What is left of the Mexico festival at the MUNA?
The exhibition “Concomitancias. Legados, presencia y futuros indígenas en México y Canarias” is the closing event of the festival. RTVC says it runs until 1 November during normal museum hours, while Webtenerife gives 2 November.
The concerts, film nights and workshops are over. RTVC says they took place in September.
The RTVC report gives no specific opening times, only normal museum hours. Anyone heading there on the last day should first check museosdetenerife.org, where Webtenerife says hours and entry conditions are listed.
RTVC says the festival activities were free. That applied as long as places were available.
What is the Concomitancias exhibition about?
The show takes the term “concomitancia” as its starting point, as RTVC writes. It looks for links, parallels and historical tensions between the Canary Islands and Mexico.
RTVC says it covers colonisation, mestizaje (the mixing of population groups), the building of identities and the relationship to the land. This unfolds across several stages and processes.
The MUNA, the Museum of Nature and Archaeology, stands on Calle Fuente Morales, 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, says Webtenerife. The sources gave no details on getting there or on buses.
What was in the festival programme in early September?
The festival opened with the exhibition on 1 September, RTVC reports. A day later, on 2 September at 19:00, Larisa Pérez and Gloria Godínez spoke about the symbolic and cultural links between Candelaria/Chaxiraxi and Guadalupe/Tonantzin.
Open-air cinema began on 3 September at 21:00 with “La camarista” (2018) by Lila Avilés. On 4 September, also at 21:00, came the performance “Rojo colonial” and “Trama de las dos orillas” by Gloria Godínez.
The evening of 4 September continued with Mexican folk dance from Yacambú + Yuli and their mariachi band. DJ Kali then played Mexican rhythms.
On 5 September the organisers ran a stamp workshop with cochineal at 11:00 and 17:00. The stamps were inspired by Mexico and the Canary Islands.
On 10 September at 21:00 the film “Museo” (2018) screened in the MUNA patio. It is inspired by the theft of pieces from the Museo Nacional de Antropología de México.
Which concerts and workshops followed later in September?
On 11 September at 21:00 Bial Hclap played live, and on 12 September at 11:00 Armando Saldanha led the cooking workshop “Sabores de México”. On Tuesday 15 September the lecture “El tinte que creó un paisaje y la plaga que lo transforma” was held in the MUNA's Salón de Actos (assembly hall).
Los Sabandeños performed on 16 September at 21:00, Mexican Independence Day. Another RTVC item from 3 September is headlined that the group is dedicating its 48th Festival of Mexican Music and Culture to the day, and it is unclear whether this relates to the MUNA concert.
A piñata workshop was planned for 19 September at 11:00. On 25 September at 21:00 Mencey Romántico gave a bolero concert.
The last date was the chocolate workshop on 26 September at 11:00. The sources give no age limits, languages or possible registration requirement.
Who is behind MUSA, and what comes next?
According to Webtenerife, MUSA has run since 2014, and each edition is devoted to a different country. According to Diario de Avisos, 2023 focused on Cabo Verde and 2024 on Germany.
RTVC says the German edition ran from 4 to 29 September 2024 and showed “Metropolis” and “Good Bye, Lenin”, among others. On 29 September a rebuilt Berlin Wall made of 216 crates was taken down.
José Carlos Acha, councillor for culture, museums and sport at the Cabildo (island government), calls MUSA one of the MUNA's big bets on making the museum an open space, according to RTVC. Efraín Medina, councillor for employment and education, announced a continuation.
Medina said, according to RTVC: “Mexico will have a very special presence in Tenerife this year.” The Feria Tricontinental de Artesanía (crafts fair) is also meant to be devoted to Mexico, though RTVC gave no date.