If you are in Madrid this weekend, these are your coordinates
sorry sardine, his neighbors have this fish very much alive and there is no one to celebrate his funeral. They celebrate the opposite, that this street has an enviable rhythm, and also some OWN PARTIES.
From the Friday June 8 and until Sunday 10, a blue scarf is the only thing you need to decide to come and enjoy the Fish street parties in the emblematic Madrid neighborhood of Malasana .
So we prepare our outfits party animal and we are going to feel like minnows in the water on a street that could not bear another name.
We feel like this when we enter a off the beaten path cafes or we allow ourselves to be conquered by some other **tortilla skewer** that will seem to us the best in Madrid in every bite. A hotel with a decoration that surrounds you**,** bookstores with thousands of books hidden in its recesses or art Galeries avant-garde full of works with stories.
It has something so special... and it could not be less in a street where it was born Clara Campoamor or lived some personalities like Emilia Pardo Bazan, Luigi Boccherini, the painter to King Miguel Jacinto Meléndez or Rosalia de Castro.
this year will be Peter Bonet, director and soloist of the group The Folia and neighbor of the neighborhood, who gives the proclamation in Plaza Carlos Cambronero, where most of the activities will take place.
There will be painting workshops, beads, bobbin lace, crochet...; concerts in which they will perform from ballroom dances to Madrid folk music, passing through classical music.
And for music that is not, because we can also attend the concerts of The Blue Mondays, Gut Dervy, Oliver Green, enjoy the country of Cannons and Butter, or Blue Deers and Bum Motion Club.
Photoespaña will also have a place in these parties and will participate in the art gallery the lunchbox opening that same Friday June 8 at 7:00 p.m. an exposition: Symbiosis by Dr Case.
In addition, the tracks will be animated with street parade, puppet theater for the little ones, including a parade by the hand of Tarabbu Show and, of course, endless activities that will always be mixed with routes of craft beer, vermouth and cocktails (at special prices) in the local establishments.
In these celebrations, a plaque will also be placed in the number 13 of Pez street in honor to Mortadelo and Filemon, since it was in that portal where the cartoonist Ibáñez He placed the office of these well-known characters in his comics. And the icing on the cake? A neighborhood paella to say goodbye to the festivities until next year, from 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 10.
I could not miss, of course, a tribute to Casto Herrezuelo Lobete, of the emblematic bar The Palentine. Because El Palentino was not just any bar, but rather an institution of the Malasana neighborhood.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
That we still haven't convinced you? In this street there is room for all kinds of activities and for all audiences. Also for the more daring and sporty there will be acrobatic football , by Paloma Pujol, the two-time world footbag champion.
Activities like Bollywood dances for the most international; games at ** Local Generación X ** _(Puebla Street, 15) _; performances, performances, talks about the neighborhood, clowns for the little ones and even an initiative supporting a good cause: the association Do not leave me alone for the defense of animals.
In addition, this year is special, because Malasaña has a town crier, a new project by ** Lope de Aixela ,** who will walk the emblematic street on the first day of the festivities. He is known for his draft 101 nights, in which he proposed to spend the night in 101 different houses in Malasaña to encourage them to come out of the isolation in which, according to him, they lived.
Good places, great proposals and better atmosphere They make up the cocktail for the Pez street parties, the full program of which you can consult here.
Poster for the Pez Street Festival 2018