Ongi etorria

They present the mural Ongi etorria in San Martin

This is the mural with the most participants to date: 425 students and teachers from the Public School, 25 elderly people from the residence, 20 volunteers and another 30 attached to different groups such as the Children's Elkargune or IRSE Araba.
It incorporates a QR code from which 100 songs "composed or performed by Araba musicians" can be heard. The list has been created by Sergio Torres, professor at KZ Gunea in collaboration with different agents linked to the music of the province.

GASTEIZ. San Martin Ikastetxea has inaugurated its new face. A 288-square-meter mural that has changed the face of Calle Adriano VI. There are hundreds of cars that pass by it daily and the already deteriorated brickwork that has worn all these years has given way to a new mural that has colored hundreds of participants. San Martin has celebrated it: with a massive party in which there has been lunch, corals, chocolate and even blues rhythms.

A month and a half ago, Irantzu Lekue and the ARTgia team started the project on site. By then they had already landed at the school through civic participation sessions in which the school community but also other cultural and social agents from the neighborhood participated. The idea they agreed on was to create a mural that would "have the purpose of opening windows to a new diverse society," explains Irantzu Lekue. It represents a hug between a mother and a child. "It has been the way of linking the Ajuria residence and the school, of creating an intergenerational prism, of putting older people with children to work from the zero minute," he says.

Different perspectives are represented within each of the motifs on the mural. Inside the window the Paseo de Los Arquillos, with children, young and old; in a nod to the place where the teacher Iradier, creator of La Paloma, lived. A current perspective of the Las Conchas park is represented within the child's body. Within the breast… two perspectives: that of Adriano VI Street in the past and another of the old factories that populated the area “to relate the past to the present, to find the roots of the place”. Other elements included in the perspective of the breast are the musical notes, the ducks of the nearby park and the Abendaño river that runs through the neighborhood and the old beer factory.