Falla Universitaria, the most ecological one, will have two innovative monuments in Plaça del Patriarca; the IRTIC (Robotics and Information Technologies Institute) has designed a mobile device which will allow to read and listen the texts of Na Jordana ‘falla’; and the bands Obrint Pas, Aspencat and Atzembla will play on Saturday at Concert de Falles 2012, a concert organized by Escola Valenciana, with the collaboration of Universitat de València. These are some of the events scheduled for the Valencian festivities’ week.
The Universitat Vella-Plaça del Patriarca falla will have an innovative monument again to recover this way its groundbreaking roots. The sun, an unattainable energy, is the central theme of this critical, reflexive monument, which strays away from the conventional asthetics in the rest of fallas. In 1990, this falla was included in the festivities programme of San Josep. This falla is now 23 years old. The festivities will be presided by its fallera mayor, the lady in charge of representing the falla: Maths lecturer Eva Caplliure. The monument will be put up on March 15th.
The monument, as the vice-president of the falla’s commission –historian and cultural technician Lluís Mesa– has stated, ‘innovative, straying away from last years’ trends in this falla.’ The falla pays tribute to the sun, which enables life in the plantet.
For the third time, the falla’s artist is Filiberto Pons, who comes from Sueca. This year’s falla is devoted to renewable energies. A man that tries to reach the sun with a butterfly net is protrayed. The sun is placed on the top of a pyramid. According to Pons: ‘the monument is about alternative energies and it is an ecological monument, for some of the materials used are waste materials.’ At the same time, a critic to fallas world is present in the work: a special ninot portrays a men curled up like a light bulb. The artist has been working in the creation of fallas for twenty years.
Everybody can enjoy the days 16th, 17th, and 18th at night, when the falla will be open to the public and there will be music in the same Plaça del Patriarca. The falla will be put up on March 15th. The Vice-president, Lluís Mesa, says that they have a hundred members. The budget comes from the members’ contributions, the sponsors, and money collected during the festivity’s days.
IRTIC designs a mobile device for Na Jordana falla
Universitat de València’s Institute for Robotics, Information Technologies and Communications (IRTIC) has developed a free application for mobile phones allowing the reading of the letters at Na Jordana falla in several languages. It also offers the user additional contents, an audio-guide and a map to get to the falla on foot. The project is called ‘Entiende las fallas’ (Understand the fallas), and it allows the visitors of the monument to gain access to the texts of the posters in several languages –Valencian, Spanish and English-, to additional images and explanations about the scenes of the monument. To content listening as well which makes the access to information easier for people with visual disabilities.
Juan José Martínez Durá, director of LISSIT, the IRTIC’s laboratory in charge of the project explains that ‘the application has been developed for Apple and Android mobile phones and tablets. It is a free application which can be downloaded from AppleStore or AndroidMarket. It allow the user to translated the letters shown in the monument, listen to the audio-guide, and find out the shortest way to get the the falla from his/her position on foot.
Obrint Pas, Aspencat and Atzembla play on Saturday at Concert de Fallas 2012 where UV collaborates
Obrint Pas, Atzembla and Aspencat are the three bands playing at the Concert de Fallas 2012 which will take place next Saturday, March 17th, in the Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot’s Auditori. UV collaborates in the concert, which is organized by Escola Valenciana. UV’s students attend the concert with a discount.
Tickets are already available for 10 Euros, but a 50% off is offered buying them in advance. This same price applies to tickets bought with Universitat de València’s and Amigo de Escola Valenciana’s cards. Tickents can be bought at Terra, Racó de la Corbella, Can Revolta, and Can Bassot. The venue for the concert is the Auditori (concert hall) in Casa de la Cultura, Burjassot. Date: March 17th, at 21:00. Doors will be open half an hour earlier.
More information on Gira 2012 on: lagira.cat.
Last update: 14 de march de 2012 13:25.
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