The Municipality of Quito does not foresee holding any event to say goodbye to 2022, unlike 2021.
Last year, through the La Mariscal Administration, in the north of the city, the festival of old years was held with some modifications to avoid crowds.
It was thus that, through a mobile platform with stick figures, there was a circuit that ran along Amazonas avenue to the Plaza de los Presidentes, on Jorge Washington street.
The Quito council established a rolling route. The event was between 4:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Until December 24, 2022, the Municipality had not confirmed any end-of-year events, with the exception of the third will contest called Bye, bye, old year, but those who make puppets and masks are in the mood to resume that tradition that It was complicated by the pandemic.
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That is the case of Vicente Paredes, who is a craftsman who makes masks to celebrate the Holy Innocents, between December 28 and January 6, and for December 31 the elaboration of the puppets.
In this activity, Paredes has already been 51 years old. He started out as a hairdresser’s apprentice. He is a native of Píllaro, Tungurahua. In December, in a place in Quito, he was struck by the fact that cardboard masks were hung on wires where he learned the trade as a hairdresser.
He went through six different workshops over ten years. The masks were sold in hairdressing shops, she recalled.
He set up his own workshop, where he continued with the tradition of selling masks, but on one occasion the price had risen, so he preferred to start making himself with a bet in between with a friend.
With some difficulties he ventured into the business. He came to have eleven workers. One of his workers went one day with a rubber mask instead of the cardboard ones. He came up with the idea of making them. The first time he made 300 and they were all sold, the second year 500.
He assured that he worked empirically until a chemical engineer specialized in latex graduated in the United States helped him.
During the pandemic, in 2020, he closed the premises after the quarantine so as not to continue paying the rent, he said, in his new establishment north of Quito.
He maintained that he thought he would no longer return, but due to the insistence of his clients he is once again serving a few blocks from the Central University.
He started serving a few days ago. In stock there are some 1,200 rubber masks whose prices range from $15 to $60, and some 2,000 cardboard ones from $1 to $5 for large heads, and $3 for a face, although not with new designs.
The inspiration for the masks comes from movies.
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On the shelves there are designs of monsters, skulls, politicians, witches, masks, wigs, costumes.
A mask can take between a day and a day and a half to make, but the work is done by hand and in series because it facilitates, for example, painting.
Marice Herrera decorated several monster masks last Saturday. She sews artificial fur that is made of plush. Each one takes up to a day, depending on the model.
While Jonathan Herrera touched up a Frankenstein mask with water lead paint. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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