The social agenda of the Isla Bonita Love Festival concludes this Friday, 26 July, with the meeting between the transsexual activist Topacio Fresh and the magazine and podcast The Cultural Magazine at the Casa de la Cultura in Los Llanos de Aridane. The event will take place at 19:00 and is an action that will continue to give a voice to the LGTBIQ+ collective through one of its historical representatives.

The CEO of Sodepal, Miriam Perestelo, highlights the importance for the island of having the presence and involvement of Topacio Fresh in the new edition of the Love Festival, "an event that continues to support diversity and freedom so that people can enjoy who they are and who they love without fear and break down the barriers and stereotypes that they have had to endure for centuries", she explains.

The social agenda for Friday 26th July will start at 12:00 with the Jornadas jurídicas: Retos para la Justicia en Materia de Igualdad, a meeting that counts with the collaboration of the Asociación de Profesionales Jurídico, Laboral, Económico y Social de la Isla de La Palma (Association of Legal, Labour, Economic and Social Professionals of the Island of La Palma) and in which this subject will be dealt with in depth.

At 19:00 it will be the turn of the meeting between the gallerist Topacio Fresh and The Cultural Magazine, where she will talk about her beginnings in the art world from her hometown, Rosario, to her incursion into the Madrid art scene with the opening of the Fresh Gallery in 2008.

It is a cultural talk where a podcast will also be recorded with The Culture Magazine, the first LGTBI cultural podcast in the Canary Islands.

Then, at 20:00 hours, in the Plaza de España of the municipality, the event Gastro & Love will take place, with the participation of the firms of Isla Bonita Moda.

Topaz Fresh

Topacio Fresh, originally from Argentina, became interested in contemporary art as a self-taught artist from a very young age, taking courses and seminars focused mainly on video art, art criticism and performance.

Her relationship with Spain began in 2002, when she was chosen to participate in an Argentine-Spanish cultural exchange. From that moment on, she began her collaboration with the group Fangoria.

In 2008, together with her husband, Israel Cotes, she undertook her new project, the opening of a new gallery space in Madrid: La Fresh Gallery. For 12 years she has held more than a hundred exhibitions of national and international, emerging and established artists.

Among the main awards received, it is worth highlighting the one awarded to her in 2018 by the Community of Madrid in recognition of the most outstanding woman in the field of culture.

Currently, his main professional dedication is cultural curating in museums and galleries, and giving art masterclasses, such as the one he gave at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in March 2024.