Solidarity Space at the Malaga Festival: here cinema is indeed for all audiences

The Málaga Festival together with the Málaga City Council, through the Department of Social Rights, Diversity, Equality, and Accessibility, organize once again, in collaboration with the La Caixa Foundation, the Solidarity Space. This event, which integrates 50 groups, will be held from March 15 to 22 at the Plaza de la Merced within the framework of the 28th Málaga FestivalMálaga.

The Solidarity Space aims to open the Festival to different social groups and promote their inclusion. For this purpose, 50 associations and social entities from the city will participate, which represents an increase compared to last year when 40 participated. Thus, they will encourage and enhance the visibility of these citizen groups.

Educational Activities

In this seventh edition, it will once again have a model based on educational activities (free and open access) from the different participating associations, covering a wide range of topics. Therefore, it is a cross-cutting initiative, with activities of all kinds of inclusive and social themes.

The councilor for Culture and Historical Heritage, Mariana Pineda; the councilor for Social Rights, Diversity, Equality, and Accessibility, Francisco Cantos; the regional manager in Andalusia, Ceuta, and Melilla of the La Caixa Foundation, Juan Carlos Barroso; the commercial director of Caixabank in Málaga, Córdoba, Almería, Ceuta, and Melilla, Carmen González Novo, and the director of the Málaga Festival, Juan Antonio Vigar, presented yesterday the agenda of activities and meetings of the Solidarity Space at the Rossini Hall of the Cervantes Theater.

The program of this space will address various themes throughout the eight days of activity, with topics such as loneliness, violence, suicide, the environment, childhood, or old age. Some of the participating associations include the Andrés Olivares Foundation, Oxfam Intermón, Red Cross, Spanish Association Against Cancer, Nena Paine, and Growing with a Future, among others.

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