"Origins"

In the residency, organised by the San Millán Foundation, young artists explore the surroundings and live among the inhabitants of this town, thereby discovering cultural heritage, with a past deeply rooted in the Benedictine monastic tradition, which tells us of the shaping of the Christian and Moorish kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula, the European pilgrimage routes and the first texts written in the Romance language. Cultural heritage becomes a source of inspiration for the artistic creation.

This project aims to recover the story of an artist, who among many other women was educated as part of the Residencia de Estudiantes. She benefited from the spanish institutions’ encouragement of Europeanist programs during the Edad de Plata, programs that, like this project, aimed to reimagine in Spain the lessons learned from the rest of the continent and propel Spanish culture throughout Europe.

Our oral histories, have rekindled a sense of pride in Morecambe, not just via nostalgia, but as a place to be proud of today, particularly within YP. ‘My Story’ interviewed older people across Europe, and the pride displayed in their home, and the desire to pass that feeling down to YP, shone through as the unifying European theme. Many European towns have experienced a heyday and decline in popularity through tourism. We aim to increase a European wide sense of local pride via oral histories.