- This week is also planned Sirat, the multi-award-winning film by Óliver Laxe, today Wednesday the 29th within the Mestre Mateo Series
A foliada in Vilachá de Salvadur, animated by the traditional group Os Ministreles, will be the first major milestone in the summer cultural agenda in A Pobra do Brollón. It will take place this Friday, July 31st from 8:30 pm in the medieval wine cellars of A Abelaira. There will be open wine cellars serving wine and snacks. The foliada, like all the events in the A Pobra do Brollón City Council's programming, is free and open to the public.
The event in Vilachá will give way to an agenda full of cultural proposals. On the afternoons of Wednesdays 5, 19 and 26 August there will be popular games in the Samugueiros recreational area. Anyone can come between 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to participate in traditional games such as chalve, tug-of-war, Celtic bowling or pétanque.
The three Wednesday afternoons in Samugueiros will end with a show: on the 5th, with a concert by the punk singer-songwriter The Lion and the Arremecághona as part of their ‘Unha lapa lene’ tour; on Wednesday the 19th, the duo Nico Mao & Maria Oxeito will perform his own songs and versions in different musical styles using voice, guitar and melodica; finally, on the 26th, there will be a magic show by The Magician Fani. All three events start at 9:00 p.m.
The theater also has a place in the program of A Pobra do Brollón. It will be on Thursday, August 13th with the show ‘Moving the frames’ from the Galician-Catalan theater group Furafollas. The work, which will begin at 9:00 PM at the ‘Olga Novo’ House of Culture, seeks to ‘move physical and mental frameworks’, reviewing our history in an ironic tone since the 20th century, focusing on the impact of digital technologies.
In the summer calendar of A Pobra do Brollón there are also two dates that attract residents and visitors year after year. The first, the Pilgrimage of San Lorenzo which celebrates its ninth edition on August 10th in the Cereixa hillfort, organized by the María Castaña Neighborhood Association. The second, the traditional Pilgrimage of San Vitoiro, a party with a country lunch, music and fellowship that is celebrated in Saa on August 27, and is also a local holiday in the municipality of A Pobra do Brollón.
The programming is complemented by Master Mateo Cycle, an initiative of the Galician Audiovisual Academy thanks to which the best current Galician cinema is coming to different parishes of the municipality in the months of July, August and September. This Wednesday the 29th it will be screened Sirat by Óliver Laxe, starting at 8:30 p.m. at the Casa da Cultura ‘Olga Novo’. There will also be six other screenings spread across Cereixa, Canedo, Vilachá, Óutara, Salcedo and Eixón.
The summer events in A Pobra do Brollón close on Sunday, September 6th with the V Trail and Walk Capela do San Vitoiro. Registrations are now open for its different modalities: 28km and 14km trail and 14km and 9km walk.
