CajaCanarias Announces 2025 Awards Finalists, Honorees for Jan. 30 Ceremony

CajaCanarias will host its 2025 awards ceremony on January 30th at 7:00 PM. The event will take place at the foundation's cultural center in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Raquel Toste and Carlos Centurión will be your hosts for the evening, with music provided by Raquel del Rosario.

Doors open at 5:30 PM for a cocktail reception. Entry is free until all seats are taken.

This year, the foundation will also present honorary awards to Wolfredo Wildpret and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra.

Here are the finalists for the competitive awards:

Benito Pérez Armas Novel Award:

• Tiempo de monstruos by Bruno Puelles Reyna
• Nudo by Víctor José Ruiz Guzmán

Pedro García Cabrera Poetry Award:

• (Im)presiones by Laureano Zurita
• Bar Isla by Luis Piernavieja
• Como el miedo de un molusco sin concha by Román del Pino

Isaac de Vega Short Story Award:

• Metaloides by María Laura Dueñas

Manolo Millares Arts Award:

• Cristina Ortega for Coreografiar el viento
• Cristina Reyes for La Cena and Boliches de fondo y a la pata coja
• Maï Diallo for Body Horror I and Body Horror II

Cebrián-Poldo Cebrián Photography Award:

• Dime si me ves by Emilio Barrionuevo
• Mudar la piel by Margarita Díaz
• Paisajes de Canarias by Roberto Casañas

Alberto Delgado Young Music Award:

• Ana Ayala Quartet featuring Cristopher Pérez
• The duo Hergo
• The group Kimera

Manolo Villalba Short Film Award:

• Fiction:
  • Inmaculada by Amos Milbor
  • La paciente desconocida de Freud by Antonia San Juan
  • Toma tierra by Yon Bengoechea
• Documentary:
  • De interés insular by Marta Torrecilla
  • Tour by Fátima Luzardo
• Animation:
  • T.L.P. by Lehior Ojeda
  • Mundo pecera by Marco Antonio Toledo

Agustín de Betancourt Research Award:

• Martín Chirino. Homenaje a la música. Sonoridad de la materia by David Cortés
• Somos costeras. Las mujeres en la pesca artesanal de Canarias by Gloria Esther Cabrera
• Trabajo y educación infantil en el mundo rural de Tenerife al final del siglo XVIII by Paula Belén Barbero