Maspalomas will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Carnival with 'Alegría'

 

'Alegría' is the title of the poster that will announce the celebration of the Maspalomas International Carnival 2024 dedicated this year to 'Television Memories'. The mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Marco Aurelio Pérez; and the Councilor for Tourism, Celebrations and Events, Yilenia Vega, discovered the winning poster next to the Maspalomas Lighthouse with presenter Roberto Herrera as master of ceremony. 

 

 

The author of the work is Rubén Lucas García, a native of Murcia, and he participated in the competition to which 20 designs aspired that played with the theme chosen by popular vote and in which representative elements of Maspalomas were combined, such as the Lighthouse or the Maspalomas Dunes, with direct allusions to programs, series and characters that are part of the history of television. As the mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana pointed out, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the celebration of the Maspalomas International Carnival, which began in 1974. This date (the '70s) is also linked to the birth of historical programs of the television like 1,2,3 answer again; Chronicles of a Town or Man and the Earth... for this reason this year, "the theme of our Carnival in its 'Golden Anniversary' will also serve to remember those programs that marked the history of television and that we remember as part of our culture,” Pérez highlighted. 

 

 

Precisely, detailed the Councilor for Tourism, Celebrations and Events, Yilenia Vega, the winning poster plays with this binomial, the Carnival and the importance of Television, “two elements that have merged perfectly over the years being the tele the support through which our most international celebration has been disseminated.” Vega apologized on behalf of the author of the work who could not travel to Maspalomas so that he himself could talk to us about the poster, and who describes the work as “a representation of the importance of television in the dissemination of the carnival from Many years ago". On the poster “we find a large hat that is also a curious television. A work that combines the memory of the years spent at carnival with the closest present. A clear, clean and simple work but with a high conceptual content, which brings freshness, color, joy and fun to the 2024 carnival,” the author described in his memorandum.

 

 

To choose the poster, there was a Jury made up of the Councilor for Celebrations and Events, Yilenia Vega, as president of the Qualifying Jury and six personalities and professionals related to the world of entertainment and Carnival. The group of professionals had to choose between the 20 posters that the Technical Secretariat of the contest received from Gran Canaria (5), Tenerife (3), Madrid (2), Navarra (2), Murcia (2), Seville (1) , León (1) and Argentina (1). 

 

Yilenia Vega recalled that the celebration of the Maspalomas International Carnival 2024 will be from March 7 to 17, and encouraged “everyone to participate in this party that this year has a theme that is very interesting because we have all wanted to be that character at some point.” of television, and in 2024 with a little glitter and imagination they will be able to become whoever they want," concluded the mayor of Tourism, Celebrations and Events.