The title of the show is a reference to the sea of the Atlantic routes which open the exhibition, the sea of the Portuguese and Galician coasts that is so strongly linked to the Portuguese pilgrimage routes to Santiago. And it ends with the open ocean along the Costa da Morte, the physical and symbolic finishing point of the route to Fisterra and Muxía, after reaching Compostela.

Location: Lonja de Fisterra
Address: Rúa Fonte Vella 11. Fisterra. A Coruña

Dates: 5–22 December 2017
Hours: Monday–Friday, 4.30–7.00 p.m.

Organized by: Turismo de Galicia. Xunta de Galicia
In partnership with: Nuestra Señora de las Arenas Fishermen’s Guild of Fisterra

The programming for the Experience the Camino initiative, intended to promote and highlight the English Route and the Fisterra–Muxía Route, will bring music and theatre to the streets and squares of the 27 municipalities that make up these pilgrimage routes of the Way of St. James in the province of A Coruña. Experience the Camino will spread the spirit of the pilgrimage through the performing arts and music during the months of August and September.

The activities will be accompanied by a travelling exhibition about these two routes.

Dous no Camiño (Two on the Camino) is a performance by Fran Rei and Isabel Risco, directed by Avelino González from the text by Roi Vidal and Xurxo Barcala. It depicts two pilgrims walking and discovering the different spots along the English Route and the Fisterra–Muxía Route as they pass through each of the towns on the way. In addition, along the same lines as Dous no Camiño, Fran Rei and Isabel Risco will present another performance, created and directed by them, in municipalities and at some pilgrim hostels, in which they will interact with citizens and people doing the pilgrimage in each location. In this performance, Athanasius and Theodore, the two disciples of St. James who transported his remains to Galicia by sea, find themselves lost following a journey through time lasting several centuries. They are surprised by the elements of modern life they find, while at the same time discovering that the essential aspects of the Way of St. James – its natural surroundings, scenery and monuments – have not changed.

Adding a musical touch to the programme will be the group Caxade, a personal folk–pop project of Alonso Caxade.

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