right now R for Rumba, one of the top hip hop DJs in the country and a member of the historic band Those who violate the verse Accompanying hundreds of neck movements on the Tossal basketball court, a man screwed a homemade can breaker firmly into the railing to raise awareness of sustainability in the club. Cigar Alacant Awakens. A clear example of the extent of the pop culture festival in the city in the blink of an eye; The anxiety of some colleagues, which emerged in 2003, is still more alive than ever today.
Loïc’s insistence, a french student At a certain hour of the night last Friday at the stage bar, he had not found a satisfactory answer, supported for his sake. When a difficult-to-identify congregation member explained to him with brushstrokes that AD was an outburst of altruism, “What is this?” ‘ he just repeated. pure extravagance, pure AD, Like Karmenk’s therapeutic chi kung, it’s abrupt and cross-border between two leathers, rigging and sewing performances in the rock scene. AD is the hand holding the string so the high line – you know, the tightrope walker – the institutions just give them a gap when grunts. A great concert by AD, Mugroman, classics of the Valencian rock scene, as well as the books by Neruda and Unamuno, which Joaco puts in the bar to accompany the vermouth. Alacant Desperta is a techno session by Belgian DJ Van Czar and a haute couture parade by the great Pau of garbage bags, onion nets and other crap, dressed in glamor by Carol and many other models.
AD is twenty years of giving voice to those who have something to express. See you at the weekly assembly and learning to take turns to talk. Living in a horizontal collective, having an idea and wanting to bring it to life. Alacant Desperta is a festival where thousands of people pass through in three days; Alacant Desperta is when one of the founders, María Jesus, shows up at a bar with requests for three sandwiches for volunteers, even though no one is calling her. The magic might hang in a great song by La Coctelera del Indio or Guerra de clases under the full moon this weekend, but also in the miles covered by Paco and Inma, who lit the AD flame with one hand and the AD flame with the other. others carry extinguishers to put out any fires.
Downhill longboarding; poems by Juanlu, Iván, Cucli or Rosita; adapted sport controlled by Chenko; Patri and Yolanda’s extreme devotion to recruit volunteers; Eloy’s unexpected art; break dance with the new graffiti scent; circus; comic; Listen to Arcughâl or Awita Clara, or step into the shade to eat some of the miracles prepared by Mercè. Everything is possible in an Alacant Desperta, whose future is secured by the stick undertaken by Stakhanovists like Julia or Joa, who is expensively enterprising while cycling, always attentive and willing to listen to the voice of experience, which we want to continue to have. As close as Rafa, Mari Carmen, Nevenka, Nieves, Fran or Rosario. The list is endless: Mon, Michelle, Antonio, Billy, Capaldi, Gladys, Carola… For all of them, for those who are no longer here (Juan Antonio Pérez, Manolo Ruano…) and of course Alicante’s grassroots culture is worth fighting for.
With the axiom that this should be a self-directed and self-financed movement, Alacant Desperta is taking firm steps forward, It does not sell and convinces those who doubt. The volume the festival received was unthinkable, and when one hesitates, there is no better word than a word from Amador, the school from which the collective graduated, which if we had them, it could well be our first command: “After a few years of bad and we have no stage open for those who want to express themselves As long as there is a microphone, Alacant will continue to be Desperta. On the contrary, if there were thirty stages a day but there was no speaker, it would be us. It’s just another festival”.