Cross port will be transformed between May 11 and 14 on the stage of the International Art Festival in the Grin Street. This year celebrates its 21st edition in an event that mixes the culture, art and history of the city, organized jointly by the City Council and the Cómplices Mueca citizen work platform.
Dance, theater, circus, artistic interventions, music, literature, solidarity and sustainable actions make up the program that includes fifty performances and that will include the participation of artists from the Canary Islands, Galicia, Andalusia, Aragon, Catalonia, the Basque Country , Belgium, France, India and Chile.
The organization has explained in a press release that as a novelty, the Canarian Institute for Cultural Development (ICDC) will launch the Conexión Mueca initiative, a pioneering proposal on the islands. “The objective is to support street arts, creating a link between artists and national and international promoters,” explained Zulay Curbelo, representative of the ICDC of the Government of the Canary Islands.
It is a professional forum that will take place on May 11 and 12 with the purpose of being a shuttle for Canarian talent in the fields of movement, street, performing and plastic arts, as well as urban processes and citizen participation. , in order to help form a territory of creative, artistic and professional effervescence.
The presentation of the program of events took place this Thursday, May 4, in the surroundings of the Hermitage of San Telmo. “Mueca offers a unique opportunity to discover Puerto de la Cruz from another perspective. After 21 editions, we are still surprised by the ability of this Festival to attract the interest of the people”, said the mayor of Porto, Marco González, in his speech. “We are going to live very big things: the programming covers the city from end to end, it will be a true invasion,” he continued.
Thus, the 2023 edition will bring together artists from the Canary Islands with cultural agents from the state territory (such as the Spanish Theater Network, Fira Tárrega, the Almagro Festival, the Principal Theater of Ourense, the Victoria Eugenia de Donostia) and representatives of projects from Uruguay, Colombia and Chile. “We have aroused the interest of numerous Canarian artists, who have already signed up for this initiative,” revealed Curbelo.
