After three years, the Neighbor’s Day returns to the streets of Ofra. It will do so this Friday and Saturday with multiple activities around the Príncipes de España avenue and the Juan XXIII sports center. But it is not the only activity that can be enjoyed this weekend in Santa Cruz, because in the Southwest District, the first edition of the district’s festivities is kicking off, an initiative that aims to offer residents the opportunity to share in the surroundings of the Parque de La Estrella, with various activities such as concerts and with a festival included, and which in this case will start this Thursday.
Both initiatives were presented yesterday by the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, and councilors Gladis de León (responsible for the ofra district-South Coast) and Javier Rivero (Southwest). Bermúdez pointed out that “the Santa Cruz City Council maintains its roadmap announced in April, in the presentation of Santa Cruz: Puro Corazón, and continues to comply with the more than 200 announced activities that also reach the neighborhoods.”
De León explained that the Day of the Neighbor will be held on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, in three places, “on the esplanade of the Los Príncipes Shopping Center, Los Príncipes Avenue and the Juan XXIII sports center, with a recreational-children’s area, artistic area with a stage, gastronomy area, the traditional street market on the avenue and sports in Juan XXIII”.
For his part, Rivero explained that “as a consequence of the pandemic there are few forecasts that the neighborhoods will celebrate their patron saint festivities, so from the district we have proposed to celebrate, from Thursday to Sunday, a large neighborhood meeting called Fiestas del Southwest, in the central square of the Parque de La Estrella, with folk music, humor, festivals and activities for the whole family”.
Ofra celebrates Neighbor’s Day
Specifically, through the Ofra-Costa Sur district, this coming Friday and Saturday, the 23rd and 24th, the Neighbor’s Day is celebrated, a traditional initiative that celebrates its eighth edition after two years without being able to carry it out due to the pandemic. , which will feature more than thirty sports, cultural, children’s and leisure activities.
This event, which has the support of the participating groups, neighbours, local entities and merchants, aims to revitalize the Ofra shopping area, while offering leisure sessions that will serve to promote sport, publicize the talents held by the district, as well as the work carried out by the members of the neighborhood associations, through their participation in the workshops.
The district councilor, Gladis de León, points out the economic importance of this revitalization “for the commercial fabric of our District and that is why we will offer a conference with a multitude of events and an extensive program of cultural, children’s and leisure activities that they can enjoy residents of all ages from Santa Cruz de Tenerife and especially from the Ofra-Costa Sur District. We want to present an image of our District that is dynamic, attractive, commercial and, above all, participatory”, she concludes.
On Friday, the 23rd, on the esplanade of the Los Príncipes Shopping Center, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., leisure and children’s activities, together with music, will be the main protagonists of the day. Bouncy castles, slides, trampolines and a toy library will delight the little ones in the house.
On the same day, music and humor will have their moment with the performance, starting at 6:00 p.m., with the performance of three artists from Ofra: Miller Brown, Lil Épico and El Carmona; at 7:30 p.m., it will be the turn of one of the great Canarian stand-up singers, Omayra Cazorla, and the day will end with a concert by Soul Sanet, at 8:30 p.m., whose discography is known to all thanks to songs like “Call me by my name” or “3,718”.
One of the main activities on Saturday will be Ofra Emprende, where 27 tents located on the central promenade of Príncipes de España avenue will be dedicated to commerce and the collaborating entities of the district. From 10:00 a.m. the nearby shops will be the protagonist and will be enlivened by folk groups and batukadas.
A climbing wall that ends in a large zip line along with bouncy castles, slides, trampolines and a children’s playroom complete the children’s activities, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., on the esplanade attached to the Los Príncipes Shopping Center.
That same day on the esplanade of the Los Príncipes Shopping Center, from 10:00 a.m., neighbors, together with neighborhood groups from the district, will be installed in a giant tent where they will exhibit a wide range of items in Ofra Saldos.
Children’s activities, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Bouncy castles, slides, trampolines and playroom and a climbing wall that ends in a large zip line, all on the esplanade attached to the Los Príncipes shopping center. In the same place, and from 10:00 a.m., sports will have its space with Zumba workshops, dance exhibitions, boxing, karate and district singers to liven up the day.
In the afternoon, starting at 4:30 p.m., on the stage located in that space, Renzzo el Selector will perform; an hour later, at 5:30 p.m., Not 1 Hair of a Fool; popular music will arrive at 6:30 p.m., with Pepe Benavente; and the day will end with a performance by the Puerto Rican singer Edwin Rivera, at 8:00 p.m.
It should be remembered that the 1st Ofra Streetball 3×3 Festival, which has been held since last Monday, the 19th, will have the final tournament and the award ceremony on the 23rd and 24th on the Neighbor’s Day, on the 23rd and 24th, which will make the days Friday and Saturday at a meeting point for citizens around art, sports, commerce and leisure in this fundamental population center of Santa Cruz, whose 3×3 tournament will have three categories, male and female, basic, senior and professional, which include ages between 14 years and senior +18 years.
Holiday weekend in the Southwest
The Southwest district of Santa Cruz, with an extension of more than 14 kmtwo of the municipal territory, the largest urban area being the city. And, in addition, it is made up of eleven population administrative units, which have been defined with different patrons or patron saints for the celebration of their traditional festivities as a sign of identity.
Precisely for this reason, the Southwest, before belonging to this municipality, already celebrated festivals in the towns of the upper area, being of great relevance throughout the metropolitan territory. Currently, the administrative units that have celebrated this type of celebration in recent decades are Tíncer, La Gallega, Barranco Grande, El Sobradillo, Santa María del Mar, El Draguillo, El Rosarito, El Pilarito, El Tablero, Añaza and Llano. of the Moor.
Thus, in order to respond to different neighborhood requests in relation to the necessary offer, oriented to the entire population of the neighborhoods and towns of the Southwest of Santa Cruz, this department initiates the procedures to promote and organize different leisure activities in the central square of the Parque La Estrella, Los Alisios, under the event called “Las fiestas del Suroeste”, which will take place between Thursday 22 and Sunday 25 September 2022.
The program of festivities begins this Thursday, the 22nd, at 9:00 p.m., with the Orígenes Folkloric Festival; on Friday, at the same time, “De veranito con Kike Pérez” and, from 12:00 pm, “Verbena Alisios”, with the orchestras La Sabrosa and Revelation; The “Concert of Los Cantadores” is scheduled for Saturday, at 9:00 p.m., convening the “Cuban Party with Abakuá” for midnight that day, and leaving for Sunday, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.: 00 hours, the exclusive role for girls, boys and families in the “Aquatic Children’s Party”, with refreshing music and atmosphere.
