The councilors of Festivals of the municipalities of Puerto de la Cruz, Alberto Castilla; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Inma Medina, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Alfonso Cabello, discussed yesterday the prospects of the different carnival parties, and yours, in particular, for next year under the heading Back to normality. The moderator of Carnival Trends forum celebrating a new edition this year is, once again, the journalist Alexis Hernández.
Those present agreed on the diagnosis: the need for the growth of the different Carnival celebrations to go hand in hand with common collaboration and supported by the different councils and the Government of the Canary Islands, to whom they demanded more attention. “Neither the Government of the Canary Islands nor the councils are involved with the Carnival, said Cabello, and I am totally convinced that it can get more economic performance and seasonally adjust income.”
Castilla supported the idea and assured that “each municipality has its identity in the Carnival and that must be the way. The base is executive and pure and simple promotion of those important signs of identity”.
For his part, Medina said that “perhaps we all need to walk and shake hands, and for that we need the support of other institutions, including Parliament, to continue growing together.”
The three stressed that the return to normality will give a break to those who have been having a hard time due to the pandemic, they lamented the slowness of the procedures and that the Public Sector Contracts Law “complicates their lives”.
Puerto de la Cruz is experiencing one of its big days today with the election gala for the King of Carnival, which will be held at the Costa Martiánez Tourist Complex and will feature a performance by Carlos Baute and Nalaya Brown.
In that same venue, Lucía Castro Jorge became the Children’s Queen of the Summer Carnival on Wednesday, representing Quirón, Construcciones B&J, Laboratorio Méndez Dental La Orotava and Savasa, with the fantasy of Jonay Díaz and Grupo Pez Azul entitled A las gates of a magical world. Eleonora Bevilacqua was also invested as the first Ambassador, representing Oroterapias, with Alfonso Baute’s fantasy In the Infinite Sky.