SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Culture & Business Pride 2023 that will be held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife from July 23 to 29 will address the debate on bodies, beauty ideals and freedom of expression in one of its most important dialogue tables.
This event, one of the most representative of those held around the LGTBIQ+ collective, makes visible the contributions to society and in which artists, activists, businessmen, journalists and different personalities will meet.
One of the most topical calls will be the meeting ‘Without boobs there is no paradise’, a discussion table shared by the artist and activist from Madrid Rocío Saiz, in the media spotlight after her performance at the Murcia pride festivities, together with content creator Carolina Iglesias and artist Samantha Fox.
The new edition of Culture & Business Pride will also give prominence to stars from online platforms such as Esty Quesada, ‘Soy una pringada’, the freshness and humor of the Malaga-based tiktoker Sensillocons or the digital strategist Georgia Elliott, also known as Gominuke.
In this edition, writers Sara Torres and Andrea González Rossi, BBVA’s Director of Diversity, Ízaro Assa de Ambilia, also join the already announced programme, who (among more than 70 guests) complete the Culture & Business Pride 2023 programme.
Areas such as journalism, with the director of ‘El Mundo’ Supplements, Javier Cid; science against cancer, with the research director of Idipaz, Eduardo López Collazo; Psychology, with Paula Alcaide; or the necessary debate on bodies and their involvement in various social aspects will be present in the new edition of Culture & Business Pride
The event, which is sponsored by the Cabildo de Tenerife through Turismo de Tenerife, the Autonomous Organism for Culture of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands through Promotur, is free of charge, for so that during a week visitors will be able to attend dozens of activities in different venues of the city, as well as massive open-air concerts. Culture & Business Pride is also one of the few festivals in the world included in the Work Program for 2023 of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
The fundamental involvement of the LGTBIQ+ collective in the great social and cultural mobilizations of our country such as Holy Week or the Carnival of Tenerife will be the focus of a round table in which the actor, screenwriter and director Paco León will also participate. For his part, Eduardo Casanova will address creation in different cinematographic disciplines with Jedet. Literature will be the center of the ‘Pride and Harm’ conference, where young bets from national literature such as Sara Torres or Andrea González Rossi will intervene.
All of these will join names that have already been confirmed, such as the vice-president of the European Parliament and nicknamed ‘the champion of equality’, Marc Angel, who will be his first visit to Spain and who will chat with different entities to talk about the future of equality in the scope of the European Union moderated by the journalist Juan Cruz. They are joined by stars such as Samantha Hudson, the winner of Drag Race USA Aquaria, or the legendary musical groups The Weather Girls, Village People, Dana International or national figures such as Vanesa Martín and Jedet who will perform live with free admission.
The global focus of the advances and rights in social, cultural and business matters of the LGTBIQ collective will once again place Santa Cruz de Tenerife as the venue for this meeting, named as one of the outstanding international events on the agenda of the World Tourism Organization in 2023 and one of the 8 most important Prides in the world.
