The Game and Cooperation Fair celebrated its 3rd edition this Saturday under the slogan ‘A trip around the world with the entities of Martorell’. The event commemorated the International Children’s Rights Day (20 November), the European Days of Local Solidarity (15 to 30 November) and the European Waste Prevention Week (18 to 24 November). During the day, the Village was filled with stalls from local organizations and shops, as well as activities for the whole family.
The members of the Children’s Council of Martorell have read the International Children’s Rights Day manifesto in Plaça de la Vila, which joins the campaign #Som Infància, #Som Altaveus of the network of Ciutats Amigues de la Infància d UNICEF. This year, the speech has focused on the vindication of the right to demonstrate and how to improve the participation of children and adolescents.
In the manifesto, the boys and girls explained that “last November 13 we met to talk and reflect on those things that make us feel good and that help us participate as citizens of Martorell”. “We talked about the things that need to be improved so that our voice is heard and taken into account. We want to continue participating in the Children’s Council, to act as a spokesperson for all the children in the municipality and in the world. We are childhood, we are proposal, we are participation, we are speakers”.
Membres del Consell d'Infants de Martorell
Throughout the day, attendees were able to enjoy workshops and stalls from local organizations that work in the fields of development cooperation, childhood and adolescence, and shops in the Village. The participating entities were the Friends of Fundase-Bolivia, Assotea, Bastoners de Martorell, Colla de Geganters, Creu Roja, Fem Vila, Ocularis Associació, NGO Mans Mercedàries and Vedanthangal Sagam.
In order to celebrate the European Waste Prevention Week, Plaça de l’Esglesia has hosted the ‘Play clean with waste’ activity for children aged 5 to 12. Large format games about recycling and craft workshops with recycled material. In the Enrajolada gardens, several giant and cooperative games have been played, with the ‘Memory of Children’s Rights’. While in El Círcol, a play space for experimentation, construction and movement has been enabled for children aged 0 to 3 years.
In the lobby of Cal Nicolau, there has been one Karaoke Kindergarten of the Municipal School of Music. In Plaça de la Vila, the company Xaxi has represented the guardian of the games, a clown show set in a hypothetical future with which the public has reconnected with the importance of play as a tool for transformation and socialization. And Anna Roca’s theater company has offered the play to the House of Culture The smallest farm in the world.
One of the outstanding activities of this 3rd Games and Cooperation Fair has been the 4th Baix Llobregat Stickman Gathering with gangs from different towns in the region: Martorell, Castelldefels, Molins de Rei (Esventades), El Prat de Llobregat ( Picacrestes), Splugues de Llobregat and Gavà. The activity started in Paseo del Quarter and ended with a final ballad in Plaça de la Vila.
Miriam Garcia, leader of the Bastoners de Martorell gang, has stated that hosting this gathering of Baix Llobregat Bastoners was a unique experience: “The people who are currently on the board have never done an event like this. The group from Castelldefels proposed to us to continue with this project and we propose, in two years, that Gavà do it. For us it was very important to show the culture of pole dancing in the region and to be able to put Martorell on the map in this aspect”.
Miriam Garcia, cap de colla Batoners de Martorell
To conclude the day, the Vedanthangal Sangam-Projecte Laia association presented the talk ‘Women and patriarchy in rural southern India’ at El Círcol. Roger Garcia Coll, professor at the University of Girona, and Anna Amado Bernardino, member of the Vedanthangal Sangam and Indian Futures associations, have spoken about patriarchal violence in rural India and the projects that the association develops with Dalit communities with the support of the Martorell City Council.
In addition, the exhibition has been inaugurated Rural India, urban Indiaorganized by the association Vedanthangal Sangam with photographs of their projects in South India by photographer Pep Ávila and the visual art of African artist Michelle Fine about urban India. This exhibition can be visited in the multipurpose room of El Círcol until December 14.
Source: martorelldigital.cat
