The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), through the Directorate General of Fine Arts, have organized activities within the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the campaign of 16 days of activism against violence towards women and girls. These activities will occur in various museum spaces and concert halls from November 25th to December 10th.

The program includes multidisciplinary events that bring together dance, visual arts, music, theater, literature, conferences, and workshops within spaces and meeting points that will encourage reflection on gender violence, in a day that seeks to heal, through art, the feelings about the injustice and inequality that exists against women.  

Before the 16 days of activism against gender violence, the San Carlos National Museum held, on Wednesday, November 22, and Thursday, November 23, several guided tours to make visible the work of women painters, while the National Museum of Prints held on Thursday 23, the 4th day of November with N for Orange, which brought together works from various artistic areas. Noviembre con N de Naranja, que reunió trabajos de diversas áreas artísticas. 

Likewise, the National Theater Coordination will present the play 'A Good Mother', directed by Guadalupe Damián and Juan Carlos Vives, starting this Friday and until Sunday, December 17 (Fridays at 8:00 p.m.); Cultural Extension will offer, starting this day at 11:00 a.m., the program 'I read... therefore I am!' with a reading by actor Arturo Rosales and the Printmaking Museum will carry out the program “Embracing narratives, resignifying spaces’, with workshops and talks on violence against women.

The Printmaking Museum (Munae) and the Franz Mayer Museum will carry out the activities against gender violence.

Through collaboration between the women who work in these neighboring museums, the event will take place on November 24, 25, and 26 and consists of a series of workshops and conversations focused on identifying, articulating, and reflecting on situations of violence against women, through graphic art and embroidery.

The first activity took place on November 24 with the lecture-workshop 'Gender Violence: Do I Know It, do I Live It, do I Practice It', with the speaker Mónica S. Amilpas García, followed by the lecture-workshop 'Psychological first aid in the face of gender violence', in the library of the Franz Mayer Museum.

On Saturday, November 25, from 11:30 am to 12:45 pm, there will be the discussion session 'Muses or Creators, Women in Graphics and Embroidery’, a space dedicated to weaving narratives about the role of women in art and their field of action in graphics and embroidery through time. Mayela Flores, professor and researcher at the Iberoamerican University and visual artist and exhibitor at the Munae, Patricia Soriano, will participate at the library of the Franz Mayer Museum.

There will also be simultaneous activities such as ‘Stamp your voice. Graphic to take away’; it will be possible to bring clothes, scarves, bags, or any fabric item to print with your own design or the event's design; also an open mic. Women's poetry reading, in which women can read poems by themselves or other poets; Body stamps, an invitation to the temporary tattoo stand with an anti-violence of gender theme; and photo embroidery and embroidery in print.

Starting Saturday, November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the date on which the 16 days of activism against violence against women and girls begin, the Museo Nacional de San Carlos will present 16 capsules, one per day, about women painters from the exhibition 'Painting in Feminine. Women in the Mexican art system 1846-1940. Homage to Leonor Cortina’. At 2:00 pm it will open with the capsule ‘The Woman Painter in the 19th Century’.

On the same day, Cultural Extension, at the N. Lira Museum in Tlaxcala, at 2:00 pm, will present the program ‘I Read... Therefore I am! 20 years’, with the reading of The Voice of Women, with texts by Adela Fernández, Josefina Vicens, and María Luisa Puga, read aloud by actress Ángeles Marín; the José María Velasco Gallery, at 2:00 pm, will host the discussion ‘The different forms of violence and leadership in the Morelos’; and from November 25 to December 10, at 2:00 pm, the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House-Studio Museum will present ‘Women in Architecture’, a series of videos on the careers of women architects.

On Sunday, November 26 at 11:30 am, in the Reception Hall of the National Museum of Art, the National Coordination of Music and Opera will perform the program Inbal Music in the Munal with the concert 'Of Moons, Romances and Springs', while in the Manuel M. Ponce Hall, at 6:00 pm, it will offer 'Inbal Music in the Ponce' with the participation of the Women in Music Collective, AC, and will present the book ‘Graciela Agudelo, a composer of the 21st century’, by Leticia Armijo.

Also, on Wednesday, November 29 at 7:00 pm, the San Carlos National Museum, as part of the Night of Museums program, will hold a talk on the historical and aesthetic role of Mexican women artists of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century; the Alameda Art Laboratory, at 7:00 pm, will organize the guided tour 'Between Lines: Displacement, Play, and Fiction'; and the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, at 7:00 pm, will hold the discussion 'Feminisms, Management and Production’.

The program will continue on Friday, December 1 at 7:00 p.m., at the Museum of Modern Art, with the exhibition Poéticas feministas. Ana Victoria Jiménez/Alicia d'Amico, which presents the documentary and artistic work of these two outstanding photographers; while the National Symphony Orchestra will hold its second season 2023 on December 1 and 3 -Friday at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 12:15 pm-, at the Main Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts, under the artistic direction of Ludwig Carrasco, with the concert 'Incarnated' and the participation of Spanish pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo.

Finally, on December 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, the Alameda Art Laboratory will hold the IV INSTAR Film Festival (Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism), within the framework of the exhibition ‘Pedro Lasch: Entre líneas/Between the lines’; and, in collaboration with the National Music and Opera Coordination, on Saturday, December 9, from 11:00 to 21:00 hours, will present the ‘Third Onix Marathon of Contemporary Music’, under the general coordination and curatorship of Alejandro Escuer.