Carta Blanca a Chévere

Grupo Chévere presents Ictus on 26 October in the Sala El Mirlo Blanco at the Teatro Valle-Inclán, a new project that proposes a conversation on democratic memory and the way societies build, preserve and also forget their past.

The initiative starts from a concern that is increasingly present in public debate: the gradual loss of direct memory of the fascist experience of the 1930s, the coup d'état of 1936 and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship.

From this perspective, Chévere raises a series of questions about how narratives of memory are constructed and their relationship with democracy. What happens when those who can offer a direct testimony of an event disappear? Can a memory die when no witnesses remain? How is the distance between individual and collective memory established? What roles do forgetting and history play in that process?

Ictus does not aim to offer closed answers to these questions, but to open a space for reflection and conversation about memory and its mechanisms. The proposal also addresses the alterations caused by the collective trauma of the 1936 coup, the induced loss of memory and the methods through which the democratic story is built and rebuilt.

90 years after those events, and with four generations already removed from direct experience, Chévere argues for the need to ask what remains in collective memory, what has been lost along the way, and who decides what a society remembers and what it ends up forgetting.

The conversation is moderated by Xesús Ron and features Aldara Cidrás, Anna Miñarro and Emilio Silva, who approach the relationships between personal memory, collective memory, trauma, history and democracy from different viewpoints.

Location: Teatro Valle-Inclán - Sala El Mirlo Blanco