International Women's Day
The Circle joins the 8M movement in its demand for effective equality and gender justice, supporting the struggle for an inclusive, pluralistic, and just future. We defend the need for a critical culture informed by feminisms, one that focuses our attention on the contemporary world and its main problems. It is necessary to investigate and reflect on history with a restorative purpose and, also, to subject ourselves as a cultural institution to a constant review of our practices.
Over the next few weeks, feminism will drive our programming through a variety of activities across different disciplines: an exhibition by Colita and María Aurèlia Camppany showcasing their work at Antifémina; highlighting the realities of racialized women in the workplace; conjuring up a poetic gathering; exploring the freedom of jazz with Lucía Martínez and the Fearless…
But our greatest challenge will undoubtedly be to permeate the institution beyond the focus of March 8th with a feminist and vigilant perspective. Even in 2024, it is still necessary to emphasize: without feminism there is no culture, and without culture there is no future.
Activities
Showroom
29/02/24 - 05/05/24
Through this exhibition, presented for the first time, we celebrate the first openly feminist graphic novel from the Transition period. The enduring relevance of its denunciations and reflections makes it essential that this pioneering project be brought to light once again.
Antifeminine with Pandora Mirabilia
14/03/24
We will explore the meaning of being a woman in that era, and look back to understand the mechanisms by which they were assigned a specific social role: to be the perfect mothers and wives.
Conferences and debates
29/02/24
Within the framework of Círculo Solidario, we host this conversation space of SOS Racismo Madrid where we will make visible the realities of young racialized women in the workplace.
The fortune teller and the future
29/02/24
We present the book Delphine's playing cards, by Esther Ramón, a true declaration of love for Rohmer's cinema, which will also include the screening The green rayWe will have Marie Rivière (the film's star), Esther Ramón, Jonás Trueba, and Pablo García Canga.
Akelarre. The Round Table (young poetry & other literatures)
07/03/24
This is the Witches' Sabbath of Women Poets: for the third consecutive year we will conjure with our voice, our thought and our word in the most powerful poetic rite that has ever taken place, that of a group of women gathered together conjuring.
365/8M New generations, the engine of change
08/03/24
We brought together five young women who excel in different artistic disciplines such as acting, music, photography or painting, and who, through their work, strive to lead the change towards equality.
Concert
08/03/24
An exploration of freer jazz and film music. We present the project of drummer Lucía Martínez with The Fearless, the marvel that will close this edition of Jazz Círculo.
Readings
Minerva
Feminism is not for women.
With Clara Serra.
"Working-class positions and classical feminism share something: an uncomfortable feeling that the advance of feminism has displaced them from their rightful place.
The feminist vanguard. A radical transvaluation.
With Gabriele Schor and Ana Useros.
“It is therefore necessary to explore archives and legacies of still unknown women and their works, to investigate their biographies, their artistic careers, their participation in exhibitions, their writings and other relevant materials.”
Virginia Woolf would have been a great tweeter.
With Itziar Hernández, Lucía Lijtmaer, Santiago Gerchunoff and Gonzalo Torné
"MBeyond feminism, what makes her contemporary is that she is a writer who develops responses to things she doesn't like.”
The museum is by definition a colonial apparatus
With Elvira Dyangani Ose, Coro J. and A. Juanena
"Audre Lorde used to say that the master's house could not be dismantled with the master's tools. My interpretation of that is that the museum platform must be deconstructed, redefined from its meanings, its structures.”
Editions Círculo de Bellas Artes and Rag Language
Feminisms and cultural industries. Conversations with women in Spanish culture.
This book gathers the opinions of writers, film producers, actresses, stage directors, comic artists, curators, cultural managers, singers, journalists or visual artists who represent different sectors and generations of culture in our country.