AventuraTech
Since 3 February, every Tuesday morning, people over 60 meet at Rural Champs in Anceu for functional and strength training while they learn digital tools. Led by Víctor of Rural Champs, free, and no computer needed.
AventuraTech is one of the three strands of Nova Lonxevidade Rural, with the support of Fundación la Caixa. Hear the participants in their own words: part one and part two.
Entre Culturas celebrates Beautiful Bees
On 28 February we celebrated what the 24 young women of Beautiful Bees built in our village with a Fuchiqueira and an Entre Culturas at the Casa do Pobo.
A sensory walk along the Camiños dos Sentidos, upcycled denim sewing, creative writing, strawberries and DNA; then a shared lunch with musical bingo, the screening of the short documentary Lembranzas de Anceu, a German pretzel workshop and hot chocolate on the new benches of the Barazal botanical park.
CanTech
Learning to manage our emotions while helping abandoned dogs from the Protectora do Morrazo, with the animal-assisted intervention team of Cocan, and picking up digital skills along the way.
Free sessions at the Casa do Pobo on 7 March, 18 April, 16 May, 28 June and 26 September. CanTech is another strand of Nova Lonxevidade Rural.
Fixar 3
The third edition of Fixar opened in April, once again bringing people who want to build their projects in rural Galicia to live and work together in a coliving.
FemTech
The third strand of Nova Lonxevidade Rural: women from the villages learning digital tools together. Atlántico Diario wrote about the group, and the first season closed in June with this video.
The European Union in the Villages
On 20 June we hosted “A Unión Europea nos Pobos” in Gaxate, Vilán and Anceu, as part of the 4Data Democracy project. Instead of collecting data, we had breakfast with our neighbours and listened to their dreams and worries for the future of our villages.
About 80 people joined us. Local innovators sat down as “living books” in a Human Library, and the day closed with a communal paella and live music.
A year of Fuchiqueiras
16 May, the eve of the Día das Letras Galegas: we embroidered the letter G and shared our favourite books in Galician. 28 June: the season closed with a Fuchiqueira dedicated to everyone in Nova Lonxevidade Rural. 11 July: water, Gaelic football and a barbecue at the Anceu Coliving pool.
After the summer, newspaper basketry, comics, an imagined meeting with Rosalía de Castro, clay modelled blindfolded and TecnoArranxo on 5 September; another edition on 26 September; and on 3 October a special edition for people over 60 within the De Vella a Bella Fest, with plant dyes, recycled collage, felt notebooks and calligraphy.
Rural Hacker Fest in Ventín
As every year, the Rural Hacker Fest came back. This edition was held in the village of Ventín, where we had already painted our first collaborative mural beyond Anceu. Thanks to the neighbours of Ventín for trusting us with their village.
RURALI-ART
Two artistic residencies about the memory of Anceu. From 19 to 26 October, twelve artists spent a week with the neighbours recovering how the village lived its old festivals, and turned it into things anyone can use: an illustrated guide to the festivals, a recovered phone booth, a card game for the sobremesa, panels for the Casa do Pobo and a website for dancing in the kitchen.
A second group followed from 2 to 8 November, using AI tools for their own creative projects, and on 8 November both groups presented their work to the neighbours of Anceu. An activity subsidised by Spain’s Ministry of Culture.