The candidacy of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for European Capital of Culture 2031 welcomes a delegation from Potries, a Valencian municipality with a population of one thousand, on Monday. The aim is to share experiences and seek alliances for the cultural development of rural areas.
On Monday, July 13, the San Lorenzo civic centre will host a meeting between the LPGC'31 candidacy and the Potries 2031 project. Although both initiatives stem from very different realities, they share a vision: culture as a driver of social cohesion and territorial development.
Potries, a small municipality in the Valencian Community, successfully advanced to the pre-selection phase for European Capital of Culture 2031 with its motto Orgull de pobles. Its proposal focused on cultural rights, collective memory, and community participation, demonstrating that size does not matter when there is cultural ambition.
The Potries delegation will be led by its mayor, Sergi Vidal, the councillor for Culture, Estela Sanchís, and the technical director of the candidacy, Josep Valero. From Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the councillor for Culture, Josué Íñiguez, the councillor for the Tamaraceite-San Lorenzo-Tenoya district, Esther Martín, and the LPGC'31 technical team, led by José Luis Pérez Pont, will attend.
A day of work and mutual learning
The technical session, which will take place in the morning, will serve to analyse possible joint projects. Topics such as rural areas, the midlands, and territories distant from urban centres will be addressed, areas that both candidacies consider a priority.
The meeting is part of the Rebellion of Geography strategy, with which LPGC'31 seeks to integrate the different territorial realities of the municipality and the archipelago. The idea is that culture should not be concentrated only in the city centre but should reach every corner.
For the residents of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this collaboration represents an opportunity to learn from the experience of a village that, with fewer than 1,500 inhabitants, has managed to position itself in the European cultural landscape. Who said that small cannot be great?
Public meeting in Tamaraceite
In the afternoon, at 17:00, the Alexis Ravelo Municipal Library, in the Jesús Arencibia Cultural Space of Tamaraceite, will host the talk Rural culture also builds Europe. The event is free and open to all citizens and professionals in the cultural sector.
There, the keys to the Potries candidacy will be shared, and there will be a discussion on how rural areas can be protagonists in building European cultural identity. An opportunity for attendees to learn firsthand about an initiative that demonstrates that culture knows no size.
Indeed, while some think that culture only happens in large capitals, projects like Potries 2031 remind us that the pride of villages also has much to say. Or, as they would say, orgull de pobles.
The event is on Monday, July 13, first in San Lorenzo and then in Tamaraceite. Anyone wishing to join the conversation about the future of rural culture has an unmissable appointment.
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