Fecha de publicación: 28/05/2016
The Remembrance Square travelling exhibition reaches Donostia-San Sebastian.
The exhibition can be visited at the Alderdi Eder gardens between until 8 june
The Mayor of Donostia-San Sebastián, Eneko Goia, the Gipuzkoa Provincial Chairman, Markel Olano, and the GOGORA director, Aintzane Ezenarro, this morning opened the Remembrance Square in Donostia travelling exhibition, which compiles and showcases witness accounts on what happened in the Basque Country in recent decades in order to built a shared and pluralistic memory. The exhibition can be visited at a marquee in the Alderdi Eder gardens until 8 June.
Furthermore, the following activities have been organised in tandem with this exhibition:
o 7.30 p.m. on 30 May: Donostia/San Sebastián’s Recent Memory. Roundtable with the Mayor and former mayors.
o 6.00 p.m. on 2 June: “Constructing Memory: Dialogue between Victims and Society” Group Dynamics regarding Memory and Coexistence.
o 7.00 p.m. on 6 June: Talk on Historical Memory. Lourdes Herrasti: “Exhuming Mass Graves. Recovering Dignity”. Eneko Sanz: “The Spanish Civil War in San Sebastián and the Figure of its Republican Mayor, Fernando Sasiain”.
The Remembrance Square exhibition has so far visited Bilbao, Durango, Tolosa, Vitoria-Gasteiz and Eibar.
OBJECTIVES
This travelling phase of the Remembrance Square project has four objectives:
o Disseminate and share the memory through an exhibition and drive a reflection constructed among all of us.
o Provide a space where the general public can leave their accounts.
o Work on the memories at municipal level by driving dynamics in order to share critical reflections on the past.
o Outreach and showcase the Gogora Institute to the general public
EXHIBITION VENUE
The exhibition will be set up in a marquee with different areas:
Account recording area: visitors to the exhibition can record or write in situ their accounts of what they remember.
Account videos: visitors can listen to the accounts of victims of Franco’s dictatorship, terrorism and the victims coming under Decree 107/2012.
Screening and discussion area: two documentaries will be screened and group dynamics and talks will be organised:
Message mural: visitors to the exhibition can leave a written message on a mural and also in an urn, to be kept at the Gogora Institute and to be published on the Remembrance Square website.