Feria starts this week, on Monday! Feria in Sevilla is a week-long festival. Lots of towns in Andalucía have their own Feria sometime in the spring or summer, but Sevilla's is probably the biggest and best-known.
The bulk of Feria in Sevilla takes place in casetas (tents) located in a big open space in the neighborhood of Los Remedios, which incidentally is very close to my apartment. Each caseta is owned by a group of families or a company, and holders of the casetas invite their friends and family to their caseta during Feria. From what I gather, it's basically a big party with all your friends and family where you eat, drink rebujito (7-Up mixed with white wine), talk, and dance sevillanas, a traditional folk dance from Sevilla.
I'm lucky enough that one of the girls in my lab has a caseta in the family (actually, it's the bank's where her dad used to work), and she invites the people from the lab every year. So, I'll get to experience Feria from the inside! She's also lending me a dress (a typical Feria dress - brightly colored with polka dots, form fitting with lots of ruffles at the bottom) and all the accessories (shawl, flower for your hair, jewelry). For the past week she's also been giving sevillanas lessons to me and another labmate after work, and I've gotten some help also from another Fulbrighter here in Sevilla who's studying flamenco here (and used to teach sevillanas classes in New York!)
Basically I'm super excited for this week. Stay tuned for details. :)
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