Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Vila de Gràcia neighborhood association

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Vila de Gràcia neighborhood association

We celebrated throughout the month of November the fifty years of neighborhood struggle in the neighborhood with an exhibition that collects the trajectory of the Vila de Gràcia neighborhood association, winner of the Vila de Gràcia collective prize in 2023.

We were also lucky to have the talk 50 years of partner: Challenges to Future On Friday, November 15: a debate with members of the association to find common strategies to focus its work on the neighborhood from the bases, solidarity, including new problems that we can find at present that have to do with the gentrification of the area, the difficult access to decent housing, the reception of newcomers, among others.

And within the framework of the day against violence against women and girls, the 25N, the woman’s vocalia made on Wednesday, November 20 the round table Violence against Women: 50 years of struggle To discuss around the trajectory and the route so far by feminist activism in the neighborhood, and what their future transformations can be. A space where we could do an exercise in memory history around events of resistance and collective struggle of the movement against gender -based violence in Gràcia. The speakers were Conxa Garcia, Àngels Tomàs, Elena Carreras, Blanca Álvarez and with Lola Capdevila as a moderator.