Sorginenea

Sorginenea, also known as Sorginenea – Tu casa feminista ('your feminist house'), is a feminist women's house and association based in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Gasteiz) in the Basque Country, Spain. It opened its doors on 21 September 2019 and is described as a space and association co-managed by women for women, created as a feminist, inclusive, safe, accessible, flexible and meeting-point project. Its stated main goal is to be a space for the empowerment of women and the transformation of society, based on participatory values and sustainable ways of living. The project is run by the Sorginenea Gasteizko Emakumeen Etxea Elkartea (Sorginenea Women's House of Vitoria-Gasteiz Association). According to its own materials, it is a project made by women for women, and a safe place for women, lesbians and trans people to meet, get to know each other and take action toward transforming their reality. It presents itself as a space for all women, building a critical feminist interculturalism through the exchange of knowledge, recognising the value of diversity and drawing on multiple perspectives. The house aims to be a place for mutual recognition, sharing, debate, reflection and consensus-building, listening to one another and respecting diversity in order to transform society through personal and collective empowerment. Sorginenea is located in the Etxanobe Palace (Etxanobe jauregia) in the Old Town (Alde Zaharra) of Vitoria-Gasteiz, conceived as a meeting place for women. It houses a library called Eleen Ganbara, which collects books about women, on women's themes and written by women. The association maintains a project to guarantee the continuity and stability of its activities. Its objectives include protecting women's fundamental rights and promoting their autonomy while respecting their diversity, and transforming society through activities, the library and courses. Its programme areas include the School for Feminist Empowerment (Jabetze Feministarako Eskola), participatory action research and feminist popular education, aimed at contributing to social transformation. The organisation promotes women's active participation and new leaderships, and seeks to be a reference and trusted space for women, fostering collective critical debate and reflection and serving as a reference point for the exchange of ideas and the creation of discourses. It operates primarily in Basque and Spanish and is rooted in the local context of Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Basque Country.

Sorginenea was created in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Gasteiz) in the Basque Country and opened its doors on 21 September 2019. It was established as a space and association co-managed by women for women, conceived as a feminist, inclusive, safe, accessible, flexible and meeting-point project. The initiative is run by the Sorginenea Gasteizko Emakumeen Etxea Elkartea (Sorginenea Women's House of Vitoria-Gasteiz Association), which maintains a project to guarantee the continuity and stability of its activities. From its opening, the house was located in the Etxanobe Palace (Etxanobe jauregia) in the Old Town (Alde Zaharra) of Vitoria-Gasteiz, intended as a meeting place for women. Within the house, the Eleen Ganbara library was set up to collect books about women, on women's themes and written by women. The association's stated aims are twofold: to protect women's fundamental rights and promote their autonomy while respecting their diversity, and to transform society through activities, the library and courses. Over time, Sorginenea has developed programme lines including the School for Feminist Empowerment (Jabetze Feministarako Eskola), participatory action research and feminist popular education. Its objectives include making Sorginenea visible as a reference and trusted space for women, promoting women's active participation and new leaderships, fostering collective critical debate and reflection as a reference space for the exchange of ideas and the creation of discourses, and advancing participatory action research and feminist popular education toward social transformation. The project describes itself as a space for all women, building a critical feminist interculturalism through the exchange of knowledge, recognising the value of diversity and drawing on multiple perspectives, and as a place for mutual recognition, sharing, debate, reflection and consensus-building through listening and respect for diversity.

• Sorginenea is created in Vitoria-Gasteiz as a women's house and association.

• Sorginenea opens its doors on 21 September 2019.

• The house is located in the Etxanobe Palace in the Old Town of Vitoria-Gasteiz, with the Eleen Ganbara library.

A feminist, inclusive, safe, accessible and self-managed women's house and association in Vitoria-Gasteiz, offering a trusted reference space for women's empowerment and social transformation.

• Eleen Ganbara library

  A library collecting books about women, on women's themes and written by women.

• Jabetze Feministarako Eskola (School for Feminist Empowerment)

  A programme line for feminist empowerment activities.

• Participatory Action Research and Feminist Popular Education

  Programme areas aimed at contributing to social transformation.

1. 1Sorginenea – Tu casa feministasorginenea.org
2. 2Sorgineneawikidata.org
3. 3Sorgineneaeu.wikipedia.org