Conferences, dance shows, poetic recitals, exhibitions, concerts, theatrical performances, storytelling, guided tours, film series or video projection, will be some of the many activities that have been prepared and whose main role is the role of women in the different artistic areas.
Museums
The Reina Sofia Museum brings together in this program a set of initiatives to develop during the next months (from conferences and workshops to exhibitions and digital projects, commented visits and presentations of the Collection) that account for the multiple ways in which the feminist revolt is present in our day a day.
For its part, the Prado Museum, in addition to scheduling the conference 'The eternal forgotten', and the exhibition'Guests Fragments about women, ideology and plastic arts in Spain', organizes a congress on the place of women in the Spanish Art System in the 19th century: questions about ideology, scenarios and professional careers.
The National Museum of Underwater Archeologythat of Sculpture and that of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts 'González Martí', will offer concerts with free admission.
The Sephardic Museum He has scheduled a theatrical show around the female figure, while the Altamira Museum a dance show and the projection of videos that place women as the protagonist of our past.
From March 5 to 27, state museums such as Cerralbo, Sorolla, Decorative Arts, America, and the Thyssen and the Prado will host different dance shows with free admission for museum visitors until full capacity is reached.
For its part, the National Museum of Roman Art will celebrate International Women's Day with conferences and thematic visit 'Being a woman in Rome'.
There will also be storytelling with stories of writers of the nineteenth century in the Museum of Romanticism.
The National Archaeological Museum It will offer guided tours, competitions, theatrical monologue, family stories, dance and some activity that combines music and poetry.
The Tabacalera exhibition space will host the exhibition 'Women photographers. A story told halfway 'that is completed with a few days of debate on the situation of women artists in Spain.
Libraries and archives
The National LibraryIn addition to poetic recitals and conferences, it will launch a web collection that collects from the Internet, as well as from social networks, all the information generated on the Spanish web about feminism, so that citizens can study socially and historically what It is this movement and how it has evolved over time.
In addition, the National Library has incorporated new female profiles to its Writers Portal. Authors such as Rosa Chacel (1898-1994), María de la O Lejárraga García (1874-1974), Carmen Jodra Davó (1980-2019), María Teresa León (1903-1988) or Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873).
The Documentary Center of the Historical Memory of Salamanca will present a sample of its collection of commemorative posters of International Women's Day. These posters, corresponding to different moments of the 70s, 80s and 90s.
In the Historical Archive of the Nobility the sample can be visited until June 15 'Woman, nobility and power'.
Concerts, dance and cinema
The National Orchestra and Choir of Spain and the National Dance Company will offer a concert within the Family Cycle, in which teachers from the National Orchestra and Choir of Spain will participate with the collaboration of dancers from the National Dance Company, with musical direction by Jordi Francés and choreography by Blanca Li.
The Zarzuela Theater will offer, within the cycle of the Ambigú Notes, the show "Three passions of women", with Ruth González, soprano and Albert Nieto on piano.
In the Theater Museum There will be thematic visits that, under the title of Theater in Feminine, will highlight the relevance of women's artistic creation at the dawn of the 20th century.
Finally, Spanish film library, for its part, launches a cycle dedicated to Agnès Varda, emblem of the Nouvelle Vague, pioneer of feminist cinema and one of the warmest and at the same time vindictive looks of the history of cinema.
