Monforte de Lemos, March 13, 2026. The Mayor of Monforte, José Tomé Roca, together with the Deputy Mayor, Gloria Prada, and the Councilors for the Environment, Works, Rural Environment and Services, José Luis Losada; Culture, Marina Doutón, and Women, Equality and Consumption, Regina López, attended this Thursday, at 8:15 p.m., the performance of the play “A historia vaxenial”, a production by the company Artyc Content that served as a closing to the program of activities organized by the Monforte City Council to commemorate 8M, International Women’s Day.
The function concluded an extensive program of activities that included educational workshops, games for equality, shows with a gender perspective and, as the central event, the traditional rally and reading of the protest manifesto last Sunday 8M. The aforementioned concentration, highlights the Mayor, “had a massive influx of Monfortina society”, an issue that he wanted to thank since, he said, “it was the largest in recent years.”
The theatrical proposal, coordinated by the Women’s Information Center, CIM, was winner of the VI Luísa Villalta Prize 2024 for projects for equality. Written by Raquel Nogueira and Iván Marcos, it follows the trail generated by “Historias Vageniales”, the successful web series created by the same author and winner of a Mestre Mateo Award.
In a comedy key, the work takes a tour of the history of humanity to investigate how women’s sexual organs were represented and analyze how this representation, or omission, was coupled with the disregard of women and their place in the world.
The audience enjoyed a piece halfway between a historicist comedy and a feminist event, between a truthful pedagogical conference and a fun confessional monologue performed by Raquel Nogueira and directed by Iván Marcos.
The exhibition “Women with their own light” continues throughout the month of March
“A holiday history” puts an end to the activities promoted this year by the Monforte City Council around March 8, but the commemoration of this fight and defense of equal rights between women and men does not end here. The exhibition “Women with their own light” that takes a tour of the life and career of pioneering female figures and leaders of equality will remain throughout the month of March hanging on the lampposts on the right side of Cardenal Street, from the corner with Avenida de Galicia to the end of Paseo de la Compañía.
The installation focuses on women who shone with a special light throughout history, pioneers who challenged norms and became female references in the defense of equality. From internationally recognized women such as Marie Curie of Frida Kahloto feminist pioneers like Clara Campoamor and Simone de Beauvoir the Gallegas like Rosalía de Castro, Emilia Pardo Bazán or the Monforti jurist María Emilia Casas Baamondeall of them relevant figures and fundamental pillars of social progress.
The complete list of pioneering women of this installation includes Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Isabel Zendal, Mercedes Marino, Concepción Arenal, María Casares, Rosalía de Castro, Hermanas Mirabal, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, Margarita Salas, Virginia Woolf, María Emilia Casas Baamonde, Clara Campoamor, Almudena Grandes, Maruja Mallo, Teresa Portela, Frida Kahlo and Ana Pelleteiro.
The Town Hall’s theater program also continues: Upcoming events in the Multipurpose Building
- March 26: The Galician actor Carlos Blanco presents his show “A Penúltima”.
- April 23: “Amalia and the river, the story of a black marketeer”, by Teatro Guirigai.
- April 26: “Berenguela na cage”, by the Galeatro Producións Escénicas group. Aimed at children.
All performances scheduled in the Multipurpose Building are at 8:15 p.m., except for the one on April 26, “Berenguela na gaiola”, which will be at 6:00 p.m. as it is a work aimed at children and family audiences. Prices remain in all cases at €5 for the general public and €3 for minors, students, the unemployed and retirees.
The Mayor, José Tomé Roca, encourages Monfortinos and Monfortinas to participate in this complete programming, and highlights the “decided commitment of this Government Team to culture, and in this case, to the performing arts, with a periodic offer in the Multipurpose Building that is already a reference in the cultural agenda of Monforte.”
