During the month of August there will be many cultural events in Santander, one every day until the 26th. I will make daily announcements so that you will know what occurs during those nights.

According to the webpage: The program of the 60th edition of the International Festival of Santander is integrated of an intense program of summer events and festivals that try to elicit the history of our European tradition with the future cross-cultural appeal that appears in the new Europe. From the first to the 26 of August more than 60 artistic presentations that you will be able to enjoy both in the Festival Palace of Cantabria as well as in the historic settings.

Information and photo obtained from the webpage. Go there if you would like more info.

The Second Santillazna Festival arrives in Santillana del Mar

Tonight two jazz groups will play in the Main Plaza of Santillana del Mar at 22.00.

Glazz: Cadiz trio of guitar, bass and drums with a conceptual, original and quality approach.

Cirquelectric: Andalusian songs with the power of Rock and carefree funk, all with the elegance of jazz in compositions that recall the symphonic rock greats but with a marked personal style.

Where: Main Plaza of Santillana del Mar

When: 22.00 hours

Picture obtained here.

The Eleventh Meeting of Music and the Academy of Santander comes to Santillana del Mar

The festival brings music to the beautiful setting of the Cloister of the Collegiate Church of Santa Juliana in Santillana del Mar, where viewers can enjoy a concert of classical music at 21:00.

Works of: Camille Saint-Saëns, Robert Schumann, Tiberiu Olah, Krzysztof Penderecki, Max Bruch, Franz Waxman, Félix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

Interpreted by: Pálfi Csaba (clarinet), Antonio Ortiz (piano), Ugne Tiskute (viola), Ofelia Montalvá (piano) and Jonathan Weigle (cello)

Where: Collegiate of Santillana del Mar

Time: 21:00 hours

21 July

Meeting of Music and the Academy of Santander

Works of: Camille Saint-Saëns, Robert Schumann, Tiberiu Olah, Krzysztof Penderecki, Max Bruch, Franz Waxman, Félix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

Interpreted by: Pálfi Csaba (clarinete), Antonio Ortiz (piano), Ugne Tiskute (viola), Ofelia Montalvá (piano) and Jonathan Weigle (violonchelo)

Where: Collegiate Church of Santillana del Mar

When: 21.00 hours

22 July

II Santillazzna Festival

Glazz: Cadiz trio of guitar, bass and drums with a conceptual, original and quality approach.  (Sigue leyendo.)

DI Projects introduces us to a world of Interior Design through a sample intended to deepen the constant aesthetic search that floods our daily universe and results in a tireless work that connects technological innovation and beauty, by involving one artistic vision to the last detail of our micro worlds: the home, the office, the restaurant, the library… in our present society.

Furniture and Interior Design, that looks for an equilibrium of the individual with the space around and displays its creative and magical aura,  has the ability to transform an empty space into a livable place full of culture.

DI Projects reinvented for us the Contemporánea RC (in the
Diocesan Museum of Regina Coeli).

Here we present to you the complete Conjuro Program of 2011.  There are more cultural events in Santillana but this one contains interesting examples. Over the days I will show you all the different events, workshops and exhibitions so that you can enjoy all of your cultural interests in Santillana. Here is the complete program:

Exhibitions

- Puchi Incera

“Tientos del querer”1-24 July/Contemporánea RC (in the Diocesan Museum Regina Coeli)

“Maldito tus ojos negros” 1-28 August/ El Torco Gallery – Suances

- Di Proyectos

“Interior Design: Art and Modernity” 1- 28 August

-Marga Sáiz  (Sigue leyendo.)

The Spanish flag, as such, acts for society as a whole a forced rejection that responds to historical reasons. There only exists some situations that make our national flag appear released from its political and social duty, as occurred in the last Football World Cup in 2010.

Rafa Prada presents an induction that proposes a fictional situation, a prior state of the utilization of flags, completing this with the active participation of the spectator, that closes with its relation as an icon.

50 industrial flags of Spain  (Sigue leyendo.)

Today, 06 of June, begins the Conjuro program in Santillana del Mar with the inauguration of the exhibition of Puchi Incera “Tiempos del Querer” at 19.30. You may visit the works from 01 to the 24 of June in the Contemporánea RC room (Diocesan Museum of Regina Coeli).

From Puchi Incera: With painting, I try to command the chaos of my ideas. They are like schemes that enclose diverse content and at the same time, opens its branches. There are some verses with a lot of words condensed into one or various colorful images, whose source is experience and memory. The paintings are continuous self-portraits, a form of psychoanalysis or looking at the interior of an individual, in a search without an end. It is a way of apprenticeship where manual activity and intellectual decision interact.

This year there will be seven exhibitions  (Sigue leyendo.)

For those that are daring, El Soplao offers a fantastic way to know the depth of the underground world. A route of 2,5 hours in which visitors will travel the galleries of Campamento, the Órgano and Bosque and, among all, walking on the original floor and least accessible zones of the cave. Visitors will be overwhelmed by the variety of formations and the diversity of spaces.

• The organization provides the adequate equipment for the visit: helmet with a light, suit and water boots.
• Those less than 12 years old will not be permitted.  (Sigue leyendo.)

In the land of large caves decorated with paintings, the Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria has drawn together the material remains from such well-known sites as La Garma, El Castillo, Altamira… Collections of stone utensils and of palaeolithic portable art, carved in bone and antler, make it a reference museum among European museums of its kind.

The Museum also has a display of the development of material culture, from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, supplemented by a graphic display of ways of life, using multimedia, interactive, scenographic and infographic resources, designed to immerse the visitor in historical development.

Location: Avda. Los Castros, 65-67. 39005 Santander

Information and bookings: Telephone (+34) 942209922 / (+34) 942207107. Fax: (+34) 942207106.

Tariff: Free. Free guided visits.

Situation : Avda. Los Castros, 65-67. 39005 Santander

Information from http://www.museosdecantabria.com/preh/museo.htm