Until 31st October, advance tickets to Fira Mediterrània at special prices

Fira Mediterrània de Manresa offers special prices for all the paying shows if you buy your tickets in advance. Up to 31st October you can get a 20% discount on ticket prices and the two passes to this year’s Fira: Toc de la Mediterrània and Minitoc.

Buying the Toc Mediterrània gets you into three of the highlights of this year’s programme: Mare Nostrum by JORDI SAVALL & HESPÉRION XXI, the opening show by this year’s guest artist; the concert by OBRINT PAS, an acoustic farewell recital by this band from Valencia, and Músiques en terres de cruïlla, the closing show, by a line-up of top artists from all the Catalan-speaking regions: CARMEN PARÍS, PEP GIMENO “BOTIFARRA”, QUICO EL CÈLIO, EL NOI I EL MUT DE FERRERIES, CLAUDIO GABRIEL SANNA, MIQUELA LLADÓ, MONTSE CASTELLÀ and PEP VILA.

The Minitoc, on the other hand, gives you 3 for the price of 2 on all the shows aimed at family audiences. You have a total of 21 performances to choose from.

An ambitious bill at a fair which is both strategic and popular

From 7th to 10th November 2013 the 16th edition of Fira Mediterrània de Manresa presents 113 shows with 232 performances and a total of up to 350 activities, entrance to a third of which is by paid tickets. Some of the top names performing in the town’s theatres, auditoria and other venues include Kiko Veneno, born in Figueres, premiering his new project with an orchestra; the Basque Kepa Junkera sharing a stage with the Catalan harpist Josep M. Ribelles; the prestigious Tunisian choreographer Héla Fattoumi, with her production Manta, a sharp reflection on women and the burqa in the Arab world; the concerts at El Sielu, with the European progressive jazz trio Aka Balkan Moon, Catalexi by the disconcerting Sergi Sirvent, the Israeli Mor Karbasi, Franca Masu from Alghero in Sardinia or the rising flamenco talent, the Andalusian Rocío Márquez; the new show by Miquel Gil and Pep Gimeno 'Botifarra' from Valencia; Mañana es Mañana [Tomorrow is Tomorrow], the latest creation by Cridacompany, a daring young modern circus group with one foot in France and the other in Catalonia; Cru by the Franco-Catalan company Fet a Mà, an exceptional work in search of a circus without artifice and based on the poetry of movement; the Circ Pànic big top pitched in the Pati del Casino; or the veteran company Comediants, in their 40th year and working together with the band of the Berga municipal music school in the show Ecos de Patum.

Tickets are on sale on line at www.firamediterrania.cat, by telephone at 93 872 36 36 and at the box office of the Teatre Kursaal in Manresa. During the Fira the box office is supplemented by an outlet in the Plaça Sant Domènec, at the centre of the town in which a hundred thousand people will be enjoying this art marketplace.