The increasingly popular Parees Festival is back this Saturday in its hometown Oviedo for its second edition. The festival will be held all throughout September, bringing together artists of national and international renown.
The program includes the participation of Twee Muizen, Colectivo Licuado, Alfalfa, Andrea Ravo, Kruella d’Enfer, Xav and many others.
With the intent of bringing urban art closer to all audiences, the festival also organises free activities, such as bike routes and graffiti and mural art workshops aimed at children and seniors.
The Parees Festival combines a global spirit with a local vocation, linking its activities to the territory through participatory processes in which citizens intervene in the transformation of their environment.
The festival, organised by the Municipal Culture Foundation, is a cultural and social event that aims to promote dialogue and, intervene and improve the environment through urban art. This year, the city will expand its public heritage with new interventions in partition walls and walls in a program that also includes free and participatory activities, such as bike routes and graffiti workshops for different audiences.
Mural interventions
The walls narrate the history of cities and build the symbolic identity of their inhabitants, therefore, artistic interventions mean both an opportunity to enhance social bonds in the public space as well as improving the environment. The 2018 Parees Festival will gather outstanding national and international artists in Oviedo in order to create different pieces that will be added to the works made during the festival’s first edition, thus expanding the urban art heritage of the city.
The Parees Festival will count with a series of activities for all ages including seniors.On Sunday, September 30th, there will be another experimental graffiti workshop for children and it will be held by Lainopia Educación Artística. And designed for a family audience, for the second time, The Parees Festival organizes the ‘drift through the murals’, a bicycle route to see up close some of the interventionsmade during the first and second editions of the festival.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
