Los Gofiones and Los Sabandeños will perform in Tías during the San Antonio festivities

This June arrives intense with cultural, musical, sports, and even planet observation activities to the municipality of Tías. The Department of Festivities of the Tías City Council has programmed an intense ...

June 1 2013 (11:00 WEST)
Los Gofiones and Los Sabandeños will perform in Tías as part of the San Antonio festivities
Los Gofiones and Los Sabandeños will perform in Tías as part of the San Antonio festivities

This June arrives intense with cultural, musical, sports, and even planet observation activities to the municipality of Tías. The Department of Festivities of the Tías City Council has programmed an intense program of activities within the San Antonio festivities.

The mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, accompanied by the deputy mayor, Jerónimo Robayna, and the councilor of Sports and Festivities, Francisco Javier Aparicio Betancort, presented this Friday in a press conference the program of the San Antonio festivities, which includes 40 different proposals linked to theater, folklore, classical music, planet observation, a great children's show, the best wrestling in the Canary Islands, and the great folklore and traditional song groups in the Islands.

In these days, the sports program has already begun with the different ball and card game championships, and the definitive start of the festivities in honor of San Antonio will be this weekend.

For Saturday, at 10:30 a.m., there will be a karate exhibition by the Suhari Municipal Karate School in the Municipal Sports Hall. At 9 p.m., the atmosphere of a tenderete arrives at the fairgrounds installed next to the Town Hall. At that time of night will be the II Baile de Cuerdas, by the parrandas El Golpito, from Lanzarote, and Trasmallo, from Fuerteventura. Tickets for this dance are 2.5 euros.

Sunday, the best of Canarian wrestling in Tías

This Sunday, June 2, the Ulpiano Rodríguez Pérez wrestling arena, in Tías, will host the semifinal and final of the wrestling championship of the final of the Pancho Camurria Tournament, the most prestigious event in the Archipelago linked to the vernacular sport. Starting at 11 a.m.

Show for children and the whole family

The Municipal Theater of Tías will host this Sunday afternoon, June 2, the children's show Rocamboleska Kids, an authentic musical for children and adults. At 5:30 p.m. Tickets 8 euros.

Classical music

On Thursday the 6th, a end-of-year concert will be offered by the teachers and students of the Municipal School of Music of Tías in the Indieras hall.

Popular Music Encounter El Pavón

On Saturday night, the Ulpiano Rodríguez Pérez arena will host one of the most anticipated musical shows of the year. The XVII Popular Music Encounter El Pavón.

Nature has its place in this cultural and recreational program. The Tías City Council has programmed, together with Senderismo Lanzarote, a walk along the historical and archaeological route of Tías. The departure will be at 9 a.m. from the Hermitage of San Antonio.

On Tuesday the 11th, at 5 p.m., there will be an afternoon of stars and planets with the observation of the summer stars Children's Planetarium at the Sociedad Unión Sur Tías. And at 8:30 p.m., the Sculpture Cycle exhibition of the Pancho Lasso School will be inaugurated in the art room La Ermita de San Antonio, in Tías.

Thursday the 13th will be the big day starting at 6:30 p.m. with the religious function and subsequent procession accompanied by the Acuarti and Gaida Groups.

At 8:30 p.m. that day, the Raíces Group will offer its show From the Plant to the Root in the Municipal Theater of Tías.

And on Saturday, June 15, there will be two special events linked to culture and literature, and music in the Canary Islands. At 12 noon, the event linked to the figure of the Nobel Prize for Literature, José Saramago, will take place outside the Casa Museo, in the center of Tías, with the presence of regional authorities, and the president of the Saramago Foundation, Pilar del Río.

The night and the end of the festivities will arrive with the great joint concert of Los Gofiones and Los Sabandeños, in the Ulpiano Rodríguez wrestling arena in Tías.

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