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Women’s Week at Casa Árabe

From February 28, 2022 until March 17, 2022Check schedules and entry conditions for each activity.
MADRID / CÓRDOBA / ONLINE
Casa Árabe’s two headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62 in Madrid and Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9 in Cordoba). Check schedules and entry conditions for each activity. Check times and entry conditions for each event.

In order to mark International Women’s Day, we have organized many different activities at our headquarters in Madrid and Cordoba. Check out all of the events: music, literature, storytelling, films...They will be held from March 8 to 17.

Tuesday, March 8. ONLINE
“Special greetings for Women’s Day”: 4 exhibitions, 4 curators, 13 artists.
The four exhibitions that Casa Árabe is currently hosting in its Madrid and Cordoba spaces have been curated by four women, with 13 women artists’ works on display: “Memories in Motion: Contemporary art from Mauritania,” "A World of Snippets,” “Fables and Faded Flags,” and “Jiwar: Creative neighborhoods in the city.” Several of them will be greeting our followers on Instagram.

Wednesday, March 9 CÓRDOBA
A unique musical event based on a fusion of different music genres that include Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz and flamenco along with songs with touches of Arab origin. This is a music group that advocates for the integration and assimilation of different musical concepts, commitment to universal diversity in music as an intercultural bridge, seamless and free of barriers. Its members, three of whom are women, come from different places: Monia Abdelali (Tunisia), Ana Gallardo Seville: Anabel Pérez Reyes (Cuba) and Manuel Sierra del Pino (Seville). All of them stand out for being versatile performers whose quality in interpretation and mastery of multiple instruments are extraordinary.

THURSDAY, March 10. MADRID.
Presentation of the book “Memories of the Niger River” by Irene López de Castro.

Friday, March 11. MADRID
Film: screening of the documentary “Awaiting the Men” (“En attendant les hommes”), by director Katy Lena Ndiaye.
The setting is Oualata, the red city at the edge of the Mauritanian desert. In this place, an ephemeral shelter to protect from the sands, three women practice the art of traditional painting by decorating the walls of the city’s houses. In a society supposedly dominated by tradition, religion and men, these women express their way of perceiving the relationship between men and women with surprising freedom. 

Saturday, March 12 MADRID
Storytelling session inspired by the stories of “The Arabian Nights.”
Narrated by Héctor Urién. On this occasion, Scheherazade and other women who appear in the tales will play a special role.

Monday, March 14 MADRID AND ONLINE
Conference titled “Being a woman journalist in the Middle East and North Africa,” given by Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim, within the framework of the event series Aula Árabe Universitaria.

Monday, March 14 CÓRDOBA
Presentation of the project “Dissidance: Flamenco, bodies and stories to be danced.” 
An inclusive artistic offering aimed at improving the lives of migrant women, victims of gender violence and lower-income rural women. Led by dancer Leonor Leal. Starting out with flamenco, the show addresses issues related to the identity of the women participating and explores the life processes of each. The project uses a space as an open forum where flamenco performs as a vehicle for different rhythms, music and dances, and the traditions of diverse oral cultures.

Wednesday, March 16. CORDOBA
Film: Screening of “Wadjda,” by Saudi director Haifaa al Mansour. 
As a part of the film forum series titled “The viewpoint of children in Arab cinema.”
Wadjda is a ten-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun and enterprising, and she always reaches up to the limit between what she can do and what is forbidden. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighbor boy she’s not supposed to play with, Wadjda sees a beautiful bicycle for sale. She desperately wants the bike so she can beat Abdullah in a race. Wadjda’s mother won’t let her, though, for fear of a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s dignity.

Thursday, March 17. CORDOBA
Storytelling session inspired by the tales in “The Arabian Nights.”
Narrated by Héctor Urién. On this occasion, Scheherazade and other women who appear in the tales will be playing a special role.

Thursday, March 17. CORDOBA
“Dar al-Tiraz” embroidery workshop  
As part of our event series on “Workshops with History.” 
”Dar al-Tiraz”was the name given to the workshops in Al-Andalus where luxury fabrics were woven, whose workers were mostly women. They were employed exclusively by the monarch, and were thus run as a monopoly, a symbol to express power. The era of the caliphs was that of greatest splendor for these royal production sites. From their workshops came different types of fabrics that competed with those from Baghdad and Byzantium. These fabrics were used by the caliph and his family, but a significant number were given as gifts to Muslim and Christian princes