The Memorial is conceived as a living project, a space for participation and debate for people from the city, young and old, either in person or online. To this end, the center’s team has scheduled a first cycle of activities that will address issues such as the culture of peace and the memory of the victims. These issues will be tackled from diverse points of view such as international relations, plastic or performing arts, cinema or literature.
Lecture series
The Memorial will host conversations around a current and international vision of terrorism, as well as the importance of reclaiming spaces of memory. Javier Solana, due to his experience as Secretary General of NATO and High Representative of the Council for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, will speak with Iñaki Gabilondo in one of the first appointments of the cycle. In addition, people of maximum representation will participate in the memorial centers Museum Casa de la Memoria de Medellín, Museum of Memory and Human Rights of Santiago de Chile and Memorial Museum of Paris, soon to open.
Cinema and talks
A program of four films, curated by Isabel Sánchez, will be held on Wednesdays in June – starting on the 9th. The inauguration will be carried out by ‘Negociador’, by Borja Cobeaga. The director will talk with the journalist Quico Tomás y Valiente. It will be followed by ‘We are all invited’, by Gutiérrez Aragón. Moroccan and Norwegian films dealing with Islamic terrorism and the Oslo attacks will also be included.
The Memorial Center and FesTVal are already working together on activities that give visibility to productions that address terrorism issues at this Vitoria Television Festival, the highest reference in the audiovisual sector.
Narratives and terrorism
The writer Ángeles Caso will propose conversations to confront terrorism from different points of view and different latitudes. Personalities such as Pepa Bueno, Eduardo Madina, Gorka Landaburu or the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez, among others, will participate in it.
Youth activities
The Memorial will shortly present a series of proposals for young people that will seek to capture their attention and generate a debate around disciplines such as photography, audiovisual creation or theater.
The guest work
A series of works that have been inspired by the consequences of terrorism and the search for a culture of peace will pass through the Memorial from this month of June until the end of the year. The work ‘Non Violence’, by the Swedish author Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, belonging to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía collection, can already be seen in the hall of the building. Later it will be the works of the Colombian artists Doris Salcedo and Óscar Muñoz, and the intervention of Fernando Sánchez Castillo which will be present in it.
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