San Cristóbal de La Laguna will live a weekend packed with activities for all audiences, from concerts to theater, including the opening gala of the Calavera Island Festival. This is Aguere’s cultural programming for the next few days.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Concert 10 years of the Rondalla Las Valkirias
DATE: November 9
PLACE: Leal Theater
TIME: 8:30 p.m.
Valkirias began its journey 10 years ago as a group led by women. After a decade of artistic learning, achieving success and breaking glass ceilings, they offer this Extraordinary Concert to the entire public that has been an accomplice and companion. They will take a musical and emotional journey through these years that have built an intense history, but with an eye toward a future that looks exciting.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Opening Gala of the Calavera Island Festival
DATE: November 10
PLACE: Leal Theater
TIME: 8:00 p.m.
The La Laguna cultural space will host the opening gala of the Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival in the city of La Laguna. ‘Skull Island’ celebrates its seventh edition, which will last until the 19th and whose main theme will revolve around the 90th anniversary of King Kong.
‘Tempo Rubato’
DATE: November 10
PLACE: Leal Theater
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
Tempo Rubato is the new piece by choreographer and dancer Alexandre lseli. Placing the human body as the center of life and as the nucleus of shared experiences, the corps de ballet will play with individual autonomy and collective structures.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Theatre: ‘One day there will be an island’
DATE: November 11
PLACE: Leal Theater
TIME: 8:30 p.m.
The tribute ‘One day there will be an island’ by QY Bazo, directed by Juan José Afonso, puts as its protagonist this work by the Gomero poet Pedro García Cabrera, one of the fundamental writers of the 20th century for Hispanic literature.
A team of purely Canarian performing arts professionals praises the history of contemporary Canarian literature with this play, whose plot begins just like the poem, on the seashore and with a universal song of hope and freedom.
‘Soul Hits’
DATE: November 11
PLACE: Unión Tejina Theater
TIME: 8:30 p.m.
The Unión Tejina Theater will host a concert by the group Sax Pack Big Band. Under the title of Soul Hits, the musical group will offer the main hits of this musical genre in a concert in which they will feature the participation of Monica Dorta, Wude Castro and Laura Swing.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12
‘Sun Dance Family’
DATE: November 12
PLACE: Leal Theater
TIME: 11:30 am
The new ‘Sun Dance Family Sessions’ event encourages Tenerife families to enjoy a day of dancing. This initiative organized by the Living Arts and Citizenship Laboratory of Tenerife and the collective for the dissemination of contemporary electronic music Neeve-Micromusic, seeks to help children and adults learn to take care of themselves and improve their health through movement.
‘Modern’
DATE: November 12
PLACE: Leal Theater
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
The comedian from Albacete Fran Pati brings his show Modern to the Chamber Room of the Leal Theater. In a humorous way, she will compare life in the towns of the plains of La Mancha with that of the modern neighborhoods of Chueca and Malasaña in cosmopolitan Madrid.
FROM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 TO FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
III Oral Storytelling Festival ‘La Cuesta Yes Counts’
PLACE: CC El Tranvía
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
The La Cuesta neighborhood celebrates the second edition of the Oral Storytelling Festival ‘La Cuesta Sí Cuenta’. Once again, the Cueva de Unicornios cultural association will be in charge of organizing the stories of this meeting. The narrators Juan Carlos Tacoronte, Omaira Morales, Isabel Bolívar, Óscar Ballado and Cristina Temprano and the singer-songwriter Carlos Chico will liven up the neighborhood and visit the schools in the area and give workshops with the aim of sowing the fruit of the oral tradition in both the most small as in adults.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 and FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
‘In another key’
PLACE: Leal Theater
TIME: 8:30 p.m.
The program ‘En Otra Clave’, one of the most successful and popular in the history of television in the Canary Islands, returns to the stage with an audience in this new stage and renewing content and characters. The best-known protagonists will be accompanied by guest actors from the national scene who collaborate in their fun stories.
UNTIL NOVEMBER 25TH
‘Memento mori. The meaning of death in the Canary Islands
DATE: from October 20 to November 25
PLACE: Old Convent of Santo Domingo.
HOURS: Monday to Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Exhibition curated by Benito Cabrera that tries to cover, in a didactic way, the different ways in which the Canarians have faced death throughout history. The artists compile points of view and traditions as diverse as music, popular lyrics, religion or gastronomy.
