When the accounts don't come out, the stories come out.
28-07-2021
When the accounts don’t come out, the stories come out. I heard this kind of saying a few years ago. The proverb comes to say, basically, that the best ideas, the best stories, arise in difficult times, bringing out the most creative ingenuity of the human being.During Francoism, the seventh art was gagged with censorship. [1] This already ex...
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Saint James
25-07-2021
The festival of Santiago Apòstol -nostre Sant Jaume- has a special filling of Elx. Festes i celebracions populars nodrien una jornada viscuda intensment pels nostres paisans. Jocs, music, pirotècnia, comensalitat... confluïen entorn d'una efeméride entranyable per a els/as il licitans/as. Des de fa algun temps, amb un cale...
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Auca, a game of chance that has disappeared
01-07-2021
One of the biggest attractions of our new exhibition, Els Blancs. A diumenge per la vesprada al Camp d'Elx', consists of seeing the post of the auquero. Its base is an ancient game of chance, the auca, of which we have kept four boards, of which we have exhibited three. We recovered for this blog a nice article written by our lifetime director, Fe...
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Intervention in the Debate of the State of the Municipality
23-06-2021
Intervention in the Debate of the State of the Municipality Isabel Picó Ledesma Representative of the Municipal School Council 8-6-2021 "It is a privilege to be here with you and to be part of the representatives of the sectoral councils of our city. I would like to thank all the collectives for their work, as well as the City Council f...
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Who has not laughed with the characters of the school Bruguera?
18-06-2021
Often on Saturdays they bought comics... The children/ace of the seventies grew up next to the characters of Bruguera or Valenciana, who broke into our homes and our lives. We were not the only ones who enjoyed the adventures of Captain Thunder, Jabato or Stone Man; we were not the only ones who laughed with Zipi and Zape, Mortadelo and Filemon or...
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An Italian accordion, featured piece in our new handover
16-06-2021
Between the pieces more prominent of the our new exhibition " Els Blancs". On Sunday afeternoon at the countryside of Elx. (Els Blancs. On Sunday afternoon at the countryside of Elche), We found this accordion donated by Manuel Pascual in 2019, he told us that this instrument was given by its parents when he was a children, conservated by him it is...
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