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The Department of Culture of the City will organize, with the collaboration of a specialized technical commission, a broad and open program of social and cultural activities coinciding with the celebration this year of the Centenary of the award of Title of City to Totana (1918-2018 ), which officially starts this Friday, January 26, with the inaugural concert by the composer and totanero musician, Juan Miguel Murani, in the parish of Santiago (8:00 pm).
The Mayor, Andrés García, the Councilor for Culture, Eulalia Moreno, and the official chronicler of the city and historian, Juan Cánovas Mulero, recently presented the progress of this cycle of events, which will last throughout 2018 and to which you will be adding activities during the next months.
The promoters invited the whole of the Totanera society to participate and collaborate in this program of events that commemorates a significant historical event as it was to move from town to town, and that comes to raise awareness and create concern so that this moment serves to put the look at our past and future.
The initiative has been carried out by the totanero Consistory of the hand of a technical commission organized to commemorate this event, formed by municipal workers of various departments, historians, musicians, social and cultural groups, and other specialists.
Precisely, the municipal plenary is scheduled to approve this Thursday a motion to promote this program of activities and the approval of a corporate image following the institutional declaration of 2018 as the Centennial of the Concession of the Title of City to Totana.
The Plenary of Totana already approved, unanimously, in October of 2016, an initiative of the previous mayor, Juan José Cánovas, declaring institutionally the year 2018 as the "Centennial of the Concession of the Title of Totana City", as well as initiate procedure of invitation to the Real House to realize visit of representatives of the Real Family, in particular, SM Don Felipe VI to the municipality of Totana during this exercise.
The City of Totana made the request in response to the proposal of the so-called "People's Plaza Plaza Platform", which also requested the opening of a file inviting the monarch Felipe VI to the city of Totana on the occasion of said event during This exercise.
This popular initiative, endorsed by numerous signatures of neighbors of Totana, aims to commemorate this year the one hundredth anniversary of the concession of the title of "city" to Totana granted by King Alfonso XIII in 1918, endorsed, among other issues, for its economic growth and its constant adherence to the monarchy.
The City Council, also, will promote the creation of a commemorative logo to be used in all the stationery and official corporate documentation of the City Council during this year.
Broad and open program
The program begins this Friday with the aforementioned inaugural concert by the composer and musician, Juan Miguel Murani, in the parish of Santiago El Mayor;
and it will be developed during the rest of the months of this year, with some already closed as those given in this presentation - and others that will be progressively incorporated as they are finalized.
In February, on Thursday, July 1, at 8:00 p.m., will be the inauguration of the Photography Exhibition "Tribute to Mateo García, Perspective of past, vision of the future" and Sample of Totanera Traditional Pottery, which will be celebrated until the day 15 of the same month.
In addition, on Thursday, February 8 at 8:00 pm, there will be a round table entitled "Tradition and Future of Pottery in Totana", with the participation of the historian José Antonio Sánchez Pravia and several local potters.
On Friday, February 16, at 8:00 p.m., there will be the premiere of the documentary on geology in the Region of Murcia, whose speaker will be the totanero geologist, Gregorio Romero Sánchez.
During the month of March several musical activities will take place: on Saturday, the 10th, at 8:30 p.m., the concert of the Orchestra of the Brotherhood "Our Lady of Sorrows" will take place in the parish of the Three Hail Marys;
On Saturday, the 24th, at 8:00 pm, it will be the concert of the Friends of Music Association of El Paretón, at the Ginés Rosa Theater, of the Socio-cultural Center "La Cárcel";
and on Monday the 26th, the one of Marchas Pasionarias in charge of the Band of the Musical Group of Totana, in the parish of Santiago.
In the month of June, from 21 to 30, will be held the Painting Exhibition of the Association "Con-Traste" of Totana;
and on Thursday 21, at 8:30 p.m., there will be a conference entitled "Agriculture in Totana, a historical and future perspective", whose speaker will be Pedro Martínez Gómez, doctor agronomist and scientific researcher at CEBAS de Murcia.
Another roundtable that will take place this month is entitled "The arrival of democracy in Totana told by its protagonists, the first democratic elections", whose date and time is still to be determined by the organizers.
In July it is planned to organize several musical activities within the framework of a Cycle that will bring together performances of the International Festival of Ancient Music, Classical Music, Evening of Habaneras and Traditional and Popular Music.
October, a reference month
The month of October will be one of the most important of this program with the opening on the 4th and until the 31st of that month of the exhibition "Totana in its First Centenary" (1918-2018) and presentation of a commemorative facsimile.
Similarly, on October 18, at 20:00, there will be a round table "The arrival of the transfer to Totana: Finally water!", With the participation of Felipe Andreo Andreo, president of the Community of Irrigators of the Tajo-Segura Transfer;
Fernando Costa Crespo, agricultural entrepreneur;
and Fernando Costa Hernández, Public Works Engineer of the Irrigation Community of the Tajo-Segura Transfer in this locality.
In addition, on October 24, at 8:00 pm, there will be a conference titled "Urban Evolution of Totana in the mid-twentieth century", whose speakers will be Antonio Campos Cánovas and María Dolores López Lorca, respectively.
Also, on Saturday, December 15, at 8:00 pm, the celebration of the Centennial Closing Concert in the parish of Santiago is scheduled.
Other activities
During the rest of the year, on dates that are yet to be determined, other activities will be held such as the presentation of the restoration work of the Fuente de la Plaza, directed by the architect and restaurateur Francisco Guerao López;
as well as the book "Aledo y Totana in the XV and XVI centuries, Territory, landscape, history" by the local historian, José Antonio Sánchez Pravia.
In addition, the presentations of the books on "La Fuente de la Plaza" by Ginés Rosa López will be included in this program;
and the work entitled "Under the sky of Totana, a tour of its urban emblems", by Juan Cánovas Mulero, official chronicler of Totana, as well as literary encounters and the approach of schoolchildren to the historical reality of Totana, taking advantage of this celebration .
All exhibitions, conferences and round tables will be held in the municipal exhibition hall "Gregorio Cebrián", which will become the cultural center of reference for this commemorative anniversary.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana / Totana.com
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