The Diplomat
Twenty activities with women as the protagonists in areas as varied as photography, scientific research, literature and gastronomy make up Casa Mediterráneo’s programme for the month of March, which coincides with the celebration of International Women’s Day.
Casa Mediterráneo offers via streaming this evening at 7pm the theatrical performance Cuando las mujeres no podían votar, by the Teatrables Company, a tribute to Clara Campoamor (in the photo) in commemoration of the ninetieth anniversary of women’s suffrage in Spain. In the same vein, the new Women and the Mediterranean session invites Clara Cabrera, Ambassador-at-Large for Gender Equality in Foreign Policy, who will present the main lines of Spanish foreign action for the defence of women’s rights. In Geostrategy and the Mediterranean, Alicia Cebada, Project Coordinator of the Women for Africa Foundation and member of NATO’s Civil Society Advisory Committee, together with Spain’s permanent ambassador-representative to NATO, Miguel Fernández-Palacios, will speak about the Women, Peace and Security agenda in NATO’s activity in the Mediterranean.
In the cultural sphere, a highlight on Tuesday 30 is the online meeting of the Mediterranean Women Writers’ Network, with the participation of Espido Freire, the Moroccan poet Nisrin Ibn Larbi and the Lebanese activist Joumana Haddad. Throughout the month, other women will also take part, such as the storyteller Raquel López in a new session of Myths of the Mediterranean, from the IES Thader Secondary School in Orihuela (Alicante), the deputy director of elDiario. es, María Ramírez, in the series Journalists and the Mediterranean, the Israeli poet Tal Nitzan in Mediterranean Poetry, the professor of Modern History at the Rey Juan Carlos University, Isabel Enciso, who will give a conference entitled Culture and patronage in Spanish Naples, and the photographer Carma Casulá, who will present the book and inaugurate the exhibition Tabarkinas.
In the gastronomic field, the chef Carme Ruscalleda, the woman who has achieved the most Michelin stars in history, will take part in an online meeting on Wednesday 10 March. Likewise, on the 31st, a session dedicated to livestock farming women will be held, with the participation of Regina Monsalve, president of the Official Association of Agricultural Technical Engineers and Graduates of Valencia and Castellón, and Lucía Velasco, president of the Association of Asturian Livestock Farmers.
The monthly programme is completed with a new session of the Economy and the Mediterranean cycle, dedicated this time to Spanish-Tunisian economic relations, with the participation of Manuel Mora, Deputy Director of Mediterranean Countries of the Secretary of State for Trade, and Vicens Serrano, Purchasing Director of the oil division of the Borges Group; the concert Stabat Mater by G. B. Pergolesi, by the Ensemble Casa Mediterráneo, whose sessions will be held on Saturday 27th March at the Casa Mediterráneo headquarters and on Sunday 28th March in the Patio de la Universidad del Colegio de Santo Domingo in Orihuela; the Cineclub Mediterráneo virtual colloquiums dedicated to Lebanese cinema will deal with the films Taste of Cement and Halal Love (and Sex); and the guided visits to the Antigua Estación de Benalúa will resume on Thursdays 11th and 25th March at 11am. The activities will begin, as usual, at 7pm through the social networks and the website of the diplomatic institution, where all the information about this month’s programme can be consulted. In addition, the activities can be seen in rebroadcast on the YouTube channel and in podcast format on the institution’s Spotify channel.
