Agroaldea
Organized by the Tyldet Cultural Association, they will be held in the coming days 3, 4, 5 and 6 May in the municipality of Telde.
These are the XIV Study Days on Ethnography and Folklore Jorge Vega Peña, that since the year 1995 is organizing the Tyldet Cultural Association and whose objective is to disseminate and deepen the study of all those aspects that make up the Traditional Canarian Culture..
At Tyldet they understand that Traditional Culture is made up of the traits, cultural patterns, habits, techniques and customs that are transmitted from generation to generation and that identify and differentiate us as a people. Preserving and transmitting this heritage is an obligation to ourselves and future generations., especially in these times when homogenization threatens the extinction of existing cultural diversity.
In this XIV edition the Conferences are dedicated to “Tomato Culture in the Canary Islands”. To this end, they have planned a series of events that will show the richness and variety of cultural heritage in a very specific aspect.: the relationship with tomatoes.
Different aspects of the 130 years of history of this crop on the islands that, in his confrontation with nature, has given a particular answer, different from other places, forming its own culture.
ES, definitely, what is understood as cultural diversity; such as the sharecropping system and its degree of compliance, the construction of large hydraulic engineering works to bring water to arid areas, the large sorribas in grazing areas or the population movement that occurred from the traditional agricultural areas of the interior to the coast, contributing their cultural background and creating new settlements around the main highway in the south of Gran Canaria.
Program.
Tuesday, 3 may:
19:30 h. Opening.
20:00 h. “Tomato in Gran Canaria: Culture, enterprise, sharecropping and export”, by Manuel Rebollo López, Business Owner from the Las Palmas School of Commerce; former director of BBVA bank; Graduate in Geography and History from UNED; Doctor in History from the University of Las Palmas de G.C.. and researcher.
Wednesday, 4 may:
19:30 h. “Export of tomatoes from the Canary Islands to England”, by Carmelo Santana Peña, former tomato exporter and writer.
Thursday, 5 may:
19:30 h. “The sharecropping struggles in the south of Gran Canaria during the 60s”, by Domingo Viera González, Social Worker; priest during 6 years in Castillo de Romeral and Juan Grande. And José Luis Pérez Ojeda, sharecropper, leader and fighter throughout his life in the sharecropping movement.
20:30 h. “The Barbary cigar in the Canary Islands: an enemy that always lurks”, by Manuel Ramírez Muñoz, Social Graduate; Graduate and Doctor in Geography and History from UNED; professor at the associated center of the UNED in Las Palmas de G.C.. and researcher.
Friday, 6 may:
19:30 h. “Tomatoes and tourism”, by Pedro J. Franco Lopez, Culture Technician; writer.
20:30 h. “The participation of women in sharecropping tomato cultivation”, by Rosa María Hernández Rodríguez, Licensed in C.C. Politics and Sociology (Sociology Section) and Doctor in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid; Professor of Sociology at the University of La Laguna.
The presentations will take place at the Farmer's House (old house of D. Tomas Oliva) in c/ Marqués del Muni 115, La Pardilla-Telde.