Divina Muerte. Festivities of the Departed (Cultural Program)

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Divina Muerte launches in Arucas, a terrifying cultural program Arucas, October 23, 2026. - The mayor of Arucas, Juan Jesús Facundo, and the councillor for Culture, Carlos González Matos, presented this Friday the cultural agenda of “Divina Muerte. Festividades Difuntas”. The mayor and the head of the department kicked off an extensive program of activities with the inauguration of the “Altar de Muertos”, dedicated to the poets Federico García Lorca, Eugenio Padorno and Albertine de Orleans, as well as to the filmmaker and comic book artist Marjane Satrapi. Under the slogan “When two worlds merge into one”, the Department of Culture of the Arucas City Council is offering the public a calendar of cultural events for all audiences with free admission. Theatre, concerts, escape room challenges, audio fiction... will thread together the program until November 21, with one of the most eagerly awaited evenings being the Noche de Finaos, on October 31, when the Great Herald Wagon of the Dead will tour the streets of the historic center of Arucas from 9:00 p.m. onwards. Halloween, horror and oral tradition will shape the itinerary of the month of the departed in Arucas, which also takes into account those who enjoy scares, with proposals in the Municipal Cemetery of Arucas such as the audio fiction by the theatre company CR Escénica, “Susurros del Malpaís”, which will take place on October 30 at 8:00 p.m., and the show by David Batista, “Ecos de un hilo infinito”; or the haunted house, which, from the Sociedad Atlántica, invites you to share “El Último Sueño”, with several sessions on November 13, 14, 15, 19, 20 and 21. This is a program that reaches all the neighbourhoods of Arucas and that has the collaboration of the Asociación Cultural Salsipuedes, the Agrupación Folklórica y Cultural Rumantela, the Asociación CFP San Isidro Labrador, the Municipal Arts Schools, Labrantes de la Palabra, the Asociación Vecinal Dácil, 5 Comentarios and Comercios Arucas (COA). Admission is free for all shows, with prior registration required for some of them through the Arucas Espacio Cultural app.