Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Mindelo Fishermen’s Association will take the theatrical play “Peles” to the stage of the Mindelo Cultural Center on Sunday, 10th, which proposes working on the theme of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) with the fishing community.
The idea, according to Patrícia Silva, from Escola de Teatro , to reflect on their surroundings, through a transformative process in which changes can be seen in social practices capable of leading to cases of GBV.
In other words, he continued, through the interpretation of a local cast of fishmongers, fishermen and fish handlers, throughout the show, various sectors of society will be able to reflect on the cycle of violence in affective relationships in which the characters will reproduce the same, in a process of becoming aware of the signs and moments that make up GBV situations.
The show is scheduled for 7pm on Sunday, 10th, and is part of the project “Promotion of a more inclusive and sustainable integral fishing chain that favors access to the rights of women and young people on the coast of São Vicente – Amdjer d ‘txeu fight.”
It is implemented by the Mindelo Fishmongers Association and the NGOs Paz e Desenvolvimento e Coopera and is financed by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
Tickets are available at the headquarters of the Mindelo Fishmongers Association, located in the replica of the Belém Tower and will be given to interested parties in exchange for one kilogram of non-perishable food.
In the synopsis of the play, the author wrote: “Several characters try on each other’s skin, feel, breathe and move on stage in each other’s skin, man’s skin, woman’s skin. (…) In the depths of our being, in the intimacy of our often violent emotional relationships, we touch each other without ever thinking what it would be like to wear the other’s skin. In a kind of choreography, characters cross-dress throughout the show reflecting on their sexual role and the space of power occupied socially”.
The “Amdjer d’txeu lute” project, which began in June, is expected to last 21 months and aims to help the population linked to the artisanal fishing sector on the coast of São Vicente, namely in Mindelo, Calhau and São Pedro, improve their socioeconomic situation in a sustainable way.
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