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On Thursday October 21 opened the twenty-third edition of Marraco of painting, sculpture and pottery that organized and promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Department of Justice and the Prison Ponent (Lleida), meets annually in municipal exhibition Sant Joan, in the heart of the capital of Segriá, the best work done by inmates in prisons in Catalonia, Andorra and France.

Jumilla Templar Association goes for the second consecutive year, invited by the Ministry of Justice of the Catalan autonomous government responsible for their prisons, according to reports from this group.

We have contributed to the coal shows the work entitled "The Templar Arango" the Colombian Edwin Arango Henao, who is serving detention in the prison of Zuera (Zaragoza) and since 2006 active in the Phoenix Project of the Templars Jumilla reserved for prison populations at risk of marginalization and social exclusion.

Arango, by design of the Templars, since 2006 holds the position of Commander of Arts of the Templars of Jumilla in Zuera penitentiary where she teaches painting to a group of inmates.

Jumillano Templar Association, represented by the Grand Master and President, Joseph Thomas i Galea, has informed the prison authorities Catalan National Exhibition of Fine Arts Prisoners 2010 will travel to Barcelona in 2011 where it will be exposed to the public Barcelona closing the cycle activities shall be included in the agenda of the Eighth Crusade Cultural Templar Jumilla Bailiwick for the year 2011, which also is part of the Phoenix Project, and that "to get a funding minimum is the hope of taking on different scenarios Spanish and Catalan geography to make known to the public the work of inmates that are developed in the areas of culture of prisons and try to give them an outlet as a further incentive to energize the self-esteem and admitted involvement, "say .

In this work, as guests, plus the school Jumillano rural school Cañada del Trigo and likewise the works of Jumillano Marhuenda and Francisco José Abellán Martínez (mayor of Jumilla and Senator of the Kingdom) present in the Exhibition Prisoners of the National Fine Arts 2010, pictorial displays that last September was presented in the exhibition hall of the Social Work CAM Jumilla which participates in the abovementioned project.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla