Arrecife is preparing to enjoy from August 9 to 25 the 'Sangineles' that will resume, full of novelties, the "most recent tradition of the Patron Saint Festivities of the capital of Lanzarote." This was announced this Thursday by the mayor Yonathan de León and the deputy mayor and head of the Festivities Area, Echedey Eugenio, during the presentation of the poster announcing the San Ginés 2024 Festivities, in which they were accompanied by its author Mariola Acosta and by the person in charge of proclaiming them, the international soccer referee Alejandro Hernández.
A poster of which the mayor Yonathan de León highlighted its "fresh image and its evocative character of what has always characterized us, our proximity to the sea, and that announces some Festivities full of surprises that will commemorate many of our most recent traditions."
After praising and thanking the work of the Lanzarote artist, professor of the emblematic Pancho Lasso School of Art, as well as "the honor that it means that the ambassador of our city in the commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the founding of our municipality, in addition to being distinguished with the Arrecife Tourism Award, and of which a decade has passed since his designation as an international referee, is in charge of proclaiming them," the mayor gave way to Echedey Eugenio who also thanked "the contribution of these two children of this land to enhance our Festivities."
"From minute one"
The deputy mayor and councilor of Festivities of Arrecife stressed in this sense that "from the moment we proposed it, from minute one, Alejandro Hernández accepted the challenge of reliving his memories by proclaiming the Festivities of his city," as well as that Mariola Acosta "has captured the philosophy that we want to transmit in these Sangineles, capturing the traditions of the immediate past of Arrecife with a luxury poster that also looks at the modernity and the present of our city."
Before proceeding to the presentation of the poster by its author, Alejandro Hernández confessed "the mixture of feelings and full satisfaction that the responsibility of being part of the history of Arrecife produces in me, in which I want to honor with the utmost respect all the people who also deserve this recognition."
The Lanzarote soccer referee revealed that in his proclamation, "in which I hope to be up to the task," he will tell "what my life has been like in the city" and that it will be seasoned "by some small surprise, gestures, details and winks to my sport and my profession, to the old and the coming generations."
Open to the sea
The culminating moment of the event held at the Casa de la Cultura Agustín de la Hoz of Arrecife came when Mariola Acosta discovered, before some expression of admiration among the people present in the room, her work evoking "the super-endearing of these Festivities, which in my time were those of all Lanzarote," so illustrious that according to she recalled "they were the ones in which people introduced their loves." With her "unfinished" poster, a "mixture of pencil, drawing and painting," the Lanzarote artist wanted to convey "a sense of life and joy, the freshness and good vibes of the summer, something simple and at the same time pleasant, which is Arrecife, a city open to the sea."