The President of the Festeros Society, Vicente Pla Vaello, has received from Vicente Soriano Mateo, manager of the Ontinyent Communication Projects company, the publishing company of El Periódico de Ontinyent, a complete collection of the extraordinary supplements edited by the local newspaper from 1996 dedicated to the Moors and Christians of Ontinyent. The delivery has been carried out in the boardroom of the Festeros Society and the director of El…
The problem of gunpowder will be dealt with in the Cortes and in the Diputación Of València
Last Monday, July 29, the president of the Society of Festivities of the Most Holy Christ of the Agony of Ontinyent, Vicent Pla and his vice president, Javier Ureña, met with Felipe Carrasco, regional deputy in the Valencian Courts, and Joan Sanchis, deputy of the Vall d’Albaida in the Diputación de Valencia, to transfer them the problem about the distribution, storage and use of gunpowder during the festive events, as…
The Sociedad de Festeros collaborates with ADIEM
Every year there will be a financial contribution destined to some of the charities of Ontinyent. The Governing Board of the Ontinyent Festeros Society has approved to allocate an economic collection to the association ADIEM, the Association for the defense and integration of the mentally ill. This money comes from the collection made by the Society of Festeros due to the sanctions established in the Eighth Title of the Regulations…
The Sociedad de Festeros organizes a second course of the Powder
It will take place next June 9 in the Assembly Hall of the Society of Festeros. The Society of Festeros of the Santísimo Christ of the Agony along with the City council of Ontinyent have organized a second gratuitous course on the use of muzzle-loading and powder guns that will take place next Sunday, June 9, to the Assembly Hall of the Society of Festeros de 09.00 to 14.00. and…
Graphic media protocol Fiestas 2019
The Festival belongs to the people and to the people, so they present the basis for regulating the work of graphic media during the events of the Festival of Moors and Christians in Ontinyent. Being clear that there is the right to information, we have to put the common eye on mutual respect between people. If the public cannot enjoy the show that is offered, if the party cannot participate…
Canvi data Publicació de Festes
The act moves with full consensus just one month before: June 29 The governing board of the Ontinyent Festeros Society, under the chairmanship of Vicent Pla Vaello, has put forward its first major proposal. In addition, it has done so with the unanimity of the 24 comparsas, who have given their full support to the change of the publication date. This year will move to June 29. The idea, proposed…
Pregoner Festivities 2019
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…
Promotional Video 2019
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…
Ecovidrio Campaign
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…
Misa de Dobla Purísima
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…