ALCUDIA - SANT ANTONI (SANT SEBASTIÀ) 2015

Friday, 16 January (Sant Antoni Eve):
16.30: Departure of Sant Antoni and the demons from the town hall, accompanied by pipers. Procession through the streets.
20.00: Night of bonfires. Plaça de la Constitució (and bonfires elsewhere). One euro for a drink and a plate of botifarró and llonganissa sausage with bread.

Saturday, 17 January (Sant Antoni):
16.30: Traditional blessing of the animals. In front of the church.
19.00: Penya Madridista (Real Madrid supporters) bonfire. Bar Stossi.

Monday, 19 January:
19.00: Bonfire for the Municipal School of Music. Plaça Porta de Mallorca.

Friday, 23 January:
18.30: Bonfire for the Senior Citizens of Alcúdia Association. Placeta de les Verdures.
19.00: Bonfire for the Senior Citizens of Puerto Alcúdia Association. Senior citizens centre.

Saturday, 24 January:
20.30: Penya Blaugrana (Barcelona supporters) bonfire. Bar Las Muralles.
21.00: Gala concert by teenage pop sensation Lorena Ares with the Balearic Islands Youth Orchestra and Los Linces. Auditorium, price 8 euros.

MURO - SANT ANTONI 2015

Sunday, 11 January:
10.00-14.00: Meeting and parade of giants from the Convent to the Plaça Comte d'Empúries plus caparrot big heads and human castle.

Friday, 16 January (Sant Antoni Eve):
09:30: Demons and Sant Antoni set off for visits to local schools accompanied by the Muro pipers Es Reguinyol.
17:00-19.30: Bonfires competition. Judges visit the bonfires, accompanied by the Es Reguinyol xeremier pipers.
19:45: Demons leave the Convent cloister accompanied by the Unió Artística Murera band, pass through squares of the town until arriving by the town hall.
20:15: Demons and Sant Antoni dance in front of the town hall, accompanied by Es Reguinyol xeremier pipers and music band.
20:45: Lighting of the bonfires, fire-run by the demons de Sa Pedrera and fire spectacular.
22.00: Dance music concert by Duo Pacha, Pep Toni and Arco Iris. Senior citizens's rooms.
22.30: Traditional music by Revetla d'Algebelí and Germans Martrorell plus folk dance. In front of the church.
23.30: School of ximbomba. In front of the town hall.
23.30: Rock and contemporary music concert. One Vision, Bubotes, DJ Hermoso. Plaça de Sant Martí.

Saturday, 17 January (Sant Antoni):
11:30: Rockets and then procession with pipers and giants.
12:00: Solemn mass with songs from the Miquel Tortell de Muro choir.
15:00: Gathering and then blessing of the animals.

Sunday, 18 January:
10.00: Trial bike contest and exhibition of mini motos. Sports centre.

POLLENSA - SANT ANTONI 2015

Saturday, 10 January:
20.00: Fire-run with the junior demons of Ca de Bou plus barbecue in the Joan March gardens, Pollensa.
23.30: Fire-run with the demons of Ca de Bou and demons Dragomonis of Andratx. Same location.

Monday, 12 January:
09-13.00: Workshop for traditional instruments. Sant Domingo convent church.

Friday, 16 January:
09.00-13.30: Visits to schools by the Xeremier Orats pipers and the demons Ca de Bou.
18.00: Bonfires competition. Visit by judges and dignitaries, accompanied by the pipers Xeremiers Orats.
19.00: (Puerto Pollensa) Bonfires competition. Visit by judges and dignitaries, accompanied by the pipers Xeremiers Orats.
21.00: Lighting of the bonfires. The demons Ca de Bou light up the evening.

Saturday, 17 January:
09:00: (Puerto Pollensa) Departure by bus from in front of the church (to go to Formentor).
10:00: Traditional parade and blessings.
11:30: Setting off to the Ternelles finca to collect the pine. From the Plaça Almoina.
11:30: (Puerto Pollensa) Traditional parade and blessings.
12:00: (Puerto Pollensa) Arrival of the pine.
12:30: Lunch at Ternelles.
13:30: (Puerto Pollensa) Raising of the pine in the church square.
14:00: Departure of the pine from Ternelles.
19:00: Raising of the pine in Plaça Vella.

Sunday, 18 January:
18.00: Folk dance with the Pollensa farmers' school of dance. Sant Domingo convent church.

Sant Sebastià: Tuesday, 20 January:
19:30: Procession with the image of Sebastian, the standard and mock horses.
21:00: Dance of the offer at the bonfire in the Plaça Major.

Friday, 23 January:
20.00: Meeting of glosadors (folk and satirical verses, poems etc.). Club Pollença.

SA POBLA - SANT ANTONI 2015

Wednesday, 7 January:
17.00: Workshop for painting bandanas. C. Pau 5.
18.15: Workshop for caparrots (big heads). Can Planes musuem.
18.30: Procession of the novena for Sant Antoni. From and to the church.
19.15: Novena for Sant Antoni at the church (repeated daily until 15 January).
20.00: Meeting at the church sacristy of the Obreria de Sant Antoni (the organisation that maintains the church and the traditions of Sant Antoni) with the mayor to, among other things, elect three demons from the town hall to form part of the demons' gang in 2016. Followed by barbecue and evening of gloses (folk and satirical stories) and ximbomba playing.

Thursday, 8 January:
17.00: Workshop for painting bandanas. C. Pau 5.
20.30: Presentation of replicas of the giants Antoni and Margalida, commemorating thirty years of the giants' tradition in Sa Pobla. Followed by the presentation of the second book of gloses. Town hall.

Friday, 9 January:
17.00: Sa Tau (cross) 2015 procession. From the farmers' roundabout through Crestatx to the Plaça Major.
18.30: Workshop for caparrots (big heads). Can Planes musuem.
19.00: Exhibition - "our caparrots". C. Plaça 4.
19.45: Performance and procession by the children who have taken part in the bandanas painting workshops with the demons and batucada d'Albopàs. Leaving from C. Pau 5.
20.00: Exhibition - colours of the Sant Antoni fiesta in contemporary art. Can Planes museum.
20.30: Exhibition - Turris Eburnea by Llorenç Garrit, devoted to landscapes of the Tramuntana mountains. Can Planes museum.
21.00: Concert by Donallop. Sa Congregació, price five euros.

Saturday, 10 January:
12.00: Presentation of restoration of the caparrots, followed by a procession of caparrots from the children's workshop with the pipers Els Xirois. From C. Rosari to the town hall.
15.00: Preparation of myrtle for the enramellada (flower display/decoration) by the Obreria de Sant Antoni. Plaça Alexandre Ballester.
16.00: Tir de Fona 2015 championship of Mallorca. Son Basca school.
16.15: Sa Llego 2015. 7.77km race. Leaving from and returning to Bar sa Sini.
20.00: Exhibition - "Rostres" (faces) Art i Colors. Es Cavallets.
20.15: Concert by the Sa Pobla choir. At the church.
24.00: Demons' fire-run with Dimonis d'Albopàs and Fil-loxera, the demons of Binissalem. Plaça Major.

Plus. From 10 January to 19 January, Mostra Gastronòmica de s'Anguila. Gastronomy devoted to eel dishes at twenty bars, restaurants in the town.

Sunday, 11 January:
17.15: Presentation - "La festa de Sant Antoni". Video celebration of various aspects of the fiesta. Sa Congregació.
17.30: Children's ximbomba competition. Sa Congregació.
18.30: Folk dance with the groups Marjal en Festa and Abeniara from Felanitx. Plaça Major.

Monday, 12 January:
20.30: Conference - "Sant Antoni, 650 anys documentats de celebració a sa Pobla". 650 years of documentary evidence of the fiesta. Historian Rafel Socias Tugores. Sa Congregació.

Wednesday, 14 January:
20.30: Presentation - "Els obrers de Sant Antoni de sa Pobla". Book by Joan Pona i Payeras on works of various types related to the fiesta. Sa Congregació.

Thursday, 15 January:
19.30: Exhibition - "Fuego y Pasión", photographs by Martina Romero. At the Tonite Recording studio.
20.15: Presentation - CD of the hymn of U.E. Poblense (the football team), "Batec Blaugrana". At the church.
21.15: Presentation - book for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sa Pobla choir. Sa Congregació.

Friday, 16 January (Sant Antoni Eve):
09.00: Enramellada flower display and lifting of the arc. Church square.
10.00: Departure of children of the town to gather wood for the church and town hall bonfires. Accompanied by the band of cornets of the Sant Antoni brotherhood.
10.30: Tribute to the Sant Antoni fiesta. Inauguration of a sculpture at the Búger roundabout.
14.30: Departure of the demons and Sant Antoni and procession through the streets and squares of the town.
18.45: Ceremony of the historical sanctioning for the start of Sant Antoni Eve. In front of the town hall.
19.30: Dignitaries and guests reception. Town hall.
19.45: Departure of the paralympic demons of Grif, the demons d'Albopàs, the demons of the Obreria (Sant Antoni) and of the town hall, plus giants, big heads, junior big heads and the Sa Pobla band of music. From the town hall to the church.
20.00: The "Completes" solemn service.
21.15: Dance of the demons de l'Obreria and of the gangs of big heads and junior big heads, accompanied by the Sa Pobla band of music.
21.30: Pyromusical spectacular. Plaça Major.
22.15: Gathering of singers and ximbomba players. Plaça Major.
00.30: Grand ximbombada and glosada - ximbomba playing and reciting/singing of folk/satirical tales, verses and poems. Plaça Major.

Saturday, 17 January (Sant Antoni):
10.00: Procession with the pipers Germans Aloy.
11.30: Solemn mass plus offering of farm produce and dance with Marjal en Festa.
13.00: Dance of the caparrot big heads and young caparrots. Plaça Major.
15.30: Blessing of the animals in the church square with the pipers Germans Aloy and Xerebiols and the giants Antoni and Margalida.
16.00: Parade of floats, accompanied by the band of cornets of the Sant Antoni brotherhood and the demons of the Obreria de Sant Antoni.
17.00: Folk dance. Plaça Major.
18.00: Prizes for floats. Town hall.
18.30: Draw for aspirants to form part of the gangs of caparrots and junior caparrots 2016. Town hall.