Sometimes you meet people with whom you hit it off right away. That’s exactly how our association and IES Antonio Machado (The Antonio Machado Secondary School) got together. We met online, chatted about AB AQUIS (our first documentary) and just kept in touch ever since. Here’s how our visits went:
The wonderful students from IES Machado participated in the filming of ETERNO (our most recent documentary) as well as in the visit and conversation in Espacio Santa Clara. The girls even appear in the trailer of the documentary, which you can watch here.
We all asked ourselves some important questions like: Why do we reject places that we don’t know? How do we form prejudices? Through what channels and information do we form our thinking and opinion? What happens when we dare to approach realities that we don’t know? And what are the consequences of losing material and immaterial heritage without even being aware of this loss?
All these issues were discussed with the students present in the room.
As always, we are very grateful to the teachers who welcomed us in Soria and with whom we have already made friends.
A great opportunity for the young filmmakers: Pablo Beorlegui and Miguel Arguibide
Pablo and Miguel have been directors and scriptwriters of ETERNO. It was also a great opportunity for them to make themselves known and to experience being in front of a camera. They’re the ones who are always behind the camera, so it was great to see them in the spotlight for a change.
The interview with them was shown on the local TV channel – La8CyL TV, and they were lucky enough to be filmed in the amazing and historic Aula Machado.
They’d also been interviewed a few months ago in ‘Rehabilita con éxito’ in San Sebastián, which you can watch here.
These photographs really show the most important issue for Patrimonio para jóvenes, which is that the real protagonists of our activities are always the young people. We love promoting their talents, not ours. We want them to be the ones creating content,getting those ‘creative juices’ flowing and having a blast when discovering cultural heritage.
As you can imagine, we are often approached by people who would like us to organise a lecture for the youth, where the speaker could blow their own trumpet. But this is not the way we work. In Spanish we call this attitude “He venido a hablar de mi libro’’.
Well, it’s just the opposite, we give the floor to young people though we know that they will become aware of some things years later. However, we as our association’s board are not collecting merits or academic points. We love to share our passion for heritage through life experiences whenever we get the chance.
We always try to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere, and we’re true believers that freshness and spontaneity don’t have to be about frivolity.
And of course, just a bit of sightseeing in Soria
What a well-spent morning! After leaving the school building, we headed to the Diputación (local council office) to say hello to Silvia from the Film Commission. We just couldn’t resist a quick Romanesque stop, even if it was just for a photo… Here we are at the beautiful entrance of San Juan de Rabanera.
Before catching the bus, and us going back to Pamplona and José Luis to Madrid (he is the one who took these cool pictures that you can see here), we went into magical places like the Círculo Amistad Numancia. It seems that time has stopped there. There are some rooms like in a movie.
We had such a lovely chat with Javier Martínez Romera, and it was so interesting to meet David Ortega, who calls himself the ‘Grandson of Martín and Socorro, Adolfo and Alicia from Soria and Burgos in part’. He’s got loads of followers on social media because he’s so good at talking about the region of Castilla, especially Soria.
We hope to come back as soon as possible. Thanks everyone!