The Plaza del Cristo de La Laguna will host, next July 29, the celebration of the first verbena inclusive of the Canary Islands, which was announced yesterday by the mayor, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, the councilor for Social Welfare, Rubens Ascanio, and the mayor of Fiestas, Badel Albelo.
An action, designed together with the groups, which is part of La Laguna Inclusiva, “a local strategy with which we want to generate open and accessible leisure spaces for all citizens”, highlighted the mayor, who recalled that one of the objectives of the Local government in this mandate is to “completely eliminate the barriers” that exist in the municipality.
Meanwhile, the Councilor for Social Welfare valued the transversal work in all areas of the City Council, as well as with the different groups, to be “a municipality without barriers” and achieve inclusion “in all social and cultural events” of the City Council, such as this verbena “for all the neighbors, young, old and people with or without disabilities”. He recalled that in La Laguna there are 17,000 people who live with some type of disability.
For his part, the mayor of Fiestas thanked for the opportunity to collaborate in an act like this and bet that all the parties are inclusive.
Specifically, the verbena, which has the Paralympic medalist and swimmer from the Midayu Tenerife Club Michelle Alonso, as godmother of honor, will start at 6:00 p.m. in the Plaza del Cristo, on the 29th, and will feature performances by the Dorada Band , Bloko del Valle, Dansign and its dance workshops or parades with Miartefactor.
People with reduced mobility will have preferential space in the public to dance in a wheelchair, accompanying and support staff, adapted toilets and accessible transport. For those with hearing disabilities, the entire event will have interpretation in sign language and will offer a preferential space to see the interpreters, as well as service personnel and the municipal service of sensitive backpacks (which transmit music through vibrations to the torso).
Likewise, people with visual disabilities or deafblindness will have assistance and accompaniment personnel and interpreter guides. People with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems will also have access to specialized care personnel and all the informative material in Easy-Read format. And, of course, rest areas and toilets also enabled for people with other disabilities derived from pathologies.
In addition to the Orange Point, an innovative model launched by Social Welfare since last year and in which all the necessary resources and support are offered, also with accessible information.
