'Fataga' meeting of culture and traditions at the Rural Women's Fair

 

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The square shaded by Indian laurels of the picturesque hamlet of Fataga, adorned with garlands of Spanish and Canarian flags, hosted this Saturday the First Rural Women's Fair that the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council launches with the intention of energizing social life, cultural and economic of the midlands of the municipality.

 

 

 

 

The mayor himself, Marco Aurelio Pérez Sánchez, and also the second deputy mayor and councilor responsible for the area of ​​Culture, Elena Álamo Vega, made it clear, moments before paying tribute to the five women of the town who were proposed by the Neighborhood Association: Caridad Moreno Artiles, Pilar Moreno Falcón, Teresa Reyes López, Sarito López Reyes and Clara Cabeza González.

 

“We are doing work to value our towns, our people and the capacity of our territory. It will be carried out on an itinerant basis in the different towns and neighborhoods of the mid-range area,” said the mayor, alluding to the fair project organized in collaboration with the departments of Culture, Equality and Municipal Services. “We have wonderful mediocrities that we have to promote and above all the role that rural women have played in them. This project has been working on for several months with different neighborhood groups. We want this fair to be the beginning of a work that we all have to commit to, because it is about promoting the mediocre and empowering rural women and recovering their figure for what they represent in the tradition of the towns," said the second deputy mayor, who thanked “the involvement of the Fataga Neighborhood Association, which has done a commendable job with its proposals and the boost it has given to this fair,” he stated.

 

The tribute to the five rural women, presented by two young members of the Neighborhood Association, Dara Mejías and Dylan Vargas, who acted as masters of ceremony for the entire festive event, took place in a simple way. It consisted of the delivery to each of them of a handmade wooden plaque, with the anagram of the fair and nominative, silk-screened with the motto "In recognition of their work and social involvement with the people of Fataga."

 

 

 

 

The Fair, with more than twenty stalls selling all types of crafts and gastronomic products from the municipality, began around ten in the morning, enlivened by the traditional chords and dances of the Municipal School of Music and Dance, one of whose dancers, Cristina Rodríguez León asked the mayor himself to dance an isa, who, given so much energy and skill, asked her to do it “slowly.”

 

Oblivious to the heat of the domestic mercury, the festive celebration in Fataga took on a social body as midday progressed. The native families and foreigners residing in the town, some of them for decades, were gradually joined by the sons and daughters of Fataga who migrated to other towns on the Island and also many residents of the town of Tunte and nearby neighborhoods. , as well as numerous tourists arriving from the tourist area of ​​Maspalomas. The square was packed around one in the afternoon, with a musical performance by the Tirajano performer Pedro Afonso.

 

At that time, the four bars and restaurants of the typical hamlet, El Labrador, Los Giles, El Albaricoque and El Fataga, were already abuzz with people, even gathered in family and friendship groups, ready to taste some of the eleven gastronomic proposals in style. of tapas with a drink that were offered at the modest price of three euros.

 

 

 

 

The Fataga Rural Women's Fair, which also featured a workshop demonstrating club fighting, a musical performance by the La Cucaña Folkloric Group and a puppet show for families and children, was valued by the neighborhood president Jorge David Espinosa Vera, as “a 100% positive event for the town, because it generates social, cultural and commercial life that motivates people and involves young people. Due to its energizing effect we would like it to be held once a month. Furthermore, it includes as a unifying element a recognition in life of women who have been a true example for their selfless work as managers of houses, farms and families. I see it very well that it is celebrated in all the towns, because there are women in them who have been very important and we have to have public gratitude towards them,” he stated.