Teguise will celebrate the White Night of summer 2023 on July 28. The Teguise City Council is finalizing the details of an event that since 2011 has marked the cultural agenda of Lanzarote. In its eleventh edition, the street and public buildings of the historic center continue to be the main stages of a program designed for all audiences.
In addition, there will be thirteen concerts of different musical genres in three preferred locations: La Plazuela, Plaza de los Leones and El Hoyo. The youngest will have a leading space with dynamic workshops, cockfights or DJs in Las Maretas and family and youth dynamization with circus shows, dance performances or street theater that will be focused on the Plaza de Los Leones from five in the afternoon. Also an hour before, storytelling sessions, musical performances and a fashion show will be organized in the Municipal Library. On the other hand, traditional games and wrestling exhibitions will be focused on the Plaza del Hoyo. In addition, the students of the Teguise Music School will liven up different corners of the town.
This year the location of the Santa Bárbara Castle will be available again, where the pirates will return from the hand of the Actua theater group and their proposal "Black Night". Seating is limited and must be accessed by invitation.
In this edition, contemporary dance has a special role with several shows in the Convento de Santo Domingo from 7:30 p.m. by Acerina H. Toledo and Reinier Alfonso. And in the municipal theater, from 7:00 p.m., the poetic performance "Canciones en su tinta" by Duende Josele Dúo will take place. For those who want to dare with Latin dances, they can go to the workshop that will take place in the Municipal Tent from six in the afternoon.
"The White Night is an opportunity not only to get to know the commercial and restaurant network that La Villa has and thus boost this economic engine, but it is the ideal way to have several cultural offers active simultaneously to reach everyone," says the Councilor for Festivities, Javier Díaz.
For the mayor of Teguise, Olivia Duque, "having managed to consolidate the White Night as one of the most anticipated events of the year at the island level is a great satisfaction, because our goal is to coin actions that have continuity over time and a great social profitability." "We are the cultural capital of Lanzarote for multidisciplinary actions like this one," she adds.
The Cabildo de Lanzarote has committed to reinforce the bus and taxi service, as well as help the City Council in logistical, Security and Emergency issues so that the White Night event, which has an average attendance of 15,000 people, closes without incidents.