Mexico City, November 28, 2019.- Students from the bachelor's degrees in Performing Arts, Philosophy and Education at the University of Guanajuato (UG) unveiled a plaque of 100 representations of the work "Ay Amor Why Do You Hurt Me?", as part of the commemoration of the International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women.

This staging was carried out by the Theatre-Intervention company of the National Observatory on Violence between Men and Women (ONAVIHOMU), Guanajuato Section, under the direction of Rosalía Carrillo Meráz,

Postdoc student of the Department of Education (DEUG), member of the Advisory Council for the Care and Prevention of Gender Violence of the University of Guanajuato (UG) and Executive Secretary of ONAVIHOMU.

This work has been represented in various scenarios of the country for 10 years, consists of three moments that tell the reality about violence between men and women; the high point focuses on three dramatic life stories of violent women, which were compiled, along with dozens of other stories, over several years of research on the subject.

This staging has been witnessed by more than twelve thousand spectators in several universities of the country, popular neighborhoods and even in the Zocalo of Mexico City. The aim of the project is, in the words of its director, to "create, through artistic expression, a citizen culture that generates new forms of coexistence encrypted in equality and solidarity".

The cast of the Guanajuato Section of ONAVIHOMU is made up of students from the UG's Department of Performing Arts: Arantza Elizondo, Mariana Mosqueda, Natalia Danae Hermosillo and Braulio Medina and features live music by Daniel Monroy (Philosophy) and Germán Quintana (Graduate of the master's degree in Teaching Development from DEUG). The students of the master's degree in Educational Research attend: Claudia Marcela Aguilar and Andrea Hernández.

In the cast of the CDMX section participate Patricia Dorantes, Rosalinda Esparza, Diana Lilia Cardoso, Rosalía Carrillo and Augusto Granados. They have also participated as actors in this project: Clío Carrillo, Rafael Montesinos, Yaneli Rodríguez, Luis Trujillo, Penélope Hernández, Berenice Romero, Fernando de Aragón, Yanín Arroyo and Adriana Rentería.

The commemorative plaque was unveiled by actress and singer Michelle Rodríguez, playwright and director Felipe Galván Rodríguez and director of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) Unidad Iztapalapa, Juan Manuel Herrera.

It is worth mentioning that the unveiling took place at the Teatro del Fuego Nuevo of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa (UAM-I), in Mexico City.