Festival d'Arts Escèniques de Pego: date, route and time

El Pego Performing Arts Festival is a current proposal to celebrate Carnival in the municipality. In its origins, it consisted of a long parade through the streets of the town, where several stages were distributed with a musical and dance show on each one. In 2025, the organization has changed to offer the same proposal but in the form of a parade.

Pego Scenic Arts Festival in 2022

When is

El Festival d'Arts Cèniques is celebrated on Carnival dayThe date varies from year to year, but it takes place on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday. That is, the weekend before the start of Lent. Although the celebration in the municipality no longer has anything to do with the religious date, that day is still held as a way of fixing it on the calendar.

Stage in the plaça del Convent de Pego for the Festival d'Arts Escèniques Pego 2022

The Festival d'Arts Cèniques had its first edition in 2020 and due to the coronavirus pandemic, it could not be held in 2021. In 2022 the health situation on the official carnival day prevented its development, but it was finally held at the end of April. This 2025, the Pego City Council has been forced to cancel the Festival due to rain.

Where is celebrated

The Festival d'Arts Escèniques is now conceived to be enjoyed as a parade. Carnival itinerary in 2025 shall be as follows:

• Plaça Jaume I (next to Sant Bonaventura street)
• James I Avenue
• Plaça del Mercat
• Alicante Avenue
• Plaça Antic Regne de València (next to Más y Más)

Schedule and duration

The Festival to celebrate the Pego Carnival starts at 19:00 p.m.The parade will last approximately one and a half hours, according to municipal sources. During the parade, the various dance groups and actors will be performing their acts until the final show in the Plaza Antic Regne de València.

How the Festival d'Arts Cèniques de Pego came about

The Festival d'Arts Cèniques is a relatively new show that Pego has begun to celebrate as a way to revitalize its legendary Carnestoltes. The celebration proposal began to take shape in 2019 and was implemented for the first time in 2020.

Marc Pons with his colleagues at the 2022 Pegolí Festival

Atzaïla associació cultural de Pego turned to the ingenuity of local choreographer and dancer Marc Pons to develop the project proposal. Once everything was designed, the design of the festival was presented to the City Council with the aim of recovering the festive and participatory essence of the Pegolí Carnival.

Mamma Mia stage at the 2022 Pego carnival

Despite being a well-known celebration, the Carnestoltes had become devalued over the years until it was associated with a large nocturnal bottle party that gave a bad image to the municipality. The new proposal became the Festival d'Arts Cèniques that involves children and adults and offers a schedule for all types of audiences.

What is

The event organisers prepare a parade around a central theme, carried out by more than 200 people, including actors, dancers and musicians. The show consists of several dance groups and live music, encouraging the public to join in. In addition, the display houses three main floats.

Once the parade is over, the event culminates with a grand show on the stage of the Plaça Antic Regne in Valencia, where all the participants in the parade offer a joint performance.

Finale of the Festival d'Arts Escèniques in 2022

With this concept, Pego has managed to get closer to the origin of Carnestoltes, which was characterized by the great display of costumes, masks and very elaborate makeup. The first Festival d'Arts Escèniques had a circus theme, the second Hollywood theme, in 2023 it was about traveling around the world, in 2024 it was about children's stories and this 2025 it will be a journey through a girl's dreams through different magical worlds.

Meet the history of the Carnival of Pego and how it was celebrated sus in the beginning.

Institutional

Festival of Performing Arts 2024

Festival of Performing Arts 2023

Festival of Performing Arts 2022

Festival of Performing Arts 2020

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