The Playa Blanca Carnival, which will be held from Thursday, March 19 to Sunday, March 22 and which this year will be dedicated to 'The Jungle', already has a poster. The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, and the councilors of Festivities and Tourism, Javier Camacho and Ángel Domínguez, respectively, exhibited this Monday the winning design of the contest organized by the City Council to choose the Carnival poster, authored by the graphic artist Juan Diego Ingelmo Benavente, of whom it is highlighted that he is worthy of the single prize of 1,000 euros established for this call where up to 19 proposals participated.
The poster entitled The lion sleeps tonight is an invitation letter to get to know the municipality of Yaiza taking advantage of the revelry of the Playa Blanca Carnival. In the work, you can identify recognizable sites of Yaiza such as the Natural Monument of Los Ajaches, the Mountains of Fire and the Castle of the Eagle, framed in a design where the predominant figure of a woman and her son disguised as a lion appears with which the author wanted to interpret the transmission of the carnival tradition between generations.
The work also shows a hunter who, instead of a shotgun, carries a stringed musical instrument, in this case a banjo, and a smiling vocalist who seems to encourage the celebration, a graphic composition presided over by large words that account for the town and the municipality that host the feast. The poster will begin its journey this month in Madrid at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR).
