Alcoutim does not have a festival, but promises to celebrate Contraband later this year

Under normal conditions, the Festival of Contraband would start today

Photos: Pedro Lemos | Sul Informação

O Smuggling Festival, which under normal conditions would take place this weekend, will not happen, for now, but will have an edition in 2021, on a date when "favorable public health and safety conditions are met".

According to the Chamber of Alcoutim, «in this atypical year», the festival «will give way to “Tráfico de Arte no Guadiana”, a new format adapted to current times». similar to the one used in November.

A year ago, this event was one of the first "victims" of Covid-19, bearing in mind that it was scheduled for the weekend of March 27th to 29th, a few days after the first confinement was decreed.

Even so, in November, it was possible to hold the festival in a version adapted to the pandemic, without the pedestrian bridge between Alcoutim and Sanlúcar de Guadiana that attracted tens of thousands of people to this area of ​​the border, in the first three editions of the event – ​​the 2020 was the 4th.

There was also no «the frenzy, the hustle, the animation and the good mood», characteristic of the first three editions of the Festival do Contraband.

«In November 2020, the giant and colorful piece “Otter – Big Trash Animals”, and the Smuggling Memories Tunnel were some of the pieces that the Contraband Festival placed in Alcoutim with the motto of “Tráfico de Artes no Guadiana”», recalled the Alcouteneja local authority, which speaks of "a complete success" of these initiatives.

"For this year, it is expected that the event will be repeated along these lines and will once again surprise and increase the range of pretexts for visiting this territory," he added.

«In times of pandemic, we bet on “Trafficking Arts on the Guadiana”, where we intend to bring cultural and artistic expressions to the Guadiana, through the creation of national, international and local authors, allowing us to know the horizon of our limits, enabling us to to cross new paths in order to be able to divulge and value the Arts in Guadiana, always associating them with the Smuggling theme, and enhancing the strategy of unfolding these values ​​in more seasons of the year», described the Alcoutim Chamber.

While the date of this event is not known, and bearing in mind that the 5th edition of the festival should start today, Câmara alcouteneja will release a promotional video for the “Smuggling Festival – Tráfico de Artes no Guadiana”.

«The cross-border event is already a mark of the international, cultural identity between two peoples of the Lower Guadiana, the neighboring villages of Alcoutim and Sanlúcar de Guadiana, based on the theme of smuggling, has become a strategic value that allows them to promote their history , heritage, culture and local memory, preserved by this festival», concluded the municipality.

 

 



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