The place had changed with respect to previous editions, but the usual collective show of the narrators invited to
this year’s edition of ‘Palabras al vuelo’ found in the Recova Municipal de Arrecife the perfect location. Here in the 30s, people traded with the supplies that would feed the inhabitants of Lanzarote. Last night, almost 90 years later, what was offered to the public were stories to take home.

On the stage, the drumas he waited anxiously accompanied by purple lighting that adorned the vegetation that
created a beautiful natural ceiling. The public was getting comfortable, telling each other things, of course. After a few brief minutes dedicated to the stories, the chords of “Bella Ciao”, a partisan song, started to be played. At that moment, the people knew that the show was beginning. The music of the Saravasti Quartet subtly introduced the narrators who, one by one, presented themselves through their stories to the spectators.

Both froma Gran Canaria, Begoña Perera and Néstor Bolaños agreed, cosmically, on the central theme of their
history: love and death. The first one narrated the indefatigable struggle of a man who dies, revives and dies again, even despairing his wife, while they cook. The second one transported us to the miniature world of a male praying mantis that despite knowing what the females do, can not help but follow their instinct. The Lanzarote-born Vicki Dos Santos also took the stage to tell and sing two stories.

Charo Jaular told us about his origins and his grandmother, from whom she brought to us the story of two pages of
a book that they love each othre and can not stand when they are separated. They take comfort knowing that this
separation is always short . Until one day it is not.

From Peru, Mercedes Carrión took the stage. Narrator and magician at the same time. She interweaved two
stories, one Cherokee and one Amazonian, that moved the audience to the beginning of the world. The bells of the
Church of San Ginés helped to mark the steps of its protagonist who managed, after much begging, that his
beloved stopped to pick up the strawberrys by the road, time that he took to reach her and not lose her again.

The winner of the Molière prize, Alberto García Sánchez dazzled the audience with the fluidity of his words played
when dealing with the theme of the imposition of fashions in his story. “Clothes are no longer made for women,
women are been made for clothes,” he said. His criticism was picked up with applause by the attending spectators.

To finish, the idiomatic touch was put by Robert Seven-Crows Bourdon, who took the stage to narrate his stories in
amerindian french with a drum that took the viewer back to any place where the tribes lived. He spoke of the wind
of his birthplace and of Lanzarote and how it can not be stopped. The Canadian ended up expressing a wish: “Let
the words fly high like the wind and spread like this moves the seeds.” The seeds of ‘Palabras al vuelo’ do not stop generating roots because it has already become one of the most consolidated festivals on the island of Lanzarote.