The Yaiza City Council joins the orange days of global activism promoted by the United Nations with the campaign 'Join Yaiza', which will offer pedagogical workshops, performing arts and music from November 21 to December 5, to guide, prevent and reflect on violence against women and girls. The program includes events at the IES Yaiza aimed at students and others open to the public in locations in Yaiza and Playa Blanca.
The mayoress, Gladys Acuña, and the Councilor for Social Services, José Antonio Rodríguez, invite Yaiza residents and the people of Lanzarote not only to participate in the set of recreational and educational activities planned, but also to organize activities that make the campaign's mission visible and draw attention to a problem such as gender violence. "All the activities of Unite Yaiza are led by women, but they are not only for women, because educating in respect, tolerance and diversity is the task of society as a whole, as is also passing these values on to our youngest neighbors," emphasizes Gladys Acuña.
As part of the campaign, Yaiza will also decorate municipal buildings with the image of 'Join. "Children, young people and adults can creatively join by placing an orange badge on their clothing, workplace or wherever they wish," they point out from the Consistory.
Activities
'Join Yaiza' will begin this Tuesday, November 21 at the IES with the staging of 'Kiss Me 2.0', a didactic workshop for the prevention of violence for young people. The IES Yaiza will also actively participate in the campaign with an orange march of students, on Friday the 24th, under the slogan 'I join to end violence against women'.
On the same Friday night, the Yaiza House of Culture will host the reflection concert 'Conscience', by singer-songwriter Estefanía Curbelo, while on Saturday the 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the play 'The Vagina Monologues' will be presented, also in the southern House of Culture. This presentation will be preceded by a symbolic act with Las Kellys in the Plaza de los Remedios. And as the last act of November, on Thursday the 30th, the storyteller Isabel Cabrea will perform in the courtyard of the Yaiza House of Culture with the oral narration 'I toast to women'.
'Join Yaiza' will continue on Saturday, December 2 with the youtubers Koala Rabioso and Naty Penadas, who are calling on young people and adults to analyze videos of their creation as a preliminary act to the round table 'Meeting with Women', a round table participated by women with prominent roles inside and outside the Canary Islands who will discuss issues such as feminism, sorority, empowerment and critical thinking as bases for the eradication of violence against women. The president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Carlina Darias, the magistrate of the TSJC and president of the Association of Women Judges of Spain, Gloria Poyatos, the plastic artist Carmela García, the president of the Ilicitana Association against Gender Violence, Marina Marroquí, the astrophysicist Antonia Varela, and the Spanish youtubers Koala Rabioso and Naty Penadas have been invited to this talk. At night, in the same tent located next to the Brisa Marina restaurant, there will be a concert with the musical group formed by twenty women, Calicanto.
On Monday 4 and Tuesday 5, 'Join Yaiza' will return to the classrooms of the IES with workshops on prevention and early detection of submissive aggressive behaviors in adolescence, taught by Marina Marroquí, who will also share knowledge and experiences on Monday 4 in the afternoon at the La Aurora cultural center in Playa Blanca, with a workshop entitled 'Know, detect and escape from gender violence'.
