Dénia sets aside the institutional framework to celebrate a popular and participatory 9th of October

The Valencian Community Day is celebrated next weekend, and the City Council of Dénia has scheduled several events that will take place over several days to commemorate such an important day for Valencians. As it happened last year, the local council will not hold any institutional act, since, as explained by the mayor, Vicent Grimalt, it is intended to organize participatory and popular events that will also be held in different parts of the city.

On Saturday 8 of October a game of Raspall will be held on Calle l'Escullera, in the district of Baix la Mar, which will face Carlos and Murillo against Gorxa and Mata. The game will start at 17: 30 hours.

On Sunday 9 of October will take place the bulk of the events, which will begin at 10 in the morning with the guided tour Remembrança de Dénia at the Temps del Rei Jaume I d'Aragó, which will lead visitors through the ins and outs of Dénia in the XNUMXth century. The visit, guided by Josep Antoni Gisbert, head of Dénia's archeology department, will begin at Plaza del Consell and end at the castle.

At 12: 00 hours will take place the traditional concert of the Musical Artistic Association of Dénia, which this year will be held in Pere Eiximen d'En Carrós square (First Mariners Group). The events will continue in the afternoon also with music, that of the dolçainers and tabaleters collas that from the 17: 30 hours will travel through different points of the city until they are in the Plaza del Consell. There, at 18: 30 hours, the Dianium Dansa delegation will depart, together with the giant Tirant and Carmesina, to dance the dansà of Dénia and read passages of Tirant Lo Blanch through Diana and Marqués de Campo streets.

The events of the Valencian Community Day will end at 20: 00 hours with the concert of the Colla del Cànter Nits in the Memòria to be held in the Plaza del Consell.

XX Fira Agriculture i Productes Ecologics, Artesanals i autòctons

As usual, the celebration of 9 d'Octubre in Dénia is linked to the craft fair that every year brings together dozens of stands of artisan producers in the city. This year you can visit the 7, 8 and 9 days of October on La Vía Street, the new location chosen by the Environment Department, organizer of the fair.

But it is not the only novelty that this year brings. To the offer of the more than 70 stops that are expected to be installed in the fair is added a wide schedule of talks, debates and projections around the theme of the fair that will take place in the Center d'Art L'Estacio Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Program of talks, debates and projections

Friday 7 of October. Sustainability, human resources and associationism.

• 17: 00 hours: Permaculture Design for a sustainable life. Jesús Ledesma (Iberian Southeast Permaculture Network)
• 17: 40 hours: Social currency / Xarxes Self-management. ecoxarxa Marina Alta
• 18: 15 hours: Permaculture and sustainability project in Africa and Europe. Women in peace. Carlos Costa (NGO Art Oasis)
• 18: 50 hours: Parent Experience in Ojo de Agua Educational Space. Orba. Daniel Nunez
• 19: 20 hours: Volunteering, a sustainable needs. Marta Attention. (High Solidarity Marine Federation)

Saturday 8 of October. Food sustainability and bioconstruction

• 10: 45 hours: Responsible Consume and Solidari, Eina Pel Canvi. Virginia Cabello (Consum Come-Eco Marina Alta Group)
• 11: 15 hours: Posem Life to the Center, defender of the Territori. Inés Payà (Sobirania Alimentària Country Valencià Platform)
• 11: 45 hours: Practical and nutritious use of fruits, vegetables, cerales and legumes. Juan Padilla (Vegetarian Cook)
• 12: 20 hours: What is the Bioconstrucció? Joan Romero (OKAMBUYA Cooperative. Sagunt)

Sustainability, ecology, environment and landscape

• 16: 45 hours: Responsible use of water. Manolo Rosado (Aqualia Manager)
• 17: 30 hours: Arrossera produced the PN Marjal Pego-Oliva. Arròs Bombó recovery project. Vicent Dominguis (Pego Natura SL)
• 18: 00 hours: Aus del Montgó. Joan Sala (Chairman of the Governing Board Natural Park Montgó. Ornithologist)
• 18: 40 hours: Purchase and Custòdica Territori. Medi Ambient protection. FUNDEM (Jardí de l'Albarda)
• 19: 15 hours: Calçant el Montgó. Ecological Agriculture of proximity and Projecte Mercat Riurau de Jesús Pobre. Quico Pastor (Hort Obert), Xavi Mulet and Andreu Costa (Xarxa Ecològica Marina Alta)

Sunday 9 of October. Sustainability: Energy Efficiency

• 10: 45 hours: Generation and Consumption of Renewable Energy. Another Model is Possible. Cooperativa SOM Energia, Grupo Alicante
• 11: 25 hours: Energies lliures i netes d'autoconsum. Pep Siscar.
• 12: 10 hours: Geobiology and Healthy House. Marcel Gynseng

Agricultural Sustainability

• 16: 30 hours: Experience Urban Gardens for Senior Citizens in Torrecremada. Juan Padilla (Retired Farmer)
• 17: 00 hours: Project BioMoscatell de Benitatxell. José Manuel Bisseto (Agricology, Agroecological Dynamics)
• 17: 30 hours: Almond tree crop recovery: Organic Agriculture Techniques. ALOHA Organics
• 18: 00 hours: Regenerative agriculture, fertilizers and organic treatments in the hands of the Farmer. Mother Forest Association
• 18: 30 hours: Genètics Locals Resources with the Nostra Alimentació Reserve. Josep Roselló. (Servei de Producció Ecològica. Department of Agriculture
• 19: 00 hours: Film screening The olive (Social center). At the end, a colloquium conducted by the forest engineer Victor Montiel, author of the fieldwork Catalog of Trees in Dénia.