La Laguna clausura talleres de ocio con gran muestra en plaza del Cristo

The city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna has hosted today the closing of the latest edition of the leisure and free time workshops program of the City Council, which have been developed between October 2024 and June 2025. This initiative, promoted by the Department of Citizen Participation, has been carried out in the 47 citizen centers of the municipality, parallel to the school calendar.

These activities, with an average duration of between 80 and 100 hours, have involved the participation of more than 2,500 people. In total, 135 different workshops were taught, with proposals adapted to the interests and needs of each neighborhood and town in the municipality, designed after a participatory evaluation and consultation process with the user community of the Citizen Centers.

The Councilor for Citizen Participation, Fran Hernández, emphasizes that «these workshops are much more than a leisure offer because they are a tool to build community, to generate connections, share knowledge, and promote the active involvement of our neighbors in the social life of their surroundings. In each workshop, there are stories of learning, coexistence, and pride in what is built together.»

The closing event, held in the plaza del Cristo, offered a great display of the work done in these months, with exhibitions, performances, and open activities to the public throughout the morning. This venue hosted a dozen live performances, led by modern dance groups, folklore, sevillanas, singing, physical conditioning, guitar, and other scenic disciplines, filling the square with rhythm and energy all morning.

These live demonstrations allowed the public to appreciate the collective learning process that has taken place during the course and celebrate the value of the Citizen Centers as spaces for active participation and cultural expression.

Furthermore, the day featured over twenty tents set up in the plaza del Cristo, where an open display of the work carried out by the students throughout the course was offered. The public could enjoy diverse proposals such as embroidery, lacework, handicrafts, patchwork, creative sewing, traditional clothing, memory workshops, makeup, painting, new technologies, among other disciplines that reflect the commitment, creativity, and talent of hundreds of participants.

«The commitment and participation we have seen throughout the course reflect the vitality of our neighborhoods and towns, reaffirming the importance of continuing to strengthen this network of Citizen Centers as open, vibrant spaces serving the community,» adds the councilor.

The program has covered a wide variety of subjects, from artistic and cultural activities such as painting, guitar, embroidery, creative sewing, lacework, or patchwork, to well-being and personal development practices such as yoga, physical conditioning, memory workshops, Spanish sign language, cooking, self-makeup, or skincare. Urban dances, folk dances, sevillanas, and training in new technologies were also included.

Hernández highlights that «with the aim of promoting coexistence and personal and community development, this program is consolidated as one of the main lines of action of the department, energizing the network of Citizen Centers and ensuring a healthy, inclusive, and completely free leisure offer for all Lagunera citizens.»