Agenda for memory: culture not to forget

46 years after the civic-military coup of 1976, this date will be commemorated from different parts of the country throughout this week and a little longer, with different activities, which began yesterday at the Mariano Moreno National Library with a round table , Memory, Present and Future, ten years after the creation of the Rights Program Human Rights of the entity, which, under the coordination of Graciela Blancat, promotes the custody, registration and dissemination of the report on the problem of human rights violations that occurred in Argentina.

The legislator Victoria Montenegro, the sociologist Roberto Baschetti and Carlos Pisoni, from the group H.I.J.O.S., were summoned to speak at the Esplanade Juan José Saer Lita Boitano —relatives of detainees and disappeared for political reasons—legislator Victoria Montenegro, sociologist Roberto Baschetti and Carlos Pisoni, from the group H.I.J.O.S.

Today Tuesday 22nd, at the Terry Museum, in Tilcara, Jujuy, the chapter “The blackout of Ledesma and the crime of Aredez” was screened, which belongs to the documentary series From inside memory, directed by Pablo Torello; while tomorrow Wednesday 23, At the same time, 10, the chapter “The Crime of Monsignor Angelelli” will be shown in the same series. Admission is free and free. Space is limited.

* José Antonio Terry Regional Painting Museum, Rivadavia 352, in front of the Central Square of Tilcara, Tilcara, Jujuy province.

At 6pm, for the second consecutive year, the Ministry of Culture and the National Secretariat for Human Rights will present the Tato Pavlovsky Prizes, an award that aims to recognize the work of those artists who were victims of State terrorism, who collaborated in the promotion of human rights and in the construction of memory through culture.

The first edition included Victor Laplace, Virginia Lago, Cecilia Roth, Alicia Sanguinetti, Liliana Guillot, Marilina Ross and Imar Miguel Lamonega, who were detained and disappeared in 1976. This year they will receive the Susana Rinaldi, Cecilia Rossetto, Hector Alterio, Carlos Ulanovsky, Chunchuna Villafañe and Norma Leandro awards, and there will also be a tribute to Mercedes Sosa.

The event will be held in the Human Rights Square of the Ex ESMA site and will feature a musical closing.

* ESMA Museum Site of Memory, Avenida del Libertador 8151/8571, C.A.B.A.

Starting on Wednesday 23, the second edition of Serenades Memorable will be broadcast on social media, an initiative promoted by the Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Culture's Secretariat for Cultural Management, in which great artists of popular music, such as Susana Rinaldi, Víctor Heredia, Mariana Carrizo and Ignacio Copani, pay tribute to the struggle of the Mothers, Grandmothers and Relatives of disappeared detainees.

At 20 o'clock, the National Symphony Orchestra will give a concert as part of the Day of Memory, Truth and Justice in the Space of Memory, whose repertoire will include the Hebrides Overture by Felix Mendelssohn and Symphony No. 3, Eroica in E flat major, op 55 by Ludwig v. Beethoven.

* Memory Space, Avenida del Libertador 8151/8571, C.A.B.A.

On Thursday 24, the podcast series Human Rights in Culture Cycle presents a new episode that tells different experiences of women who with their art resisted the dictatorship and today are sowing memories: Victoria Pepi Dillon, solo singer, daughter of disappeared parents; Cristina Fridman, actress and one of the pioneers of the group Teatro por la Identidad; and Taty Almeida, mother of Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora, with the participation and leadership of Nora Anchart.

It will be available from Thursday 24 on the YouTube channel of the Ministry of Culture and on Compartir Cultura.

During the day of the 24th, both the Jesuit National Museum - Estancia de Jesús María, in Córdoba, and the Museum and Library Casa Natal de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, in San Juan, will intervene its spaces to commemorate the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice.

The Estancia de Jesús María will hang white handkerchiefs outside the museum to strengthen the symbol of struggle and commitment of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. While Sarmiento's Birthplace will illuminate its historic fig tree red and from there will be flames that will illuminate the entire House, the rest of the lights will remain off. The entire community is invited to participate in silence, in commemoration of the date.

At 16, at the National Jesuit Museum - Estancia de Jesús María, the musical show Canciones Prohibidas will be presented, by the Cordovan folklorist Norma Piccone and live musicians who will perform a popular Argentine song book by composers persecuted by the last civic-military dictatorship.

* Jesuit Museum: Pedro de Oñate 246 /Posta de Sinsacate: Camino Real 2819, province of Córdoba.

* Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Birthplace Museum and Library., Sarmiento 21 Sur, San Juan Capital, Province of San Juan.

At 20 o'clock, the National House of the Bicentennial together with the Goethe-Institut and Kino Palais present the film De la Argentina (De l'Argentine; 94 min. France/Argentina, 1983-1985) by German director Werner Schroeter.

Dedicated to Rodolfo Walsh, De la Argentina is a valuable document on acts of terror and torture committed by the civil-military dictatorship in Argentina. It gathers valuable testimonies and interviews with Norma Aleandro, Ronnie Arias, Osvaldo Bayer, Hebe de Bonafini, Alejandra Conti, Marcelo Conti, Graciela Fernández Meijide, Paco Jamandreu, Libertad Leblanc, Cipe Lincovsky, Fernando Noy, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Patricia Walsh, among others.

* National House of the Bicentennial, Riobamba 985, C.A.B.A., Buenos Aires.

They want to tell us, the exhibition of banners of life stories of the thirty thousand disappeared is on display throughout March in the Space for Memory and the Promotion of Human Rights, former Clandestine Center for Detention, Torture and Extermination Automotores Orletti, in the Floresta neighborhood. The last exhibition of this stage will be held at the Former Railway Station of Villa Dolores, located in Traslasierra, province of Córdoba, on March 25 at 7 pm, organized together with the Traslasierra Memory Commission.

The exhibition, which was first held in Plaza Las Heras in 1995, aims to make visible through photographs, letters, report cards and other documents and texts the lives of victims of State terrorism. At the beginning of the month, the banners were displayed in the Plaza Madres del Pañuelo Blanco, next to the Human Rights Table of the Saavedra Neighborhood. The day was accompanied by the National Plan for Solidarity Culture with spaces for games and shows for the children present.

The activities are organized by the Ministry of Culture in coordination with the Ministry of Human Rights of the Nation, the Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Province of Buenos Aires, the Salta Delegation of the National Human Rights Secretariat and human rights organizations from different parts of the country.

* Former Villa Dolores Station, (KM 914), Villa Dolores, Province of Córdoba.

* Space for Memory and the Promotion of Human Rights Former Clandestine Centre for Detention, Torture and Extermination Automotores Orletti, Venancio Flores 3519/21, C.A.B.A.

Women, Writing and Memory, in a day at the House of Reading of the City Public Library Network, the writings of authors silenced during the Argentine military civic dictatorship will be taken as a starting point for reflecting on contemporary history and for debating, disseminating and highlighting their stories, as an exercise for memory and for the importance of freedom of expression.

The Undersecretary for Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism of the City Pamela Malewicz will discuss this topic, along with historian Hernán Páez Moritán and writer Luisa Valenzuela, who will share her experience as a writer in times of repression. Friday, March 25 at 18.

* Library House of Reading, Lavalleja 924, C.A.B.A.

On Saturday 26, at 16:30, at the National Historical Museum of the Cabildo and the Mayo Revolution, Ojomotor will give a show and an art workshop to launch the imagination for memory, truth and justice.

It is an invitation for families to see and hear through the kamishibai paper theater tales forbidden by the last civil-military dictatorship, and from them to create new images, new stories together. This activity is free and free admission and limited places.

At 19 o'clock, the closing will be musical and the presentation of the Pasa la posta Programme will be held, for the formation of territorial multipliers in human rights at the former ESMA site.

The main objective of the Pasá la posta Programme: Territorial Multipliers in Human Rights is the commitment of the population to the exercise of human rights through the generation of spaces for reflection and participation aimed at their formation as local multipliers, aimed at young people between 18 and 29 years old, who participate in continuous training sessions on human rights issues and access to national, provincial and municipal public policies, acquiring capacities to carry out actions and activities in their territories to promote rights and identify situations of infringement in order to advise, accompany and refer to the competent body for the solution of the problems that arise.

The day, organized in coordination with the Directorate of Human Rights in Culture and the National Plan for Solidarity Culture, under the National Directorate of Diversity and Community Culture of the Secretariat for Cultural Management, begins at noon with a guided tour of the Space for Memory and its museums, continues with a lunch for all the contingents registered for the program and will continue with different activities, talks between human rights organizations and young people, graffiti workshops for memory, percussion, scarves and stencil silhouettes, and ends with an artistic festival in which Nonpalidece and Murumba will participate .

At 17, at the National Museum of Man - INAPL, the film The kiss of oblivion, by director Eduardo Mignona, will be screened, which appeals to the memory of the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina through various testimonies and fiction. Anthropologist Carlos Masotta will be present to discuss the film and reflect critically on recent history.

* National Historical Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution, Bolivar 65, C.A.B.A.

* Memory Space, Avenida del Libertador 8151/8571, C.A.B.A.

* National Museum of Man, February 3, 1370/78, C.A.B.A.

On Sunday 27, at 18 pm, as the closing of the Poetics of Memory festival, the National Library will present in its Auditorium Jorge Luis Borges, the play Cuarto intermedio, by Félix Bruzzone and Mónica Zwaig. Admission is free and free.

Fourth intermediate part of the real meeting between Monica Zwaig and Felix Bruzzone in the corridors of the courts of Commodore Py. They speak different languages and do not understand each other well, but they decide that they can still talk about the trials against humanity without biting their lips and without crying. The weight of justice, tourism, the future circulate in this work as in a deformed cove or as in a ghost train. Under the direction of Juan Schnitman, he searches for the delusional, incomprehensible and absurd areas with which the judicial machinery impresses itself on the darkest events of recent history.

The Poetics of Memory festival aimed to commemorate a new anniversary of the civil-military coup of March 24, 1976, based on the repertoire of narratives and new perspectives provided by the generation of sons and daughters of the disappeared when addressing the country's recent past.

* Mariano Moreno National Library, Aguero 2502, C.A.B.A.

Also on Sunday the 27th, but at 17:00, there will be a special function of Teatro por la Identity, one of the most important and prestigious cycles in the country that has generated instances of reflection on identity and its national historical value. On this occasion, Questions will be presented, by Anabel Ares, winning work of the Dramaturgy Contest for Children's Audience Teatroxlaidentidad 2020.

In this work, a group of girls and boys, after school, play and review ideas about the right to identity. They have fun and have fun. But the subject is going to make itself felt much closer than they thought. The search for identity also goes through childhood.

* Cultural Center 25 de Mayo, Avenida Triunvirato 4444, C.A.B.A.

Throughout the week

- Identities, the community content and knowledge site of the Ministry of Culture, presents a special for the Day of Memory, which includes a selection of audiovisual and sound content to reflect collectively, from community perspectives: Testimonies of the Mothers; Poems and stories of disappeared persons; V ideoclip in tribute to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo; The world of Argentine chess under dictatorship; The flights of death; The meaning of the words Memory, Truth and Justice; Being a relative of a genocide; The systematic plan of appropriations of babies; Real cases and life stories: Avelino Bazán, Yvonne Pierron, Orlando Yorio, Estela Carlotto, among others.

- The Sarmiento Historical Museum will make available to visitors copies of books written by disappeared authors and books banned during these years, which include children's and young people's literature. During the last civil-military dictatorship between 1976-1983, thousands of books were banned and destroyed. There were burnings carried out, such as the one carried out in Eudeba or at the Latin American Publishing Center, during this period an attempt was made to control discourses, expressions and spaces where ideas were forged. In February 1977, in the province of Santa Fe, 80,000 copies of the Constancio Vigil Library, one of the popular libraries created after Law 419 in 1870, sponsored by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, were burned.

Thus, from March 22 to 27, from 10 to 18, the community will be able to read, manipulate, reflect with these books. Free and free admission.

* Sarmiento Historical Museum, Cuba 2079, C.A.B.A.

- At the Borges Cultural Center, which reopened last Friday under the orbit of the Ministry of Culture, you can visit the pavilion dedicated to graphic arts, where a series of images with which the artist León Ferrari illustrated in 1996 the Never More Report, published in September 1984.

* Centro Cultural Borges, Viamonte 525, C. A. B. A.

- On the other hand, the exhibition March, Women and Memory, in homage to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, will remain open until April 17 at the Casa de la Cultura of the National Fund for the Arts, organized by this institution. The exhibition brings together thirty works inspired by the struggle of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.

In the anteroom of the Casa de la Cultura, the illustrations that the artist Andy Riva made based on the stories of Ovillo de Trazos, a literary project carried out by Abuelas since 2015, are also exhibited.

March, women and memory can be visited from Thursday to Sunday, between 2pm and 7pm. Admission is free and does not require prior registration.

* House of Culture of the National Fund for the Arts, Rufino de Elizalde 2831, C.A.B.A.

All these activities are organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Nation and the City, in coordination with other organizations to remember, honor and reflect collectively.

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