This alternative and multidisciplinary festival has been held since 2002 organized by the Teatre d'Artà. Over four days, from May 9 to 12, the town of Artà becomes a stage for the arts with contemporary proposals and new trends that include from itinerant street theater to concerts, performance, dance, cabaret, participatory theater, etc. With gratuitous and paid activities.
Cool Days 2024 Program:
Thursday May 9
5:30 p.m. De la Iglesia a Sant Salvador
Performance: Segon Encontre
The artist Teresa Matas stars in this performance with which she intends to give a space for mourning to remember those beloved people who are no longer here. It is an act of accompaniment based on emotion and action: joining the pieces of clothing of people who are no longer there with thread stitches, leaving the Church walking to Sant Salvador in silence. Duration: 2 hours.
7:30 p.m. Parking Ses Pesqueres
Theater / Circus: Swing
* With Swing, Circus Ronaldo evokes the atmosphere of the circus and variety shows of the first half of the 20th century, with a young generation of artists working at full speed to the rhythm of the swing music of the 40s. With humor and a modest authenticity, the performers arouse the audience's empathy to rediscover the emotion and magic of the circus. €10. Tickets. Duration: 85 minutes. Limited capacity.
9:00 p.m. Terrace of the Teatre d'Artà
Theater: Love for Free
The Sergi Estebanell Company presents this artistic action, which can also be described as a sociological experiment. A fresh and original proposal that suggests new forms of relationships that confront individualism and emotional disconnection. Gratuitous. Duration: 50 minutes.
Friday 10th May
All day. Streets of Artà
Performance: Meeting of artists
** Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, National Prize for Plastic Arts 2007 and Velázquez Prize 2015, will spend two days walking the streets of Artà talking with everyone who wants to participate in this unprecedented performance especially conceived for the Cool Days Festival 2024. Curators: Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta and Montserrat Torras. Free.
10:00 and 11:00 a.m. Teatre d'Artà
Theater: Rondalletes 0-99
The Mallorcan company Centimets Teatre presents Rondalletes 0-99, a mask and puppet show with music by Joan Bibiloni performed by puppeteers Irene Soler and Clíona de Brí. Free. Duration: 70 minutes.
11:00 a.m. Plaça del Conqueridor
Workshop & Performance: Un altre camp és possible
*** Col·lectiu PSJM & Cooperativa d’Artà present this agricultural march through different streets of Artà in which the farmers will carry a series of aesthetic banners, created in a participatory way, until they reach the town square. The PSJM creation, theory and management team is made up of Cynthia Viera and Pablo San José. Commissioners: Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta and Montserrat Torras. Free.
5:30 p.m. Plaça del Conqueridor
Performance: Miramunt
Artà artist Fina Massanet presents, exclusively for the Cool Days Festival 2024, this performative action that viewers will experience as a shocking visual and sensory experience. At the same time, it invites reflection and debate on the impact of human activities on the environment and public health. Free. Duration: 2 hours.
7:00 p.m. Plaça del Pes dels Porcs
Dance / Theater: Ella, Regadera
**** A piece by Maya Triay that tells us about the wild energy of women. Creative, intuitive and, in some ways, crazy impulses that go beyond the norm and that flow from the body like water from a shower. Free. Duration: 60 minutes.
7:30 p.m. Parking Ses Pesqueres
Theater / Circus: Swing
* €10. Tickets. Duration: 85 minutes. Limited capacity.
8:30 p.m. Amphitheater Na Batlessa
Concert: Pitxorines
It is the musical project of nine young Mallorcans who give new life to the island's popular songbook with a fresh and innovative proposal, with arrangements of jazz, classical music and sonic eclecticism. ,
The group is made up of Maria Antònia Gili (flugel and vocals), Maria Adrover (flabiol and tamborino, xeremies, transverse flute and voice), Sílvia Rechac (piano and vocals), Masé Jara (double bass and vocals), Sinead Cormican (violin and voice), Aina Tramullas (Voice), Carmela Cristos (cello and voices), Rosa Garcías (traverse flute and voice) and Bel Miquel (percussion and voices). Free. Duration: 60 minutes.
10:00 p.m. Amphitheater Na Batlessa
Dance/Theater: Mr. Blue Sky
The Fam Teatre company presents this piece, halfway between theater and dance, which tells the story of how one day the human being rediscovered himself, after having become, for a long time, a kind of machines, mechanized beings without communication. Gratuitous. Duration: 40 minutes.
11:00 p.m.
DJ Session: DJ Zachary Brooks
Saturday May 11
All day. Streets of Artà
Performance: Meeting of artists
**
10:30 a.m. Residence of the elderly
Dance / Theater: Ella, Regadera
****
11:15 a.m. Streets of Artà. Departure from the Cooperativa d’Artà
Workshop & Performance: Un altre camp és possible***
7:00 p.m. Teatre d’Artà parking
Theater: La grUtesca
****** The Escarlata company presents grUtesca, a distillate in the form of
sound thoughts and poetic acts that dialogue creating a poetic and provocative collage. The attendees are received by the two conductors of the piece, Bet Miralta and Jordi Aspa, who will give them instructions to create objects that will serve as exchange to enter the arena.
Inside the arena, they are invited to sit on a semicircle-shaped stand and put on the headphones with which the sound experiment begins. From here, the scenes take place on a tiny central track and a hallway through which a series of poetic acts parade, while the soundtrack accompanies us to travel through the universe of laughter. Helium balloons, stones, dancing stairs, gramophones that
They laugh, self-portraits that gravitate and cigarette papers that dance to the rhythm of a waltz, are some of the elements. Recommended from 12 years. Duration: 60 minutes. €10. Purchase of tickets.
8:00 p.m. Covered market
Unconventional circus: La Veu Submergida
***** Multidisciplinary show by Maria Palma that puts circus and movement in dialogue in an unusual medium, water. A large fish tank full of water serves as an excuse to talk about silences, barriers and overcomings. La Veu Submergida is a path to the depths of the subconscious through the experience of apnea where sound and light space are also protagonists. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Duration: 45 minutes. €10. Purchase tickets.
8:30 p.m. Parking Ses Pesqueres
Theater / Circus: Swing
* €10. Tickets. Duration: 85 minutes. Limited capacity.
9:00 p.m.
Traveling show: Achilles
The La Fam Teatre company presents this impressive street show that will not leave anyone indifferent. Hand in hand with Achilles, an articulated giant 5.5 meters high and weighing 800 kilos, who will walk through the streets and squares of the town's urban core. Duration: 60 minutes.
11:00 p.m. Amphitheater Na Batlessa
Concert: Julieta + Negre
With her first album, Juji (2021), the Catalan singer Julieta managed to establish herself as one of the revelation voices of pop and urban music in Catalan. Her style includes French-speaking inspirations and references and a mix of electronica, pop and reggaeton. In 2023 she released her second album, Ni llum ni lluna, which won the Enderrock Critics' Award for best album by a new artist.
For its part, Negre is a group from Mallorca formed in 2022 in Santa Maria del Camí by Fabi Bover (voice and guitar), Pasqual Marí (drums) and Josep Campins (double bass). Duration: 150 minutes. €10. Purchase of tickets.
Sunday May 12
10:00 a.m.
Els Esparralls traveling show: Xaranga
11:00 a.m. Covered market
Unconventional circus: La Veu Submergida
***** Recommended for ages 8 and up. Duration: 45 minutes. €10. Purchase tickets
11:00 and 18:00. Teatre d’Artà parking
Theater: La grUtesca
****** Recommended from 12 years. Duration: 60 minutes. €10. Purchase of tickets.
12:00 p.m. Teatre d'Artà
Theater: The Power of the 80's
Gonzalo Santamaría is the author and interpreter of this endearing story in which his protagonist will surprise the audience with techniques such as balance, juggling, verticals, dance... creating an atmosphere of humor, love and participation. All public. Duration: 60 minutes. €10. Purchase of tickets.
1:00 p.m. Terrace of the Teatre d'Artà
DJ Session: Dj Hiperespacio
Vermouth on the terrace of the Teatre d’Artà to celebrate the last day of the Cool Days Festival 2024. Like every year, a popular paella will follow.
