The Government delegation in Lleida has presented a new project with which it wants to make visible and promote feminist transformation in the rural environment of the Ponent regions.
With the name ‘Lleida, land of transforming women’, the initiative starts by putting a face to 12 transforming women who, from their daily spaces and activities, promote changes in the territory that contribute to overcoming what the Government Delegation calls “agropatriarchy”.
The first phase of the project consists of making the participants known through a website, social networks and with documentaries and podcasts. On Sunday they will participate in the Sant Miquel Fair telling their stories.
In a second phase, more transformative women will be identified to join the project.
Ten of the twelve participants, delegate Montse Bergés and the president of the Catalan Women’s Institute, Meritxell Benedí, presented the project this Monday.
The objective of the initiative is to give a face to the transforming women of the rural space of the six regions of the village of Lleida who, with their daily action, propose and generate changes in the environment, detect deficiencies and act to overcome them, seeking to have a impact in various areas such as social, cultural, economic or artistic.
The women participating in the project are Maite Sainz de la Maza Benet (Els Alamús), an architect specializing in earthen architecture; Remei Capitan Artacho (Balaguer), organizer of lay life tributes; Marta Rallo Arnau (Coscó), sociocultural anthropologist; Lourdes Mora Alsina, president of the Local Energy Community of Bellpuig; Nadia Tolsà Montedoro, co-owner of the Cooperativa al Centro la Vida del Bar Lo Centro in Maldà; Eva Bonet Baqué (L’Ametlla de Segarra), oenologist; Patricia McGuill Ferrari (Florejacs), narrator; Sara Boldú Botam (Les Borges Blanques), director; Sara Pons Arnal, sculptor from Granyena de les Garrigues; Sara Jové Balasch (La Pobla de Cérvoles, manager of Celler Mas Blanch i Jové; Sònia Morell Bernadí (Golmés), cattle breeder and stylist and Gemma Llanes Sagarra (Ivars d’Urgell), regenerative agriculture fruit grower.
From the identification of the twelve initial protagonists, it is planned to carry out a participatory dynamic to identify others throughout the territory and generate a movement from a series of actions that lead the collective to involve them in an organized way in the feminist transformation of the world. rural.
In this second phase of the project, a portable structure, like a set, will reach the town squares. It will function as a photographic studio where women who identify with the movement will be photographed to continue giving it visibility and attract new faces.
Subsequently, the portraits of the women that will have been captured on the portable set will be printed in large dimensions and installed on local walls, and talks will be promoted to disseminate the stories of the protagonists.
