The Arrecife Carnival 2022 will be held between February 18 and March 2 and will feature, "if the favorable evolution of the pandemic allows it, the main events of the popular festivals par excellence of the capital". This has been announced by the City Council, which has announced that it will be a Carnival “of film”, with the world of cinema as the storyline in the development of the events.
For the moment, the City Council already put out to tender on October 5 the contracting of the installation and supply of sound equipment, lighting, audiovisuals and structures, as well as the technical assistance of professionals necessary for the activities programmed for the Arrecife Carnival 2022.
The budget for the light and sound of the carnival events is 228,205 euros divided into two lots, one for light and sound and the second for the construction of stages, production and assembly platforms, and the deadline for submitting offers ends on Friday, October 22.
That light and sound service will be contracted for the spaces where the festivals are held, and also for the meeting of murgas, which is traditionally organized in Valterra by the murgueras groups themselves, after the Carnival itself.
A program for a Carnival “of film”
In relation to the events that are usually held in these festivals, the main events will be, as usual, the Murgas Contest, adults and children, the Exhibition of Comparsas and Batucadas, the election of the Queen of the Carnival, the Drag Queen Gala, the Carnavalito for the little ones, Children's Costume Contest, the Day Carnival, the Gran Coso from the Sports City to the Fairgrounds and the Burning of the Sardine that is celebrated on Ash Wednesday.
"Two weeks of events are practically recovered, provided that the Covid-19 health data allows it, within the program that always begins with the opening speech and the first phases of the murgas contest," they specify from the City Council, which intends it to be "a Carnival as usual, like those of the pre-pandemic years, with all the main events”.
The City Council recalls that the 2021 Carnivals had to be suspended due to the pandemic and in 2020 they were held "under great uncertainty, in the days prior to the approval of the state of alarm due to Covid-19". Now, the mayor, Ástrid Pérez, affirms that the City Council is "advancing all the procedures so that next year the Carnival will provide the possibility of returning to normality and enjoying the most popular traditional festival held in the capital”.
