The 39th edition of the Pinolere Craft Fair will take place on September 6, 7, and 8 at the Museum and Ethnographic Park in the rural area of La Orotava. The Pinolere Cultural Association, organizer of this event, announces the official opening, until June 30, of the registration period for artisans and artisan companies who wish to participate in the fair, which this year has chosen the theme of Canary traditional games and toys. The exhibition is organized by the Pinolere Cultural Association’s Cultural Project and has the collaboration of the City Council of La Orotava and Tenerife Council.
Last year’s edition was postponed twice and finally took place on the first weekend of November (3, 4, and 5), with timple players as the focal point.
Prior to this, the same venue in this little town in La Orotava, located 800 meters above sea level, will host the 2nd Pinolere Black Canarian Pig Fair. The same group will hold this event on June 1 and 2, an organization that also has the support of the Black Canarian Pig Breeders Association from Canary Islands, as reported on their social media accounts.
With the slogan We won’t let you down, this is a cultural initiative whose main goal is to promote and showcase the primary sector of Tenerife and, specifically, livestock farming, highlighting the Canary black pig as an indigenous breed of the archipelago with cultural and gastronomic peculiarities and great potential for the livestock sector within that framework.
In fact, one of the aspects promoted by the association is that the fair is a place for promotion, exhibition, and sales. This includes the sale of black Canary pig meat, chorizo, sausages, burgers, cracklings, blood sausages.
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We won’t let you down was the slogan of the first edition of the Canarian Black Pig Fair, which took place on May 14 and 15, 2011 and had the collaboration of the La Orotava City Council, Tenerife Council and Canary Islands Government –through the Canarian Institute of Agri-food Quality (ICCA) and the public company for Rural Management (GMR)– as well as companies linked to the sector. The organization estimated that nearly 5,000 visitors passed through the Pinolere Ethnographic Museum and Park 13 years ago.
