{"id":22058,"date":"2025-02-07T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/?p=22058"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:55:25","slug":"the-proclamation-parade-reminds-the-city-that-carnival-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/the-proclamation-parade-reminds-the-city-that-carnival-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"The proclamation parade reminds the city that Carnival has started"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”210918″]Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 5 February, 2025<\/em>. Santa Catalina Park shows off the \u201cOlympic Games\u201d Carnival stage to locals and visitors, an imposing structure connecting the allegory of the past, the classic Games whose origin dates back to Greece and the temple of Zeus, and the modern Games, with a magnificent athletics track and a censer where the flame of Prometheus will light up the events featured on lpacarnaval.com<\/a><\/p>\n

And it is exactly towards that stage that the first Carnival event will take us, with a proclamation parade<\/a> which, on Saturday 8 February, at 8 pm, will leave from Calle Juan Rej\u00f3n in the popular neighbourhood of La Isleta, continuing through Albareda until it ends up in the heart of Carnival. This parade will fill its route with rhythm and colour, with features that remind us that the party has started, a party that will be lively right through to 16 March, when it comes to an end with the Burial of the Sardine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the parade, from 9 pm onwards, the starring role is taken by the voice of a Carnival legend, Orlando Jim\u00e9nez, the president of the veteran Murga group Los Nietos de Kika, a local group from the town of Arucas which, like all Murgas, questions current affairs and goes over them in a humorous tone. And to keep spirits up, there\u2019ll be plenty of music. El Combo Dominicano band will be delivering all-time favourite sounds from the stage.<\/p>\n

And a day later, this same Carnival nucleus will be the epicentre of fun and brazenness. Because, on Sunday, at 9.30 pm, the Adult Costume Competition<\/a> starts, an event which has seven people competing in the individual category, and ten groups competing with costumes and choreographies worked out between friends.<\/p>\n

This will be just the beginning of a Carnival which has so much in store. The second week will start off on 14 February, which is when St Valentine\u2019s Day is celebrated. And the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival will celebrate the day with one of the events that stirs up most passions and love: the Drag Queen Preselection<\/a>, where 25 candidates dream of their great ticket to the Drag Queen Gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That second Carnival-goers\u2019 encounter will devote Saturday 15 February to children, with the selection of the Junior Throne Queen<\/a>. Although both boys and girls can compete, in 2025 it\u2019s eight little girls who have signed up for the encounter. The Junior Throne<\/a> brings all the little ones together in the enclosure. There\u2019s no doubt that it\u2019s a party designed for families to enjoy themselves together, and which guarantees the future of Carnival. Sunday 16 February is for families too: this Carnival doesn\u2019t neglect its new blood, and on 16 February, from 6 pm onwards, the Junior Murgas<\/a>, little groups of kids who begin their humorous questioning of the system, come out to give one hundred per cent on the Santa Catalina stage.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carnival colour and rhythm run out into the streets with a parade that ends up in Santa Catalina Park, the enclosure containing the party\u2019s temple<\/p>\n

Carnival\u2019s first weekend also gives us the chance to enjoy one of the most surprising and wildest competitions on the programme, the Adult Costume Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22061,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions\/22061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpacarnaval.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}