The Primavera Sur Craft Fair is held at the Maspalomas Lighthouse from March 15 to 24

Everything is ready for the Gran Canaria Primavera Sur Crafts Fair to launch its thirteenth edition this Friday, March 15, in the vicinity of the Maspalomas Lighthouse, a privileged environment ideal for viewing and supporting the marketing of artisan products. On this occasion, 68 artisans from 16 municipalities of Gran Canaria will meet, offering a sample of 24 artisan trades, of the 87 that make up the Repertory of Craft Trades of the Canary Islands. 

 

Promoted and financed by the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, the Primavera Sur Crafts Fair is supported by the Fund for the Ethnography and Development of Canarian Crafts (Fedac), an autonomous body attached to the Ministry of Economic Development, Industry, Commerce and Craft; and is organized by Infecar, Gran Canaria Fair, and the collaboration of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council. 

 

 

“A total of 68 artisans from the island of Gran Canaria, 16 municipalities, specifically, and 24 trades will meet from March 15 to 24 around the Maspalomas Lighthouse to celebrate the Primavera Sur Crafts Fair. A fair aimed at tourism that gathers at this time on the island of Gran Canaria to show this product linked to our culture," said Minerva Alonso, Minister of Economic Development, Industry, Commerce and Crafts of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, who also has made an invitation to “local citizens to take a walk through the south and support our crafts, the crafts of Gran Canaria.” 

 

Thus, the Gran Canaria Primavera Sur Crafts Fair will be held between March 15 and 24 from 10.00:19.00 a.m. to 68:XNUMX p.m., with XNUMX artisans who will show their ceramic creations; ceramics and modeling; leather goods; fabric decoration; jeweler's; macrame; needle; Dressmaker; glassworks; patchworks; toy store; miniatures; recycling of materials; traditional carpentry; chandlery; cabinetmaking; blacksmithing, forging and locksmithing; soap making; dolls; doll maker and dressmaker; wood turning; paper and paperboard; cigars and printing and engraving. 

 

 

 

In relation to their origin, the participants of this thirteenth edition land at the Maspalomas Lighthouse arriving from 16 of the municipalities of Gran Canaria, with 29 from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; nine from Agüimes; six from San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Telde; three from Santa Lucía de Tirajana; two from Ingenio, Santa Brígida, Santa María de Guía and Teror; and one from Agaete, Arucas, Firgas, Gáldar, Mogán, Moya, and Valsequillo.

 

Dynamization program

 

Added to the commercial offer of the artisans present in this edition, the Gran Canaria Primavera Sur Crafts Fair will have a program of activities for the two weekends in which the fair takes place. 

 

 

On Friday the 15th, starting at 11.30:17 a.m., there will be a musical performance by Abraham Ramos and Juan Sebastián Ramírez, with the timple as the protagonist; while on Sunday the 12.30th, the fair will feature a carnival parade from XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. 

 

For the following weekend, on Friday the 22nd, at 12.30:23 p.m., there will be a musical performance by the Trío Con-Trastres; and on Saturday the 12.30rd parade of textile products and accessories made in Gran Canaria, at 17.00:XNUMX p.m. and XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.

 

 

 

Likewise, the fair also has a live crafts space, in which the participants of this event will be the protagonists, showing how they make their products. 

 

Details of the program, as well as the artisans participating in this thirteenth edition of the Gran Canaria Primavera Sur Craft Fair, can be found at feriasartesaniagrancanaria.es