LANTERN FESTIVAL

🍁🍂Autumn follows its course… in search of a beautiful winter❄️. Behind us is the harvest, which we joyfully celebrated with the Harvest Festival or Saint Michael’s Day at the end of September.

Now autumn brings us other gifts: wind, rain, cold, and, above all, darkness. 🌚The days grow shorter, and although the sun still warms us, we feel the need to wrap up well, stay indoors, and light the fireplace or the heater🔥.

It’s not easy to give up light, warmth, and outdoor play. For this reason, children become more restless and uneasy than at other times of the year.

🕯️The Lantern Festival, also known as Saint Martin’s Day, marks a turning point. We sacrifice the outer light, and now the light shines from inside outwards, from the generosity of the human heart👐🏼 that connects with others, creating a sense of community, belonging👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏾, and illuminating more clearly the path we walk.

🪔The lantern that children carry is a symbol, and the legend of Saint Martin, who gave half of his cloak to the beggar to keep him warm, is an example of generosity.

🌀For this, we invite you to create your lantern at the workshops scheduled on Thursday, the 21th, at 5 pm in the village square in Murla, or to bring one from home, and to place candles or lanterns in the windows and doors of your house.

💠Around 6:30 pm, we will take a half-hour walk through the dark streets, singing together or in silence.

‼️Everyone is welcome to participate in this beautiful celebration that we hope will become a new tradition to celebrate the arrival of winter together‼️

PROGRAM

5:00 p.m. (Church Square)

Lantern and song workshop

Sponge cake and warm chocolate (€3 general public, €2 AMPA members, school children free)

6:30 p.m.

Tour through the streets of the town with the lanterns

SONGS

JO VAIG EN LA MEUA FLAMA
Jo vaig en la meua flama
La meua flama va en mi
Adalt brillen les estreles
Ací la llum sóc jo
Oh, llum, oh, llum
Brilla ben fort
Blau, verd, groc i vermell
(*Se repite esta parte)

DENTRO DE MI

Dentro de mí hay una luz
Que ilumina mi camino
Dentro de mi hay una luz
Que ilumina mi destino
Yo soy… yo soy…
Yo soy…yo soy…
(Se repite)

ARDE LUCECITA

Arde lucecita
Danos mucha luz
Que los días oscuros, ya quieren venir
Arde lucecita
Brilla como el sol
Guía mi camino, por la oscuridad
Arde lucecita
Ya se esconde el sol
Por la noche oscura, voy con mi farol

ARDE EL FUEGO

Arde el fuego, arde el fuego
Dejad vuestras tareas
Unamos las voces
Amigos cantemos
(Se repite todo haciendo canon de voces)