The Department of Equality and Sexual Diversity, with the collaboration of other municipal areas and local entities such as the UNED Dénia and the Pessic Cinema Club, has organized several activities around the International Day against Gender Violence adapted to the current context of the health crisis. Therefore, actions away from large concentrations of people have been considered, with limited capacity, assistance with prior registration, and increasing the use of social networks and online communication.
On November 25, the date of the anniversary, the City Council has dispensed with organizing an institutional act with the reading of a manifesto and other related content, as it does every year, and will stage the adhesion in the fight against gender violence with a few minutes of silence that the municipal Corporation and the people who make up the Consell de les Dones will keep at 12 noon in the Plaza de la Constitución in memory of the victims, which during this 2020 and until today amount to 41.
From November 23 to 29, the broadcast of short films from the II Contest of Young Promises of the Xarxa Jove has been programmed Marina Alta through the social networks of Juventud Dénia and the MACMA.
Also as of November 23, and until the 27th, the UNED Dénia university extension course "Social networks and ICT: identification, prevention and updating against gender violence" will be taught, in face-to-face and online mode. Complete information can be found on the page www.uneddenia.es.
On November 29, the program will end with a film session at the Social Center programmed by the Pessic Cinema Club. The film will be shown God is a woman and her name is Petrunya, by Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska. The ticket price is 3 euros and can be booked at notikumi.com or purchased at the box office two hours before the session begins.
Warriors against gender violence
The Department of Equality has worked on the slogan of this year's campaign, Guerreres contra la violència de gènere, in two actions in urban spaces and another aimed at students in the last years of the city's institutes.
From Tuesday 24 to Friday 27 November, the first of these actions will take place in the Plaza de la Constitución, which will be filled with mannequins with the slogan of the campaign, aimed both at women who suffer violence and people who They support them and those who work with them so that they can get out of the situation they are experiencing. On the 24th there will also be the distribution of masks with the slogan of this year's campaign among the students of the institutes. The council has made a total of 1.400 units.
The second street action, called From portes cap to dins, will take place on Saturday, November 28 and will consist of the installation of a door at the intersection of Marqués de Campo and Diana streets, between 10 a.m. and 18 p.m., so that people can witness, when they open it, what women and minors feel victims of gender violence.
On November 25, in addition to the minutes of silence that will be observed in the Plaza de la Constitución at noon, there will be a recital dedicated to the International Day against Gender Violence and starring the soprano Teresa Albero, accompanied on piano by Francisco Cholbi. It will be at 20 pm at the Social Center. Admission is free and with prior reservation at notikumi.com.
The Municipal Public Library joins the program with a musical poetic recital entitled Shakespeare's Germans, with the actress Marina Mulet and the guitarist and singer Alexandra Monfort, which will be held on Friday, November 27, at 20 p.m. Admission is free and must be reserved by writing an email to library@ayto-denia.es or by calling 965 783 665.
That same day, at 21 p.m., Ineffable Producciones will star in the musical Sexualize you in the Social Center. Entrance reservations have to be made by calling Juventud Dénia, at 96 642 37 00.
On Saturday 28 will be the talk "Positive affective-sexual relationships" that the communicator and writer Lameuapau will offer, accompanied by members of the Larouch Arte de Calle team. The call is at 19 pm, at the House of Culture. Admission is free by prior reservation to the email equaltat@ayto-denia.es.
