Uxío Novoneyra Foundation

The Uxío Novoneyra Foundation is a cultural interest entity dedicated to preserving and promoting the legacy of the poet Uxío Novoneyra. Additional aims of the Foundation include the promotion of the arts, environmental protection, sociocultural activation, and the promotion of the UNESCO Geopark and Biosphere Reserve of Courel mountains (NUTS ES112, Galicia, Spain), as well as the international dissemination of Galician Lenguage and Culture. Since our establishment in 2010, we have collaborated with similar organizations and are now recognized for our effective work with European funding. We also facilitate mediation actions in educational, hospital, and cultural centers, organize an annual poetry festival (EidosFest.com), host artistic residencies, and implement socially impactful projects. Notable among these are: 

• Care Readings (2024) is a project focused on using literary reading as a transformative tool with communities, held at the Psychiatric Hospital of Conxo in Santiago de Compostela. 

• Inhabited Readings (2022-23) is a summer school for women centered on literary reading by women about specific themes such as Wild Nature, Reading and Rebuilding, and Naming Silences, conducted in natural settings and various spaces around the village of Parada do Courel. 

• Bookpower (2021-2023) is a European training program designed to empower women to address the COVID crisis through books and cognitive sciences. 

• BE (P)ART. GROW WITH ARTS! (2020-22) is a European cultural initiative aimed at fostering closer connections between young people, artists, and their works. 

• Anti-Bullying Movement Series - ABMS (2021-23) is a European cooperation project that features adult-education workshops for skill sharing among diverse experts. 

• UNLOCK (2020-2022) is a project aimed at diversifying museum audiences through inclusive strategies, enhancing accessibility and engagement for all visitors. 

• Audiovisual Archive of the Women of Courel (2019-) addresses the underrepresentation of women in our collective archival records of the mountainous region. This ongoing project aims to document and highlight the contributions of women to the cultural and social fabric of the Serra do Courel.