La Casa Amarilla of the Cabildo de Lanzarote hosts the exhibition 'Las Revoltosas. Toda una revolución' from this Friday, February 11. An exhibition that takes us into the history of this great group of pioneering women from the municipality of San Bartolomé who, in the early 1980s, joined together to found the first female murga in the Canary Islands.
The inauguration, which took place at 11:00 am, was attended by the president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, and the councilor responsible for La Casa Amarilla, Myriam Barros. Also, the actor and theater director Pedro Ayose, who curated the exhibition, and some of the founders and members of the Afilarmónica Las Revoltosas, who were accompanied by the mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, and the designer of the murga, Manuel Camejo, attended the event.
"It is very special for me to preside over the inauguration of this exhibition, because it is a cluster of emotions and feelings that say a lot about the history of a town, the history of an island, the history of Carnival and my own history," said the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, during her speech.
Corujo has highlighted the courage of Las Revoltosas who, "just when the democratic process was beginning in our country, took a step forward and showed that Carnival also belonged to women." "They proudly and strongly demonstrated that we were here, and that we were here to make a revolution. They are a source of pride for San Bartolomé, for Lanzarote and for the Canary Islands," she added.
Likewise, the president of the first island corporation has conveyed her gratitude to the curator of the exhibition, Pedro Ayose, a young man from San Bartolomé "who has made a wonderful field in the field of culture, art and theater."
An exhibition that "will remain alive"
"It is an exhibition that Lanzarote needed to show that struggle and empowerment of all those women who have preceded us. If women are in the place we are today, I think it is because of that struggle, although we still have a lot to fight for," said Myriam Barros, councilor responsible for La Casa Amarilla and the areas of Equality, Youth and Education of the Cabildo de Lanzarote.
Also, Barros has announced that, in parallel to the exhibition and in view of the next March 8, International Women's Day, several events will be organized with Las Revoltosas. "We want to keep this exhibition alive and give the greatest possible visibility to the history of this group, as they are a reference," she said.
For her part, Juana Saavedra, one of the founders of Las Revoltosas, recalled the difficulties they had to face in their beginnings, since then "it was considered bad taste to try to create a murga only with women."
Thus, Las Revoltosas became "a refreshing lightning that distributed defiance to machismo and injustice, to abuse and slavery in the home" as Juana Saavedra has pointed out. "We fought for equality, we fought for laughter and rejoicing, for reparation and for reflection," she recalled in her speech.
The exhibition can be visited until the month of April
'Las Revoltosas. Toda una revolución' is an exhibition that commemorates the 40th anniversary of the founding of this group, which was the first female murga in Lanzarote and the entire Canary archipelago composed exclusively of women and became an authentic form of vindication of women against the discriminatory patterns that prevailed at that time in the celebration of carnival events.
In the exhibition you can see numerous photographic and audiovisual material of Las Revoltosas, as well as their costumes, awards, press articles and lyrics of their printed songs.
The exhibition can be visited until next April at La Casa Amarilla of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, located in Arrecife, from Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 18:00 hours and Saturdays from 10:00 to 14:00 hours.
