Sports activities and various artistic manifestations are at the center of most programs organized by educational centers in Lanzarote on the occasion of the celebration, this March 8, of the 'International Women's Day'.
The Ajei Center for Early Childhood and Primary Education (CEIP), in San Bartolomé, began the week by receiving elite athletes from Lanzarote, who shared their experience and trajectory with the students. On the same Friday, fifth grade students will attend the reading of the manifesto of the social and cultural association for women 'Mararía'.
The students of the Playa Blanca Center for Compulsory Education (CEO), in Yaiza, are preparing a flashmob, and the secondary school students will also participate in a poetry contest on the current situation of women.
The CEIP La Asomada Mácher, in Tías, has been working on a play that will be performed on Friday within the framework of the Equality and Coexistence plans. The plot is about a young man who travels in time and visits different relevant women, from Cleopatra to the artist Frida Kahlo, passing through the soccer player Alexia Putellas or the aboriginal Francisca de Gazmira, who traveled to the Peninsula to denounce before the Catholic Monarchs the management of the adelantado Fernández de Lugo in the islands.
A tribute to different women who have made history will be the common thread of the activities planned at the CEIP Costa Teguise, whose students will participate in the creation of a mural on the outer wall of the center. There they will make a lilac-colored border with their hands around the sports court and paint a phrase in defense of equality. A photographic exhibition about women and professions completes the planned program.
The Pancho Lasso Art School of Arrecife will hold a unique event combining exhibitions and live broadcasts by students and faculty. From 10:00 a.m., they will create a video podcast with which they will transmit their message about March 8. It will be broadcast live and can be followed online through different media, they report from the center.
The students of the Playa Honda Secondary Education Institute (IES) will read a manifesto after a walk from the educational center to Arrecife in which they will carry banners and wear violet shirts, while the IES Yaiza will organize a simultaneous chess game with a very special guest: Adhara Rodríguez Redondo, a Tenerife player who at the age of twenty has already obtained different national and international recognitions. Rodríguez will play with the students and tell her story through an interview on the school radio.
Finally, equality between women and men will be worked on at the CEIP Capellanía de Yágabo, in Arrecife, through dynamics such as 'Los 40 Principales', with which students will learn about the trajectory of those women who reached number one on the list of hits of the popular radio station, and 'Roulettes of Women Athletes' has also been designed, with which they will demonstrate, after studying them, their knowledge about different women who practice a sport at a professional level.