Check with your local Tourist Office for full details of Three Kings Parades etc.
Cabo de Palos – Market Sun
Cartagena
www.cartagena.es – Tel 968 128 800 – Market Wed
Exhibition for the IV Photographic Competition ‘Antonio Acosta Hernández’ in the exhibition hall of the Municipal Archaeological Museum (until 8th January)
Exhibition – Cartagena artist Ángel García Maciá shows the works of his new exhibition ‘Tricotomy’, in the Carlos Gallego Room of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Centre(until 10th January).
Exhibition by Korean artist KiHong Chung at the Molina Palace
Tues-Fri 10am-2pm & 5pm-8pm
Sat & Sun 11am-2pm
Exhibition – ‘Eikon’ of Kraser in the exhibition halls of the Museo Teatro Romano de Cartagena. Exhibits are inspired by sculptural works known from the Classical, Renaissance or Neoclassical period. (until 13th January)
Exhibition – The Strategy of Seduction @ The Bezel Art Gallery, Cartagena by José Gonzalez (until 20th January)
Exhibition – Multidisciplinary Artist María Briones displays Self-Distortion Ballester in the Subjective Room ‘Nicomedes Gómez’ in the City Hall. (until 24th January)
Tues-Fri 10am-1.30pm & 5pm-7pm
Sat 10am-1.30pm & 5pm-8pm
Sun 10am-1.30pm
Exhibition – El Sueño @ The National Museum of Underwater Archaeology of Cartagena ARQVA (until 26th January)
Learn about the first round the world by boat by Fernando de Magallanes and Juan Sebastián Elcano. You can find travel books, scenarios and reproductions of the adventure that Elcano and Magellan undertook. It also reflects the entrepreneurial nature of the expedition between 1518 and 1519.
XXIII String and Brass Competition byDepartment of Youth and the Conservatory of Music of CartagenaDepartment of Youth will be held on April 30th in the Isidoro Máiquez Hall of the Auditorium and Congress Hall El Batel.
3 Kings Celebrations
Friday 3rd January – A Roscón de Reyes will be supported by the COPE Chain. You can taste it from 7pm in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Cartagena.
Saturday 4th January @ Video Mapping sponsored by Repsol in the Town Hall Square from 7.30pm.
Sunday 5th January 11.30am sees the Arrival Of The Magi By Boat to the Port of Cartagena. In the Town Hall Square, they will be welcomed with music and inflatables. At 6.30pm the Three Kings’ Cavalcade will begin a tour the centre of Cartagena.
Artisan Market (until January 6th) @ the central promenade of the Alameda de San Antón. 10am-2pm & 4pm-10pm (12 midnight on January 5th) 15 stalls with handicrafts, jewellery and artisan items.
Auditorium El Batel de Cartagena
Tickets can be purchased both at the box office and on the auditorium website .
Saturday 11th January – The Acrobatic Circus of China will perform with seventeen different acrobatic performances in the love story of a young man and his phoenix princess.
Friday 24th January – Miguel Maldonado and Facu Díaz return with a new Comedy Show that gathers and expands the alternative and critical spirit with which they have been working together for more than five years in ‘Do Not Get Into Politics’.
The New Tour is a show of originality and freshness, with a mixture of the political and frivolous.
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th February -musical‘Jekyll & Hyde’ offers extraordinary musical intrigue that delves into the primary duality of man and the struggle between reason and instinct, between good and evil that inhabits each one of us. 4.30pm
Saturday 15th (5pm) & Sunday 16th (12pm) February – musical ‘Annie’, a spectacular production of the successful Broadway musical, which returns with a formula never seen before in Spain, but in which its unforgettable melodies should not be missing, including ‘Tomorrow’. A show for the enjoyment of the whole family.
Saturday 14th March – Freddie Mercury supporters are in luck because to close the programme, they will enjoy ‘Rhapsody of Queen’; a new international show with Queen’s best known songs, with four international singers, a great rock band and powerful staging. The public will undoubtedly enter a new dimension full of magic that they will never forget.
El Nuevo Teatro Circo de Cartagena
More information and purchase of tickets go to: www.nuevoteatrocirco.com
Thursday 23rd – Sunday 26th January – Circlassic – a story of Emilio Aragón; a family show in which he wanted to pay tribute to all those artists who one day dared to dream. A show where funambulistas, trapeze artistes and jugglers will perform in the magical world of the circus.
Friday 7th February – the laughs will return with Santi Rodríguez , who will present ‘Infarction. Don’t go to the light!’; a show based on the personal experience of the comedian when he suffered a heart attack to have the sense of humour that characterizes him in a hospital nightgown.
Saturday 8th February – more humour with ‘Pantomima Full’. In his head it was spectacular with this comic duo acting the stories of Roger Bodegas and Alberto Casado mocking the stereotypes of society.
X Municipal Campaign ‘Let’s Go To The Theatre’@ Ramón Alonso Luzzy
January 24th: Spectacular, Spectacular! : Secondary 12-15yrs (10am)
January 24th: McBeth’s: Secondary 14-15yrs and Baccalaureate (12pm)
February 4th: Stop the War that I want to get off: Primary 8-11yrs.
March 3rd: Comesueños: Infant 3-5 years and Primary 6-7 years
March 31st: In case of harassment (a respect): Secondary 12-15yrs and Baccalaureate.
April 21st: The cloud that didn’t want to rain: Primary 8-11yrs
April 30th: When Dr Jekyll met Mr Hyde: Elementary 8-11yrs @ Municipal Auditorium and Congress Centre, El Batel
January 22nd: The Princess and the Dragon: Infant 3-5yrs & Primary 6-7yrs
January 23rd: My Funny Frankenstein: Elementary 8-11yrs
February 27th: Hansel and Gretel: Infant 3-5yrs & Primary 6-7yrs
March 10th: The great game of Verdi: Primary 8-11yrs
April 29th: Eliakan, the nosy Elephant: 3-5yrs and Primary 6-7yrs
April 30th: The last crazy adventure of Holmes: Secondary 12-15yrs
Tickets 3.50€
Book at www.educateatro.es.
Tel 968128800 ext. 7055
Email programateatro-cartagena.es
La Manga – Christmas Market (until 6th January)10am @ Galleries El Flamenco de La Manga. Workshops, gifts, music.
La Union – www.ayto-launion.com – Tel 868 049 941/692 925 970 – Market Tues
Los Alcazares – Market Tues & Sat (Los Narejo)
San Javier – www.murciaturistica.es/en/san_javier/ – Tel 968 172 041 – Market Wed & Thurs
San Javier Squalos Rugby @ Rugby field,PDM Sports Ground
Men Tues & Thurs 8.30-10.30pm
Women Tues & Thurs 10.00-11.30pm
12-18yrs Tues & Thurs 7.30-9.00pm
6-10yrs Thurs 6pm-7pm & Sat 10am-11am
Every Monday – HAH Help at Home Table Top Sale @ La Zona Bar 10am-1pm
Every Monday – Friendship Group @ The Garden Bar & Lounge 11am
Santiago de Ribera – 968 571 704 – Market Wed
Friday 3rd January – Christmas Concert @ Explanado Barnuevo 8.30pm
Sunday 5th January – Three Kings arrive 4pm
San Pedro del Pinatar – www.sanpedroturismo.com – Tel 968 182 301 – Market Mon & Thurs (Lo Pagan)
Sunday 5th January – Three Kings Parade 6.30pm
Torre Pacheco – www.torrepacheco.es – Tel 968 579 937 – Market Thurs (Balsicas) & Sat (Dolores)
Every Tuesday in January at 5pm – Guided Tour of Another Planet Brewing 5€ to include tastings. Booking essential on 664 694 344
El Algar
At Apollo Theatre:
Thursday 3rd January – Remember Me (a tribute to the movie Coco) 6pm
Tickets from Teatro Circo Apolo website www.teatrocircoapoloelalgar.es or box office 6pm-8pm on Wednesdays and also in post offices. Discounted subscriptions available.