By Ana Lázaro Verde (dpa)
San Sebastian (Spain), October 30 (dpa) – The countdown to 2016 started in San Sebastian City Basque presented today to develop programming for their big year, which will be European Capital of Culture by the Polish Wroclaw.
The peace and coexistence are the backbone of a program that includes a hundred hundred projects and activities, engendered in collaboration with cultural agents of the city and also Europeans.
The art, dance, theater, film, music, architecture and gastronomy become in dish of enjoyment, but also in “therapeutic” tool in this city in northern Spain, for half a century affected by the Basque separatist conflict.
“The draft 2016 San Sebastian born from an everyday story citizens have lived with violence and our project aims to overcome this violence with a cultural program, “said its director, Paul Berástegui, during the presentation ceremony held in the new cultural space Tabakalera, former snuff factory of San Sebastian.
“San Sebastian 2016 makes a cultural commitment that transcend the celebration, an ongoing project and unfinished staged throughout the city: a more participatory and more free, mature, active citizenship,” said Spanish Minister of Culture, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, who was present at the official ceremony and delivered a speech in Euskera.
San Sebastian, or “Donosti”, as they call many of its inhabitants because of its name in Basque Donostia – was the town hardest hit by ETA. There nearly a hundred people
killed by the armed group, which sought independence for the Basque country. But even under the rain of lead, always noted for its cultural thrust, developed to coat institutions and events of international prestige, as its Film Festival, the Jazz Festival, the Kursaal, designed by Rafael Moneo or Chillida-Leku Museum, dedicated to the sculptor Eduardo Chillida San Sebastian (1924-2002).
Considered as one of the “pearls” of the Cantabrian Sea, the emblematic La Concha Beach, its bars of “tapas” and its landscapes and monuments each year attracts half a million people.
What is the goal of San Sebastian 2016 in a city with great cultural and tourist tradition?
“That citizens to equip themselves with tools and are able to create a framework of coexistence with a more respectful society with more solidarity the more egalitarian human rights, “he told dpa Berástegui, director of the project.
The program, which affects citizen participation is divided into three” lights “that” way possible lines of light “in progress towards coexistence. lighthouse life, Peace and voices
Following marine metaphor, San Sebastián 2016 (SS2016), also has “springs” that address close to the citizens to deepen critical thinking through art issues.
The food will also be very present and SS2016 will have its own “pintxo”, the popular cover featuring almost all the bars in town and that has become a hallmark. This is a review of the popular “gilda” created by renowned chef Pedro Subijana.
The European Capital of Culture is a title granted by the European institutions to one or two cities for a year have the chance to show their development and cultural life.
In this case, we can say that the route of San Sebastian 2016 has been long and complex. Full of vicissitudes and ups and downs.
Since the project began to take shape in 2008, it has adapted to political changes experienced by the Basque Country and the city itself. The most important: the announcement of the end of violence by ETA in 2011, just three months after San Sebastian became the capital
At the local level, by the City Council. been three mayors of three different political colors.
Getting sponsorship was also not easy, which made that part of Basque society looked to the project with skepticism.
Over the past days SS2016 offices were abuzz where dozens of people worked around the clock to get everything done in its implementation.
“I hope that now that the program is visible and tangible, is rescue that could disappear connection (between the project and the citizens). People will want to get this right, “he told dpa Eneko Goia, mayor of San Sebastian.
On the street also some excitement palpable this week. “It seems to me that San Sebastian is phenomenal European Capital of Culture”, assured dpa Pilar, a woman who, at 76, bathes every day on the beach of La Concha. Hot or cold.
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