SANT JORDI – SITGES 2023

FROM APRIL 15 TO 23

SATURDAY APRIL 15

Children's workshops / The mobile
Place: Escola Pia (C/ San Isidre, 19)
Hours: from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m
Manual and creative workshop. In this workshop, each boy and girl will build a mobile with a set of colored birds connected by threads or articulated stems, suspended in balance.

Reading marathon
'Cigales i formigues' (lyrical picture in one act)
Hour: 7 p.m
Place: Cau Ferrat Museum
Conferences and elocutions of Santiago Rusiñol

Free activity. Advance reservation on the Sitges Museums website

SUNDAY APRIL 16

Open doors at the Cau Ferrat Museum
Place: Cau Ferrat Museum
Hours: From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m
Celebration of the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Museu del Cau Ferrat

Discounts in the La Puntual store of 5% from April 18 to 23. On April 23rd, with the purchase of a publication in the store, they will give you another publication.

MONDAY APRIL 17 TO FRIDAY APRIL 21

Exchange of books
Place: Espai Jove
Hours: from 4 to 8 p.m

Exchange of books. Open to the public.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 19

Literary gathering with Elena Cejas
Hour: 6:30 p.m
Place: Josep Roig i Raventós Library

"Primeres paraules d'una novel·la"
April 23 is Book Day and throughout this day, which is mainly spent in the street, we like to approach the stalls well decorated with the latest publishing news. Among all these books there is always one that attracts us: we take it, we look at it, we read the first few paragraphs... will we like it? In this talk, Elena Cejas will discuss what strategies writers seek to attract the reader's attention. What is the best beginning of a novel you have read?

THURSDAY APRIL 20

Lettering workshop
Hours: from 5 to 6:30 p.m
Place: Espai Jove
Open to people from 12 to 35 years old

Reading Club
L'Illa de la calma
Hour: 6 p.m
Place: Cau Ferrat Museum
Free activity. Prior reservation on the web

Sant Jordi proclamation by Núria Amigó (president of the GES)
Hour: 7 p.m
Place: Terrace Miramar

FRIDAY APRIL 21

Story time: "El desig de Sant Jordi" by Sara Genovart - children's event
Place: Josep Roig i Raventós Library
Hour: 5:30 p.m
The characters need to express their willingness to change roles. The princess rides on the horse to save the knight from the dragon's claws. Recommended activity from 3 years.

Book presentation
Place: (Space to be specified)
Hour: 7 p.m

Presentation of the book 'La Moixiganga de Sitges actual. Fets, herències i Europalia 85' by the author Adrià Enríquez y Álvaro. Publication that is part of the editorial collection of the Sitges La Tarlatana Folk Dance Association.

SATURDAY APRIL 22

Presentation 10 years Barraques Sitges (Fair Stalls)
Place: Mercat Vell
10 a.m. – Have breakfast with us
10.30 am – Talk Debate
12 pm - 10th Anniversary Presentation
1 pm – Vermouth Popular with the performance of the Sitges Rumbalmins group.

Sitges en Vers XI, homage to Maria Mercè Marçal
Hour: 5 p.m
Place: Miramar Auditorium-Centre Cultural
In tribute to the poet Maria Mercè Marçal, who left us 25 years ago, Sitges en Vers organizes a session, in which there will be a performance by the pianist David Domergue, an audiovisual projection of Lluïsa Julià (the biography of M. M. Marçal), an intervention from Dr. Isidre Roset and a poetry recital by Magda Altabella, Eduard Herrmann, David Jou, Dolores Juan, Xavier Miret, Marc Montroig, Vinyet Panyella, Àngels Parés, Rosa Maria Puig, Anna Maria Rodá, Isidro Roset, Laura Sánchez.

Human Towers Festival
Hour: 5:30 p.m
Place: Cap de la Vila
Traditional human towers festival with the participation of the Colla Jove de Castellers de Sitges, the Castellers de Sants and the Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls.

Literary snack + theater
Hour: 6 p.m
Place: Jofre Vilà Event Hall

Literary snack with the play "Abdicació"
Synopsis: A person wakes up in the morning, with his worries, consults books, we don't know very well what is going on until he receives a phone call and we learn that he must make a speech, that he is the king, the Little Prince, and that how every year, on his birthday, he makes an address to the population. The abdication is a monologue by Albert de la Torre about the end of the social paradigm of coexistence on which European politics and peace have been based since the end of World War II.

Book presentation
Hour: 7:00 p.m
Place: Espai Cultural Pere Stämpfli, headquarters of the GES (Grup d'Estudis Sitgetans)
Presentation of the book: 'Dos contes escenificats: aigua, pedra i bargalló i en Perot de la sittja rodona'

SUNDAY APRIL 23 – SAINT JORDI'S DAY

Book and rose fair
Hours: From 10 - 20:30 h
Place: Paseo de la Ribera
Book and rose fair with book signings by Sitget authors at the institutional stand, as well as workshops and various cultural activities.

- Paper Roses Workshop of the Agrupació Popular
Hour: 11 a.m
Place: Paseo de la Ribera

Sitges concert Sing!
Hour: 12 p.m
Place: Jardins del Retiro

The Sitges Choir Sings! has chosen Sant Jordi's day to offer its first concert of the year in which they celebrate their 10th Anniversary.

Sardanes
Hour: 8 p.m
Place: Plaça del Cap de la Vila
Ballad of Sardanes with Cobla Maricel.