The City Council of A Pobra do Brollón is organizing different activities between November 8th and 10th that have Historical Memory as their guiding theme. It will begin on Thursday 8th at the Casa da Cultura “Olga Novo” with screening of the documentary “O canteiro de Sebil”, a film that tells the life of Xoán Xesús González Fernández. In 1936, after the Uprising, Xoán Xesús led a group of 50 workers from Teo known as Os Terzos de Calo who headed to Compostela to defend the legality of the Republic.
This projection is part of the I Galician Cinema Cycle of the Pobra do Brollón that develops every Thursday at 8:00 PM at the Olga Novo Culture House and which ends on November 28. The Cinema Series agenda includes screenings followed by round tables, in this case the following will participate: of the round table the archaeologist Xurxo Ayán, director of the excavation at Casa de Repil and the exhumation projects of Castroncelos and Saa, as well as many other projects to recover Historical Memory throughout the State.
The next activity will be the Saturday at 4:00 PM with a guided tour of the Casa de Repil. The place has been the subject of archaeological campaigns that allow us to reconstruct what happened there in the battle of 1949. The visit this weekend replaces those held on Saturdays in autumn at the Castro de San Lourenzo. To participate, you must sign up at 666 435 832.
On that same day at 20:00 in the afternoon, in the Casa da Cultura Olga Novo, the play will take place “Lola” written and directed by professor Manuel Ayán Díaz, born in Fornelas and author of other theatrical works such as “”Maria Castaña" or “Beltrana A Birolla”. The play, represented by the Avelaíña Cultural Association, narrates the family situation of two young people who want to get married in the 1960s, she from a family environment close to the regime and he from a republican one. The play highlights the persistence of past traumas.
Historical Memory will continue to be the protagonist on Sunday the 10th, with Autumn Walks Cycle: hand in hand with…Xurxo Ayán, who will guide attendees through the prominent places in the arrest and murder of the Winter of Eirexalba. The Winter It was the subject of an exhumation project last summer of 2018 and the archaeologist will share the results of that intervention.
The route will start next to the Guardia Civil Barracks in A Pobra do Brollón at 10:00 and will combine sections by bus with others on foot. It is expected to end at 13:00 with a tack snack, the phone stops again registrations is 666 435 832. In case of bad weather, the route will be replaced by a talk about The Winter and the results of the exhumation project at the Olga Novo Culture House.
The weekend dedicated to Historical Memory does not correspond to any specific anniversary. In the words of the Mayor, Xosé Lois Maceda, “It's not about remembering our recent past only on the days indicated on the calendar, but about normalizing the celebration of Remembrance events within the regular cultural programming of a City Council.”. The local alderman assures that the government team has always supported this type of initiative, such as the excavation of the Casa de Repil or the exhumation projects in Saa and Castroncelos, collaborating with the ARMH. “We find this commitment to recovering our most recent and traumatic history interesting and necessary and, above all, to transmitting it to younger people,” says Xosé Lois Maceda.
