Mar in Calma is consolidated as one of the family events of the Lanzarote summer
he Mar Festival in Calma came loaded with performances focused on a single day and designed for all audiences. Leisure in Lanzarote, cultural and with family or friends, with the backdrop of the sea and the Avenida de Playa Honda were the protagonists of this summer day and large patio of seats of this bet of the culture area of the City of San Bartolomé.
A varied and attractive program that flooded the town of Playa Honda was offered to the assistance, with audiences of all ages. This program was designed with families and their joint enjoyment in mind, especially in the morning and early afternoon programming, starting at 11.00 with a playroom and children’s workshops in which children and their families participated with great enthusiasm, filled the avenue with color early on.
At 12.00 hours the performance of Bolina Puppets that presented the work “The Treasure of the Ghost” took place, a hilarious story of Maruca Piruca to remove the fear of ghosts. Since ancient times, stories have been used as pedagogical and moralizing objectives and in this case the tradition was followed. With this bet of Bolina and Bambo it is demonstrated how through a story you can demystify a terrifying character and humanize him until he becomes a friend to have a good time with. The float party occupied the central part of the day, to give way to the afternoon for more games and workshops.
The afternoon arrived and with it Clownbaret presented the family show “2 Clowns”, in which Macarroni and Woody made people laugh, played with the public and made life a little impossible for each other, evoking the most classic clowns. After their tremendous start, Macarroni and Woody fail to agree on who of the two carries the singing voice of the show.
At 7:00 p.m. the ImprovisArte show began, with the staging of five women who make a show totally based on theatrical improvisation, in this case comedy in its purest form. Improvisation allows them to tell stories that are generated and developed at the moment of acting for it, it was essential the involvement of the public who responded more than. The improvisers become playwrights, directors and actresses of the work at the precise moment in which it is represented.
The music was the main protagonist of the evening evening hosting the concerts of Graduate School, this great Pop Rock Band that joins the current of Spanish musical groups exponents of traditional rock by singing and dancing to the public with their well-known themes and taking the applause of the assembled.
Kardomillo closed the XII Mar Festival in Calma, after more than twenty years in the Lanzarote music scene, Kardomillo presented his latest work Gran Reserva, which includes themes from his first creations, whose messages remain in force, despite the passage of time, as Agüita with the gasolineros or The cowboy vallisoletano. In their lyrics they claim “dreams, desires, nightmares, perhaps utopias, but first of all they have the purpose of having a fun time.”
