The festival of fire and light.

Lluèrnia, Olot's Fire and Light Festival, will be held on November 8 and 9, 2024. On the 8th, the lighting installations will be launched, and on the 9th, in addition to the lights, the fire lights will be lit and the final show will take place.

In addition, the previous days you can enjoy La Fumarola, a whole series of activities before and after such as conferences and exhibitions.

One of the spirit of the Festival is to help the citizens of Olot rediscover new spaces and itineraries. It is for this reason that in this year's edition Lluèrnia returns to the center of Olot, with Volcà Montsacopa, Plaça Balmes and Carrer Baix del Tura as imaginary boundaries.

The tour includes other representative places of the city such as the Plaça Major, the Hospice, the Plaça de Braus or the Firalet.

Artistic call and citizen collaboration

The artistic call, which opened on March 4 and closed on April 7, received more than fifty proposals. The festival's organizing committee chose five, a rather difficult task thanks to the high level of the artistic installations presented this year.

These five projects will join twenty more installations that will form part of the route proposed by the Lluèrnia 2024 festival.

Lluèrnia will once again have the collaboration of the primary and secondary schools of La Garrotxa, with two proposals that will be exhibited in Plaça Balmes and the Firalet. These facilities involve the participation of more than 3,000 students, apart from the invaluable help of the teaching and management staff of the participating schools.

The collaboration with other entities, which present installations or activities on the occasion of the festival, currently takes the form of proposals for co-production, exchange or direct incorporation. Lluèrnia will also have the participation of schools of architecture and design in Catalonia, including the Escola d'Art d'Olot.

The Montsacopa Volcano is once again present at the Festival, hosting an installation in its crater and two more in its surroundings.

The Teatre Principal d'Olot will also collaborate with Lluèrnia 2024 with "Silent", an immersive and interactive proposal by the Cia. Sargantana that explores the human relationship with silence. The passes will be on the 7th, 8th and 9th of November. On the other hand, Can Trincheria will host the photographic exhibition with images from the 2023 edition, by Joan Gassiot and it can be visited from November 6 to 17.

It is also worth noting the collaborations of other entities, such as the PFI/PTT La Garrotxa. Its students contribute to the installation of installations, the service of Vermut dels Enlluernats or the attention of the information points of the Festival. This year, together with the Municipal School of Expression of Olot and the Official Language School, they contributed to the "Dystopia de 3" installation.

Lluèrnia also collaborates with Càritas Garrotxa, an organization that will offer candles with the Festival logo in order to raise funds.

Finally, the city's old people's homes are also one of the indispensable contributions to the festival's programming, with contributions from the people who live in the spaces of Santa Maria del Tura, Montsacopa, La Caritat and Sant Jaume.

The Festival's catering area will be located near the Cràter Space, thanks to the collaboration of different associations in the city.

The final show will take place on Saturday, November 9 from 11 p.m. in the lot located near the El Morrot School, a large-scale fire installation that will close the Festival and that will have the collaboration of Boom Boom Boom Fire.

Carmen Torres and Pau Sarquella, Hortolans de la Llum - Lluèrnia 2024

Pau Sarquella and Carmen Torres will be the Hortolans de la Llum del Lluèrnia 2024 with the Llar installation. Its installation will be located in Plaça Major.

Home as an enclosure of intimacy, security, calm and comfort; as gathering for warmth, cooking, meeting and reflection; as an enclosure of flames, embers, soot and smoke; as a phenomenological environment of heat, light, penumbra and crackling; as an energetic field of combustion, radiation, refraction and convection.

Sarquella Torres is a multidisciplinary and nomadic architecture studio. They understand their own peripheral location as an opportunity to tangentially explore each assignment. Fleeing a prioriisms and conventions, they have generated a diverse range of projects that maintain a certain coherence in their narrative desire and conversion of the archetypes of the collective imagination into contemporary reinterpretations. They are involved in research and teaching. His way of generating thought is through practice.

'Plant a dream'; first large format installation with direct participation and the collaboration of the Albert Bosch Foundation

"Planta un somni" is the first large-format installation in Lluèrnia in which the people attending will be able to participate live thanks to the collaboration of the Fundation Albert Bosch, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and to contribute to research against childhood cancer.

The installation will propose the challenge of planting more than 15,000 flowers with light during the celebration of the Festival in the grounds of Parc del Mas Serrat, in Morrot, one of the centers of the route

of this year Flowers can be bought in different shops in Olot, online the days before the festival at fundacioabosch.givenow.help/lluernia and in the installation space on the days of the Lluèrnia celebration with a minimum contribution of €1 .

The profits obtained will be allocated to the Albert Bosch Foundation, created in 2004 by Noel Alimentària with the mission of contributing to the well-being and health of people throughout their lives and, for this reason, the foundation encourages the research of medical, biomedical and surgical solutions for childhood diseases, mainly cancer, the leading cause of death in children and adolescents between 5 and 14 years of age in Catalonia.

Lluèrnia, Olot's Festival of Fire and Light, is organized by Lluèrnia Cultural Association, with the support of Olot City Council and the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the collaboration of Cultura de Diputació from Girona. It is part of the Transefímers Network and the Street Arts Platform Association.

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