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SUMMARY:Carnival Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2024
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCarnival Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2024 is celebrated between 25 January – 18 February.\n\nThe “Carnivals of the World” will arrive a day earlier, on January 25, guaranteeing live coverage by Canarian Television, a public entity that will take the package of events to the homes of the Archipelago.\n✔ Among the most striking developments of the new stage of the Carnival is moving the drag selection gala to an earlier date, therefore becoming one of the highlights of the first weekend. Yes, a Sunday, the day that was agreed upon with the Drag Association to adapt to the applicants’ agendas and achieve more rehearsal time for a perfect gala.\n\n\nThe 2024 Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is going to be special because it’s returning to its working-class roots. The district of La Isleta, built next to Las Palmas Port at one end of Las Canteras Beach, kept the spirit of the festival alive when events such as these were prohibited during the years when Franco was the dictator of Spain. The Carnival disguised itself at that time as a winter festival, as celebrations in social clubs and as clandestine gatherings. Just a few months after Franco died, its residents advocated for the official return of the festivities; it was 1976 and there was already a parade and even a Carnival Queen Gala. The Carnival was reborn with unstoppable energy.\nAs the city is currently undergoing an urban transformation process, which will also revitalise the area surrounding Santa Catalina Park—the heart of the modern Carnival in the Gran Canarian capital—there is no space to hold the festival. That’s why the Carnival programme is going back to the district of La Isleta in 2024, one year after being declared a Fiesta of International Tourism Interest. This is where the main galas, competitions and festival evenings will take place from 25 January to 18 February. The festivities are going back to the streets where it all began with the same verve and vitality as always. PLAZA DE BELÉN MARÍA (MAIN STAGE)\n\nAt the other end of the city in Vegueta, the original settlement of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Carnival has already been launched with the presentation of up to 52 candidates for the crowns of Queen, Drag Queen, Grand Dame and the Children’s Throne. Their costumes are based on a special theme, which changes every year. In 2024, it’s Carnivals of the World to pay homage to celebrations in other parts of the globe. A draw was held to decide the order of participation of the 10 candidates for the Children’s Gala, six for Grand Dame, 13 for Queen and 23 for the Drag Queen Preselection, which will decide the drag queens that will classify for the final grand gala.\nThe Drag Queen Preselection will close on Sunday, 28 January during the first weekend of the Carnival. As always, no cameras will be present, and neither will it be televised. Only the audience attending this event will be able to enjoy a first glimpse of the drag queens in the Carnivals of the World. It’s the most international side of the Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.\nBut first the festival will be announced in La Isleta by some traditional components of its liveliest evenings: the Latin and folk music bands, who will give the opening speech on Thursday, 25 January after the parade.\nThe Carnival nights will get going on Friday and Saturday, 26 and 27 January, after the first two competitions in the programme. Friday will be the costume competition, which always attracts a large group of carnival and fancy-dress enthusiasts. The group category is especially worth seeing as the competitors tap into the spirit of carnival camaraderie to appear on stage in elaborate costumes.\nSaturday, 27 January will also see the start of the family Carnival programme, which is always a highlight, with a Gala taking place to decide who will sit on the Children’s Throne. It’s another of the main events in a very special Carnival year, one of the most remarkable in recent times.\n\n\n\nHighlights: \nThursday 25 January: \nat 20:00 The announcing parade from Parque Santa Catalina to Belén María\nat 21:30 Pregón, the proclamation will kick off the festivities\nFriday 26 January: \nat 20:30 Adult Costume Festival\nuntil 03:00 Noche de Carnaval/Carnival night party\nSaturday 27 January: \nat 19:30 Trono infantil. The gala that chooses the monarch of the children’s throne\nuntil 03:00 Noche de Carnaval/Carnival night party\nSunday 28 January: \nat 11:00 Children’s Murgas and Comparsas\nat 20:30 Pre-Drag ***Ticket event\n29-31 January:\nMurgas nights at 20:45\nFriday 2 February:\nat 21:30 Comparsas contest\nuntil 03:00 Noche de Carnaval/Carnival night party\nSaturday 3 February:\nat 21:00 Murgas Final\nSunday 4 February:\nat 12:00 Canine carnival\nat 21:00 Grand Dame Gala\nTuesday 6 February:\nat 21:30 International body makeup contest\nuntil 04:00 Noche de Carnaval/Carnival night party\nFriday 9 February:at 21:30 Queen’s Gala ***Ticket event\nuntil 04:00 Noche de Carnaval/Carnival night party\nSaturday 10 February :\nat 12:00 Carnival parade with the contestants\n16:00-21:00 Daytime Carnival\n21:00-04:00 Noche de carnaval/Carnival night party\nSunday 11 February:\nat 11:00 choreography carnival\nat 17:00 meeting of the comparasas and batucadas ( lively gettogether with the music groups)\nMonday 12 February :\nat 19:00 Carnival Monday\nat 20:00 presentation of the Carnival 2025 allegories\n21:00-05:00 Noche de Carnaval/Carnival night party\nTuesday 13 February: \nat 12:00 Children’s parade from Parque Santa Catalina to Manuel Berecca\nfrom 14:00-22:00 Family Carnival celebrations\nWednesday 14 February :\nat 19:00 Intergration Gala\nFriday 16 February:\nat 21:300 Drag Gala *** Ticket event\nuntil 04:00 Noche de Carnaval/Carnival night party\nSaturday 17 February\nat 17:00 Carnival Parade\nuntil 05:00 Noche de Carnaval/Carnival night party\n\nSunday 18 February:\nat 12:00 Daytime carnival\nat 19:30 Burial of the Sardine\nat 21:00 presentation of the Carnival 2025 allegories\n\n
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