With the intention of promoting the Xacobeo of 2021, the Management Commission of Alfombristas Entities of the Camino de Santiago has been created. In which carpet makers from more than two hundred cities spread over twenty-three countries belonging to Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, United States, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Poland, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Tunisia, Venezuela and Spain are already participating.
The Management Commission of carpet entities of the Camino de Santiago, based in Ponteareas, Pontevedra, has as its main objective all those activities aimed at the dissemination, promotion and promotion of the Camino de Santiago and the tangible and intangible heritage linked to it. Highlighting the cultural, natural and human wealth of the Camino de Santiago.
This commission will be responsible for including ephemeral art in the celebration of Xacobeo 2021, specifically on its big days, July 24 and 25. There are thirteen months ahead but a lot of prior coordination work as artists from all over the world are involved in this collective, multicultural and multilingual project.
The carpet makers are preparing two major projects for the next Holy Year. The first one called "Carpets for the Camino", which will consist of making different carpets, from January to June 2021, in each of the roads that converge in Santiago de Compostela, to conclude with another carpet, on July 24-25 in the Santiago square of Obradoiro.
The second project, in which Yaiza participates, for the Xacobeo 2021 is a "World Carpet" in which all the carpet makers who want to participate can elaborate in an emblematic place, of each of their localities, integrated in the Management Commission of carpet entities of the Camino de Santiago, its own carpet, between July 24 and 25, 2021, dedicated to the Camino de Santiago. However, each carpet making group will make that design following its own technique and style, using the materials they prefer and creating that ephemeral tapestry of the size they prefer.
The objective is to "Do everything the same day, the same carpet in each of our towns or cities, but jointly on a global scale." It will be a kind of flashmob on a global scale of ephemeral art, on the big day of the Apostle Santiago or on its eve
