No ventorrillo or cultural activities but with the same enthusiasm as always. This is how the Pinolere Cultural Association and the artisans are preparing to celebrate a new edition of the Pinolere Handicraft Fair today, after a face-to-face stoppage due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The sector is very affected and with many problems derived from the pandemic, that is why it wants to return to a fair like the one in Pinolere. The artisans are hopeful that the public will be able to attend. We hope that the sector can raise its head, emerge afloat and tell the society of the Canary Islands: ‘here we are,’ said the manager of the aforementioned association, Jesús García, yesterday.
The exhibition, which will remain open until Sunday, will have all the security measures and capacity control, two aspects that have had to be reinforced from the organization. However, the fact that Tenerife has passed alert level 1 at the epidemiological traffic light will help, according to García, that the attending public “be calmer” despite the fact that it is an open-air space of 10,000 square meters with a circuit fully controlled.
In total, there will be 180 spaces for artisans from all over the Canary Islands and the gastronomic space. Everyone is busy and there is demand that the association is unable to satisfy in a pandemic context.
In this sense, although he cannot specify the exact number of tickets, the manager assures that according to the tickety.es company, in charge of sales, “there is a significant demand from the public.”
The only changes in relation to the last edition, held in 2019, is that there will be no ventorrillo, whose sales represent economic incentives for the association and cultural activities such as workshops, talks, conferences or exhibitions cannot be held. There will only be two recognitions in addition to the delivery of the Cho Feriantes de Honor.
It will be on Saturday and it will be to the residents of Las Candias and La Luz for the recovery of the enrame tradition, and to Olivia Díaz Frías, a nougat from Tacoronte, who has been attending the fair for 30 years.
The Cho Feriantes de Honor are the highest distinction granted by the Pinolere association to recognize the work, collaboration and selfless support of personalities of the regional sphere who, during 36 years of existence, have come and have been giving their recognition, collaboration and solidarity with our multiple social, cultural and educational projects aimed at dignifying popular culture.
In this edition, the individual modality has fallen to the kennel of the Presa Canario Samcor, owned by Pedro Miranda Mesa, from La Florida, in La Orotava, a municipal Canarian company dedicated to breeding dogs, highlighting the Presa Canario breed.
The institutional modality recognizes the Cultural Association “Friends of the Bath of Las Cabras in the Sea” in Puerto de la Cruz, whose purpose is to defend, protect and disseminate traditions and the Association of Pinolere Neighbors, while in the individual modality, the archaeologist and anthropologist Francisco Mireles Betancor and the researcher and historian Antonio Jiménez Medina will be distinguished.
