POLLENSA - LA PATRONA FIESTAS 2015

Friday, 24 July
8pm: Martial arts exhibition. Plaça Major.
10pm: Concert by Cap Pela. Sant Domingo Cloister.

Saturday, 25 July
5pm-8.30pm: Chess tournament. Club Pollença.
6pm-8pm: Patrona 2015 race. Children's playground, C. Cecili Metel.
8.30pm: Folk dance with the Pollensa school of "farmer" dance and the groups Racó de Tramuntana and Es Penell de Ferreries. Plaça Major.
11pm: Ampfest 2015. At Can Escarrinxo. Association of Pollensa musicians annual night of concerts. Three euros donation for the Pollensa animals' refuge.

Sunday, 26 July
2pm: Firing of rockets and bell ringing to signal the start of the fiestas. Plaça Monti-sion.
8.30pm: Procession by the Band of Cornets and Drums.
9pm: Opening of 50th international plastic arts competition. Club Pollença.
10pm: Pregón opening address with the Pollensa Band of Music. Sant Domingo Cloister.
Half past midnight: Chill Out Night. Plaça Major.

Monday, 27 July
9pm: Line dance. Plaça Major.
10pm: Theatre - "Antigone" (Sophocles tragedy). Sant Domingo Cloister.
11.45pm: Neon party (come dressed phosphorescent) at Ca la Gran Cristiana.

Tuesday, 28 July
7pm: Benefit Zumba class. Plaça Vella. Five euros.
7pm: Children's entertainment with Dream Dance, Drama School and Cucorba. Plaça Major.
8pm: All-star basketball. Sports centre.
8pm: Benefit party, supper, music and market. Joan March gardens.
9.30pm: Pollensa evening party with all sorts of surprises (featuring folk music, choirs, dance, pipers, glosadors etc.) Sant Domingo Cloister.
10pm: Jazz concert - Xavi Torres Trio. Town hall courtyard.
10.30pm: Ballroom dance and music by Trio Champagne and Cha Cha Cha. Plaça Major.

Wednesday, 29 July
7.30pm: "Adventures of Geppetto and Pinocchio" - puppet show (plus ice-cream). Plaça Vella.
10pm: Concert for the 150th anniversary of the Pollensa Band of Music. Sant Domingo Cloister.
11.30pm: The Billy Young Band (AC/DC tribute). Plaça Major.

Thursday, 30 July
5.30pm: Water party for children. With Mallorca's firemen and an old restored fire engine. Followed by foam party. Can Conill.
10pm: Musical party with the Pollensa Theatre Group and Ballagual Folk. Sant Domingo Cloister.
10.30pm: Night of swing music with the Glissando Big Band and others, plus DJ. Plaça Major.

Friday, 31 July
10am-12 midday: How to make espadrilles. Can Xumet, C. Mar 40.
4.30pm-8.30pm: Table games. Afama, C. Jonquet.
10pm: Painting Pollensa 1950, 80th anniversary of the death of Pollensa composer and musician Miquel Capllonch, 150th anniversary of the Pollensa Band of Music, 75th anniversary of the Pollensa Choir, 25 years since the first yearbook ... Featuring the band of music, choirs and all sorts of others. Sant Domingo Cloister. One euro.
11.30pm: Marxa Fresca white party with DJs Tomeu Perelló and Toni Llobera. Plaça Major.

Saturday, 1 August
7.30pm: Children's entertainment with Mel i Sucre. Plaça Vella.
8pm: Procession with the Pollensa Band of Cornets and Drums and the Pollensa Band of Music.
10pm: Party with Dinamo, Without String and others. Plaça Major.

Sunday, 2 August (La Patrona)
5am: The Alborada wake-up in the Plaça Major and streets.
8am: Alborada in the Puerto Pollensa church square.
11am: Mass and dance of offer by the Cossiers. to the Mother of God of the Angels Parish church.
12.15pm: Dance by the Cossiers. Plaça Major.
12.45pm: Pollensa band of music performance. Monti-sion church.
1pm: Aperitif for everyone. At the town hall.
5pm: Procession with the Soldà troupe of cornets and drummers.
5.30pm: Procession with the ancient image of La Patrona.
7pm: Moors and Christians battle.
9.30pm: Thanksgiving. Song of joy by Costa i Llobera. Interpretation of the Alborada and "Visca Pollença" by the Pollensa Band of Music. Plaça Major.
11.30pm: Fireworks. At the Costa i Llobera monument.

ALCUDIA - SANT JAUME FIESTAS 2015

Thursday, 16 July
8.30pm: Pregón opening address for the fiestas by the director of the Alcudia municipal band of music. At the Can Torró library, C. Serra.
10pm: "Clarinet Colorístic", concert as part of the third Alcudia Clarinet Festival. Jennifer Dunsmore and Pablo Piñeiro with works by, among others, Kovças, Poulenc and Crusell. Can Torró library patio.

Friday, 17 July
6pm: Special Roman summer workshop - hand crafts, games and Roman clothing workshop. For children three to thirteen. Registrations at Can Torró, tel: 971 547 311.
11pm: Roman Festival. DJs Miquel Rocamir and Joan Campos. Passeig Mare de Déu de la Victoria (market place).

Saturday, 18 July
4pm: Start of the annual chess tournament. Five euros per entrant; free for local players. Registrations: 971 545 289 or 674 250 898. Takes place at Fundació Torrens (Casa de Cultura), C. Hostal.
6pm: Treasure hunt for 16 to 80 year olds. Passeig Mare de Déu de la Victoria.
8pm: Opening of the exhibition "Eden" by the artist Josep Maria Alaminos García. Can Fondo.
10pm: Summer concert by the Alcudia town choir. Pont de la Vila Roja.

Sunday, 19 July
9am: Beach football tournament. Ciudad Blanca sports beach. Registrations: 630 702 748.
8pm: Line dance and ballroom dance with teacher, Bel Payeras. Passeig Mare de Déu de la Victoria.
10pm: Night party with the groups Galatzó and Calypso. Passeig Mare de Déu de la Victoria.

Monday, 20 July
6pm: Children's aquatic party plus foam party. With the group Mallorca Festa. Plaça Carles V.
8pm: Evening of sung poetry with glossadors presented by the Obra Cultural Balear. Can Torró library.
10pm: Open-air cinema. "Mortadelo y Filemón contra Jimmy El Cachondo". (Mortadelo y Filemón are Spanish animated detectives). Passeig Mare de Déu de la Victoria.

Tuesday, 21 July
8pm: Opening of painting exhibition, "Calma inquieta" by the artist Quima. Can Torró library.
10.30pm: Open-air theatre. "3 Nits Sense Dormir" (Three nights without sleeping). Plaça de toros (bullring).

Wednesday, 22 July
7pm: Open doors at the Pollentia Roman town archaeological zone.
7.15pm: Sports gymnastics display. Passeig Pere Ventayol.
9pm: Open-air supper and bingo. Four euros per ticket. Sale of tickets from the auditorium from 17 to 21 July. Passeig Mare de Déu de la Victoria.

Thursday, 23 July
8pm: Presentation of the book "La Presència Anglesa a la Gran Albufera del Nord de Mallorca" (about the British engineers who drained and cultivated Albufera in the nineteenth century) by Pere Perelló Payeres. Can Torró library patio.
10.15pm: Folk dance - ball de bot with Sarau Alcudienc and from Zamora, Grup Don Sancho. Plaça Carles V.

Friday, 24 July
10am: Beach volleyball tournament. Registrations: 629 648 114. Ciudad Blanca sports beach.
10am: New acquisitions at the Can Torró library.
7pm: Presentation of the book of poetry, "Sola en otoño" (Alone in autumn) by Mercedes Toledo. Can Torró library patio.
10pm: Night party with performances by Lorena Ares, Torrofort, Val 9. Passeig Mare de Déu de la Victoria.

Saturday, 25 July (Sant Jaume)
9.15am: Swimming race (two kilometres). Entrance, ten euros. Registrations via elitechip.com. From in front of the lifeguards' hut on the main beach.
10am: Beach volleyball tournament. Registrations: 629 648 114. Ciudad Blanca sports beach.
11.30am: Procession by the Alcudia band of music. From the Porta de Mallorca gate.
12 midday: Festive celebration of Sant Jaume (Saint James). At the church.
1.15pm: Traditional refreshments at the town hall.
10.30pm: Philharmonic concert by the Alcudia band of music. Beach volleyball tournament. Registrations: 629 648 114. Passeig Mare de Déu de la Victoria.
12 midnight: Grand fireworks' display. Plaça Carles V.

Sunday, 26 July10am: Beach volleyball tournament. Registrations: 629 648 114. Ciudad Blanca sports beach.
12 midday-12 midnight: Hidrosun Festival Mallorca 2015. DJs Manu Sánchez and others. At Hidropark. Price, ten euros.
6.30pm: Bullfight.
8.30pm: Procession from the Plaça de Toros to the Plaça Constitució with the Xaranga els Bergants band.

PUERTO POLLENSA - VIRGEN DEL CARMEN FIESTAS 2015

Thursday, 9 July
8.30pm: Exhibition - a retrospective tribute to Alfonso Loeffler. Puerto Pollensa residents' association rooms, C. Mestral 15.

Friday, 10 July
9pm: Pregón opening address for the fiesta. At the church.
10pm: Piano from the cinema - concert by Jorge Gil. At the church. Free.

Saturday, 11 July
9pm: "Sailors' race". Along the Passeig de Saralegui.
11.30pm: "Sailors' party" with the Deejays Group. Plaça Miquel Capllonch (church square).

Sunday, 12 July
7.30pm: Children's sailors' party with the group Uapidubi - mini-disco. Church square.

Monday, 13 July
10pm: Country dance with the pipers and whistlers of Xeremiers Orats and the dance group Aires de la Cala. Church square.

Tuesday, 14 July
7.30pm: Children's entertainment with the group Plou i fa sol. Church square.
8.30pm: Ice-cream for children at the Edifici Miquel Capllonch.

Wednesday, 15 July
7pm: Water party for children plus Council of Mallorca fire crew with a restored old fire engine. In the car park in front of the municipal swimming pool.
9.30pm: Concert by the women's choral group Minuet. At the church. Free.

Thursday, 16 July
9pm: Charity supper with entertainment from Los Valencianos. Prices: 10 euros adults, five euros children two to eight years old. Tickets from Can Reus and AFAMA in Pollensa, Electrodomesticos Reus and the residents' association in Puerto Pollensa.
11pm: Ballroom dance with the group Galatzó. Church square.

Friday, 17 July
8.30pm: Line dance, led by Xisco Rueda. Church square.

Saturday, 18 July
10pm: La Gola beach party. From half past midnight, performance by The Hustlers.

Sunday, 19 July
6.30pm: Solemn mass at the church followed by flotilla with the images of Sant Pere and the Mare de Déu del Carme. To take part in the flotilla, it is necessary to register beforehand at the Puerto Pollensa municipal offices.
9pm: Procession with the giants of Pollensa - L'Esbart de Sant Jordi - together with the pipers.
11pm: Fire-run with the demons Ca de Bou and the drummers Ca de Bou. From the church square to La Gola.
12 midnight: Fireworks at La Gola beach.