This Saturday, the Cultural Center hosts the children's and family play "Presente"

Benidorm Cultural Centre Auditorium will host a play aimed at children and families this Saturday, October 11th, as part of "Benidorm Cultural" program organised by the Department of Culture. The performance is "Presente" by artist Mireia Miracle, winner of the 2017 Circaire Award, the 2018 Zirkólika Emerging Artist Award, and the nominations for Best Street Show and Best Clown Show for her debut work, "Rojo," for which she also received the "Recommended Show" seal of quality from Redescena.

The performance will begin at 6:00 p.m., as highlighted by the Councilor for Culture, Jaime Jesús Pérez, who invited Benidorm residents and visitors, especially those with children at home, to "come and enjoy this theatrical experience led by an artist whose work revolves around peace, humanity, and hope for a better world, three essential ideas in today's society."
Tickets to attend this performance as an audience are still on sale at www.vivaticket.es for €3.

"Presente" is the third solo work in artist Mireia Miracle's trilogy, created almost entirely with recycled plastic bags, as a tribute to all the children around the world who live among the trash. The project stems from the pedagogy of Moisés Mato's "El Baúl Mágico" and goes a step further, transforming the process of childhood symbolic play into a theatrical proposal. This pedagogy is based on playing with objects and the ability to construct other fantastical realities through simple materials. In this case, with thousands of recycled plastic bags, it is thus immersed in the theme of waste and the reality of the existence of plastic islands.

In this production, the viewer is shown a clown-girl who lives on a plastic island. Every day she wakes up and sets out on her journey, collecting objects that can serve as a lifeline. One morning, she finds, among the trash, a huge box with a ribbon. It is a gift, a present. What she finds inside will forever change the way she sees things. Because what we call trash can be a treasure for other people.

"Presente" is a profound reflection on our world and what we do with it, on the future of our children, and on our present, which is the most precious gift we have.