In two days of activity of the 43 version of the National Crafts Fair that takes place at the ATLAPA Convention Center organized by the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura), transactions have been made for nearly $110 million as shown in the registration of the fair.

Of this total, 93 million 200 are for handicraft sales, 8,100 for food sales at restaurants and an approximately 8,300 for consumer handicraft sales.

The fair that began on July 26 and will extend up to 30, has offered a variety of artistic, folkloric, educational, cultural, workshops and a cuisine for all tastes to the attendees.

The school tours have been followed by 782 high schools from Panama and West Panama and have been attended by 111 people with some type of disability.

At the Teatro La Huaca events have been held, such as the presentation of the National Ballet of Panama with a folkloric gala, the Cultural Ethnic artistic show called "Ancestral Heritage" by designer Alex Adames, where pieces used by the different ethnic communities of the country and the nightsittings contest have been shown and the design by Carlos González with the modeling of Jaime Pérez has been won.

Also, the public enjoyed musical performances as the Special program of the Network of Orchestra and Youth Chors of Panama as well as different expressions of the dances of Corpus Christi, who throughout the day visited the fair with activations and assaults at all pavilions, providing teaching for tourist and national.

Other attractions were the carpet made from raw dyed salt, designed by Jaime Pérez and Carlos Varga, workshops about the arrangement of the pollera to the traditional usanza presented by Guadalupe Cañizales, where step by step shown the use of the garments and accessories.

Iberina Cantari from the town of Emberá, from the province of the Darién said that it's the first time that she's been participating at the fair and that she's "been interested with comfort and treatment." José Saavedra's student at IJA's Justo Arosemena Institute stated that it's "very interesting the fair, very good and amusing the workshop of percussion."

At the opening date of the fair about 1500 people entered and this figure is expected to increase greatly on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The artistic tima was greatly intertwined with folkloric presentations by children, youth and adults and had a spectacular closure with the introduction of an ensemble of the Juba patterns of Sammy and Sandra Sandoval who put them to dance.