SANTIAGO SANCHIS MULLOR   Born in Ontinyent in 1970, with a journalistic vocation since he was very young, in 1993 he graduated in Information Sciences from the Faculty of Journalism of CEU San Pablo-Universitat Politècnica de València. Since then he went through different newsrooms to train for the trade: Crónica magazine, the Canarias 7 newspaper of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the news services of Radio Activa in Ontinyent, the…

The City of Ontinyent, on the proposal of the Society of Festeros, has commissioned Jordi Sempere to carry out the video that has to promote the Festival of Moors and Christians of Ontinyent in 2019. Both the mayor of Ontinyent, Jorge Rodríguez, and the president of the Society of Festeros, Vicent Pla, have highlighted the professionalism of Sempere because it will continue to promote the party, in audiovisual format, not…

The Reconquest of Glass, an initiative launched by Ecovidrio, a non-profit entity in charge of managing the recycling of glass containers in Spain, in collaboration with the Generalitat Valenciana, the City of Ontinyent and the Society of Festeros del Santísimo Cristo de la Agonia, recover 6,500 kg of glass containers, equivalent to 24,700 containers, during the festivities of Moors and Christians in the containers assigned to the campaign. This has…

The Society of Festive of the Santísimo Christ of the Agony, headed by its president and accompanied by the positions of 2019 have participated in one of the emblematic acts that mark the calendar of the Patron Saint Festivities dedicated to the Puríssima Concepción, such as the Misa de Dobla in honor of the excellent canonical patron saint of Ontinyent. At the end of the ceremony, the offices of the Moors…

On Saturday, December 15, the president of the Sociedad de Festeros along with the 2019 positions received the retinue of the Aguinaldo de la Purísima. As is already tradition, D. Juan Melchor Seguí Sarrió asked the president of the Society of Festeros: “Songs or Responses?” To which he responded: “Songs, for the joy that supposes to receive here, in the Society of Festeros, La Purísima Concepción. Responses, for the deceased…

Last Monday, December 3, the Municipality of Ontinyent, at the proposal of the Society of Festivals, has commissioned the poster of the Celebrations of Moors and Christians of 2019 to the local designer Miguel Ángel Bonilla Sanchez. Born in 1978, he develops his professional work as a graphic designer and illustrator. He is a member of the Font d’Art Board of Ontinyent. In his artistic side, his pictorial work must be…

Ontinyent City Council, at the proposal of the Society of Festeros, has proceeded to name as Pregoner of the Medieval Market the festive Gusmà Vicente Domingo Tormo Vidal. Festive of Comparsa Gusmans, being Primer Tro in 2008, has been part of the Board of the comparsa for several years, has been a representative on the Board of Government of the Sociedad del Santísimo Cristo de la Agonia by the comparsa…

By means of Decree of Mayorship no. 2954/2018, of November 23, the Most Excellent Municipality of Ontinyent has granted a municipal grant of € 24,000 for the entity’s global activity and patrimonial recovery allowing a surplus to the limit of liabilities reduced in l the 2018 financial year

On Saturday, October 20, in the Assembly Hall of the Society of Festeros, the presentation of the heraldry that will accompany the four comparsas de cargo 2019 took place throughout this exciting year that awaits them. One by one, the images that will represent them this year were discovered by the hand of the charges and were later explained by their authors. The logo of the Asturs was presented by…

By the present, and in accordance with the provisions of articles 2 and 3 of the Electoral Rules, and the second paragraph of article 32 of the Statute of the Society of Festivals of the Holy Christ of Agony, is summoned the EXTRAORDINARY ELECTORAL ASSEMBLY for Sunday 11 November at 09.30h. at first call and at 10:00 a.m. in the second call, which will take place at the Casino of…