Culture, a tool for combating gender-based violence

Culture excites, liberates, and can it also help to combat violence?

Alba Alfageme, psychologist specialising in gender violence, Natza Farré, writer and journalist, and Irene Vicente, dramaturge of the installation Macho Man, will talk on Tuesday 7 March about gender violence in our society and the cultural (and non-cultural) tools to combat it.

Under the title La cultura, una eina per a combatre les violències masclistes, the Santa Mònica continues to feed the debate around cultural programming in terms of awareness-raising and denunciation through experiential theatre, art and other expressive forms.

Activity related to the stage installation Macho Man  that can be visited at Santa Mònica from 07.02.23 to 12.03.23.

With the participation of Alba Alfageme, Natza Farré and Irene Vicente.

Alba Alfageme Casanova (Girona, 1979) is a psychologist specialised in gender violence. For more than twenty years, she has been accompanying women who have suffered different forms of male violence in their recovery process. She has also collaborated in several projects on women's rights and the fight against sexual violence in countries such as India, Brazil and El Salvador. She has participated in research in areas related to violence against women such as forced marriages, obstetric violence and sexual harassment in the workplace, among others, and has collaborated and coordinated European research on issues such as human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. She teaches at several universities, supervises intervention teams in male violence and advises the Government on gender and male violence. She is also a trainer and disseminator. She is a regular contributor to various media.

Natza Farré (Barcelona, 1972) has been working for years in the media with a marked feminist perspective. His direct, irreverent and acid voice stands out, which has led him to be a scriptwriter for La competencia, the political, satirical and social programme on RAC1. She is the author of Curs de feminisme per a microones (Ara Llibres, 2016), a short yet direct essay that attacks everyday micromachisms with her usual ironic and non-conformist tone. The aim of the book is to raise women's awareness of these inequalities in order to build a fairer future in all spheres of life: education, language, culture, the media and politics. She also participates in television programmes, such as Ja t'ho faràs! on TV3, and writes a weekly column for the newspaper Ara.

Irene Vicente Salas (Sant Pere de Ribes, 1990) is an art historian and works as director of her own company, La Reina Alcalde, and as a playwright and theatre producer. She currently collaborates with the theatre production company Heartbreak Hotel with Àlex Rigola, with the company La Conquesta de Pol Sud and with the company Atresbandes, among other occasional projects.