The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, visited the City Council of Cee, where together with its mayor Margot Lamela, visited the IES Fernando Blanco to present the initiative “Regueifando en equality” launched by the subdelegation within the program of activities around November 25, International Day for the eradication of violence against women.
Both the deputy delegate and the mayor expressed their firm commitment in the search for a more just and egalitarian society, free of male violence, indicating the need to work on these values with young people. For this reason, both agreed on the advisability of bringing this type of activities closer to the educational environment.
Thus, this proposal wants to bring together the use of music and our language, in an expression of culture as traditional as regueifa. “A good mix to be used as a tool to raise awareness about equality and the fight against gender violence,” said the deputy delegate.
The initiative seeks to make new discursive tools known among students through oral improvisation, in order to face different daily situations from gender equality, respect for diversity and the fight against gender violence, while promoting the conservation of regueifa, as a figure of the Galician oral tradition.
The workshops begin today in Cee, with the participation of the students of the basic VET and 2nd ESO courses; but over the next few weeks this experience will reach more than 150 students between 12 and 16 years of age from three educational centers in the province.
The activity is directed by the regueifeira, Lupe Blanco. In each session the students live in first person the demonstration of a regueifa and delve into the history of regueifa and oral improvisation throughout the world. Likewise, the role of women in the regueifa and the transition from “machismo, traditional” to “regueifa del S.XXI” is emphasized. The workshops are dynamic and participatory. In them the student learns to build a regueifa and ends up improvising compositions as a team.
“Regueifando en Igualacion” is part of a broad program of activities carried out by the subdelegation of the Government in A Coruña with which it is intended to bring information and the institution closer to the citizens, placing special emphasis on connecting with young people.
In this regard, workshops on affective and sexual education are being held in educational centres, and a campaign was also carried out on social networks to raise awareness of the trafficking and exploitation of women, girls and boys for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Rivas indicated that “from the administrations we have to do everything in our power to work for equality and fight against all kinds of violence, especially to put the emphasis on the field of prevention, especially in childhood and adolescence since it is time to provide girls and boys with the tools to know, detect and face possible situations of violence; that if they occur they will mark their entire existence”.