ORAL MEMORY is a tool that allows us to know our past, helping us to understand the present. Oral testimonies emphasize the human aspect of history, benefiting the questions and answers we elaborate about our yesterday.

Today, when social experience can be totally disconnected from the concrete territory and, in the face of social changes that threaten more than ever, the Internet presents itself as an ideal place to preserve together an intangible cultural heritage otherwise doomed to disappear.

Therefore, we invite you to narrate your memories linked to piñatas. Better yet, ask your grandparents, parents, friends, anyone who can tell us about their use in the past, with special attention to the words of our elders. 

Just write to us at pinatasycarnaval@gmail.com

ORAL MEMORY

Subject: About carnival: the burial of the sardine, the game "al higuí, al higuí", fat Sunday and piñata Sunday
Joaquín Díaz Foundation

Interpreter 1: Amparo Figueroa

Interpreter 2: Elena Rodríguez

Genre: Recitation

Date of performance: 17/11/1984

Place of performance: Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Spain

Compilers: Antonio Sánchez del Barrio

Subject: On a piñata Sunday I dressed up as a gypsy

Joaquín Díaz Foundation

Interpreter 1: Vecina
Genre: Sung
Place: Trévago, Soria
Title: La Gitanilla
Date of interpretation: 1987
Place of performance: Trévago, Soria, Spain

Compilers : Iris Lázaro

Subject: Carnival

Fundación Joaquín Díaz

Interpreter: Teófila González Bragado

Genre:  Recital
Date: 20/01/1984
Place: Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España
Compilers: Antonio Sánchez del Barrio

Subject: El desengaño de la modistilla

Fundación Joaquín Díaz

Interpreter: Teófila González Bragado

Genre: Sung

Date: 20/01/1984
Place: Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España
Compilers: Antonio Sánchez del Barrio

La pinyata Pego després de la dictadura
Espai Veïnal Antic Institut Pego

Oral memory of Rafael Ruíz, testimony and participation in the recovery of the festival of the pinyata a Pego.
Date: 25/02/2020

History of the Canary Islands Carnival

Oral memory of Hipólito Cabrero, Vicar General of the Diocese of the Canary Islands.