Commemorate Canary Islands Day with the broadcast of special content about the Archipelago throughout the weekend and on Monday, May 30
The program includes the meeting of politicians ‘The new summit’, the premiere of Canarian film productions such as ‘The skin of the volcano’ and special editions of its spaces
Televisión Canaria commemorates ‘Canary Islands Day’ with the broadcast of a special program framed within the ‘We are soul’ campaign. The regional channel has selected for these dates a content that highlights aspects of the culture, tradition, history and idiosyncrasy of the Archipelago.
Friday May 27
At 10:25 p.m., ‘La Nueva Cumbre’ will arrive on Canarian Television. A meeting between the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the presidents of all the Cabildos of the Archipelago focused on the island of La Palma, its current situation and its needs after the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano.
Saturday May 28
At 1:00 p.m., the first chapter of the documentary series ‘The Canary Islands: Life on the Limit’ will return to highlight the diversity of the Islands in its climate and landscapes. The second episode, which will be broadcast around the same time the next day,It will focus on the origin of the Canary Islands where the Spanish anchored on their way to the Americas.
At 7:20 p.m. the premiere of ‘The Canarian knife, from the workshop to the gallery’ will begin. A short documentary film that addresses the change that has occurred in social consideration and the use of the Canarian knife: from being a work tool in rural areas, it has become a collector’s item to which great identity value is attributed. of the island culture.
At 9:15 p.m., the musical program ‘Noche de Taifas’ will present a special edition. It will be followed, at 11:50 p.m., by the acclaimed film title by the Río brothers, ‘Guarapo’, followed by the documentary ‘The great adventure of Guarapo’, to remember the years of emigration to America by the canaries.
Sunday May 29
The next day at around 11:30 am, it will be the turn of the Canarian-produced documentary short films ‘La prima cosa’, ‘BEE’EEEE’, ‘Derivas’ and ‘Del barrio al Victoria Hall’.
At 12:55 p.m., the documentary ‘El silbo gomero’ will return to highlight the singularities of this practice and its current role in La Gomera society.
At 1:45 p.m., local sports will star in the special installment of ‘Canarias es Deporte’.
At 5:20 p.m., with the premiere of the documentary ‘Petrified Magic, Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria’, produced by the Facaracas Musical Group, TVC will take the viewer to the cultural landscape of Risco Caído and the sacred mountains of Gran Canaria.
At 6:15 p.m., the documentary in which Televisión Canaria participates will be premiered ‘Footprints, cave manifestations of the Canary Islands’. Directed by Tarek Ode, It intends to take a tour of the footprint left by our ancestors written in stone.
At 7:30 p.m., the special ‘Informe Trópico’ will analyze the main challenges of Canarian society in the 21st century, and at 9:15 p.m., ‘En Otra Clave’ will also commemorate the Archipelago festivity with the best humor.
At 11:10 p.m., it will broadcast the special ‘Baile de Taifas de Fuerteventura’ live, and right after, at 00:45 a.m. repeat the broadcast of ‘La isla del viento’. A film by Manuel Menchón that narrates the experiences of the writer Miguel de Unamuno on the island of Fuerteventura, where he was exiled.
Monday, May 30, Canary Islands Day
The Day of the Canary Islands will be marked by special editions of the usual programs. Thus, the day will start at 08:00 with the ‘BDC, which will travel to the 8 islands and will include interviews with the winners of the Canarian Awards medals, among other matters. It will be followed by ‘Get up to date’, which will move its set to Paseo de Las Canteras (Gran Canaria) and which will interrupt its broadcast at 11:00 a.m. to make way for the Institutional Fight of the Day of the Canary Islands from Tías (Lanzarote). In its second section, it will include the retransmission of the Paseo Romero del Día de Canarias, among other content.
The afternoon will offer the ‘Cógeme si puede’ specials at 3:30 p.m., and ‘BTC’ from El Paso (La Palma), at 4:30 p.m. The Informative Services will also celebrate the event with the special ‘Somos Alma’, at 7:10 p.m. Later, TN2 will arrive with an interview with the President of the Government of the Canary Islands.
At 9:00 p.m., TVC dresses up to celebrate the ‘Premios Canarias’ award ceremony from the Guimerá Theater (Tenerife), including the one prior to the event from 8:00 p.m.
Canarian movie night
The regional channel will premiere the film ‘The skin of the volcano’ at 10:30 pm. Through the discovery of an archaeological site of two bodies from different periods, the director Armando Ravelo tells the stories behind those bones and how they got to that place. The cast of actors is made up of actors such as Yanely Hernández, Maykol Hernández, Mingo Ruano or Berta Mola.
This cycle dedicated to Canarian film productions will close with the ‘Special night of Canarian short films’ at 11:50 p.m., in which three fiction titles will be the protagonists: ‘El mirador de Martín’, ‘Loverbirds’, and ‘El Alemán’.