Neither the proximity in time (just one month) nor the current number of infections in Asturias (currently on the rise among young people) will make it possible this year for Otea Gijón carry out your project of booths for the Semana Grande gijonesa. The initiative, which wants to invigorate local festivals with a daytime leisure proposal, will have to wait for the next summer of 2022.
This has been confirmed in BE Gijón the president of OTEA Gijón, Ángel Lorenzo, who has repeatedly insisted that the ‘casetonas’ proposal be understood as “something from Gijón. We do not want to call them the OTEA booths. We want them to call them the Gijón booths, the ‘casetonas’ or whatever they want, but let it be understood that they belong to everyone. We have to meet with the City Council, with associations, the world of culture, merchants … “.
Lorenzo, who wants to “regain joy in Gijón”, has defended a project that “has to give work” and develop throughout Gijón “that is extended to all neighborhoods. That it is not only in the center of Gijón” for what “We must reach a consensus. We do not want it to be only the booths that Otea proposes, all the neighborhoods and commerce and culture have to be there.”
Regarding the comparisons with the model of OviedoLorenzo has been resounding: “We do not have to compare ourselves with the beach bars. We have not been able to show the idea. Here we are open to the city and there is also another big difference: we do not want to focus on it at night. We want them to be booths that enjoy during the day because we see that something is missing in the programming of the Big Week. Almost all the concerts are concentrated in the evening, so the idea would be to propose an offer to enjoy and socialize during the day and that it be from the whole city “.
From Otea Gijón they are already working with the calendar for next year. “The idea is the next Big Week, although that does not mean that there has not been a smaller and more intimate idea linked to shops or crafts before, but that would be like some ‘cassettes’, it has nothing to do with the idea of the ‘casetonas’ “, has concluded.
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