Node of Galician initiatives #decrece2016

The node of Galician initiatives is an activity framed within the Encuentro Transición Decrecimiento 2016 that will be celebrate in Betanzos during the days 29, 30 and 31 of October.
All the info and registrations at https://transiciondecrecimiento2016.wordpress.com/

This node or workgroup intends to group people of Galician initiatives related to the transition and to the decrease in the broadest sense. The objectives are: to know and place each other. To share knowledge and experiences, problems and solutions, failures and sucesses. And to strengthen and to hatch networks of initiatives.

The dynamics that we want to implement are:
1) Presentation and mapping of local initiatives.
 Each participant will present itself (sucesses and failures) and will be mapped saying  "what he knows how to do /what he wants to learn".
2) Problems and solutions. Dynamic in that we will play to find problems or  common concerns and possible solutions.
3) To activate a possible time bank, possible collaborations and network projects. To activate calendars for winter activities.
4) Presentation of results to the rest of the meeting participants. (10 minutes)
We have to ride between all!

Confirm your attendance and bring things.

RuralC at the II Encuentro Cultura y Ciudadanía

During the days 13 and 14 of October 2016 we were in the II Encuentro Cultura Ciudadanía

In 2016 the the Meeting focuses on a polyhedral reality, with multiple semantic drifts: the TERRITORY. This necessarily includes the sphere of the local, but it also implies a relational dimension that emphasizes the exchanges, negotiations, intersections and flows that occur or strike in a given cultural space. Beyond the city or municipality, culture is also expressed through spaces of encounter and fabrics of relationships that surpass and transcend the strictly local. Peers as center-periphery, global-local or urban-rural reject any absolute or antagonistic character, and appear rather as ambiguous and polysemic realities, in constant redefinition, based not so much on defining attributes as on relations and processes. Territory is also a flexible reality in spatial and symbolic terms, which can be expanded or contracted according to specific moments, circumstances and interests. 

The meeting was articulated as a dynamic forum with presentations and interventions of 10/15 minutes of about 200 projects. Also themed tables and performances. Our presentation was inside the table Rural Urban Dialogues, Global Local, moderated by Fernando Bayona.We told the origins of the RuralC association and some of the projects we have development, contributing our vision of how we think culture could help to face the challenges that are presented to the rural. 
Here we leave the slide of our presentation:

We also leave you some of the notes, tweets and projects presented:

Notes/tweets:

_  Facilitate processes and not events. (Alfredo _Fundación Cerezales)
_ Understand rural times and work from the rural. 
_ That the state guarantees the autonomy of the commons. (Lucas_Zemos98)
_ To understand the playful way of making a city.
_ Making objects as an excuse to make community.
_ Social challenges from scientific questions (@CCiutadana)

Projecto:

Fundación Cerezales and its "Terriotorio Archivo",  a project to learn a lot from the rural initiatives.

Katakrak is defined as a political enterprise, the time of work is dedicated to social transformation. 
It develops on a library and as it is ordered around cross-sections such as: body, ecology, feminisms or geopolitics to become a space that generates community.
With a canteen that establishes relationships around products of closeness and organic production, with prices varying according to your purchasing level.

Carles presented us Les Falles Populars i Combatives, a proposal for an open and self-organized party born in 2002, the result of the combined work of various groups of the city of Valencia. They have been consolidated as a space in which to recover the popular spirit of the fallas, giving life to the squares, the solar (through the Xunta Solar Fallera) and the networks. During his presentation he reminded us how National Catholicism instrumented these popular festivals of a critical nature, such as the left and the libertarian movements reneged during decades of this party that belonged to them, and how gradually the self-management of the feast is recovered from the communities and outside of institutions and multinationals.

Alberto presented us El recetario a platform that freely shares documentation and manuals on constructive solutions for Habitat from Waste (Hábitat a partir de Residuos).

Fernando presented us the Festival de Video Creative Commons, A festival that has been replicated by different cities, and that you can also copy.  It began with the Creative Commons licenses and has become a space for dialogue, knowledge and defense of Free Culture and audiovisual as a tool for criticism and transformation of our environment.

María Lobo and Roi presented us Rec Think. A web-doc with young people from rural areas in process of depopulation in four European countries. It seeks to involve them in a process to re-think and redefine their role in the future of these localities. Participatory video is the methodology used.
They release the code of all their methodology, offering Guides on the implementation of innovative strategies that promote the participation of young people in rural environments, on Participatory Video or on the promotion of transversal competences in rural environments.

We leave you a video of this project, which reflects the number of problems we face from the rural:

+ Photo album of the meeting by José Jurado _ RuralC on facebook.

We do not want to forget about the intense performance "Viva La guerra" Postverdiales, from the collective LOOPAI.

Preparing the meeting of Transition and Decrease 2016 _ Betanzos

This year the Encuentro estatal de Transición y Decrecimiento 2016 is celebrated in Betanzos during the days 29, 30 and 31 of October.

We are in the local team with members of Véspera de Nada, RuralC, Resilience Center Pousadoira, Seed Network and Grupo de Consumo de Betanzos.
Coordinating with Red de transición estatal.

The event will be open and free,  although it has a previous registration, which will help us to specify the number of attendees and reserved meals.
You can also register a proposal of workshop, if you want to share your knowledge.

You can follow the news about the programme and the inscriptions at the event in Facebook.

MilloMix

It´s an agro-artistic project under construction.
It is to cross diverse varieties of organic corn from our region, witn ideological, cultural and artistic intentions.

Like this are our cheeses.

With cow's raw milk.

NOISEMEDE 2013

Last 17th of August 2013, and for second consecutive year, we made the NOISEMEDE festival from RuralC association.
This festival approaches noise and electronic experimentation to rural landscape.

We collaborated with Acas Saumede, association that unearth from undergrowth this abandoned small village to rehabilitate and invirogate it from culture and coexistence with the environment. Located in a forest reserve in A Bola (Ourense), between Xinzo de Limia and Celanova.



This year 2013 we programmed 6 Galician bands, workshops, installations, and diverse activities that have got that the festival is a festive meeting, but also a teaching event and approach to sound experimentation and nature.
You can see a detailed programme here.

We appreciate the work of everyone who has contributed and helped voluntarily.
Thanks also to the participants and those who came to enjoy another year of this event.

Montenoso

Montenoso (the land is ours) is a project that was born in Summerlab 2012 in Alg-a Lab, Valadares, Vigo, in which we collaborate as RuralC with other collectives and associations, working in an openly and transparent way, with pads, trellos and regular meetings at Mumble. A project that aims to visualize the MVMC (Lands of Neighbors in Common Ownership) in Galicia. The MVMC in Galicia represent a type of ownership and management of property, that breaks the classic public / private dichotomy. The specifics of these lands is determined by the fact that the property goes to the residents who daily live in that territory. This form of commons affects more than 640,000 hectares, 33% of Galicia.

The objectives of this project are:

- Giving visibility to communal lands and communities that manage them.
- Supporting the (re) appropriation of these lands by the neighbors to guarantee the sustainability of the territories.
- Encouraging community members to be participants in the multifunctionality of lands and its revaluation.
- Learning from their genesis and management mechanisms.

To reach them we are developing three devices:

1) LAR: research space about commons and related topics.

2) Cartography that visualizes each MVMC with its contents.

3) An Intervention program.

During these 10 months we have worked in various groups: internal coordination, funding, LAR, Communication, Design (creation of logos, images, pictograms, ...).

Through the site www.montenoso.net you can follow our publications and see more deeply the project.

REMAGOSTO

We organized a Micro_festival called REMAGOSTO.

Click HERE to see this post in the web of RURALC.

"Procrastination" Os Gru

We present you the new clip by Os Gru.
A song about that what is happening to us, humans from the beginning of XXI century.
Procrastination.

Recorded in Villanueva de los Infantes, at the head office of RuralC.

A production by Fur Alle Falle & RuralC.



If you want to watch this video in Vimeo go to this link: http://www.vimeo.com/21680338

Circuit Bending Workshop. Dio3stu & RURAL C

During the 25th and 26th December 2010 we developed a circuit bending workshop in Villanueva de los Infantes, at RURAL C space, within the project Dio3stu.
The initiative grew out of interest of 3 people to learn this technique of building electronic musical instruments.
So we teach the basic knowledge and we made 2 instruments, one of them more or less finished, called "Chessboard".



For the instrument "Checkerboard" we used a 6 € toy piano. For the chassis we used a box of Ferrero Rocher.
When performing the bending we add a Pitch, 2 filters, a noise and a pitcher of loops.
We leave you a video to watch how it works in one of the tests