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. He defended this in the presentation of the third workshop organized by the Unit against Violence against Women in the province, this time aimed at 50 students of the IES Lucus Augusti and taught by Guadalupe Blanco.
The program `Regueifando en Equality´ seeks to introduce 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 “the workshop of improvised dialectical disputes is a sign of the commitment that is being made to recover a fundamental part of our culture and explore all the uses that it can have, mainly that of promoting creativity among students to express through words and music messages against male violence and equality between the sexes.” Thus, he stressed “the importance of knowing the history of these songs, which passed from generation to generation mainly by women who knew how to preserve them, surviving today thanks to that chain of oral transmission”.
Isabel Rodríguez 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.”
The program “Regueifando en Igualacion” was taught this year for 150 schoolchildren from three educational centers in the province: the IES Nuestra Señora de los Ojos Grandes de Lugo, the IES Vilar Ponte de Viveiro and the IES Lucus Augusti de Lugo.