Ecofeminism
ECOFEMINISM. Women and the Earth: Territories of Struggle
Participatory process created by Plàudite Teatre: Conferences, workshops and colloquiums to make the voices of migrant women visible.
More than 350 women from 36 countries and 5 continents participated in this edition to create a manifesto and a collective performance piece with social impact.
READ THE MANIFEST: (Catalan) / (Spanish)
THE PLAY:
Women and the Earth: Territories of Struggle is a community-based performance piece born from the experiences of migrant women from the Global South in defense of life, bodies, and territories.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
10/02/2026 Faragianna Theater, Novara (Italy)
11/21/2026 Vila Urània, Barcelona – 6:00 p.m.
11/27/2026 Espai Putxet, Barcelona – 7:00 p.m.
Video summary of the creative process:
From the manifesto to the scene
Public presentation of the manifesto with a public discussion. Final event of the winning project of the Reflexió 2025 call at Palau Macaya.
Participants:
Ayça Damgaci, actress and director of theater and cinema.
Carme Portaceli, Artistic Director of the National Theater of Catalonia (TNC).
Gala Xiuhcoatl, ecofeminist actress Plàudite Teatre.
Eugenia Delgado Mata, Artistic Director of Plàudite Teatre.
Taimi Diéguez Mallo, playwright, poet, fiction writer, and theatre creator.
Moderated by:
Emma de la Haba Vacas, member of the Tècnic Team for Community Action of the City Council of l’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
A project that connects ecofeminisms, migration and performing arts.
Yayo Herrero is visiting us: Anthropologist, engineer, professor, and ecofeminist.
Ecofeminism in action: dialogues between art, theory and activism
Inaugural conference:
Eugenia Delgado Mata, Artistic Director of Plàudite Teatre.
Carmen Gregorio Gil, anthropologist, director of the OTRAS Group, University of Granada
Yolanda Akpoli, activist and founder of Union Segones Oportunitats
Czarina Musni, lawyer and activist
María Nohemí González Martínez, Researcher at Simón Bolívar University in Colombia
Vanessa Marcos, expert in international cooperation,
Moderated by:
Déguène Seck, lawyer and researcher, responsible for Projects Senexcel·lència
With the support of the Department of Equality and Feminism of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Project winner of the Beca Barcelona Crea 2025 and and the Reflexió call 2025 at Palau Macaya.
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A project in evolution
ECOFEMINISM. Path of Peace
“Across the globe, it is mostly organised women who are facing up to the greatest challenges.” Yayo Herrero Ecofeminismos. La sostenibilidad de la Vida
LAST SHOWS: Free entrance
Friday 22/05/2026 at 10:30 Centre Cultural Bellvitge-Gornal (for highschools)
Monday 09/03/2026 a 18:00 Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Campus Ciutadella
Thursday 05/03/2026 a 17:00h Palau Macaya – Show & intergeneracional exchange
Wednesday 04/03/2026 a 18:00h Centre Cultural Santa Eulàlia, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona
"Soy la Voz de muchas Mujeres sin Voz"#16Days #Ecofeminismo #MigrArt #DretsHumans@igualtatcat @MuseuImmigracio @unescovcm @fundacioared @CentreAssis pic.twitter.com/bq2c2SIq9W
— Plàudite Teatre – Espai d'Arts Escèniques (@PlauditeTeatre) December 3, 2023
A Community and Social Theater production co-created and performed by women from the Global South, committed activists who reveal the structural violence in the Global South and in Europe for being women and defenders of Life and the Earth A show to give voice to the ‘Ecofeminism, forced migration and Human Rights, with post function colloquium .
Digital LH i TV LH 15/01/2024 Dones migrades de L’H reflexionen sobre l’ecofeminisme a través del teatre. YAYO HERRERO interview
THE VOICE OF MANY VOICELESS WOMEN
The Ecofeminist movement of the Global South is a social struggle of women activists against institutional, colonial and feminicidal violence, with a holistic conception that respects Nature and its inhabitants . Thousands of women social rights activists are murdered every year in the Global South. Corrupt networks want to silence their voices, silence their cries for justice. Year after year, thousands of women are subjected to the payment of abusive fees to mafias for being women with their own businesses. Every year thousands of children are kidnapped, and women overexploited by companies that destroy the natural ecosystem of the Global South. Every year thousands of women, eco-feminists and human rights defenders, fighters for indigenous peoples are killed for denouncing corruption, the removal of rights, injustice and murder. Regarding the ecofeminist movements, Yayo Herrero tells us: “they are firmly established in the territory. In them, an emancipatory process takes place for the people who integrate them who become agents of resistance, struggle and change. The purpose of these struggles are the dignity and sustenance of lives that are worth living and the joy of being lived. This generates a type of mobilization grounded in the earth and bodies.” From his book
Ecofeminisms The sustainability of life.
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PASS PERFORMANCES:
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- Friday 17/10/2025 a 18:00 Torre de la Sagrera, Barcelona
- Thursday 27/11/2025 a 18:00 Palau Macaya, Barcelona
- Friday 28/11/2025 a 20:00h L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona
- 21/03/2025 – 19:00h Centre Cultural La Bòbila LH
- 09/11/2024 – 17:00h Manifesta 15 Edifici Freixas
- 29/10/2024 – 17:30h Museu d’Història de la Immigració
- 29/10/2024 – 17:30h Museu d’Història de la Immigració
- 14/06/2024 – 19:00h Teatro Joventut
- 07/03/2024 – 18:00 FREIXAS BUILDING – ground floor 1 (Plàudite Theater Room)
- 12/01/2024 – 16:30 Performance and talk with YAYO HERRERO, EDIFICI FREIXAS – ground floor 1 (Sala Plàudite Teatre ) Carrer de la Glòria 7 ground floor 1 – 08902 L’Hospitlaet de Llobregat. Thanks to Sembra Llibres , Projecte Lliures and Coop57
- 19 December 18:00 at the Museum of Immigration History of Catalonia , Carretera de Mataró, 124, 08930 Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona. Among the events for the International Day of Migrants – Cicle MigArt.
- November 22, 2023 – 7:00 p.m. EDIFICI FREIXAS – ground floor 1 (Sala Plàudite Teatre ) Carrer de la Glòria 7 floor 1 – 08902 L’Hospitlaet de Llobregat.
- October 13 , Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture , San Sebastián, Free entry (With the collaboration of the Haurralde Foundation )
- June 11 at 6:00pm Teatre Joventut de L’H, Room B. Free entry.
Project with the support of the Department of Equality and Feminism of the Generalitat de Catalunya Project within the UNESCO Chair of Prevention of Violence against Women .
A SHOW THAT EVOLVES
FIRST STAGE: I COME FROM. Ecofeminism Way of Peace.
Recognized with the distinction of Promoting Peace awarded by ICIP International Catalan Institute for Peace.
Here’s the whole show:
Video presentation of the show:
Videos of previous features:
PRESS REVIEW:
Bienal
Bienal Manifiesta 15 a L’H 09/11/2025 «Freixas en acció»
TeatralNet, 09/11/2025 Manifesta 15 «Freixas en acció»
El Far, 05/11/2024 Art, flamenc i comunitat a una nova edició del Manifesta 15
Público, 04/11/2024 Manifesta 15 aterra a l’Hospitalet amb una programació diversa d’art, flamenc i la comunitat local
Projecte lliures 28/03/2024 El Lliures, compromès amb la lluita feminista
Digital LH 5/03/2025 Plàudite Teatre pren protagonisme el 8M amb “Ecofeminisme: Camí de Pau”
Bona Voluntat en Acció 15/02/2024 Explorant l’Ecofeminisme i la justícia global
Línia Xarxa 31/01/2024 36 hours with Yayo
Digital LH and TV LH 15/01/2024 Migrant women from L’H reflect on ecofeminism through theater
Línea LH 12/09/2022 Plàudite Theater becomes a global benchmark in gender matters
XarxaNet 06/09/2022 Plàudite Teatre, ally of the UNESCO Chair for the prevention of violence against women
LH Digital 06/09/2022 Interview of the Informative, Applause at the Unesco Chair
L’H Women’s Care and Information Center 11/25/2021
Observatory of Applied Performing Arts Theater Institute 11/25/2021
Polyedric Magazine : 25/11/2021
Institut Català Internacional per la Pau ICIP, Entitats de pau 2021 Yo vengo de. Ecofeminisme: camí de pau, Plàudite Teatre – Espai d’Arts Escèniques
FIRST PERFORMANCES:
August-September 2022 : Presentation of the project and screening of the video at the UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Violence against Women , Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla, Colombia.
March 19, 2022, Casal Mas Guinardó, Barcelona, organized by Assoc. Lonestar Cultura y Casal Mas Guinardó
13 March 2022 , Teatre Joventut, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, International Women’s Day, with the collaboration of the Red Cross of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
December 18, 2021 Teatre Joventut, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Show as part of the International Day of Migrants. With a post-function discussion between migrants from different territories who develop their activism based on specific organizational experiences in our country. With the participation of the Director General of Migrations, Refuge and Anti-Racism, Eunice Romero, and closing by the hble Ms. Tània Verge, Minister for Equality and Feminism.
27 November 2021 Teatre Joventut, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona 28 November 2021 Teatre Joventut, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona 22 May 2021 Auditorium del Fòrum, Barcelona, within the cultural program of the 12th CCOO Congress of Catalonia
With the support of : ICIP International Catalan Institute for Peace , l’Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council , Institute of Culture of Barcelona ICUB With the collaboration of :
MUET Mujeres Unidas Entre Tierras , Mujeres Pa’lante , L’Hospitalet Red Cross , Assís Reception Center , Open Arms , Women’s Care and Information Center (CAID) of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Department of Equality and Feminisms of the Generalitat de Catalunya , Youth Theatre
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