The Department of Culture and Celebration of Lorquí continues with its activities and the Christmas program on Friday night December 17 celebrated the opening of Bethlehem Municipal, in a ceremony held at the local City Hall lobby.
Enlivened by children's choir performance, "Association of Friends of Music Lorquí", the opening was conducted by the local mayor, Dolores Garcia Villa, and his council of Culture and Celebrations, Antonio Asensio.
And tomorrow, Saturday, December 18 Cultural Center "Enrique Tierno Galván" will be the epicenter of cultural offerings, and to host a listening session (18'30 hours) starring the "Association of Friends of Music Lorquí" and will feature free of charge.
On Sunday 19 December will be a day filled with proposals.
From 11 hours on Paseo will host the Church's traditional handicraft market, while at 17:30 hours ilorcitano Cultural Center will host the awards ceremony of the "Christmas Card Contest, which will act the performance of the Choir Rondalla and Lorquí.
Later, the activity will move to St. James Church, because there will be held at 19.30 hours the popular "Christmas Concert" by the band "Friends of Music Association of Lorquí."
And the activities return to Los Palacios on Monday December 20, as neighbors will gather at the Social Centre (16 hours) of this hamlet ilorcitana to get to work on making traditional Christmas sweets.
School holidays
And how could it be otherwise, schools of the town also celebrate Christmas.
Thus, public schools "Dolores Escámez" and "Jesus Garcia" have chosen the Cultural Center to celebrate Christmas.
Thus, the first will on Tuesday 21 December (16 hours), while the second will be the turn on Wednesday, December 22 (9:30 pm).
In both events without a doubt that the kids will enjoy the public, which as tradition will consist mostly of family and friends camera in hand, with their costumes, their spontaneity and naturalness, as well as all the scheduled activities: fun activities musical theater, choreography Christmas ...
For its part, the small pupils of the Infant School will have their big party Lorquí on Wednesday, December 22 (10:30 pm), an event that will feature the arrival of the Magi and a chocolate tasting with monkeys.
In this celebration, which as always are invited family members, is the standard that the students dress up to pass it even better with games and ludic in the morning.
Actors, children
On Friday 24 December, Christmas Eve, the Church of St. James will host 00 hours the traditional midnight mass, while on Sunday December 26, the Social Center of Los Palacios will host a Christmas service (11 hours) and the Hermitage of the widths of the concert and Choir Rondalla Lorquí (18 hours).
Then came three consecutive appointments for the youngest audience: children.
On Monday 27 December the company "Zero Theater" performed at the Cultural Center "Enrique Tierno Galván" the play "La Casita de Chocolate" (18 hours) in an activity sponsored by "CajaMurcia" and free admission.
The next day the local theater group "Kallejón" will stage the children's play "The Other Little Red Riding Hood" (18 hours), a proposal that will have a second session the following day at the same Horay also in the Cultural Center of the municipality.
A day which will be full of fun night in Los Palacios, and that at 21 hours its neighbors begin a tour of the hamlet singing carols.
On Wednesday December 29 Los Palacios also be starring as Social Centre in the act and Choir Rondalla Lorqui (21:30 pm), at an event that will feature tasting chocolate Christmas cakes for all attendees.
It is 2011
Entered into the new year the first proposal will be on Sunday January 2 at the Cultural Center with children's theater musical "The Cantamus" (18 hours), while on Tuesday January 4 children can deliver their letters to SS. MM.
The Magi from the East in the Town Hall Square (16:30 hours).
A foretaste of the great Three Kings, with output on the road to the station (18 hours), cross the streets of the town on Wednesday, January 5 Lorquí filled with hope and color.
A day when the residents of Los Palacios will also enjoy a lot of activity: at 11 am will meet in the Social Centre to develop the Kings Roscón by neighbors from Los Palacios, while 20 hours to attend the Cavalcade of the Magi on horseback through the streets of the parish until at 22'30 hours held the traditional gift-giving by their Majesties at the Social Centre and eat the Roscón of Kings.
And, to conclude the holiday activities program, Thursday January 6 St. James's Church will host the traditional Mass at 12 noon Reyes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorquí