Andorra's Parishes Celebrate Sant Antoni with Escudella, Culture, and Workshops
Traditional escudella soup distributions, children's activities, art workshops, and live music highlight festivities across Andorra la Vella, La.
Key Points
- Escudella distributions: 3,500 portions in Andorra la Vella, markets and mass in La Massana, event in Escaldes-Engordany.
- Children's activities: Portuguese storytelling, dinosaur footprint stamping, shadow puppet workshop with recycled materials.
- Workshops: Tea & Chinese art, 19th-century wet collodion photography, Egyptian mummification rituals.
- Evening: Esbart Lauredià cultural show and Vibrand Music's funk-disco-soul performance.
Andorra's parishes are gearing up for a packed schedule of Sant Antoni festivities and cultural events, highlighted by the traditional escudella soup distributions across multiple locations.
In Andorra la Vella, the Confraria d’Escudellaires, in collaboration with the local Comú, will serve around 3,500 portions of escudella at 1pm in Plaça Guillemó as part of the 57th Escudella de Sant Antoni. Later in La Massana, a mass kicks off at 11am, followed by traditional popular markets at noon and the escudella handout at 1pm in Plaça de l’Església. Escaldes-Engordany joins in with its own escudella distribution at 1pm in Plaça dels Dos Valires.
Cultural performances include a showcase by Esbart Lauredià at 6pm in the vestibule of the Centre Cultural Lauredià in Sant Julià de Lòria, featuring initiation, children's levels 1 and 2, and youth groups.
Children's activities abound. At 10:30am, the Biblioteca Pública de Govern in Andorra la Vella hosts a Portuguese-language storytelling session led by Carina dos Santos, Goreti Escudeiro, and Carla Costa. In Sant Julià de Lòria, the Escola d’Art offers "Following the Trail of Dinosaurs" from 10:30-11:30am and noon-1pm, where participants create dinosaur footprints through stamping techniques. Encamp's MW Museu de l’Electricitat runs a 4pm family shadow puppet workshop using recycled materials, with take-home creations.
Workshops cater to diverse interests. From 10:30am-12:30pm at Museu Casa Rull in La Massana, "Art&Té" explores tea, traditional Chinese painting, and calligraphy with Lovedrinktea and Dolors Vila. A wet collodion photography workshop starts at 10am in the Govern d’Andorra's exhibition hall in Andorra la Vella, delving into a 19th-century process used for expeditions, architecture, and conflicts like the American Civil War. At 5pm, the Centre d’Art in Escaldes-Engordany presents "Funerary Ritual: Preparing for the Beyond," an interactive session on ancient Egyptian mummification, funeral processions, and ancestor worship.
The evening wraps with Vibrand Music's 9pm set at Hotel Sant Gothard in La Massana, blending funk, disco, swing, jazz, pop, and soul.
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