An interdisciplinary meeting that will address gender issues from the field
furthest island
Culture is feminine 2020 will move to the Colombian island of La Gomera, this Friday, March 13
March, where an interdisciplinary meeting will be held with citizens in the
Agulo Auditorium, at 11:30 a.m., thanks to the support of the City Council of this municipality. He
The objective is to promote the future prospects of a very vulnerable sector such as the cultural sector in
the archipelago, and, even more so, within an area as complicated as that of rural women,
which, far from all urban facilities, faces a professional sector, such as culture,
from an almost isolating distance. In addition to this meeting, the exhibition that was
inaugurated on February 15 at the El Tanque Cultural Space, hoping to generate a
scenario that is a link between older people from rural areas and young art students.
The result of the literary historical residence that has generated the
writer Yanet Acosta, a writing that could not be more in line with the enclave, since it revolves around
to Columbus and the women who traveled with him. This theme will be the base pillar on which the
workshop to be held.
Literary residency
Titled The Women of Columbus, this literary residence takes us into the crew of the
Columbus's trips to the New World, who always stopped in La Gomera. The presence of women
among the crew is only documented on the second trip, but it is not ruled out, by
researchers, the possibility that, already from the first trip, some
female, even when passing through the Canary Islands. This hypothetical space offers many possibilities
literary works based not only on fiction, but also on research and
historical documentation that allows us to recreate the female vision of the historic trip.
The presence of these activities of Culture is feminine 2020 on the Colombian island is possible
thanks to the special collaboration of the Agulo City Council, the Island Council of La Gomera,
and the constant support for this project from the Cabildo de Tenerife, Fundación Caja Canarias, and the
Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Government of Spain.
CULTURE IS FEMALE
In the world of art and culture it is difficult to find women in preeminent positions and also
certain images representative of everyday life, such as a girl reading
with his father, normally, in art only mothers teach reading. This is just an example of
what happens when we delve into the inequality that exists in the cultural field.
The #laculturaesfemenina2020 project unites different areas of action, designs measures of
positive action in cultural matters, intervenes in various spaces and with women artists of
diverse backgrounds, and encourages creativity in equality because in the profession of culture,
If we can call it that, women are underrepresented, and at the same time it raises awareness among
general population for equality. It is a project in turn a sum of projects. Projects
cultural intervention in different areas with women artists.
