Wednesday 12 February 2014

One of the aims of the Jerez festival will be to promote of Flamenco between the kids

The Flamenco festival is world famous and is consider for many medias as the most important of world. There are a lot of performances and courses about flamenco. The assistance and the importance of the festival are growing yearly and also the international assistance, being the most numerous Japanese and Germans. In the next video, you can watch a summary of the past festival.

The XVIII Festival of Jerez will be from 21st February to 8th March and will have different activities and courses. You can visit this website and download the English programme in the next link:
 http://www.jerez.es/fileadmin/Documentos/Festival_de_Jerez_2014/Programme_of_courses_and_workshops.pdf
Also, at the bottom of the next website you can find the programme in others languages:
http://www.jerez.es/index.php?id=festival-jerez
This year, one of the aims will be attract to the young people to the flamenco world and to achieve it, the organisation will visit many schools and high schools of Jerez to teach the flamenco culture and invite to the pupils to the general testing of one performance.
Other festival events are many exhibitions about flamenco, for instance, in the Gonzalez Byass winery there is an exhibition about Barbie (400 figures) which are wearing flamenco suits. On the other hand, there are some pictures and painting exhibitions like "Jerez & Japan: Flamenco & Gyotaku" in the Arab Baths.

Since last year there is an app to Iphone and Android with all the events and the information of the festival and also, there is an internet television in Vimeo which since last year has 800,000 users.

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