Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) “protect creators”.
As he explained, the law will seek to “protect intellectual and creative property” as well as “young talent” so that there are “diverse disciplines” on the islands and thus “work hand in hand and fundamentally empower Canarian creators.”
The PSOE “absolutely ratifies it” and is committed to “having the budget item in line with a sector that accounts for more than 2% of the gross domestic product” and that must have “established in the general budgets of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands an amount that make them prosper and grow”, added Torres.
For the current president of the Canary Islands Executive, culture is “a true generator of personal wealth, but also employment and the economy.”
In this regard, he recalled that in this legislature work has been done “to achieve the Canarian Agenda for Sustainable Development, which has a specific, singular, own section” for cultural activity.
From the PSOE they understand cultural activity in “its wide spectrum” in a philosophy in which “we have walked to approve for the first time and unanimously in the Parliament of the Canary Islands the law of culture”, in which “many many contributions”.
In his statements to the media at the meeting held in the Alboroto room in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he recalled some “very hard months” in which “we have had to regret the recent absence of Guillermo García-Alcalde, Alexis Ravelo or Juan José Gil”, who are “great creators of Canarian culture”, who have “great men and great women” to “protect, strengthen and enrich us with their creation”.
For his part, the socialist candidate for the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Augusto Hidalgo, has proposed “having a real network, a circuit of culture that takes advantage of the professional sector that exists in the Canary Islands and also project it towards the peninsula”, to “carry the events cultural activities to all corners of the island with a real cultural circuit with the infrastructures that already exist in the municipalities and also incorporating new ones”.
The objective of this insular proposal, he said, is to promote “the fantastic infrastructures to develop culture” that exist on the island with “a real circuit that allows everyone to have access” and that “canarian producers and creators have the opportunity to tour the entire island and the citizens of Gran Canaria, regardless of where they live, can access it”.
The candidate for mayor of the capital, Carolina Darias, has indicated that in this meeting with the cultural sector they seek to give a voice “to those who have made their work their way of life to make Las Palmas de Gran Canaria the best city to live in”. which is its motto “and our purpose”.
For Darias, culture is “fundamental” as a “tool for transformation, wealth generation and employment”, which is why he proposes “a transversal line, to make a more creative city, supporting cultural diffusion, taking advantage of and supporting the creation artistic, and all the talent”.
He recalled proposals to “bring culture to all parts of the city, and also supporting creators so that they can go abroad” such as the ‘District Culture’ project or the Guiniguada promenade for Canarian culture and arts, which value “artistic, cultural, landscape and environmental values to unite the two historic neighborhoods of Triana and Vegueta” in “a tribute to all Canarians who have contributed universally to culture and the arts”. EFE
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