More than sixty women and men held last Saturday, March 8, International Women's Day, with the meeting "Jumilla in Women", with which they toured part of the rich history of the town, through a guided tour the old part of the city and its museums.
The day began at the Museum of Archaeology Jerónimo Molina where Gaëlle Cardinal did a introduction to the figure of the Roman and Iberian women and social context in which this was related.
Then the head of Culture Department, Emiliano Hernandez led the expedition from the Plaza up to the arch of San Roque, with a brief historical overview of the monumental heritage of the municipality, as well as deep-rooted traditions such as the procession of San Roque, among others.
At Arco himself had elsewhere the highlights of the morning, with the interpretation, by surprise, the theater group Thalia dialogue "Sticking my rice" extruded text Jumillano, Pedro Jiménez López, more known as Perico Ursula.
Cultural visit concluded at the Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences, where Veronica Matthew, explained some of the most traditional customs jumillanas, and how are you, together with the figure of women have evolved in the town.
With a convivial meal, in which more than 60 people, he completed a full week of activities dedicated to women, from the perspective of gender equality.
The Councillor for Equality, Alicia Abellan, very positively highlighted the involvement of both women and men, in the numerous events organized from the Department for Women's Week, and said it "is a personal satisfaction to see how to involve more and more people in these actions, you will continue to work in order to raise awareness among the population about the required real equality between men and women "
Upcoming activities
The activities will end next Friday, March 14, the workshop will develop positive parenting "Learning together, growing family."
It will take place from 19.00 to 20.00, at the Center for Child Care, and is aimed at parents of the locality.
This is a free activity, in which there will be free babysitting service.
In addition to these activities, the workshop will add laughter therapy "From laughter to my father," which took place on Wednesday, March 19, coinciding with the celebration of Father's Day, "an ideal time to work with men the concept of equality "highlighted the council responsible for the area.
The workshop will take place at CAI, 11.00 to 12.00, and will be aimed at parents with children from 4 years prior registration call 968 78 20 20, extension 211.
Red Cross organized the exhibition "generate Equality"
On Friday in the Cultural Hall CajaMurcia, took place the opening of the exhibition, "We generated Equality" by the Local Committee of Jumilla Red Cross in collaboration with the Department of Equality.
The exhibition "generate equality" presents the reality of women in various parts of the world, with particular emphasis on the African continent.
The purpose of it is to make visible gender inequalities and highlight the contribution of women to their communities through the different roles they play (productive, reproductive and social).
The exhibition is the result of the photo contest of the same name held in 2011 in Valencia, who made the lead participant in a collective of young artists through their works.
The exhibition consists of a set of ten photographs taken in Burkina Faso by the winner of the contest, Israel Sánchez-Beato, who traveled with the Red Cross to that African country late last year.
In addition to winning photograph of the event, it also exposes the other five finalists, which shows how women around the world live.
The exhibition will run until next Friday, March 14, from 18.00 to 20.00 in the Cultural Hall Cajamurcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla