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Festival: “Archeology and Public Information: The mark left behind by Maribel Gutiérrez Deza”
This festival will be held from October 24 to November 3, including more than 20 activities all over Cordoba. Casa Árabe will be hosting part of the program at its headquarters. Check out the dates and planned events below.
October 17, 2024
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Casa Árabe will be hosting this initiative by our friends from Sexto Mario as a tribute to Maribel Gutiérrez, director of Sexto Mario and Casa Árabe’s collaborator in Cordoba, who left us on January 5, 2024. All of the activities will be free of charge with prior registration by going to the website http://conocetupatrimonio.com.
Maribel Gutiérrez, with a degree in History and specializing in Archeology, completed her doctoral thesis on “Roman Temples for Imperial Worship in Cordoba,” to which she later devoted important writings, as she also did on the Salón Rico at the Medina Azahara archeological site, with a comprehensive archeological review of how materials were replaced on its the building’s façade.
In 2012, she created the outreach company Sexto Mario, to increasing awareness about the city’s historical and archeological heritage among the people of Cordoba and visitors to the city in an innovative way. At Sexto Mario, she worked to design and organize workshops and tours on the main monuments and institutions in the city (including Medina Azahara, the Archeology Museum and Casa Árabe), as well as organizing, designing and developing the Kalendas Festival in Cordoba and creating a new dynamic for the Funerary World Interpretation Center located in the mausoleums of the Paseo de la Victoria, in Puerta Gallegos.
Her collaboration with Casa Árabe began in 2015, as part of the “Nights of Ramadan” program, which grew more intense in 2017 with a series of workshops in which children and youth audiences got the chance to learn about characteristic features of Caliphate era Cordoba first-hand. As of then, due to her professionalism and eagerness to inform the public, the offering of activities expanded very successfully until her unexpected and premature death.
“Álma-máter” included several dramatized performances, including the “Event in the Arrabal of Saqunda”, the arrival of Abd al-Rahman al-Dahil in Cordoba, the puppet show “Abbás Ibn Firnás, A Winged Genius,” and (in addition to many other initiatives) a video story titled “Three Girlfriends from Cordoba,” a mystery story which takes place in eleventh-century Cordoba that put friendship to the test... Friendship, science and public information from which we have now been orphaned. Maribel, through your tireless work, you have taught us about the history and legacy of Cordoba, a legacy that you form part of, as we remember you today with sadness in our hearts.
Thank you for the journey you took us on and for your generosity.
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