The glasses of Santa Lucía' offers 56 vignettes with a look of solidarity against hoaxes and racism
Intercultural coexistence is better seen with 'The glasses of Santa Lucía' because they offer a supportive view of our society. 'The glasses of Santa Lucía' is a traveling exhibition of vignettes that talk about coexistence, that remember that the Canarian population was emigrants in America, that through intelligent humor tries to combat the hoaxes that fuel racism and xenophobia. The exhibition was inaugurated this Tuesday by the mayor of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Francisco García, the Councilor for Solidarity, Ana Gopar and the cartoonists and cartoonists Jesús Verdú (J. Morgan) and Carolina Bonino.
The exhibition will be on until March 22 at the Municipal Ateneo, at the Municipal Offices, on Avenida de Canarias and at the Los Llanos swimming pool. The traveling exhibition of 56 vignettes is a new action within the community development process to improve intercultural coexistence, Camino. In addition to well-known cartoonists such as J. Morgan, Carolina Bonino, Padylla or Carlines, there are also works by students from a cartoon-making workshop taught in the municipality by Morgan, Carolina Bonino and Cariles, and organized by the Solidaridad department.
During the inauguration, the mayor of Santa Lucía de Tirajana highlighted that “For our municipality, solidarity has been a transversal element in our government action because we understand that the survival of our people has been based on giving in order to receive, solidarity as a tool of social justice.” "From the municipal government - added the first mayor - solidarity actions are often accompanied by motions where we condemn all types of discrimination and we believe that solidarity should play a part in the educational policies that we develop from the City Council." Along the same lines, the Councilor for Solidarity, Ana Gopar, expressed her gratitude “both to those who taught the workshop, as well as to other vignette artists who collaborate in the exhibition and to the students of the workshop who also, as you can see in the exhibition, have "made works with messages of solidarity and for intercultural coexistence."
Carolina Bonino highlighted that "in the workshop we discussed how necessary it is to work with humor to dismantle hoaxes and prejudices against the migrant population; from the first moment the students have been involved in these objectives and in capturing these values in the drawings." Jesús Verdú, J. Morgan, pointed out that “part of my adolescence, people of my generation gained social awareness thanks to Mafalda and characters from great masters like Quino, that is why they are aware of the power of the cartoon to spread values and create awareness , that's why when they asked us to participate in this campaign we didn't think twice." Verdú added that “graphic humor and cartoons are a powerful tool to transmit these values” and thanked the City Council for its support and “the participation of the students and graphic humorists and cartoonists such as Eva Nuñez, Antonio Cerpa, Eduardo González, Padylla and Mónica Umpiérrez, in addition to those of us who carried out the workshop.”