From 9th to 11th June 2017
Sant Feliu de Guíxols
FRIDAY 9th JUNE
8.30 pm. OPENING SHOW
Itinerary: Monastery, c/Hospital, Placeta Sant Joan, Rambla A. Vidal, Passeig del Mar
Actua Produccions - Parade, circus, giant puppets in the streets (TP)
This performance is created for the Explica'm, 2nd Tale Fair inauguration. Live music, jugglers and lots of magic to start a weekend full of tails.
9.30 pm. FIREWORKS
On the beach
Pirotècnia Valenciana - Fireworks (TP)
These fireworks combine rhythm, colour, sound and shapes that will lead us to the magic corners of the imagination. It's a story that can be differently interpreted but always has a happy ending.
11.00 pm. A TOT GAGS!
Casa Irla (c/ Algavira, 65-69)
Cia. PuntMoc - Mime/Humour (TP)
The receipt that PuntMoc use is humour and rhythm: things that are transformed, highways on the stage, a silent musical... and laughs. Plenty of laughs. It's a story that gets speed and energy every second. Don't believe all that your eyes see! All can change anytime and turn into what you don't expect. But it doesn't matter.
SATURDAY 10th JUNE
From 10am to 8pm. TALE FAIR
Town Centre
You will find book stalls, illustrators and craftsmen with products related to the tales in the town centre.
From 10am to 8pm. MILAN creativity space
Placeta Sant Joan / c/ Hospital
It's a space to let creativity run thanks to this well-known brand of school material. Children will have the time to colour the Explica'm characters, paint a huge mural, use finger paints, paintbrushes, coloured chalks...
From 10am to 8pm. EL PESCADOR DE NÚVOLS
Ctra. Girona – C/ Garrofers
El Pescador de Núvols - Workshop (+4)
Price:3€
Come and play with the toy proposed in this workshop. It's a wooden cane and a helium balloon that are connected with a 15 metres long thread. It's a kite that always flies, a balloon that never gets lost.
10.30am & 12.30 pm. LA REPÚBLICA DELS CONTES
c/ Penitència stairs
Cia. Jordi Font - Storytelling (+5)
You will find an incredible place in the República dels Contes, that sometimes appears and disappears. It's a place full of magic and freedom where any story can come true. You will discover plenty of love stories, adventures, wars, happiness, fear, fantasies... together with climbing geese, patient princesses, artist fishes, giant snakes and incredible flowers.
11.15 am. TRAMUNTANADA DE CONTES by La Fada Iris
Placeta Sant Joan
Tramuntana Editorial - Storytelling (TP)
Fada Iris lives in a magic world and she'll lead us to a place full of fantasy and illusion through her tales.
11.30 am. EL PETIT LILO
Itinerary: Town Hall, Passeig del Mar, Rambla A. Vidal, Placeta Sant Joan
Actua Produccions - Giant puppet in the streets (TP)
Petit Lilo is a huge puppy full of energy and very naughty. You'll find giant toys, soap bubbles, music and doggy mischief. Petit Lilo is going to be a family performance full of surprises.
12 pm. Story Time THE LITTLE PIGS
Especiers/Notaria streets
Robin School - Storytelling/Workshop (TP)
The classic "Three little pigs" will be told with the concurrence of the public, children and adults. There's no need to speak English. Afterwards, all the family will be able to play "Snakes and ladders" board game.
4.30 pm. Story Time THE WORLD’S WORST WITCH
C/ Sant Joan
Kids & US - Storytelling/ Workshop (TP)
Lily is learning how to be a witch like her mother, but her skills aren't good. She doesn't know how to put spells or prepare potions and she is not good in flying with a broomstick. How will she manage to be a good witch?
5.30 pm. DOLCE VITA!
Narcís Masferrer Theatre
Mag Lari - Magic (TP)
Tickets sale at the Tourist Office and at www.codetickets.com (Price: 8 € per person)
Look at the sky and you'll see something that flies with an umbrella. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nooo. It's Mag Lari!! And he is coming with a new family performance: Dolce Vita.
Dolce Vita is the performance of your life! It's an hour and a half full of visual magic and you'll take part in it. You'll want to repeat. Don't wait for someone to tell you!!
17.30 pm. Tale presentation LA CLAU
Old Hospital (c/Hospital, 33-35)
Tramuntana Editorial - Storytelling/ Presentation (TP)
In charge of their authors, Susanna Peix (text) and Cristina Serrat (illustration). Presentation by Tramuntana editorial.
Ferran was the best blacksmith of the kingdom. One morning, while he was working with the red-hot branding iron, three soldiers came into his workshop. He had to urgently see the king. I need one of your keys - the king required him- I need a key that opens the golden cage where the princess' heart is locked.
6 pm. SCARY TALES
Toy History Museum (Rambla Vidal, 48-50)
Toy History Museum - Storytelling (+8)
For children from 8 years old. If you like mysterious stories and surprising endings, you can't miss it! Afterwards, there will be a visit to the scary tunnel of the Toy Museum.
6 pm. THE CODE
Safareigs del Puig
Cocolisto - Escape Room (+10)
A previos registration at the Tourist Office is required.(Price: 5 € per person)
Doctora Albertí, an important researcher, has disappeared. Her priceless works about the evolution of the human race up to the posthuman are locked in a deposit box. In the aim to opening it, a self-destruction mechanism has been activated. Will you be able to come into Doctora Alberti fascinating world and recuperate her works?
6.30 pm. Tale presentation EL DRAC PASQUAL DESCOBREIX L’ANTÀRTIDA
C/ Sant Pere
Edicions El Pirata - Storytelling/ Workshop(TP)
Pasqual dragon, which is not very good in spitting fire, has gone to the Antarctica. He will meet the animals that live there and he'll help them not to get cold.
This is the first book by Max Olivetti, from the collection El drac Pasqual descobreix el món. Afterwards, bookmarks creative workshop with the characters of the story.
7.00 pm. GIANTS MEETING
Itinerary: Starting in the Market square.
Colla Gegantera Ganxona - Giants (TP)
It's one of the most important giants and big-heads meeting with the assistance of different Catalan groups. At 6pm all the giant will be standing in the Market square and then, they'll walk though the town centre.
7.30 pm. Tale presentation EN XERRIC, L’ESCARBAT MÉS EIXERIT
Old Hospital (C. Hospital, 33-35)
History workshops- school year 2016/2017 - Storytelling/ workshop (TP)
By Assumpta Mercader (from the tale by M. Àngels Suquet and Rosa Rourich during the History workshops of the school year 2016-2017: “The cork industry in Sant Feliu de Guíxols”).
En Xerric is a capricorn beetle who lives in the bark of a cork oak. He has the best life you can't imagine and lives with his friends Lia, the ant and Joan, the beetle. But one day, some men appeared and took the bark with the three friends to a cork factory. Afterwards, cork workshop.
8pm. EL GRAN LLIBRE DE LES HISTÒRIES IMAGINADES DE LES TRADICIONS
Placeta Sant Joan
Fundació Antigues Caixes Catalanes i BBVA CX - Storytelling/workshopr (TP)
Children will listen to traditional stories and will take part in the creation of a new book, in which they'll create new stories about traditions. The performance, a combination of storytelling and creation, will be lead by Parauleta Piruleta fairy who will bring this magic book together with a suitcase full of spells.
9.15 pm. ENFILA S.A.
Market square
Cia. Espampades - Circus (TP)
It deals with the story of two women of the fifties, who works at a textile factory. They weave the story of their lives among threads, bobbins, noise and the smells of the machines. Two stories that are very different each other. It's a homage to all the women that did not break the thread of their lives in difficult times.
10.30 pm. TALES AND OTHER NIGHT STORIES
Meeting point: Monastery. Places: cemetery and Monastery gardens.
Collective - Tales for adults (+16)
Modern scary and mysterious tales for young people and adults in places that will give you goosebumps: the cemetery and the Monastery gardens.
SUNDAY 11th JUNE
From 11am to 1pm. L’ESTRANY VIATGE DEL SR. TONET
Puig square
Cia. Tombs Creatius - Giant games (TP)
Since we knew details from Mr. Tonet's life, we can't stop thinking about him and the fantastic stories that had happened to him. We met him by chance and he was a great discovery. He was a fascinating man that we want to share with everyone. We have built some of his stories. We made them with waste materials - wood, old furniture- and other tools we found in a waste centre. We have built games to let you know part of Mr. Tonet's trips.
11.30am i 12:30 pm. MANNEKEN’S PISS
Puig square
Campiquipugui Produccions - Theatre in the streets (TP)
The time to inaugurate a new fountain of the town has come. Bronze, light and water and very special statues that apparently don't move. Wordless show by Toti Toronell, that plays with the maks language and a humour that remind the comedy of the absurd. Realism and superrealism; aesthetics, movement, surprises and interaction with the audience.
12 pm. Book presentation SEBASTIÀ I EL MAR
Safareigs del Puig
Editorial Kireei - Storytelling/Workshop (TP)
By the illustrator, Coaner Codina; editorial Kireei, text by Caterina Pérez.
He doesn't tell anybody what he does there, but Sebastià, descendent of a fishermen family, comes into the woods every single day. His father is worried for the weird behaviour of his son, who doesn't get close to the sea.
5pm. RATS!
Itinerary: c/ Major, Rambla A. Vidal and Placeta Sant Joan
Campiquipugui Produccions - Street performance (TP)
They come from everywhere: jump from the trees, come out of the sewers, trash bins and meet in the middle of the street in broad daylight... They don't hide and are huge. They have taken the town and there is no useful rat poison. Only one person can solve the problem: a flute player who comes from a far country. However, they look like funny rats!
6pm. CLOSING EVENT: HOT CHOCOLATE
Placeta Sant Joan
Associació Guíxols Comerç i Turisme
As a closing event of a weekend full of tales and magic experiences, the Guíxols comerç i turisme Association will offer hot chocolate for everyone.
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Special offers of the companies that are certified as Family Beach Destinations
PARC AVENTURA
Carretera de Sant Feliu a Tossa, km 42.1
637 43 15 77
www.parcaventurasantfeliu.com
Robin Hood tale: You must have a good aim with shotguns that shoot colour balls and try to reach the apples that will hang in the trees. If you do it, you'll get a 2x1 ticket for the Parc Aventura.
MUSEU DE LA JOGUINA
Rambla Antoni Vidal, 48-50
972 82 22 49
www.museudelajoguina.cat
Scary tales on Saturday at 6pm. Half and hour of tales and half and hour to visit the Terror Room. Free activity.
MARINA DE S'AGARÓ / DIVE DIFFERENT
Parc de les Dunes - Platja de Sant Pol
650 83 82 09
https://sagaroexperience.com/
Treasure hunt! We’ll leave from the beach with a small boat. We’ll pass through the most beautiful spots and coves of the coast to reach the “Cap de mort”. It’s a rock in the shape of a skull that is placed in a hole at 20m high in a cliff. We’ll go ashore at a small beach where we’ll bathe and get involved in a treasure hunt in a cave. You’ll play the pirate family for a day!
BRAVAMAR
Passeig del Fortim, s/n
667 76 91 80
www.bravamar.net
Treasure hunt of the Bluebeard pirate - route with individual or double kayaks thought the coral coast playing a treasure hunt of the well-known Bluebeard pirate. We'll pass through rocks, smalls caves and hidden coves where Bluebeard hid his treasures. Children under the age of 14 years old FREE (maximum 1 child for adult); Adults 24€. Teenagers between 14 and 18 years old 18€. The activity will last from 2.30h to 3h approximately. Starting at 11am.
PARC ATRACCIONS GIRAVOLT
Jardins Juli Garreta, s/n
630 07 33 25
Other associates
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ACCOMMODATION
Special offers of the accommodation companies that are certified as Family Beach Destination
HOTEL DEL MAR
C/ Sant Ramon, 43-45
972 32 08 41
www.hoteldelmar.es
10% discount for direct bookings. Families with 2 children or more, one child free. Room for four people at the price for three.
APARTAMENTS MERCEDES
Passeig Marítim del President Irla, 24
972 32 16 84 / 650 74 43 54
www.marmuntanya.com
Special price per apartment, 100€/night. It is required 4 people and 2 night minimum. You must reserve at 972 32 16 84
BUNGALODGE SANT POL
C/ Doctor Felming, 118-134
682 62 79 00
www.campingsantpol.cat
Raffle: 3 novels (La Jardinera Rondinaire, El Broc Màgic i El tresor perdut de Pakamotu) among all the Catalan families that stay at a bungalow during the weekend of the fair.
Other associates
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RESTAURANTS
Special offers of the restaurants that are certified as a Family Beach Destination.
EL PETIT POL - BUNGALODGE SANT POL
C/ Doctor Fleming, 118-134
682 62 79 00
www.campingsantpol.cat
LA GAVIOTA
Rambla Antoni Vidal, 40
972 32 46 14
www.barlagaviota.com
LA LOCANDA DI NONNA FLO
Plaça Sant Pere, 1
972 82 08 03
www.lalocandadinonnaflo.com
CAN NADEU
C/ Sant Domènec, 5
972 32 27 33
www.cannadeu.com
SA MARINADA
Av. del Fortim, s/n
972 32 38 00
www.samarinada.com
MARABÚ
Pg. del Mar, 35
972 32 10 23
www.restaurantmarabu.com
LAS DUNAS - HOTEL BARCAROLA
C/ Pau Picasso, 17-19
972 32 69 32
www.barcarola.com
Other associates
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