There is nothing that rejuvenates the soul so much as making others smile. And the Circ Cric knows it. For this reason, for thirteen consecutive springs, except for the pandemic vacuum, he has been filling Montseny with acrobatics and humor with his most colorful characters. This year, in addition, they will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their NGO Pallassos Sense Fronteres.
Riure per viure, two words so similar and in turn with such divergent meanings, encompass the thirteenth edition of the circus from April 14 to June 10, which will take place in Sant Esteve de Palautordera.
This year Circ Cric is celebrating. It is now 30 years that his entity, Pallassos Sense Fronteras, has brought his most innocent and pure humor to the hearts of children who are in places of conflict.
During its thirteenth edition, the house of clowns will raise funds for the NGO through a series of activities, including a 12-hour gymkhana of soul and reggae that takes the name of Sound System, which in turn will close the festival on 10 of June. A full-fledged “festassa”, according to the organizers.
The party will feature special interventions by house artists such as Senyor Oca
The environment, as well as music, is an element that characterizes this year’s edition. And the Circ Cric has wanted to bring the nature of Montseny closer to the public through El bosc també és un circ, “a route to learn to discover things about nature that we did not know about”, details the clown and director Montserrat Trias. Every Sunday, before each show, there will be a walk along the banks of the Tordera river.
Following the same concept, the festival’s infrastructure has opted for sustainability through the generation of electricity through solar panels. “We are in a process in which society is moving us away from nature. We do not know how to distinguish an oak from a holm oak,” emphasizes the clown and festival director, Tortell Polltrona.
Since 1996, the Circ Cric has programmed circus days for schoolchildren during school hours year after year, where more than 300,000 schoolchildren from Catalonia and special education groups have participated. As a novelty, this year they have programmed A day at Circ Cric, with days on two Sundays that will compress all the educational activities for the public.
This edition will offer an afternoon of swing by one of the musical icons of traditional Catalan swing and jazz, Dani Alonso, who will bring Apolo Jumpers and Professor Chunningham and his Old School, along with DJ Llamàntol during Swing al Circ.
In collaboration with the Palautordera City Council, the Circ Cric has ensured that the festival has the maximum projection both in Vallès Oriental and throughout the Catalan territory, while the circus continues to maintain its economic self-sufficiency. “We remain faithful to the fact that the more dependent culture is, the more real it will be,” defends Polltrona.
