WORKSHOP| GENDER WORKSHOP SERIES XIII

Feminist Talk with Mariola Mourelo

January 26, 2023, 17h00

Room 2, CES | Alta

Interviewer: Sandra Silvestre (MA student FPCEUC/FEUC)


About

In the 2022-2023 edition, the Gender Workshop proposes to continue the “Feminist Talks” with people from different areas of intervention and work in the field of gender equality and women's dignity and wellbeing in Portugal and Spain.The interviews will allow us to map relevant work carried out in our country and in the neighbouring country, not only in the academy, in the sciences, but also in activism, the arts, care, work, trade unionism, etc. The format of an interview with an audience in attendance will allow for an initial dialogue between interviewer/interviewee and an opening for debate. The selection of interviewees and interviewers will aim at a cartography of diverse feminisms, in particular in the daily and concrete exercise of projects far from the large centres.This talk highlights the work of Mariola Mourelo.



Bio notes

Mariola Mourelo is a feminist activist, photoeducator and group facilitator. She focuses on community and activist work linking her three main interests: feminism, photography and education, through the projects ffotoeduca, Revirada - feminist journal and group facilitation. Recently, she co-founded 50pés consultoras where she is dedicated to the accompaniment and training of entrepreneurial and social projects from a gender and feminist perspective. She was born in Coruña, Galicia, where she currently lives, works, is an activist and studies, continuing her training in Gender Equality and Facilitation of Group Processes. She studied Documentary Photography in Wales and Artistic Education in London.

Sandra Silvestre is a community animator, coordinator of socio-educational projects, trainer and consultant in the area of gender equality and social and solidarity economy. Her path is very much marked by AJPaz - Action for Justice and Peace, NGOD where she started her practical training, but also by networks such as the World March of Women and Animar - Portuguese Association for Local Development. She has been dedicated to citizenship, participatory democracy, equality and human rights projects. Currently, she works with the COL.ECO project - Collaboration in the Local Organization of Sustainable Economy of the Council of Coimbra promoted by APBC - Agency for the Promotion of Coimbra's downtown. She also highlights the work with the Group Aprender em Festa (Gouveia), entity of which she is part, and in the initiative Roteiro Cidadania em Portugal promoted by ANIMAR - Portuguese Association for Local Development with the Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality.
She is a trainer, especially in themes related with Gender Equality and with methodologies of non-formal education, and has worked with numerous entities throughout the central region. She is a social activist and regularly collaborates with Casa da Esquina, AKTO, Coolabora, inducar, CES, among others. She was also a cultural producer at TEUC, Teatrão, JACC and a parliamentary advisor. She has a degree in International Relations from FEUC, with specialised training in Education for Human Rights (EYCB/COE) and is currently doing her master's in Social Intervention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FPCEUC/FEUC).