The Punta Umbría City Council has presented Thursday the program of activities that it has prepared to commemorate in the municipality the International Women’s Day, which will last until March 29 and will have the collaboration of other entities and associations of the municipality.
In the words of the mayor, Aurora Aguedo Borrero“with this set of events we want to give visibility and be a speaker of the reality that women live, highlighting the importance of educating on Equality.”
For the Councilor for Equality, valentina esteban, “there continues to be a significant gap and the fight for Equality is the responsibility of all of us”, so that the Consistory “is committed to energizing the population in this matter with a wide range of proposals”. Exhibitions, workshops, sports and educational activities or excursions are part of the programme. In addition, the main event will be the ‘March 8’ Awards Gala, which will take place this Saturday the 4th at the Teatro del Mar, at 7:00 p.m.
Punta Umbria City Council will deliver four distinctions: In the Mother and Worker section, the chosen one is Dolores Moriña Irala. In Promotion of Equality, Ana López Sevidanes. In Citizen Participation, a reference for the ARO association in the municipality, Antonia Hermoso Marín. And as Women Entrepreneurs, the sisters Consolación and Elvira Naranjo León. De Dolores Moriña Irala, better known among the neighbors as ‘China’, highlights her story of overcoming and struggle. Ana López Sevidanes has been secretary and responsible for the promotion of equality at CEIP Santo Cristo del Mar in Punta Umbría. Antonia Hermoso Marín is a benchmark in citizen participation in Punta Umbría, due to her involvement in the ARO-Cristóbal Gangoso Aragón association. For their part, the sisters Consolación and Elvira Naranjo León, whom the entire town recognizes with the names Consoli and Cati, have been working all their lives as great active women.
other acts
Apart from the Awards, another of the highlights of the program is the photographic contest ‘The Woman from your gaze’, in which the students of Punta Umbría educational centers are invited to send black and white images made with their mobile devices to make visible the women of Punta Umbría. Until March 22, works can be sent to the email [email protected].
There will also be a session belly painting under the name ‘Essence of a woman’ on March 7 in the multipurpose room of the Cultural Center, consisting of an artistic painting workshop to reflect the processes of women, taught by the author Eugenia Martínez.
On Wednesday, March 8, the reading of the a manifesto at 12:00 in the Town Hall, with distribution of ties by the association Abriendo Camino Solidario. The different schools of Punta Umbría will participate. On Sunday, March 12, there will be a women’s solidarity march and run ‘Punta Umbría for Equality’, for the benefit of the Aro, Resurrección and Puntanimals associations. Registration is still open, until the 8th at 9:00 p.m., at Puntiti Sport. To finish the test there will be a batukada ‘stone drums‘ in the Joaquín Guisado Vides square, as well as revitalizations by Nalú Dance and Lidersport, with stands of the associations involved.
From March 13 to 20 the exhibition will be open to the public ‘women of the world‘ by Antonio Carrión Bayo ‘Pope’ in the Teatro del Mar room of the Cultural Center, in the afternoon. It will take a tour of the diversity of women around the planet.
On the other hand, the Municipal Center for the Active Participation of the Elderly will visit a sample of patchwork in Utrera this Fridaywill hold an exhibition of stories from the memory workshop under the name ‘The women of our lives’, which can be visited from March 6 to 10, and its users will enjoy the screening ‘5 little wolves’ on Tuesday 7, at 11:30 a.m. .
Likewise, the Municipal Center for Attention to Functional Diversity will make a characterization and a life story under the title ‘Important women who marked history’. As for the women’s association Abriendo Camino Solidario, it plans an excursion to Riotinto on March 18 and the XIII Pilgrimage to the Romero de La Norieta Campus on Sunday, March 26.
The Assyrian Club of Huelva has also organized the X ‘Women Only’ Trophy, consisting of an archery contest at the Antonio Gil Hernández sports center, on March 19. And the Resurrection Association has programmed nine events to commemorate this date: the ‘Silhouettes of Colors’ painting workshop, a day of viewings, the activity to recreate stereotypes ‘Lights, camera and action’, the ‘Top Woman’ gymkhana, dynamizations in the reinforcement workshop, the elaboration of an alusic banner and hanging flowers, the performance ‘With women’s faces’ and an online training: ‘Circular masculinity’. All this, from March 6 to 29.
Finally, the schools of Punta Umbría will join the commemoration of Women’s Day with their own programming.
