Perhaps art is one of the areas in which inequality between men and women has become more evident throughout history. In Spain, for 20 years, a festival, 'They create', tries to compensate for this imbalance by making the work of artists visible in the world of culture. Grown under the protection of March 8 and an unavoidable event in the calendar of the month of vindication of women's rights, the festival comes to an end after having shown the work of dozens of creators from all fields, from cinema to performance .
Outstanding names in Spanish culture such as Carmen Linares, Raquel Andueza, Sol Picó, Chefa Alonso, Ana Rosetti, Pilar Adón and Irene Reig have shaped this edition of 'They create', which has reached the great national institutions. Thus, Linares, National Music Prize winner and Princess of Asturias Prize winner for the Arts, performed in the Iberian Patio of the National Archaeological Museum and Raquel Andueza & LaGalanía played their baroque music with a woman's accent in the Prado Museum.
Meanwhile, the poets Pilar Adón, Amalia Bautista, Aurora H. Camero, Ana Rossetti and Almudena Vidorreta took their verses to the National Library and dance and cinema had their space in the Museum of Romanticism, in the Museum of Decorative Arts or in the Film Library.
The most famous scientist in history has been one of the protagonists of this edition of the festival. Within the joint programming with the Polish Institute of Culture-Institut Français, 'Madame Curie/Radioactive, by Marjane Satrapi, and 'Marie Curie', by Marie Noëlle, have been screened. There have also been dance activities, meetings and theater.
The director of 'They create', Concha Hernández, remembers the validity of the festival. «During these 20 years it has accommodated more than a thousand artists and activities and recovered the memory of so many women who carpeted the path we now travel. An impulse was and continues to be necessary, because the figures show us a persistent inequality, to which are added the latest data from the AISGE (Performing Artists, Intellectual Property Rights Management Entity), which reveals the job insecurity of the cultural sector and the intolerable wage gap of 40%.
«We need the vision of women, and this festival is perfect as a meeting point between culture and the demand for equality between men and women. A great diversity of artistic proposals and cultural manifestations come together here, always with that feminine vision and with the defense of equality as a common denominator,” said, for her part, at the presentation of 'They create', the Minister of Equality, Ana Round. The festival is organized by the Ministry of Equality and the Women's Institute, the Ministry of Culture and State Museums participates and has the collaboration of other museums, theaters or publishing houses.
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