This week, the Igualada City Council presented the official schedule for the Festa Major 2024, which will take place from August 19 to 26, with an expanded agenda of activities organized by the Council. This Thursday, the youth organization La Coll@nada presented its alternative to the Festa Major, under the slogan: “In the face of collapse, we are a refuge”. It is a complement to the official poster, and some will even see the official as a complement to the alternative. The Coll@nada initiative aims to be a “refuge” for young people from the “autonomous administration” and its motto is “solidarity and resistance”. The program focuses on cultural and protest activities. “It is a project carried out with enthusiasm and commitment,” they explained from the entity.
As part of the presentation, La Coll@nada criticizes the city council: “They ask us to put the logo of the Igualada City Council on the poster, as if it were a way to legitimize their participation in activities that, since always, they have made clear that they were independent and self-managed. They also denounce the bureaucracy that “strangles” the right to free organization.
As a notable innovation, La Coll@nada has launched a new website to facilitate access to its programs. In addition, the most prominent activity they organize, Operation Cigró, will have a new management to facilitate table reservations. Tickets can be purchased on Sunday 18 at 19.00 at Casal El Foment, with the possibility of making reservations online.
Another highlight is the non-mixed committee that ensures safety and equality during the party. They consider that “the committee is key to ensuring that the party is a safe and equal place for everyone,” confirms the representative of La Coll@nada.
The organizers of the Coll@nada concert call for public participation throughout the year: “We know that these are not easy times for courage, but it is precisely in these moments that it is necessary to create strong networks and transform the sadness and anger in our hearts.” The collective organization.
The main party Coll@nada will start on Sunday 18 at 7pm with the song habanera by the group Els Bosca, and tickets will also be sold for the hummus operation at Casal Popular El Foment. On Monday 19, at 6pm, there will be a tasting of ointment at Casal Popular El Foment, and then, at 7:30pm, there will be an announcement in Pius XII Square. Then, at the Patio del Museu de la pell, at 9:30pm, there will be a popular dinner at the beginning of the Festa Major, organized by the Xalest Choir. At 10:30pm, a drag show by Jessica Pola, the anti-fascist star. End of the party Karaoke from 11:15pm to 3am.
Tuesday the 20th will start with children’s activities for the whole family, Coll@nadeta, organized by AE La Flama and the Els Verdums choir, will perform at 11 am in Plaça Pius XII. At noon, at 12:30 pm, there will be an anti-oppression wine dedicated to the support group of the Provincial Council’s cause in the same square. In the afternoon, at 6 pm, there will be a tasting of local wines in Plaça Pius XII, and then, at 7:30 pm, the Boutrons group will descend with a band to the Museum Square. At 8:30 pm, the parade begins, the choice of sparks and at 11:30 pm, the music will be loud in the party wagon that will go around the city streets, organized by the Youth Council l’Àgit.
The next day, Wednesday 21 at 7 p.m., the Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament will take place, accompanied by a popular snack of bread with wine and sugar in Pius XII Square, at 8 p.m., in the same place, Obering. Start and in the Museum Square we will have a sound system to the rhythm of JaMaiCat from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Thursday 22 is a day full of activities for the whole family, starting with the storyteller at 11am in the Pius XII Square, at noon there will be the intergenerational sausage championship at 1pm in the Casal Popular El Foment, and in the afternoon, at 6.30pm, there will be a watermelon race and monster games, organised by AEIG Jaume Caresmar and Maria Antònia Salvà in Ronda del Rec. The day will end with the Cigró operation from 9pm to 4am in the Patio del Museu de la Pell.
On Friday 23, after the “passacalle”, at around 11:30 p.m., there will be a Gralas dance with Els Quatrevents, organized in collaboration with FESTHI, at Plaça Pius XII, followed by DJ Natura and PD’s Locals from 2 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the same place.
Saturday 24 will start with the flea market (at 10 am, in Plaça Pius XII), and at 12 pm in the same square there will be a White Pèrill show. At noon, at 1 pm, the park will be filled with tables, chairs, pans and barbecues in Fez Dinar. At night, at 00:00, there will be a FEM & FAM concert in Plaça Pius XII, followed by Svetlana’s concert at 2:00 pm and PD’s Locals until 6:00 pm.
Sunday 25 will start with the Cercanit dinner at 9pm in Plaça Sant Miquel, at 10pm the Cercanit will start in the same square and we will fill the center with hats, music and a lot of noise. As always, we will end in Plaça Pius XII where there will be a concert by Sicuta Versions at 00, DJ K-ZU and PD’s Locals from 2:30 to 6 in the same place.
Finally, on Monday the 26th, after the descent of the tonit, at around 1 am, the traditional descent of the chairs from the Klein on the Rambla Sant Isidre will take place.
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