The Cervera festival starts in full swing

The Cervera festival starts in full swing

more 300 people fill the University Auditorium to enjoy the Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya and the Cor Jove. The Music Course begins simultaneously with dozens of students expanding their musical knowledge.

Absolute plenary session on the first day of the Cervera International Music Festival. more 300 people sold out all available seats for this inaugural concert, which was conducted by the Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya and the Cor Jove, which were directed by Manuel Valdivieso.

This way, The 41st edition of this event was opened, which will host a total of 12 concerts, distributed in several spaces of Cervera, with different formats and styles. This Sunday, 17 July, it will be the guitarist's turn, Anders Clemens, who will perform in the Auditorium at 19 hours. Under the program “Guitar, tradition and modernity ”, we can listen to works by Ferran Sor, Alexandre Tansman, Marco Smaili, Maria Camahort or Ramon Humet.

The Emili Pujol Chair includes the International Music Course, which also started this Saturday and will continue until 25 July. Academic activity brings more than 150 weeks in two phases. During this first week, guitar lessons take place, violin, viola, cello, double bass and orchestra.

This way, the corridors of the University of Cervera are already full of students, some of them from various parts of Spain and countries such as Germany, Ireland or the Regne Unit.

L’Aquelarre de Cervera presents a poster for the edition 2022 which returns in full format after the pandemic

L’Aquelarre de Cervera presents a poster for the edition 2022 which returns in full format after the pandemic

Of the 26 al 28 d'agost, Cervera will once again become the capital of fire, music and witches, with a new edition of the Aquelarre that returns with all the events after the limitations of the pandemic in the last two years. The central axes of the party will revolve around the Meeting of Fire Beasts of Catalonia, the correfocs, the Great Goat Fair, l’Aquelarret, the Band Tokades show, and the long-awaited appearance of the Male Goat that will fill Cervera with fire, music, show and tradition Saturday night.

WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2022

The organization has already made public this year's Aquelarre poster, which evokes a party more alive and complete than ever, after stopping the 2020 and the reduced version of the 2021.

With the involvement of entities and professionals from Cervera, The Paeria has managed to reactivate an Aquelarre that will arrive with some news, as a change of spaces or more activities of the fair, which will be presented shortly when all the details have been finalized.

Aquelarre was born in 1978 and has been held every year since, uninterruptedly, except for the 2020. The party arrives this year, so, in its 44th edition, as a landmark of fire and music.

The Aquelarre posters 2022

The Aquelarre poster 2022, designed by the young brewer Roger Farré, puts the focus on the witches, historically wise women who mastered medicinal plants to cure diseases. For that, at the top of the poster you can see how they are offering all kinds of herbs and plants that we can find in La Segarra. They are represented as women empowered and with a sexual freedom that is contrasted with the phallic horn·lica of the male remaining in the background, contemplative, staring at the viewer.

The poster includes various references to art, like the hats of witches that resemble those represented by Goya in “The flight of witches”, the encumbered postures of “Witches going to the Sabbath” by Ricardo Falero, or the sexual practice of “the cursed woman” by Nicolas Francois Octave Tassaert.

As for the colors, an olive green background has been used which represents the most natural part of folk medicine and contrasts with the gradient of oranges and reds of the male, which evoke the light of the correfoc.

Joan Dausà will perform at the Cervera International Music Festival

Joan Dausà will perform at the Cervera International Music Festival

The Department of Culture of the Paeria col·works this year with the International Music Festival programming a concert by Joan Dausà, who will perform for the first time in Cervera, and will do so as part of his "We have it all" tour.

MONDAY 11 JULY 2022

It will be the presentation in Terres de Lleida of the new album “We have it all”.

The concert is on Friday 22 July, them 22 hours, in the courtyards of the University.

Tickets can be purchased in this link.


XLI International Music Festival of Cervera

He was born 1981, the Cervera International Music Festival consolidates year after year. A poster with prestigious performers and the zeal of the artistic direction in the research stand out, knowledge and combination of musical styles and formations.

The Festival wraps the city of Cervera with numerous solo concerts, of chamber, of cobla, band, choral groups and symphony orchestras.

This year it will kick off on Saturday 16 of July and will end on Sunday 24 July.


Concert of the tour "We have everything" by Joan Dausà

As a differentiating feature from other concerts, from the Paeria is committed to programming a singer like Joan Dausà, which returns, after three years of record silence, with a new record under his arm, "We Have It All".
This is a vital and optimistic record that definitively enshrines the musician from Sant Feliu de Llobregat.

The previous tour was a giant step forward for Joan Dausà’s career . He entered the country's major festivals and stage venues by running out of tickets wherever he performed. He composed and sang the song for the Estrella Damm ad and incorporated two more songs into the great hits of Catalan music such as The Great Euphoria i Everything will be fine.

International Ethnographic Film Exhibition at the Cervera Museum

International Ethnographic Film Exhibition at the Cervera Museum

On Thursday 7 and on Friday 8 July, evening, a new edition of the International Ethnographic Film Festival arrives, on the terrace of Casa Duran i Sanpere, this time dedicated to documentaries and by·films product and outcome of the pandemic.

The Show starts on Thursday 7 of July with different documentaries about Covid-19 and continues on Friday 8 of July with the presentation of the project Memory of a pandemic, in which the Cervera Museum has participated, with the will to preserve the memory col·teaching and the experiences of the pandemic i, so, with testimonies from residents of Cervera.

Capacity is limited. Book your place and tickets at reserva@museudecervera.cat

NASA astronaut Terry Virts, at the Casa Dalmases in Cervera

NASA astronaut Terry Virts, at the Casa Dalmases in Cervera

Sunday 10 in July NASA astronaut Terry Virts will be in Cervera, invited by the Casa Dalmases Foundation (c. Major, 87), where he will give a lecture on his experience as a result of a long season in space.

FRIDAY 01 JULY 2022

Terry Virts is a NASA astronaut, divulgador i autor de National Geographic, pilot of the Endeavor space shuttle on the STS-130 mission and professional photographer. More than 200 days on the International Space Station (ISS) as commander of the Expedition 43.
Its motto is "ad astra", which means "to the stars".

He has been invited to Cervera by the Casa Dalmases Foundation (c. Major, 87), where on Sunday 10 July, them 18.30 hours, will give a lecture in which he will share many experiences from his long stay in space orbiting the Earth - more than 200 dies- and will talk about how the world looks from the outside (contrast between developed and underdeveloped countries, pollution and energy expenditure, agriculture as the main basis of life, and other matters such as pol·of China or the disastrous impact of maritime traffic on the oceans).

Terry Virts has a social soul and that is why he will come to Casa Dalmases. The Casa Dalmases Foundation (www.casadalmases.org) is a Cervera entity that was born, now it will 10 years, to respond to a need of the region to create employment for people with functional diversity and / or at risk of social exclusion. To make this possible it has two workshops (one of craft chocolate and one of craft beer), located on the ground floor of the Casa Dalmases, a palace house of the s. XVIII, which employ a total of twenty people.

Virts defends that both the local and the social sphere are very important to save the planet. La Segarra needs entrepreneurs and people who promote projects with values ​​and who are socially responsible. Terry Virts will give a glimpse of the importance of practicing social responsibility as a fundamental value of life at the level of both companies and individuals..

In this same meeting, the third edition of the exhibition of Singular Art in col·collaboration with the Josep Santacreu Foundation and a tasting of Casa Dalmases craft beer will be served.

To attend the meeting must register in advance through the form on the website www.casadalmases.org. It is a meeting open to all citizens who wish to enjoy the presence of the cosmonaut and share ideas and projects to make the world a more welcoming place, more humane and more sustainable.

Information and image provided by the Casa Dalmases de Cervera Foundation.

Cervera hosts the exhibition “I grew up…”, photographs of a solidarity project with children and young people in Burkina Faso

Cervera hosts the exhibition “I grew up…”, photographs of a solidarity project with children and young people in Burkina Faso

You can visit Sant Joan Degollat, of the 8 al 27 June, the exhibition "I grew up ...", a photographic exhibition on street children and young people in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

The exhibition is open, of the 8 al 27 June (except days 21, 22 i 23), in Sant Joan Degollat, at the next time: from Monday to Friday, from 18 a 20 h; Saturdays, from 10 a 12 h i de 18 a 20 h; on Sundays, from 10 a 12 hours.

Photographs are from the Bobo-Dioulasso Day and Emergency Center, Burkina Faso, a space where children and young people in a street situation go to eat, rest and take refuge from street life.
This project began four years ago with the help of the Catalan NGO Nou Sol and the local association Tié, with the aim of initiating a process of family return and social inclusion for children and young people in a street situation.
La Paeria de Cervera col·works on this solidarity project through the Catalan Cooperation Fund.

The exhibition “I grew up…”Was presented today by the paer in chief and councilor of Citizenship, Social Action and Health, Joan Santacana; the Councilor for Feminist and LGBTI + Policies, Mireia Brandon; and on behalf of the NGO Nou Sol, the brewer Albert Morales, and Èlia Borràs, curator of the exhibition.

This documentary project has been carried out by the expatriate cooperator and photo-documentary, Joel Lopez. It has been developed for more than three years and it is the photographs taken by the children and young people themselves in street situations with street cameras. During this time they have shot and revealed more than 1.000 pictures.
The exhibition wants to show their day-to-day life through their own perspective and their future perspectives that respond to the universal: who i want to be?
In addition, there is also a section of studio photographs that show the professional goals of these children.