The Festival de Málaga and Málaga City Council —through its Department of Social Rights, Diversity, Equality and Accessibility— are once again organising the Solidarity Space this year in collaboration with the “la Caixa” Foundation. This event will take place from 7 to 14 March in Plaza de la Merced as part of the 29th Festival de Málaga.
 
Councillor for Social Rights, Diversity, Equality and Accessibility, Francisco Cantos; territorial manager for Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla at “la Caixa” Foundation, Juan Carlos Barroso; commercial director at Caixabank in Malaga, Cordoba, Almería, Ceuta and Melilla, Carmen González Novo, and director of the Festival de Málaga, Juan Antonio Vigar, have today presented the Solidarity Space programme at the Cervantes Theatre.
 
The Solidarity Space aims to open the Festival to diverse social groups and promote their inclusion. To this end, 42 associations and social organisations from the city will participate, promoting and enhancing the visibility of these community groups. This eighth edition will again feature a model based on educational activities (free and open to the public) presented by the participating associations, covering a wide range of topics. It is therefore a cross-cutting initiative, with activities of all kinds (screenings, round tables, workshops,…) with an inclusive and social theme.
 
This space’s programme will address issues related to childhood, equality, health, the elderly, violence and social integration, among others:
 
Saturday 7 March
• 10:00 | NENA PAINE ASSOCIATION | SuperWorkers in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s | Screening and musical performances
• 12:00 | WOMEN'S SECTORAL BOARD OF MALAGA CITY COUNCIL | Rewriting the frame: gender and representation in film | Screening and round table
• 16:00 | PRODUCCIONES ALMARGEN | There’s a neighbourhood here | Screening and round table
• 18:00 | CUDECA FOUNDATION | The superpower of caring | Screening and workshop
Sunday 8
• 12:30 | OPENING CEREMONY
• 13:30 | SPANISH EMPTY NOSE SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | Breathing: body, presence and invisible realities | Screening and workshop
• 16:00| MALAGA FOR REGENERATION | HOPE: We’ve got time, the great opportunity | Screening
• 18:00 | AFA MÁLAGA | Short films to remember | Screening and round table
 
Monday 9
• 10:30 | RED CROSS | Put yourself in my place: intergenerationality and loneliness in the elderly | Screening and round table
• 12:00 | MOROCCAN ASSOCIATION | 24 frames of diversity | Screening and round table
• 13:30 | UMA | Living at home project | Screening and round table
• 16:00 | ANDRÉS OLIVARES FOUNDATION | Hope for your tomorrow | Screening and round table
• 17:30 | AMIAB | Resilience... the soul doesn't give up, it transforms | Screening
• 19:00 | APROINLA | Miniseries: Mission in District 3 | Screening and round table
 
Tuesday 10
• 10:00 | INCORPORA PROGRAMME - LA CAIXA FOUNDATION | Malaga knows about cinema | Screening and workshop
• 12:00 | ARRABAL-AID ASSOCIATION | 2nd Social MicroDocumentary Festival | Screening and round table
• 16:00 | CAIXABANK VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION | 8 summits for life | Screening and round table
• 17:30| ACCEM FOUNDATION | R_Evolution: Breaking the Gap | Screening and round table
• 19:00 | HARENA FOUNDATION | A journey from the past to the future: 19 years of Malaga volunteering in Ethiopia | Screening and round table
 
Wednesday 11
• 10:00 | ANDALUSIAN MENTAL HEALTH FEDERATION | Intermittent Spring | Screening and round table
• 12:00 | SPANISH ASSOCIATION AGAINST CANCER | The relapse | Screening and round table
• 16:00 | ALHELÍ ASSOCIATION | Alhelí: a space for mourning, a network for life | Screening and round table
• 17:30 | MALAGA PARKINSON’S ASSOCIATION | Parkinson's disease up close: chronicle of a shared rhythm | Screening and round table
• 19:00 | SPANISH UNHCR COMMITTEE | Adiaratou Iglesias: a life overcoming obstacles | Screening and round table
Thursday 12
• 10:00 | AMFAEM | Voices in first person: audiovisual testimonies and dialogue on multiple sclerosis | Screening and round table
• 11:30 | SPANISH HEMATOPOIETIC TRANSPLANT GROUP | Screening and round table
• 13:00 | DON BOSCO FOUNDATION | We want to be heard | Screening and Podcast
• 16:00 | UMAREFUGIA | Short films that inspire and stories that transform | Screening and round table
• 18:00 | PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT | Roots that speak: Bribi women's voices in defence of territory | Screening
 
Friday 13
• 10:00 am | DYAR ASSOCIATION | Digital footprint | Screening and round table
• 11:30 | HOSPITALARIAS MÁLAGA FOUNDATION | Screening and round table
• 13:00 | HOGAR SI | What nobody wants to see | Screening and round table
• 16:00 | TELEPHONE OF HOPE | Loneliness in old age | Screening and round table
• 18:00 | HÉROES FOUNDATION | Lucas and the Magic Glasses | Screening and round table
• 19:00 | CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR PREVENTION | Before the abyss: prevention as a social strategy | Screening and workshop
 
Saturday 14
• 10:00 | COPAO | Mediation as a resource for the prevention of bullying and harassment behaviour | Screening and round table
• 11:30 | APA FOUNDATION | Tuning in to frequencies | Screening
• 13:00 | CASA RONALD MCDONALD MÁLAGA | A Home from Home | Screening and round table
• 16:00 | AL QUDS ASSOCIATION | The gender issue in the Middle East | Screening
• 18:00 | ASSOCIATION FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF ALMOGÍA | DocuMemory: repression and deportation in Almogía | Screening and round table
 
DOCUMENTARIES SPECIAL SCREENINGS (ANDALUSIAN TOURISM HEADQUARTERS)
• 7 MARCH. 21:30| LIONS, THE WILDEST INSTINCT | Volunteering, caring for children without families in hospitals | Screening and meeting
• 8 MARCH. 19:30 | IDENTITY | Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers, Argentina | Screening and meeting
• 13 MARCH. 21:30 | AMINETU | Sahrawi solidarity, diplomatic crisis | Screening and meeting
 
 
 
Participating associations and entities:
 
•            AFA MÁLAGA
•            AMFAEM
•            AMIAB
•            AMINETU
•            APROINLA
•            AL QUDS ASSOCIATION
•            ALHELÍ ASSOCIATION
•            ARRABAL-AID ASSOCIATION
•            SPANISH ASSOCIATION AGAINST CANCER
•            CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR PREVENTION
•            DYAR ASSOCIATION
•            SPANISH EMPTY NOSE SYNDROME ASSOCIATION
•            MOROCCAN ASSOCIATION
•            NENA PAINE ASSOCIATION
•            MALAGA PARKINSON’S ASSOCIATION
•            ASSOCIATION FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF ALMOGÍA
•            CAIXABANK VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION
•            CASA RONALD MCDONALD MÁLAGA
•            SPANISH UNHCR COMMITTEE
•            WOMEN'S SECTORAL BOARD OF MALAGA CITY COUNCIL
•            COPAO
•            RED CROSS
•            ANDALUSIAN MENTAL HEALTH FEDERATION
•            ACCEM FOUNDATION
•            ANDRÉS OLIVARES FOUNDATION
•            APA FOUNDATION
•            CUDECA FOUNDATION
•            DON BOSCO FOUNDATION
•            HARENA FOUNDATION
•            HOSPITALARIAS MÁLAGA FOUNDATION
•            HEROES FOUNDATION
•            SPANISH HAEMATOPOIETIC TRANSPLANT GROUP
•            HOGAR SI
•            IDENTIDAD
•            LIONESSES, THE WILDEST INSTINCT
•            MALAGA FOR REGENERATION
•            PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
•            PRODUCCIONES ALMARGEN
•            INCORPORA PROGRAMME - LA CAIXA FOUNDATION
•            TELEPHONE OF HOPE
•            UMA
•            UMAREFUGIA