March 8, 2024.- The Casa de Cervantes Museum, a state-owned museum under the Ministry of Culture, located in Valladolid, joins the celebration of International Women’s Day with a wide and varied program of activities under the motto ‘Pioneers, silenced, invisible’.
Although throughout the year the museum is committed from the cultural field to the fight for equality, showing the female contribution to the enrichment of the arts throughout history, as well as the conditions of its existence in the past, it has prepared a special agenda during the week.
Meetings with specialists
In the meeting ‘The Penthouse Madwoman’, Montserrat Ruiz will address the work of four writers -Brontë, du Maurier, Nabuco and von Arnim-, responsible for rewriting the character of the Victorian novel known as ‘the Penthouse Madwoman’. She will talk about ‘Rebeca’, ‘Jane Eyre’, ‘Vera’ and ‘The Successor’, as well as 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 of the conferences 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 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 of 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’, a female itinerary
Likewise, 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 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, March 13 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.
A dance proposal
After the success achieved in its pre-premiere, 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 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 hours. In addition, this extended schedule extends to Women’s Day itself, on Friday, March 8.