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Mucha Mujer offers theater training to women at risk of social exclusion

THE CONFIDENTIAL|June 14, 2011
Barcelona, June 14 (EFE)

The Mucha Mujer sociocultural project, which was presented today at the headquarters of the General Society of Authors and Publishers of Barcelona (SGAE), offers theatrical training and social integration to women in the process of social inclusion in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona, according to informed the SGAE.

"The beneficiaries of the project are women with social problems: victims of gender violence, former drug addicts, AIDS patients, sex workers, women who have just been released from prison, etc."


The project has the double objective of restoring the self-esteem of these women so that they relate better to the community and providing them with tools that allow them to evolve in the artistic world, not only as actresses but also as technical personnel.

The beneficiaries of the project are women with social problems: former drug addicts, victims of gender violence, AIDS patients, women who have just been released from prison, sex workers, etc.

The ideologist and director of Mucha Mujer, the Argentine Laura Settecase, has stated in statements to Efe that she uses theater "as a tool for social transformation" and has indicated that it is necessary to disseminate the project to try to obtain the financing that they currently lack. .

Settecase, who currently works as a teacher, playwright and theater director, is a member of Trastero de las Artes, the Barcelona cultural association that undertook the project last year.

The first edition ended with the creation of the testimonial show "There where you keep the strength of your humanity", performed by six of the thirty women who participated in the workshops.

The work, which narrates the lives of the women who participated in the first edition of the project, premiered on November 27 at the Palau de la Música Catalana and will be performed again today at the SGAE headquarters on the occasion of the presentation of the project.

In addition, the SGAE's Mompou Room will host a testimonial photographic exhibition of snapshots taken during the nine-month duration of the workshops. EFE ah/ce/is

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