Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorized @ca
The current situation of the pandemic modifies the Puro Procession in Cervera, which is moved to the cemetery, where a static rally will take place on Sunday 21 February, them 12.30 hours.
Before the event begins, the Bell Ringers of Cervera will ring bells, 48 battalions to remember the 48 people killed in the battle of 16 of February of 1875.
As every year, cigars will be distributed to attendees and a local entity will read the manifesto, this year the Nova Cervera Children's Choir, that he 2020 they have celebrated their 50th anniversary.
This year a musical audition is also planned by two students from the Cervera Conservatory: Queralt Solé, clarinet, and Aran Sala, accordion.
Fins a l’any 1936, he 16 in February in Cervera was celebrated what was popularly called the Procession of the Pure. A secular procession with an itinerary that went from the Town Hall to the cemetery, and in which some men went there with the pure lit., unlike religious processions.
The Procession of the Pure was recovered for the brewery festive calendar, becoming a walk and a space for social gatherings, and dedicated to all the people who have suffered, they suffer and will suffer.
This year, due to the pandemic, the procession will not make its usual route and the event is concentrated in the cemetery.
Procession of the Pure
This procession was in memory of the third Carlist war that took place in Spain during the 19th century, where a side, that of the Carlists - of the pretender Charles VII -, they tried to conquer Cervera, occupied by the forces of the other, that of the government of Alfonso XII, your liberal. The attack took place in the morning of 16 February of the year 1875 and the fierce struggle lasted most of the day. The battle ended with a balance of 48 dead i 260 wounded between sides. The names of the streets Burgos, Soria, Combat and Victory, they still remember that fact. At the end of the war, a monument was erected in the middle of the cemetery, in memory of all who had lost their lives, in the spirit of forgetting old hatreds and old differences. The bell towers, every year, the day of the battle, they performed 48 repicons, remembering all the men who had lost their lives.
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The Josep Anselm Clavé Awards for Choral Singing in Catalonia have made public the list of nominations for the edition 2020, in which four musical projects by Cervera have been chosen: the cantata “L’Espill Encantat”, in the category of best live show; the song "Everything will be fine", as best video production; the “Candies 2.0”, in the candy category (on video or live); and the children's choir Nova Cervera, by the trajectory on the occasion of the 50 years of the entity.
The cantata “L’Espill Encantat” and the music video “Tot anirà” are two initiatives of the Municipal Conservatory of Cervera. According to the director, Estefania Balcells, "Getting these nominations is a great satisfaction".
The other two nominations are for the Nova Cervera Children's Choir, for the “Candies 2.0”, sung from home due to the health situation; and in the Choral Trajectory, for the 50 years of the entity and the project to celebrate this anniversary.
For the children's choir, “We are very happy and happy to be among the nominees for the Clavé Awards 2020, happiness that we share with other choral groups, nominated people and projects, and especially with all the people -singers, principals and families- who are currently or have been part of our association throughout its history ".
From the Paeria de Cervera we congratulate the Conservatory and the Children's Choir Nova Cervera for having achieved these nominations. They are a recognition of his musical work and his ability to adapt to the current situation, with innovative and quality projects.
Clavé Awards
The Federation of Choir Choirs and the Catalan Choral Movement annually organize and award the Josep Anselm Clavé Prizes for Choral Singing in Catalonia, born on 2019 on the initiative of the Federation of Clavé Choirs with the aim of disseminating and promoting the best works in the choral music scene. The awards, with a national and transversal vocation, they are popularly nominated and are awarded by a jury made up of various professionals linked to the choral world. The Audience Award for Best Production is also given / Show, result of a popular vote.
The awards pay tribute to the musician, poet and politician Josep Anselm Clavé (Barcelona, 1824-1874).
Faced with the impossibility of holding a face-to-face gala, the delivery of the Awards will be on the networks, with an event that can be followed on the MCC YouTube channel on Saturday 6 from June to 18 hours.
Feb 9, 2021 | Uncategorized @ca
Between 1 and 4 February, students from P3 to 6th grade of the Escola Jaume Balmes, the Escola Mossèn Josep Arques and the Escola Les Savines de Cervera lived the Festa Major del Santíssim Misteri from a pedagogical proposal.
This initiative is part of a cross-cutting educational project, which aims to bring popular culture closer, the Catalan language and traditions to all pre-school and primary school students, and also to their families.
The pedagogical proposal of the Winter Festival is organized in different didactic units, one for each educational level. Includes motivating activities, experiential and meaningful in Catalan and English to work on festive elements such as the eagle, the flag of the city, the traps, the macers, the story of the Holy Mystery, the giant Joan Balaguer, the velvets and the Complete ones.
Among the activities proposed are school visits to the Parish, the Chapel of the Holy Mystery and the exhibition of festive elements (city flag, traps, clubs and dresses) from the city to the Paeria.
These school trips are included in the Environmental Education Plan of the Department of Education of the Paeria de Cervera and are carried out thanks to the city’s tourist guides.. Visits to meet the eagle and the giant Joan Balaguer are led by volunteers from the Brotherhood of the Eagle and the Giants of Cervera, respectively.
Behind this project, which aims to explain the Festa Major del Santíssim Misteri to the little ones, there is the group of the Seminar of Popular Culture in the Schools, of the Seny Major Group, working with cabbage·collaboration of the Segarra Education Service of the Department of Education. This initiative has been carried out in schools in the municipality since the year 2010.
Besides, it also has two more pedagogical proposals: Corpus and the September Festival.
Information and image provided by the Popular Culture Working Group in the Schools of Cervera.
Cervera, 9 of February of 2021.
Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorized @ca
From Monday 8 February
Feb 3, 2021 | Uncategorized @ca
The Department of Festivities is preparing an online Carnival celebration, scheduled for Saturday 20 February, adapted to the current Covid-19 pandemic situation.
To be able to make your own costume at home, a virtual workshop is organized on the Paeria Youtube channel, available from Saturday 13 February. Get the material ready and you will learn how to make a costume.
On Saturday 20 of February the public is invited to post a photo or video showing the costume on the social networks of the Paeria, with the hashtag #CarnavalVirtualCervera.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this year a Carnival party cannot be held as in previous editions, with a parade of troupes through the streets of the city center.
The will of the Paeria de Cervera is to maintain the spirit of a party that had grown in popularity and participation in recent years.
Cervera, 3 of February of 2021.
