The Langaia International Environment Festival will celebrate a new edition, from March 21 to 27, in a parallel and reduced way in Lanzarote and Madrid.
In a statement, its organizers point out that "after 15 years of fighting for the environment and despite all the impediments," they have been "urged by the responsibility of raising public awareness of what is coming upon us," hoping to be able to carry out the rest of the activities next year.
"The fact is that, either we radically change our way of life, or this pandemic may be just the beginning of something much more serious. We are not inventing anything. Science says so," they point out.
Beach cleaning and children's activities are being carried out on the island in agreement with schools, as well as a film forum, in which the University of La Laguna in Tenerife has also been involved.
In Madrid, this festival will be inaugurated on Sunday the 21st, "in one of the places most punished by the consequences of the pandemic crisis: La Cañada Real." "We wanted to focus our efforts on the most vulnerable population; the boys and girls, who have been deprived of the most basic things (light, heat, care...) in the midst of an unprecedented crisis worldwide. Our job is to create the necessary conditions to provide environmental values, intimately linked to dignity, self-management of resources and hope, even in these extremely poor conditions that we have encountered," they add.
Thus, on March 18 and 19, they will be cleaning a playground in sector 5 of La Cañada Real of waste, as well as building terraces for a community garden and orchard, repairing swings and planting trees, together with the neighborhood associations of the place, organized by the women, and who develop a "commendable" work in community to improve their environment.
On Sunday the 21st, a theatrical performance for children "without precedent" will take place, by La Fábrica de Sueños, in the playground of sector 5 of La Cañada Real, in order to plant a "seed of environmental dignity and social awareness to a very sensitive group, and permanently forgotten by institutions, such as the boys and girls of La Cañada Real."
The full Festival will take place between the 21st and the 27th of this month and the full program can be found at www.langaia.org.