March 1, 2024.- International Women's Day, instituted by the United Nations in 1975, is the ideal time to reflect on the progress made in achieving equality between men and women and the way forward to achieving equity.
The Cervantes House Museum, culturally committed to the fight for women’s equality, develops programs and activities along this line throughout the year in order to show the female contribution to the enrichment of the arts throughout history as well as the conditions of its existence in the past. Under the motto Pioneers, silenced, invisible, this Museum proposes different alternatives with which to enjoy, throughout the month of March, this programming of marked vein in feminine.
“The crazy woman in the attic” and “With affection”. Two meetings with specialists
Under the title “The Penthouse Madwoman”, Montserrat Ruiz will address the work of four writers —Brontë, du Maurier, Nabuco and von Arnim—, responsible for rewriting what is perhaps the most outsider character in the Victorian novel: the Penthouse Madwoman. He will talk about “Rebeca”, “Jane Eyre”, “Vera” and “The Successor”, and stories and films, to discover what they have in common and what is different.
Montserrat Ruiz is a professor of Spanish Literature and head of the Vallisolean publishing house Deméter, specialized in Gothic literature and texts of Romanticism. The conference will take place on Tuesday, March 12, at 8 p.m., in the historical library of the Museum. The entrance is free and free until complete capacity.
The second lecture is entitled “With affection: the text-plastic dedication as a avant-garde gift”. In it, Professor Irene García Chacón will analyze, in the context of the last acquisition of the Casa de Cervantes Museum (a Quixotic dedication of Dalí in a song by the poet Yvan Goll), the hidden art of writing the header of a letter or a dedication by writers and artists of the avant-garde.
Irene García Chacón is Assistant Professor Doctor of the University of Valladolid and researcher Requalification Next Generation EU-Università di Bologna. The talk will be on Tuesday, March 19, at 8 p.m., in the historical library of the Museum. The entrance is free and free until complete capacity.
“cervantAs”. An itinerary in female
Together with these two conferences, the Casa de Cervantes Museum proposes a thematic tour in terms of gender. The route puts the emphasis on Cervantes’ vision of the female world from the perspective of its protagonists and how they influenced the characterization of the female characters that populate his works. It will also show the valued list of works written by women present in the historical library of the Museum, as well as a presentation of those objects and spaces that, in the past, had an exclusively female use.
Déborah Ordás, curator of the Museum, will be in charge of directing these visits. They will take place on Wednesday 6 and 13 March, at 12 noon, and will last approximately 20 minutes. Admission is free and requires prior registration through a form that is hosted on the Museum’s website.
“The teachers of dancing”. A dance proposal
After the success achieved in its pre-premiere last Friday, February 23, the show “Las maestras del danzar”, by the choreographers and dancers Enrieta Mo Danza and María Bullido returns to the House.
This show brings to the stage those women pioneers in the world of dance. From Mademoiselle de la Fontaine, the “Queen of Dance”, to some of the most outstanding masters of contemporary dance, case Isadora Duncan or Pina Bausch.
The performance will take place on Friday, March 15, at 8 p.m., in the historical library of the Museum. Admission is free and requires a prior invitation withdrawal at the Museum’s ticket office (withdrawal from Wednesday, March 6).
“When the sun goes down”. Another way to see the Museum
This program of activities is closed with the organization of a series of extraordinary and free openings with which to visit the Museum at a time other than the usual. They will take place every Thursday of the month of March, from 17 to 20 h. In addition, this extended schedule extends to Women’s Day itself, on Friday, March 8.