Rototom festival opens today a week of reggae and debates … – eldia.es

Benicàssim (Castellón), EFE The Benicàssim concert venue opens its doors today to the twenty-first edition of the reggae festival Rototom Sunsplash, which until Saturday will host over 250 concerts and a broad agenda of debates, conferences and round tables on various social issues.

With a 18% increase in ticket sales compared to 2013, the organization expects to exceed this year, the fifth consecutive contest reggae the Castellon town, 240,000 visits Edition 2013, which had an economic impact than fourteen million and created 3,500 jobs.

The Rototom Sunsplash 2014 designed a poster with over 250 actions that will happen in six scenarios for eight days with the Main Stage as a hub.

Highlights figures first level, as the singer and actress Lauryn Hill, first in Spain and exclusively this summer, along Sean Paul, premiering at the festival; Jimmy Cliff, “a living legend who never fails”; or Femi Kuti, the prodigal son of the king of Afrobeat Fela Kuti.

These names are combined with the leading exponents of the new scene that emerged in Jamaica roots reggae, as Chronixx, Jah9 or Jesse Royal.

In addition to the strictly musical section, one of the bets of more media contest goes through its Social Forum, a space for discussion and analysis of current issues to be held from Sunday 17 to Saturday 23 under the theme “Paths Culture and Freedom ‘and will open a tribute to Nelson Mandela.

This “think tank” as defined from the organization said on Wednesday 20 analyze the “slaughter in Gaza” in a paper which bears title ‘Palestine: the failure of the international community’ and which will involve “activists and professionals over the past decades have risked their lives to denounce the policies of segregation and repression suffered Palestine”

. Universal justice, border policy in southern Europe, labor rights, the creative economy, prison model or processes marijuana legalization international focus other discussions of the Social Forum, for which they will names Thubten Wangchen as the Lama in exile in Barcelona and representative of Tibet in Spain, or economist Look Etxezarreta.

Under the motto ‘We have a dream’, the twenty-first edition of the Rototom Sunsplash European Reggae Festival incorporates several new features, such as scheduling the exhibition which will be open from 16-9 hours-and the expansion of activities on the beach.