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2023, the year of novelties for the International Tran Tran Clown Festival
September 2023

2023, the year of novelties for the International Tran Tran Clown Festival

2023, the year of novelties for the International Tran Tran Clown Festival

The 13th anniversary of Fuerteventura's International Tran Tran Clown Festival will take place, like every year, in the town of Gran Tarajal, on September 22nd, 23rd and 24th with an edition that is filled with novelties, including didactic activities with workshops and courses for people of all ages, recognition of collaborating businesses or the Tran Tran ambassadors worldwide. Joy, laughs and colours are back in Gran Tarajal's streets, squares, parks, avenue, harbour and beach with the presence of 113 artists from the circus world and clowns from 40 different groups participating in the event and who come from Chile, Argentina, Portugal, Cuba, Russia, Italy, Uruguay, Germany, Cape Verde, Castilla y León, Castilla la Mancha, Catalonia, Basque Country, Andalusia, Galicia, Valencia and the Canary Islands. If, in 2022, 22 000 people attended the Tran Tran Festival, this year, the organisers are forecasting 27 000. This is why they have created a programme filled with novelties, but keeping in with the philosophy that has made this Festival so popular internationally: high level of participants, social implication and parallel activities. Therefore, this year people will enjoy an improved Tran Tran with new offers while preserving its essence. The main novelties are the following activities: “La pandilla de la Payasa Chanita” (Chanita the clown's band), aimed at children aged between 8 and 12 years old; “La cátedra doctoral de la Payasa Chanita” (the doctor's course from Chanita the clown), for all publics and which, on the days before to the Festival will offer courses and activities such as laugh therapy, clown express, soap pumps, musical tales, hula hoop, jugglers or Chanita the clown's children's dance workshops; “Club Tran Tran”, which will include all the businesses that collaborate in one way or another in the Festival; “La Payasa Chanita está para comérsela” (Chanita the clown is here to eat), where restaurants in Gran Tarajal will offer, in addition to their traditional menus, a dish or a product which is exclusively related with the theme of the Festival; “Tu TranGuía”, which will enable families to walk around the different shows scenes depending on their ages; “¿Y tú de quién eres?” (how about you, who are you from?), an initiative that invites the public to indicate which part of the world they have come from to enjoy the Festival; or “Planeta Tran Tran” (Tran Tran Planet), where people who come from any country or town anywhere in the world can become an ambassador of the Tran Tran in the place they come from. There are, therefore, quite a few activities before the Festival, but the Festival will truly start on Friday, September 22nd, at 5:30 pm. Saturday, September 23rd, will be the Festival’s main day, with the Tran Tran explosion, starting at 11:30 am with a show of laughs, joy, colours and imagination with the great 2023 Tran Tran parade. After the parade, activities will continue with clowns and circus artists, until 10 pm, which is when the adult party programme starts with Noche Perraka, which includes the acts of ThePerrakosSoundSystem, Abubukaka, Virginia Imaz de Oihulariklown and Las Coucher, until 3 am! The final day of the 2023 Tran Tran will be Sunday, September 24th starting at 10:30 am and ending at 2:30 pm, with the traditional and sensational pie war, the only wars that should exist. A special mention for the Tran Tran volunteers, aged between 13 and 70 years old. The team gets bigger every year and their work is essential for the organisation of such a large event. All those anonymous people who do their part to create a conveyor belt between the neighbours, the institution and the Festival itself are worth the greatest of all acknowledgements.

 

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