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.