Bejeque and Sol y Viento offer the show 'Identidad Canaria' this Saturday at the Víctor Jara
The Bejeque Group and the Sol y Viento band will join together this Saturday, May 25, on the stage of the Víctor Jara theater to represent the show 'Identidad Canaria', within the program of events on the occasion of Canary Islands Day organized by the Santa Lucía City Council . Until May 30, talks, round tables and concerts continue to be held that will culminate on the same Thursday, Canary Islands Day, with games, workshops and native sports activities in the pedestrian area of Avenida de Canarias, where a concert will take place at night. The Gofiones.
This Friday at 17 p.m. an exhibition of shawls opens at the Sardina cultural agency. On Saturday, May 25 at the La Zafra Museum at 10 in the morning, Jorge Guzmán will give the talk 'Influence of the traditional clothing of Gran Canaria in America'. On Tuesday, May 28 at 18 p.m., in the Nelson Mandela room of the Víctor Jara theater, the Professor of Human Geography at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will address the presentation 'Migratory processes and transnational links in the socioeconomic development of the Canary Islands'. In the same place at 19 p.m. there will be the round table 'We are because we were: experiences of migrations between the Canary Islands and the world', in which Canary Islanders who emigrated to other countries and people who come from other countries and reside in the municipality, the table will be moderated by journalist Juan G. Luján.
The deadline is still open until May 25 to submit texts to the short story contest, with this year's motto 'Canary Islands here and there'. The exhibition 'Photographs of emblematic landscapes of the Canary Islands along with portraits of migrants' continues in the Lola Massieu and A. Janina exhibition hall until June 8.
In the municipal libraries, workshops on Canarian pintaderas made with clay will be held, teaching the techniques used by the ancient Canarians. They will be at 18 p.m. on May 27 and 28 in the libraries of La Orilla, Doctoral, Cruce de Sardina and Casa Pastores and on May 29 in La Orilla and Cruce de Sardina.
On Wednesday, May 29 and Thursday, May 30, the Craft Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 22 p.m. in the pedestrian area of Avenida de Canarias. Also on Wednesday, May 29 in the Plaza de Los Algodoneros at 20 p.m. there will be Cuban Points Night with Yeray Rodríguez and his musicians, and at 21.30:18 p.m. Yamiley Cruz and Mariachi Peleón will perform. Before these performances, at XNUMX p.m. the Amor Canario Folklore Group and students from the Municipal Music School will perform.
On May 30, Canary Islands Day, there will also be traditional family games on Avenida de Canarias, led by Gato Engrifao, Exhibition of Native Games and Sports, with club play, plow lifting, shepherd's jump or stone lifting. from La Revoliá. The activities will be throughout the day and will culminate at 20 p.m. with 'Los Gofiones. Tour 55 years in Concert' in the Plaza de Los Algodoneros.
On Friday, May 31, in the Santa Lucía Casco park there will be traditional Canarian family games in the afternoon, led by Gato Engrifao, and from 19 p.m. Taifa dance with the Parranda del Cura, Parranda La Polvajera and the Corporal Cultural Association of Dance Santa Lucía de Tira-Jana.
