This is a series of activities aimed at all ages and 36 workshops for schools to disseminate the meaning of the festival beyond the costume parade.
The Consell de Mallorca is launching an informative campaign on Mallorca’s traditional festival: ‘Darrers dies i Quaresma’. The initiative, which is being carried out through the Mallorca Literary Foundation, is made up of a series of activities aimed at all audiences and 36 workshops for educational centres to disseminate the meaning of the festival beyond the costume parades, at a time when Lent is about to begin, days that invite reflection, once the festivities of the winter cycle have come to an end.
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The Consell de Mallorca launches the campaign ‘Darrers Dies i Quaresma’ (Lent and Lent)
The vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca and councillor for Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, stressed that the island’s institution works throughout the year to raise awareness of Mallorca’s traditions in a modern context, through original activities and proposals in different areas that bring knowledge of the island’s traditional heritage to all audiences: ‘The didactic and activity proposal of this cycle ‘Darrers dies i Quaresma’, which we are kicking off today, is made up of several sessions in which the uses and customs of yesteryear are related to the educational values of today, such as recycling and the reuse of materials when making costumes and popular instruments, among others.’
Through the Fundación Mallorca Literaria, 36 sessions will be held in educational centres, in a total of 20 schools on the island, reaching a total of 866 pupils. These activities aim to introduce the concepts, rituals and elements that make up the celebrations of the last days before Lent through theoretical and practical proposals adapted to each educational cycle.
The campaign offers two types of activities for the general public. On the one hand, the workshop: ‘Voleu fresses? Feim festa pels Darrers Dies’ , for children between 7 and 12 years old, and another for adults: “En parlam: les festes del cicle d’hivern”, a talk to discover and reflect on the roots and meaning of the festival.
Darrers dies i Quaresma
From Christmas Day to Easter Sunday there is almost 14 weeks divided into two opposite cycles. We are referring to the seven weeks between Christmas and Ash Wednesday and the following seven weeks that make up what is known as Lent.
Carnival is the period immediately before Lent, the six days before Ash Wednesday, and for this reason it is also popularly known as ‘Darrers Dies’.
Lent comprises the forty days between Carnival and Palm Sunday, beginning on Ash Wednesday. It is the period of abstinence that commemorates the forty days that Jesus Christ, according to the biblical passages, spent in the desert fasting and overcoming the three temptations to which he was subjected by the devil.
All the activities of the cycle ‘Darrers Dies i Quaresma’ can be consulted at mallorcaliteraria.cat