This weekend, the Las Lagunas Theatre was once again dressed up for solidarity with the 'Festival de la Artes y la Poesía' (Festival of Arts and Poetry). It was a charity event in which poetry was the protagonist and whose proceeds were donated to the Lupus Malaga and Autoimmune Association.  Lupus is an autoimmune disease, in other words, the patient's immune system directly attacks its healthy cells and tissues mistakenly, and it is also a pathology that more and more people, especially women, are suffering from. "Lupus is currently undergoing a lot of research because autoimmune diseases are now being studied more, but even so, it is still largely unknown, especially by society in general, because although our symptoms are tiredness and pain in the joints", explained the president of the Lupus Malaga and Autoimmune Association, Pepi Guerrero. 

In order to offer a varied, playful and entertaining show, the poetry reached the public through live music, dance, audiovisual projections, short animated films and rap music. The organiser of this event, María Luisa Morales, said that "the idea came about suddenly because of the things that happen to me in life. My concern was to give more visibility to Mijas art, to artists of all kinds, to poets, because I am a poet, and I thought: how can I make this bigger? And I came up with the idea of doing it at the theatre.

Rubén Darío and Federico García Lorca were some of the protagonists of an afternoon in which there was no lack of emotion. One of the artists, Ángeles Arias, said that "it has been very exciting because it means participating with society, with people affected by lupus, and that creates a feeling of excitement because what you are doing is helping". Morales thanked "all the people who have collaborated with me, who have done so selflessly", such as the artist Cuko Rodríguez, who gave a comic touch to the event. 

The festival, which will soon be shown on the programme Nuestra Tierra on Mijas 3.40 TV, was attended by the councillor of the government team Melisa Ceballos (PP), who said that "it was beautiful and, as I said to María Luisa, it touched everyone's heart to some extent".

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