KEEP IN MIND: This program will be duly updated during the following weeks
¿Atado y bien atado? is a cultural initiative born to fight the amnesia of impunity and to contribute, modestly, to the construction of a living democratic memory. Thanks to a broad activity program—conferences, live podcasts, theater plays, urban memory maps and an international conference—this project questions the imaginaries and narratives inherited from Francoism and proposes a critical dialogue with the present. All the activities will take place between October 4th and November 27th.
The advancement of historical revisionism and dictatorship denialism among youngsters is based on a rapid, decontextualized cultural consumption that turns Francoism in a nice product: a “pop Francoism” made out of myths—the ‘stability’, the ‘order’, the ‘prosperity’—that deletes repression, violence and structural inequalities. The goal of ¿Atado y bien atado? is, precisely, dismantling that sweetened imaginary, confronting myths and fakes with rigorous research, testimonies, memory maps and artistic and learning techniques. The goal is to give critical tools to the newer generations in order to recognize impunity mechanisms, to identify interested silences and to rethink democracyfrom memory, not nostalgia.
The public kick-off presentation will take place on Saturday, October 4th 2025 in the Teatro del Barrio. From that day on, the programming will contain more than 10 conferences, 4 live podcast, the creation of a memory map of Madrid and Barcelona, and an international congress that will comparatively the discourses and narratives of political transitions in Portugal, Greece and the Spanish State.
In the next days we will be updating this web with the information regarding the last event of this cycle, the presentation of the memory maps.
The initiative ¿Atado y bien atado? comes from people with different experiences around culture, the Academia and political communication, such as Verso, Viento Sur, Rose Luxembourg Foundation, cooperatives such as Amauta or Turba and the MIRCo-UAM center. Besides, it has the partnership of the Teatro del Barrio, Sala Mirador and the Commission of “50 años en Libertad”.
