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Groupe ToNNe farewell party
La Ponte-Ecomuséu invites to the farewell party of the artists collective Groupe ToNNe on July 1st in Villanueva de Santo Adriano.
Throughout the month of June, La Ponte-Ecomuséu has hosted three artists from the French company “Groupe ToNNe” for a residency of artistic creation developed within the framework of the European project “Lands Of Butterflies”. During these weeks, the group of creators worked with the local population on the interpretation of the collective memory of the women of Santo Adriano.
The collective has captured their experiences, learnings and impressions gathered during their stay through the creation of a series of short videos and illustrations. The works produced will be presented on Saturday 1 July at 19:30, in the chapel of El Carmen, in Villanueva, and the event will close with an “espicha” in the square as a farewell. The event is open to all those who want to get to know and enjoy the work of the Groupe ToNNe.
June activities
This June, La Ponte-Ecomuséu will host 3 artists from the French company “Groupe ToNNe” for a creative residency developed within the framework of the European project “Lands Of Butterflies”. For four weeks the artists will work with the local population on the interpretation of the collective memory of the women of Santo Adriano captured during ten participatory workshops developed. Through music, theatre, illustration and the creation of videos, the collective of artists will capture the experiences and knowledge gathered during their stay in a series of artistic pieces that will be shown to the community every week.
To accompany this community and creative process, the ecomuseum is also organising a series of activities on intangible heritage that will create moments and spaces for artists and local people to exchange on the new perspectives that this project is generating on the role of women in rural communities. Some of the proposals that will be developed during the month include meetings with local artists, workshops on dance and tambourine with Paz González and oral memory workshop with Xosé Antón Ambás, musical activity of “cancios de chigre” (traditional songs) and presentations of the works that Groupe ToNNE will be creating throughout the weeks.
After this experience, the artists will travel to Kopasker Kopásker, in the north of Iceland, to learn about and promote the intangible heritage of the women of this rural area, where similar workshops are being carried out in the framework of this project. During this stay at the end of the summer, two companions from the ecomuseum will travel to the island to accompany the process, exchange information and compare women’s perspectives on the way women and compare women’s views on the way of life and cultural landscapes of both rural territories.
First participatory workshops
The first participatory workshops of the “Lands of Butterflies” project have been launched in Asturias and Northern Iceland. Since October 2022 the Ecomuseum La Ponte and Landsbyggdin Lifi, Fel I Landvor are engaging women from Santo Adriano (Spain) and Kópasker (Iceland) to participate in local meetings where they can share their memories of their respective villages.
Based on the common guidelines defined during the coordination meeting in Villanueva de Santo Adriano (September 2022), both organisations are creating safe spaces to engage women of all ages. These meetings are the starting point to generate favourable conditions for the transmission of women’s memory and intangible heritage between generations.
These workshops will continue on a monthly basis until the end of spring. The project partners will then host a group of French artists ToNNe for artistic residencies in which they will accompany the local populations in the interpretation and dissemination of these memories through creativity.
The memories collected in both villages will also be published in a monograph that will be available in early 2024.
Workshops in Villanueva de Santo Adriano:
Workshops in Kópasker:
