La Orotava dismisses Francisco José González García, better known as Pepe, Añepa’sthe alma mater of the remembered pub and art room that in 2005 received the Silver Medal of the City Council of La Orotava for its first 25 years of commitment to art and culture. The wake is in Room 7 of the Servisa Funeral Home, in La Lagunaand his civil act of farewell is scheduled for 9:00 p.m. this Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
On October 31, 2020, when the Pub Anepa closed due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, Pepe stressed that “we never wanted to be just a place where alcohol was sold, but much more: a space for art and culture; that meeting place that we all need. A society without these corners where being able to share these moments is a worse society”.
The Pub Anepa It was always the place to go for a drink after dinner or at the closing of other bars and characters like Joaquín Sabina, Jorge Drexler, Juan Perro and the members of Radio Futura, Mikel Erentxun, Albert Pla or Los Chichos. It housed innumerable concerts, to practically all the jazz musicians of the Canary Islands in the last decades, and on its walls exhibitions of paintings by Yamil Omar, Rafa Pinillos, Rafols-Casamada or Pepe Hernándezalthough it was always, above all, an art room open to young artists from the Canary Islands.
