The event, directed by the multidisciplinary artist Ildefonso Aguilar, will be held on the Island of Volcanoes from October 3 to 21.
The Lanzarote Visual Music Festival returns after fifteen years of absence with a program that includes Nils Peter Molvaer and Jóhann Jóhannsson, among others.
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Pedro San Ginés: “The union of the island’s nature with culture and music results in events like this one, which are also unique and different and are a milestone in the cultural history of the island; to bring it back was an obligation”.
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The Auditorium of Jameos del Agua, La Cueva de Los Verdes, the CIC El Almacén or the Convent of Santo Domingo, in Teguise, among the spaces that will host the activities of the FMVL 2017, that
fuse contemporary avant-garde music with the unique landscapes of Lanzarote.
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Dance, exhibitions, children’s workshops and film screenings will complete the program of activities.
Lanzarote, July 21, 2017
After thirteen consecutive editions, the last Festival de Música Visual de Lanzarote (FMVL) took place in 2002. Now, fifteen years later, the institution that promoted this project, the Cabildo of Lanzarote, takes it up again with the same spirit of trying to merge contemporary avant-garde music with the unique landscapes of the island of Lanzarote.
Created, conceived and directed by the multidisciplinary artist Ildefonso Aguilar -Golden Medal of Fine Arts of the Canary Islands and Adopted Son of Lanzarote-, in its thirteen years of history the FMVL hosted on its natural stages concerts by musicians such as Brian Eno, Michael Brook, Win Mertens, Jon Hassell, Tony Riley, Russell Mills, Alberto Iglesias, Suso Saiz, Jan Garbarek, Harold Budd, Rokia Traoré and a long and endless etcetera.
October 3 to 21
The fourteenth edition of the FMVL will take place between October 3 and 21, 2017 in the northernmost of the Canary Islands and will be held at the Jameos del Agua Auditorium, the Cueva de Los Verdes, the Centro de Innovación Cultural El Almacén and the Convento de Santo Domingo, in Teguise.
The program of this 14th FMVL will include concerts by Tord Gustavsen (October 7); Anja Lechner and François Couturier (October 11); Camerata Lacunensis with the String Orchestra of the Conservatory of Music of the Canary Islands (October 12); Nils Peter Molvaer Group (October 14); Landscape Project (October 20); and Jóhann Jóhannsson (October 21).
In addition, the Festival includes an extensive program of parallel activities including film screenings –
The Lost Paradise
by Günter Atteln ( ) and
Sound and silence, travel with Manfred Eicher
Peter Guyer and Norbert Wiedmer ( )-, contemporary dance performances -with Chey Jurado and Carmen Werner- exhibitions and children’s workshops, among others. The complete program can be consulted here.
Ildefonso Aguilar himself, who will once again be in charge of the Festival, was in charge of detailing the contents of this 14th edition. The painter and musician explained, at the press conference held this morning, that today for him was “a day of commemoration”, and “lucky to be able to once again have the support of the island and regional institutions to rescue an event that tries to unify and merge the unique landscape of the island of Lanzarote with contemporary avant-garde music”.
For his part, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, said that “Lanzarote had a debt with itself that today we hope to begin to settle. The island’s landscape is unique and special and as such we must promote it. And the union of the island’s nature with culture and music results in events like this, which are also unique and different and are a milestone in the cultural history of the island. To bring it back was an obligation”.
Likewise, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, María Teresa Lorenzowhose department is sponsoring the FMVL, declared that “The Canary Islands need more cultural events like this one, which are committed to quality and reinforce the projection of the natural landscape of the Islands, contributing to position them as a differentiated destination whose offer goes beyond sun and beach”..
The Minister of Culture of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Óscar Pérez, concluded by stating that the Culture Department is very “happy and satisfied to have been able to bring this project forward again, on which we have been working for more than a year, and which finally returns to the musical and cultural offer of Lanzarote”.
The FMVL is organized by the Cabildo of Lanzarote through the area of Culture coordinated by the councilor Óscar Pérez. Sponsored by CACT Lanzarote and the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands. In collaboration with the Town Hall of Teguise.