The City Council of Tacoronte has programmed an extensive calendar of cultural and leisure activities for the Christmas season, which will last until January 5 and whose development is designed for people of all ages and for residents in all neighborhoods of the municipality. The bulk of the programming organized by the Department of Culture and Festivities will begin tomorrow, December 10, at 6:00 p.m., when the municipal Bethlehem portal will be inaugurated in the Market, with the musical performance of the Los Tagorosteros group.
On Saturday, at the Capitol Auditorium, Komba Producciones will stage La Casita de los Cuentos. And on Sunday, December 12, it will take place, between 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., a novel experience in the municipality, which consists of a day of coexistence, in which residents of the neighborhoods of Tagoro, San Juan, El Pris and Mesa del Mar will participate. The meeting will take place on the Tagoro sports field. At 12:00 hours, in the Plaza del Cristo, the Santa Cecilia Musical Group will perform.
On Tuesday, the 14th, and on Friday, the 17th, at 6:00 p.m. at the Casa de la Cultura the books by Luis Valbuena will be presented; and Living Living, by Enrique Acosta, Tachi Izquierdo and Pablo Rodríguez. On Friday of next week, at 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., the Capitol Auditorium will take place performances from the School of Music, which will be produced again on Saturday, the 18th. At 8:00 p.m., at the Medina Cinema, Viñátigos Centenarios, Nuestra Señora de Fátima and Tabajaras will perform. At 20:00, in the sanctuary of Christ, the 25th edition of Christmas Carols with Guarache will take place.
On Sunday, December 19, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., a new day of neighborhood coexistence, this time in the upper area, with a meeting of Barranco de las Lajas, Agua García, La Luz and Camino La Cuesta , in the sports facility of the iInstitute of Barranco Las Lajas.
On Monday, the 21st, at 5:00 p.m., the film El parque magico will be screened at the Medina Cinema. On Wednesday, the 22nd, at 7:00 p.m., in the Capitol Auditorium, the Municipal School of Dance will perform. On Sunday, December 26, at the Medina Cinema, La casita de cuentos will be staged at 12:00 hours, and on Monday, December 27, at 5:00 p.m., the film Abominable will be screened.
The new year will start with a Los Vándalos concert in the Capitol Auditorium, which will be held on the 2nd at 5:00 p.m. On Monday, January 3, at the Medina Cinema, the organization will screen the film Spies in disguise. From December 17 to January 4, a playroom will be held in the Plaza de La Estación. And from December 17 to January 5, Three Kings’ Eve, in the same space, the Nutcracker Corner will be offered. On December 17, 18, 19 and 23, the Municipal School of Dance will perform in the Plaza de la Estación, and on the same dates, except on the 23rd, Christmas workshops in the different neighborhoods.
The Councilor for Culture and Festivities, Sandra Izquierdo, affirmed that “it is about a cultural and leisure offer designed for Tacoronte and starring the people of our municipality ». The intention of this area has been “to integrate the neighborhoods in the different acts”, making them protagonists and favoring the interrelation between their inhabitants.
The mayor, José Daniel Díaz, pointed out that, after several years of difficulties in celebrating Christmas like the one that the tacoronteros deserve, “we must be the protagonists of our parties, providing elements that encourage, such as a new Christmas lighting or a Plural programming, which encourages the visit to our municipality, favoring purchases or consumption in our establishments ». Díaz said that, “in addition to the prevention measures that each one adopts, our municipality is worth it,” so he makes an appeal to residents and visitors.