The subdelegate of the Government in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, highlighted the power of regueifas as a Galician cultural tool to fight for equality and against male violence in schools. She defended it in the day promoted by the Unit against Violence against Women for 50 students of the IES Nuestra Señora dos Ollos Grandes de Lugo, taught by Guadalupe Blanco.
The program `Regueifando en Igualacion´ seeks to introduce students to new discursive tools through oral improvisation, in order to build pieces in favor of equality and favor the conservation of the improvised dialectical dispute as a figure of the Galician oral tradition.
The subdelegate explained that “regueifas are the art of working with words and with our music, a fundamental part of Galician culture, which was maintained and preserved from generation to generation and thanks to the work of women who knew how to recover it”. In this line, he addressed the students to “value that improvised dialectical disputes, legends, sayings, cantigas or sayings survive today thanks to that chain of transmission that your great-grandmothers initiated.”
Isabel Rodríguez finally thanked “the active participation of both students and teachers, with an excellent teacher such as Guadalupe Blanco, who transmitted her long experience and knowledge in this world to combat inequalities between men and women and raise awareness from the teaching that a fairer world is possible.”