everyting is cheap because it is low season. Throughout the Jazz Festival there is a lot of Jazz in bars as well as at the big venues.

There is more info on the Festival Website.

Granada, thanks to its fascinating history and exceptional geographical location, makes a magnificent film set. Our beautiful city is also an extraordinary place to hold a cinema event, encounters between young professionals and the public, of the calibre of the International Young Filmakers Festival of Granada.

We encourage all of you to participate in this year’s festival. You will find little gems to everyone’s liking, a wide variety of contents in which people of all types and all ages will find something to delight them. I am sure that the works screened will move you, amuse you and also make you think.

For further information regarding the programme visit the Festival Website.

Antonio Canales collaborates in the show, which will be on the bill together with "Metáfora" at La Alhambra’s Generalife Gardens from July 18th to August 31st.

“At five in the afternoon”. That is the crucial verse in "Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías", the elegy which Federico García Lorca wrote in 1935 for his bullfighter friend, gored to death by the bull Granadino in Manzanares. And now that poem has become the inspiration for the new show by the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, the second one directed by Rubén Olmo. As a special collaborator for the occasion, Antonio Canales joins the lineup of the public Andalusian company, which includes young bailaores like Patricia Guerrero and Eduardo Leal. Together with the choreography "Metáfora", the show will be part of the double program offered by the Lorca y Granada 2012 Series from July 18th to August 31st at the auditorium of the Generalife Gardens, in the setting of La Alhambra.
 

Thus, the Festival will provide a space for the meeting of both young filmmakers and established talents from these countries, allowing for the screening of both new productions and emblematic and historic works. The Festival will be the platform for an annual meeting of films coming from the South. The Granada Film Festival "Cines del Sur" will be held annually, having designated the edition of the Festival by 11th June-17th June, 2012.

The programme will be published soon at www.cinesdelsur.com

It was institutionally created by the Catholic Monarchs as main festival after the conquest of the city.

The parade (“procesión”) in honour to the custody that contained the body of Jesus Christ was formed by all the parrish churches of the city and its valley who, furthermore, were the responsible of covering with sedge the surface allover the route. Since its beginning, the archbishop Hernando de Talavera tried to get all the sectors of the population involved so in the parade where also Moorish “zambras” as well as different carts with plays and theatre representations. The “procesión” became bigger and bigger; so in 1573 a Sinodic Constitution had to be established to determine the order of the suite and the type of “shows” that could go with the “procesión”.



According to the documents, since 1632 there was also the “paseo de la ciudad” (“walk of the city”) which consisted in a party parade with demons, giants, big-heads and the mythical Tarasca.

This two “procesiones” are still performed today. On Wednesday, we can see “La Pública” aimed to children and youngsters starred by La Tarasca, a statue of a woman on a dragon dressed with the clothes that would be fashionable that season. And, on Thursday, the main day, the religious “procesión” which is chaired by the throne made by the goldsmith and sculptor from Granada Miguel Moreno.

There is still a tradition of raising altars along the route of the “procesión”.

At Bibrambla square the so-called “Carocas” are shown: satirical cartoons about the events which happened in the city during the previous year.

Ya se van acercando las fechas de los conciertos de Abril para Vivir (18 al 22.04). Os recordamos que ya tenéis disponibles las entradas del concierto inaugural del día 18 en el Teatro Isabel la Católica (Mangrana, canciones de Carlos Cano y Labordeta) y del concierto de Clausura en el teatro Caja Granada en el que Andrés Suárez presentará su nuevo disco "Cuando vuelva la Marea".

During the processions, the floats ("pasos") with the figures are carried on the shoulders of the "costaleros", and are followed by processions of "nazarenos" in long, hooded gowns, the penitents (carrying figures of the cross on their shoulders), and women and girls dressed in black traditional Spanish costumes carrying candles and crosses.
The weight of the paso depends on the size and it can take as many as 40 men to carry. If you come to Granada in the weeks leading up to Semana Santa you might possibly run into one of the practice sessions and might wonder what a group of men are doing trying to carry a wooden structure on their heads with bags of sand.
It is hard to choose between the different processions, but perhaps the important ones are the "Silent Procession" on Thursday (when the street lights along the route are turned off and the procession takes place in absolute silence) and the "Gypsy Procession" on Wednesday which goes through the Albaicín/Sacromonte quarter. During the Gypsy Procession, bonfires are lit along the route and stops are made every so often for "saetas" (traditional songs to the Virgin) to be sung.

PROGRAMA

Miércoles 14 de marzo
Teatro Isabel la Católica, 21h00
Estreno del Tango “Tango a Granada” a cargo de Fabián Carbone Cuarteto y Carlos Andreoli (voz)
Letra: Sebastián Pérez - Música: José María Guadalupe y Ángel López Carreño.
Adelaida Mejía y Edwin Cárdenas (Tango-Danza)
Dúo El balcón. (Voz femenina y Guitarra)
MAX VAN DE VOORDE y SOLANGE ACOSTA (Campeones Mundiales de baile de tango 2011)
AMORES TANGOS (Quinteto)

Jueves 15 de marzo
Teatro Isabel la Católica, 21h00
Martín Rago presenta "Tanguero viejo"
Cia. de danza Conexión Tango presenta "PERFILES" (1ª parte)

Viernes 16 de marzo
Teatro Isabel la Católica, 21h00
LA YUNTA (piano, bandoneón y contrabajo)
Ganadores del Concurso de Tango convocado por la Embajada de España en Montevideo
Adeláida y Edwin (Tango-Danza) y Fabián Carbone (bandoneón).
BOSIÓN TRÍO (guitarrras) Artista invitada: Dioni D’Amaral (voz)

Sábado 17 de marzo
Teatro Isabel la Católica, 21h00
Cia. de danza Conexión Tango presenta "PERFILES" (2ª parte)
ALEJANDRO ZIEGLER CUARTETO

Domingo 18 de marzo
Teatro Isabel la Católica, 20h00
SOLEDAD VILLAMIL en concierto

For further information regarding the whole programme visit the official Festival website: www.retroback.info or Retroback in Facebook.

Enjoy the Festival with Carlos Gardel:

Carlos Gardel - El Día Que Me Quieras