Important Provincial Council-City Council agreement to finance the 2020 Encaixe Show

The president of the Provincial Council, Valentín González Formoso, and the mayor of Camariñas, Sandra Insua, signed today the agreement by which the provincial entity will contribute 45,000 euros, 451% of the total, to finance the expenses that were already executed before their cancellation in the month of March, out of prudence and responsibility, due to the declaration of the State of Alarm.

In addition, this agreement also includes the financing of the first Virtual Mostra in history, an event organized by the City Council of Camariñas during Easter so that the spirit of the Mostra is not lost, adapting to the forced confinement resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Provincial Council of A Coruña and the City Council of Camariñas will jointly finance the almost 100,000 euros in expenses generated by the Mostra do Encaixe de Camariñas Provincial Council of A Coruña 2020.

An event that was a great success, attracting an audience of 237,962 users, who viewed from their homes the 175 videos that followed each other from Wednesday to Sunday on the Mostra's Facebook (@mencaixedecamarinas) and on the event's Youtube channel. All the usual protagonists of the Camariñas Lace Festival of the Provincial Council of A Coruña had their place in this virtual edition.

“We wanted to support the City Council of Camariñas by maintaining the same percentage of the total expenses that had been contributed when the Mostra could be carried out normally”, explained González Formoso who also recalled that “in February we redoubled our commitment to this event, which has now been incorporated into the Provincial Council in its official nomenclature, and our idea remains the same since the income of Camariñas is provincial heritage”.

For her part, Sandra Insua thanked "the Provincial Council and its president for the effort they are making in this difficult year because without this economic support it would be very difficult for us to cover the expenses we already had for the Festival: its promotion, the assembly or the allocation of the prizes for the young designers competition."