The show ‘Manttalingo alaba’ (‘Daughter of Manttalin’) in the renovated cloister in Eskoriatza
The show ‘Manttalingo alaba’ (‘Daughter of Manttalin’) in the renovated cloister in Eskoriatza
The show ‘Manttalingo alaba’ (‘Daughter of Manttalin’) in the renovated cloister in Eskoriatza
The performance will take place on Friday, June 13, at 6:00 p.m. in the cloister of the Dorleta building on the Eskoriatza campus of the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences. The cloister was renovated during the 2024-2025 academic year and "Manttalingo alaba" will be the first performance to take place in it.
The show “Manttalingo Alaba” (“Daughter of Manttalin”) is based on the book of the same name by writer and Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences professor Mikel Etxaburu. For an hour, the performance recalls and recognizes the events that occurred in the women’s prison at Saturraran. The performance combines song, music and recital. In 2023, Mikel Etxaburu won the Ernestina de Champourcin poetry competition in Vitoria-Gasteiz and published his book of poems with the Pamiela publishing house.
Nerea Zuloaga, Irina Álvarez and Jon Gardoki perform in the show along with Etxaburu, and they explain what they have brought together in the performance: “We will write and sing so that what happened in the damp rooms echoes in our spirits. We will remember the storms and cliffs of the women who drowned in Saturraran prison. In the same place where holidaymakers now park their motor homes, more than 4,000 women were held captive. The sea knows all their names. It remembers individually the 166 women, children and young people who died there. It remembers them because it feels guilty, because it didn’t throw itself against the rocks, and because instead it erased the names of the dead children, wave after wave and tear after tear. Based on the book of poems Manttalingo alaba, we will learn their names, and we will remember them and recognize them.”
First performance in the renovated cloister in Eskoriatza
During the 2024-2025 academic year, remodeling works were carried out on the historic building on the Eskoriatza campus to modernize its facilities and guarantee the conservation of this building, which is on the historic register. The show “Manttalingo alaba” will be the first event to be held there after remodeling. In the first phase, the administrative spaces were reorganized, as well as the reception area, the academic secretary’s office, the Dean’s office and the rest rooms. The second phase ended in December and involved evacuation routes, improving accessibility and safety: a new evacuation staircase was installed in case of emergency, the floor of the cloister was leveled to improve accessibility and the headquarters of the LANKI Institute of Co-operative Research, located in the same building, was remodeled.
