Almafuerte: el libre humilde y doliente (1914)
La solución (1921)
La casa de enfrente (1926)
Las descentradas (1929)
Uriburu (El principio de una contribución a la historia), [s/e]
Un hombre y su vida (1939)
Los mil claveles colorados (Editado póstumamente junto a ¡Arroja la bomba! Salvadora Medina Onrubia y el feminismo anarco, de Vanina Escales).
Salvadora Medina Onrubia was born in La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, in 1894. She was a storyteller, poet, playwright, anarchist, feminist, single mother, promoter of children's theater and the first woman to direct a newspaper in Argentina.
She spent her childhood in Entre Ríos. In 1913 she moved to Buenos Aires and began her literary activity, working regularly as a contributor to the anarchist newspaper La Protesta, the magazine Fray Mocho and the newspaper Crítica. At the age of 16 she became pregnant and decided to become a single mother out of conviction.
She was one of the first women in the country to give a speech in a multitudinous political act, in 1914, for the liberation of the anarchist Simón Radowitzky. She also participated in the episodes surrounding the Tragic Week with her young son, whom she took with her so that he could experience the social struggle from the inside.
In 1931 the de facto president Uriburu closed the newspaper Crítica, directed by her husband, Natalio Botana, and imprisoned the couple along with 30 other journalists. A group of intellectuals asked Uriburu to release Salvadora for her "magnanimity" given her "triple condition of woman, poet and mother". But she did not agree with this request:
"I have just learned of the petition presented to the provisional government asking for magnanimity for me. I thank my fellow writers for their loyal and humanitarian gesture; I recognize the moral courage they have shown in this moment of collective cowardice in daring for my pity to defy their silly rages of domestic Jupiter. But I do not authorize the pious request ... Magnanimity implies forgiveness of a fault. And I neither remember faults nor need magnanimities ...".
Among the fundamental documents on what Uriburu's dictatorship meant, three are by Salvadora Medina Onrubia.
She directed the newspaper Crítica between 1946 and 1951 after her husband's death. "The red Venus of the editorial office", as she was called, with her presence and her ability, worked to make Crítica a popular, cultured and avant-garde media, with collaborators such as Jorge Luis Borges and Albert Einstein.
Another axis of her avant-garde literature was a style of storytelling that included sexuality, female eroticism and complicity between women as one more element of the reality that reflects and constructs fiction. Grandmother of the famous Copi, to whom she read her erotic literature.
As part of the suffragette movement, she demanded from Evita the recognition of that movement in the achievement of women's suffrage.
Without a newspaper (expropriated by Perón's government) and without property, depressed by the death of her first son and fond of occult sciences, Salvadora died in oblivion and poverty, in Buenos Aires, in 1972.
"To write about Salvadora is to make a treatise on the loneliness of untamed women," says her biographer Vanina Escales.
Maruja Bustamante is an actress, director, perfomer. She writes theater. She has participated in more than 50 plays alternating roles and circuits.
She directed and acted in the Teatro Nacional Cervantes, in the Teatro General San Martín, in more than 15 theaters of the independent circuit of the city of Buenos Aires. She traveled with her plays to Argentina and other countries such as Spain, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, Brazil and Costa Rica.
Always curious, she trained with teachers she admires: Helena Tritek, Vivi Tellas, Graciela Dufau, Mariela Scafati, Tanika Gupta, Gabriela Bejerman, Luz Peuscovich and Alicia Romero. She studied playwriting at EMAD, film at the Universidad del Cine and participated in the Royal Court Latin America Fellowship for Playwrights. In 2014 her first anthology of plays -Hija Boba y otras obras- was published by Blatt&Rios and since 2015 she has been working as a Performing Arts advisor at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center of the University of Buenos Aires.
With more than 50 years of experience, Cristina Banegas has become one of the references of the Latin American theater scene. Actress, director, theater teacher and singer. For her numerous roles in film, theater and television she has received prestigious awards such as ACE, Martín Fierro, Cóndor de Plata, among others. In 2012 she became the first Argentine actress to be distinguished with an International Emmy Award. That same year she was declared Outstanding Personality of Culture unanimously by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires. Founder of the Independent Theater El Excéntrico de la 18, she has promoted, from this space, the development and excellence the development and excellence of the independent theater of the City of Buenos Aires during the last 35 years.
Salvadora Medina Onrubia was born in La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, in 1894. She was a storyteller, poet, playwright, anarchist, feminist, single mother, promoter of children's theater and the first woman to direct a newspaper in Argentina.
She spent her childhood in Entre Ríos. In 1913 she moved to Buenos Aires and began her literary activity, working regularly as a contributor to the anarchist newspaper La Protesta, the magazine Fray Mocho and the newspaper Crítica. At the age of 16 she became pregnant and decided to become a single mother out of conviction.
She was one of the first women in the country to give a speech in a multitudinous political act, in 1914, for the liberation of the anarchist Simón Radowitzky. She also participated in the episodes surrounding the Tragic Week with her young son, whom she took with her so that he could experience the social struggle from the inside.
In 1931 the de facto president Uriburu closed the newspaper Crítica, directed by her husband, Natalio Botana, and imprisoned the couple along with 30 other journalists. A group of intellectuals asked Uriburu to release Salvadora for her "magnanimity" given her "triple condition of woman, poet and mother". But she did not agree with this request:
"I have just learned of the petition presented to the provisional government asking for magnanimity for me. I thank my fellow writers for their loyal and humanitarian gesture; I recognize the moral courage they have shown in this moment of collective cowardice in daring for my pity to defy their silly rages of domestic Jupiter. But I do not authorize the pious request ... Magnanimity implies forgiveness of a fault. And I neither remember faults nor need magnanimities ...".
Among the fundamental documents on what Uriburu's dictatorship meant, three are by Salvadora Medina Onrubia.
She directed the newspaper Crítica between 1946 and 1951 after her husband's death. "The red Venus of the editorial office", as she was called, with her presence and her ability, worked to make Crítica a popular, cultured and avant-garde media, with collaborators such as Jorge Luis Borges and Albert Einstein.
Another axis of her avant-garde literature was a style of storytelling that included sexuality, female eroticism and complicity between women as one more element of the reality that reflects and constructs fiction. Grandmother of the famous Copi, to whom she read her erotic literature.
As part of the suffragette movement, she demanded from Evita the recognition of that movement in the achievement of women's suffrage.
Without a newspaper (expropriated by Perón's government) and without property, depressed by the death of her first son and fond of occult sciences, Salvadora died in oblivion and poverty, in Buenos Aires, in 1972.
"To write about Salvadora is to make a treatise on the loneliness of untamed women," says her biographer Vanina Escales.
Almafuerte: el libre humilde y doliente (1914)
La solución (1921)
La casa de enfrente (1926)
Las descentradas (1929)
Uriburu (El principio de una contribución a la historia), [s/e]
Un hombre y su vida (1939)
Los mil claveles colorados (Editado póstumamente junto a ¡Arroja la bomba! Salvadora Medina Onrubia y el feminismo anarco, de Vanina Escales).
Maruja Bustamante is an actress, director, perfomer. She writes theater. She has participated in more than 50 plays alternating roles and circuits.
She directed and acted in the Teatro Nacional Cervantes, in the Teatro General San Martín, in more than 15 theaters of the independent circuit of the city of Buenos Aires. She traveled with her plays to Argentina and other countries such as Spain, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, Brazil and Costa Rica.
Always curious, she trained with teachers she admires: Helena Tritek, Vivi Tellas, Graciela Dufau, Mariela Scafati, Tanika Gupta, Gabriela Bejerman, Luz Peuscovich and Alicia Romero. She studied playwriting at EMAD, film at the Universidad del Cine and participated in the Royal Court Latin America Fellowship for Playwrights. In 2014 her first anthology of plays -Hija Boba y otras obras- was published by Blatt&Rios and since 2015 she has been working as a Performing Arts advisor at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center of the University of Buenos Aires.
With more than 50 years of experience, Cristina Banegas has become one of the references of the Latin American theater scene. Actress, director, theater teacher and singer. For her numerous roles in film, theater and television she has received prestigious awards such as ACE, Martín Fierro, Cóndor de Plata, among others. In 2012 she became the first Argentine actress to be distinguished with an International Emmy Award. That same year she was declared Outstanding Personality of Culture unanimously by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires. Founder of the Independent Theater El Excéntrico de la 18, she has promoted, from this space, the development and excellence the development and excellence of the independent theater of the City of Buenos Aires during the last 35 years.
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