Xoán Creus Andrade
(Cee, 1966)

Graduate architect from the Superior School of Architecture of A Coruña. He obtained this title in 1992. He is an associate lecturer of the Department of Architectonical Projects and Town Planning at that college.

He collaborated with Manuel Gallego from 1992 to 1996 and in 2000 in the contest City of Culture.

He is co-director of the magazine O Monografías, published by the COAG and dealing with art and architecture. He has published articles and drawings in several art and culture magazines (Luzes de Galiza, Interesarte, Ruptura, Bravú, O Monografías…). He has also participated in the publishing of some publications on architecture and landscape and the catalogues of several exhibitions and congresses. He has written the books A terra das mil belezas, with Pablo Gallego (Santiago de Compostela: Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia, 1998); and Viaxe á fin da terra, con Pablo Gallego (Santiago de Compostela: Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia, 1999); he has participated in the publishing of the following volumes of the same series: Aldea Terremota, Centros da Terra and Terra. He has recently participated as a speaker in the programme "Injertables", a workshop on the creation and administration of the public space (A Coruña, 2006).

He has also collaborated in publishing the works Cartografía histórica de los caminos de Santiago en la provincia de A Coruña, with Carlos Nardiz Ortiz and Alberto Varela García (A Coruña: Deputación Provincial, 1999), and Inventario cartográfico de la red viaria municipal en la provincia de A Coruña, of the same authors (A Coruña: Deputación, 2003).

Since 1994 he shares his professional architecture studio with Covadonga Carrasco López; among their works we can remark the rehabilitation of a small house in Tapia de Casariego and the Public Space and Dotational  Buildings in Lugo –for which they were selected to participate in the VII Exhibition of Young Spanish Architects, organised by the Antonio Camuñas Foundation. For that works, they also received the 9th COAG Architecture Prize, Completely New Public Building Category–. Both works were published in the Architecture Magazine Obradoiro (numbers 27 & 28). Besides, they have carried out the rehabilitation of a house in Ponte Olveira —for which they received a consolation prize in the 10th COAG Architecture Contest–, and more recently, the Lis Seoane Foundation in A Coruña, a project achieved in a public contest.

They have participated in the exhibition and catalogues Arquitectura recente na Costa da Morte, Rúa Adentro (A Coruña: Fundación Luís Seoane, 2003), Galicia s. XXI architecture (Washington, 2004); and Pensar la ciudad contemporánea, coordinated with Ricardo Beltrán Pedreira e Jesús Conde García (Santiago de Compostela: Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia, 2004). They have designed the Projects Exhibition of the Architects International Contest, the Casa dos Antepasados (Ancestors House), Project Artabria and the permanent exhibition of the Pedagogical Museum of Galicia. They have also published together Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de La Coruña (Concello da Coruña, 2005).

Álvaro Domingues

Geographer, he received his Human Geography Doctorate Degree from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Porto in 1994. His thesis was entitled: "Serviços às empresas, concentração metropolitana e desconcentração periférica (o contraponto entre a Área Metropolitana do Porto e as áreas periféricas de industrialização difusa do Noroeste Atlântico de Portugal Continental)".

He won the prize from the Caixa Geral de Depósitos in 1996. Since 2002, he has been an associate lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. He was also the lecturer of the postgraduate course of the Faculty of Architecture, at the University of Coimbra; the course of the Doctorate Project of Urban Environment, the Summer Courses from the Serralves Foundation; he has been a guest lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Granada.

From 1993 to 1999, he was a researcher for the GEDES/FAUP and an adviser to Quaternaire Portugal SA, particularly for studies on regional and urban developlment. As a researcher for the Como CEF Arquitectura do Porto, he has developed a regular reseasrching activity in projects with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with the FCG, the CCDR-N, with the Xunta de Galicia(Galician Government), with the Superior School of Architects of A Coruña, with the Erasmus University of Rotterdam-EURICUR, with the Club Ville Aménagement of París; with the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, with the Faculty de Archuitecture of the University de Barcelona, with the University dof Granada, the Federal University of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with the universities of Minho and Coimbra, with town councils, with the Ordem dos  Arquitectos and the Fundação da Juventude, among others.

At the CEFAUP, his activity is focused on town planning and urban poilicies (investigation and advisory and formation).

The following are books by him: Área metropolitana do Porto: processo de metropolitanização. Livro guia da visita de estudo (Porto: Instituto de Geografia da Faculdade de Letras, 1992) and Estudo Sócio-Económico da Área Metropolitana do Porto. Relatório temático. Serviços às empresas (Porto: Quaternaire Portugal, 1993). He coordinated A cultura em acção: impactos sociais e território (Porto: Afrontamento, 2003), and has translated the book Metapolis: acerca do futuro da cidade, by François Ascher (Oeiras: Celta, 1998).

He has contributed to the collective works Periferias: Paulo Catrica, coordinated by M. Tereza Siza (Porto: Centro Português de Fotografia, 1998); Políticas urbanas: tendências, estratégias e oportunidades, with Nuno Portas and João Cabral (Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003); and Cidade e Democracia – 30 Anos de Transformação Urbana em Portugal, coordinated by himself (Aveiro: Universidade, 2006).

He has articles published in the magazines Cadernos do GEDES/FLUP, Cadernos do Noroeste, Finisterra, Inforgeo, Revista de Geografía, Progress in Planning and Revista da Faculdade de Letras.

Sergio Fernández
(Porto, 1937)

Graduate architect from the Superior School of Fine Arts of Porto (1965). He is an associate lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, and guest lecturer at the Architecture School of the University of Minho, within the department of Project. He was the director of the FAUP Studies Centre from 1990 and 1996, and a member of the Board of Governors between 1988 and 1994. He is a member of the scientific council of the FAUP since 1987.

He has participated in courses, seminars and conferences in Portugal, Angola, Brazil, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands and the Soviet Union. He has also taken part in various exhibitions and juries both in Portugal and abroad.

He practices his professional activity intermittently since 1963. Among his most recent projects, some are remarkable: the buildings of the Faculties of Social Studies and Science at the University of Minho, Guimaraes; the inervention in Idanha-a-Velha (re-organisation of the village and remake or rehabilitation of the buildings with patrimonial value): Transformation of a factory into Museu dos Curtumes de Guimarães; the Students Residence of the Superior Technical School (Lisboa). The dwelling of the Portuguese Consul In Goa, (India); the re-qualification of the East Area B of the "Baixa Portuense" within the European Cultural Capital Programme 2001; the  Superior Agricultural School Building of the Superior Polytechnic Institute of Viseu; the set of buildings and public spaces surrounding the market in Viana do Castelo and Plano da Afurada, Polis programme; the project of increasing the value of the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-velha, in Coimbra; the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Coimbra and the Constantino Nery Theatre in Matosinhos.

He has articles and works published by diverse media, such as the Architectures à Porto, Tendenze dell’Architettura Contemporanea, Casabella, Lotus International ou Wonen TABK. He published the second edition of Publicou a segunda edición of Percurso –Arquitectura Portuguesa, 1930-1974 (Porto: FAUP, 1985).

Camilo Franco
(Ourense, 1963)

Writer, theatre and art critic and journalist. He works for the daily newspaper La Voz de Galicia, writing basically in the cultural section. As narrator, he has published: A lúa no cénit e outros textos (Sada: Ediciós do Castro, 1988); Ribadavia, con fotos de Santiago Barreiros(Vigo: Ir Indo, 1993); En malos pasos (Vigo: Xerais, 1995); and Por conto alleo (Vigo: Galaxia, 2003) —which was born as an online narrative essay, promoted by Vieiros; this formula of online literary creation gave birth to a second project: "Necesariamente X. A razón máis quente".

He has participated in the elaboration of collective narrative works, such as Unha liña no ceo. 58 narradores galegos, 1979-1996, coordinated by Xosé Cid Cabido (Vigo: Xerais, 1996); Narradores de cine (Vigo: Xerais, 1996); and Narradio. 56 historias no ar (Vigo: Xerais, 2003); in numerous catalogues and art books, such as Realismos (Vigo: Nova Galicia Edición, 2001) and Neoexpresionismos, abstraccións (Vigo: Nova Galicia Edicións, 2004), both directed by Antón Pulido Novoa. He has also made his contributions to books of articles and essays such as Guía da provincia de Ourense: historia, patrimonio, natureza, gastronomía, in collaboration with Francisco X. Fernández Naval (Vigo: Caixavigo, 1997); Eduardo Núñez – Retratos. Dez anos da vida cultural en Ourense, coordinated by Benito Losada (Ourense: Concello, 1999); Crítica e autores: artigos e entrevistas publicados en ‘La Voz de Galicia’ (A Coruña: La Voz de Galicia, 2002); and Tres mesas redondas sobre compromiso social da cultura galega, edited by María América Díaz and María Díaz Rey (Sada: Ediciós do Castro, 2005).

His articles has been published in magazines such as Cadernos, A Nosa Terra de Pensamento e Cultura, Dorna, Grial, Información Teatral, Interea Visual, Luzes de Galiza, Oh, Omáximo, Tempos Novos and A Trabe de Ouro.

Pablo Gallego Picard
(A Coruña, 1968)

Archirtect degree from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (1994), he studied a master's degree at the Berlage institute (Amsterdam, Holland), he studied cinema in London and achieve the Master of Science degree from the Graduate School of Architecture, Visual Arts School and Film School of the University of Columbia, Nova York with a scholarship from the Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation. He is a professor at the department of Projects and Town Planning of the Superior Technical School of Architecture of the University of A Coruña.

In 1994 he received the international "Young Architect" award from the city council of Charenton (Francia). He was a runner up in the 1st edition of the Luís Ksado Photography Award, in 1997. In 2006 he was awarded the 1st European 8 Award in Coimbra (Portugal).

He achieved the William Kinne Fellows Award from the University of Columbia (2000). He worked as an architect and photorapher for diverse media and aarchitecture studios (such as those of Víctor López-Cotelo, Manuel Gallego Jorreto, Abalos & Herreros, David Chipperfield Architects, Stan Allen and Tuñón & Mansilla) and individually in Madrid, London, New York and A Coruña.

Among his erected works we find the reshaping of a house for Jasper Morrison (London, 1996), the "Feira das Mentiras" (Santiago de Compostela, 1998), the Bag Shop Sigerson-Morrison (Manhattan, Nova York, 2002) and the Cultural Arts Centre of Cambre (2004).

He is co-editor of the O Monografías, from the Official Association of Architects of Galicia Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia.

He has written A aldea terremota, with Xurxo Souto (Santiago de Compostela: Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia, 1997), the catalogue of the photographic exhibition with the same title; A terra das mil belezas, with Xan Creus(Santiago de Compostela: COAG, 1998); Centros da terra (Santiago de Compostela: COAG, 1999); Viaxe á fin da terra, with Xan Creus (Santiago de Compostela: COAG, 1999) and Terra – Entrevistas (Santiago de Compostela: COAG, 1999). He participated in the composition of the volume Singular Housing. El dominio privado, by Jaime Salazar and Manuel Gausa (Barcelona: Actar, 1999).

He has also participated with his articles in publications such as: Arquitecturas, AV Proyectos, Bauwelt, O Monografías, Pasajes e Revista do Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.

For the Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2002 he prepared the exhibition Comunidad verde + comunidad azul, in collaboration with Carlos Quintáns and Mónica Alonso. Some of his projects and photographs were included in the exhibition Galicia Siglo XXI (Spanish Embassy in Washington and Barrié Foundation of A Coruña, 2004-2005).

He has given several lectures and he participated as a speaker in the programme "Injertables", a workshop on the creation and administration of the public space (A Coruña, 2006).

Recently he has directed the documentary Polo territorio da Arquitectura for the TVG (Galician Television Channel).

Xosé Lois Martínez Suárez
(A Coruña, 1948)

He is a senior lecturer of the Town Planning Section at the Department of Architectural Projects And Town Planning of the Superior Technical School of Architecture of A Coruña, where he has been teaching since 1983. He is the vice-chancellor of Infrastructures and Environemntal Management of the University of A Coruña.

Architect graduate from the Superior Technical School of Barcelona (1973), he obtained his PhD from the STS of Architectute of A Coruña (1991). He has a Town Planning Technician qualification from the Local Administration Studies Institute of Madrid (1983). He received the Doctoral Extraordinary Prize from the University of A Coruña (1995).

He has given master's lectures at the same university; he worked as a lecturer for the International Méndez Pelayo University and for the Ibero-American University of Puebla, in the doctoral courses.

He was in charge of the directive council of the magazine Obradoiro. Revista de Arquitectura, from the Official Association of Architects of Galicia between the issues 16 and 28, and was also in charge of the Cultural Commission  of A Coruña between 1945 and 1980.

His research work produced the contents of the books González Villar e a súa época, in collaboration with several authors (Vigo: Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia, 1975); A Terraza de Sada (Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia, 1986); Piornedo. Estudio básico de rehabilitación dunha aldea galega, together with Pedro de Llano and Plácido Lizancos (Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia, 1987); As galerías da Mariña. A Coruña. 1869-1894 (Santiago de Compostela: COAG, 1987); Catálogo de Arquitectura. A Coruña 1890-1940, with Xan Casabella (Santiago de Compostela: COAG, 1989); A Praza de María Pita. A Coruña. 1859-1959 (Santiago de Compostela: COAG, 1993);and A construcción da Galiza urbana. A cidade medieval en Galicia: Pontedeume. Besides his architecture works, he has numerous articles on architecture and town planning issues in specialised books and magazines. Among the books, O feito diferencial galego. As paisaxes de Galicia, coordinated by Augusto Pérez Alberti (Santiago de Compostela: Museo do Pobo Galego, 2001); Do racionalismo á modernidade, directed by Antón Pulido Novoa (Vigo: Nova Galicia Edicións, 2002); and El republicanismo coruñés en la historia (A Coruña: Concello, 2001); when it comes to the magazines, Cerna, Grial, Luzes de Galiza, Obradoiro and Tempos Novos.

He took part in the research projects "A cidade medieval en Galiza, A Construcción da Galiza Urbana I" (1997, 1998 & 1999) and «A Construcción da Galiza Urbana II» (2000, 2001 e 2002).

He has participated in several researches including agreements between the University of A Coruña and other entities, for instance with Pontedeume Town Council—"Cartographic Survey of the Historic Downtown of Pontedeume" (1998-1999) and "Five Urban Projects" which he directed (2000)—; with As Pontes de García Rodríguez Town Council—"Town Planning Information of the General Plan" and  "Historic Downtown", of which he was director too. With Vimianzo Town Council que dirixiu— " Town Planning Information of the General Plan"; and with A Coruña County Council —"Survey on infrastructures and local equipment 2000-2002" in which he was the director of the Section of Planning and Equipments".

Begoña Muñoz
(Barakaldo, Biscay, 1961)

She has a degree in Spanish from the University of Santiago de Compostela and works teaching Galician language and Literature, Introduction to Drama and Curriculum Diversification at the Otero Pedrayo High School.

Her training in the different aspects of drama includes seminars and courses with Zulema Moret, Coralina Colom, Víctor Fuenmayor, Gisèle Barret, Helena Pimenta, Fina Calleja, Julian Knab, Albert Boadella and Arístides Vargas.

She was co-adapter of Jack, or the Submission, by Ionesco; Madame de Sade, by Mishima; The Chairs, by Ionesco; Tàlem (Fourplay), by Sergi Belbel; A esmorga, based on the novel of the same name by E. Blanco Amor's; O lapis de carpinteiro, based on Manuel Rivas' novel The Carpenter's Pencil ; and Sexismunda, adapted from Life is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca, all of them performed by Sarabela Teatro de Ourense theatre company. She also co-adapted Leoncio e Helena, by Büchner, published by the Galician Regional Government in 1993, then staged by the Centro Dramático Galego. She has made several adaptations for the stage for the performances by the theatre groups of the of the Otero Pedrayo High School, ans she has also adapted Romance de Micomicón e Adhelala, by Eduardo Blanco Amor, adaptation published by Galaxia in 2000, and by the ASSITEJ (International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People) in 2002.

Her play Cabalos desbocados, adapted from the book Gracias, abuela..., by Sebastian Junyent, was published as Didactic Material for preventing drug use(Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia, 1995).

Together with Xosé Carlos Couceiro, Ánxeles Cuña and Fernando Dacosta, She is co-author of the plays Afección, Tics —published by Baía Edicións (A Coruña, 2000)— and Os soños de Caín —included in the book Talía na crónica de nós. Dez anos de teatro galego (1990-1999), by Cilha Lourenço Módia & Carlos Vizcaíno Fernández (Ourense: Abano Editores, 2000)—, all preformed by Sarabela Teatro

She is also the author of several short plays, written for the theatre groups of the Otero Pedrayo High School; among others: Sidamanía, A casa con ruídos and Xuventude, divino tesouro; also Tres pontes, tres tempos, in which Sarabela Teatro based their street show for the tourist promotion of the Roman Paved Road of Trives during the summer 1999 and Trivesía fantástica, written for identical purposes in 2000.

She also made the introductory study for the third volume of the Complete Works of Xabier Prado «Lameiro» (Ourense: Concello, 1995). She is co-author of the four volumes of Claro e seguido. Un enfoque comunicativo na didáctica da lingua, written in collaboration with María Xesús Sarmiento Macías and Serafín Alonso Pintos (Vigo: Xerais, 2004).

She has given numerous courses at the University Theatre Workshop of Ourense, and she has participated in several congresses and Galician and International meetings related to theatre and pedagogy.

She was a runner up in the Compostela Theatre Awards, for her adaptation of Mishima's Madame de Sade (1990); Compostela Theatre Prize for her adaptation of Ionesco's The Chairs (1992);  Best Text Award for Tics in the International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People, in Gijón (1997); María Casares Award for the best Adaptation for her O lapis do carpinteiro (2001); and the Best Director Award in the School Theatre contest for High Schools, for her work Eliana en ardentía ou Bernardo destemplado, by Roberto Salgueiro, performed by her students of Introduction to Drama from the Otero Pedrayo High School.

Chus Pato
(Ourense, 1955)

Geography & History graduate, he teaches in a secondary school. She published her first poems in the magazine Escrita (1984). Through Pato & Esteirán & Ruído Produccións she made several performances such as Mateino porque era meu, A sereíña and Ethics of the care. She was a member of the Dolmen Group in Ourense and currently she is a member of the Association of Writers in Galician, the Association Redes Escarlata, the PEN Club and Women and Letters. Xouva Verde Prize from the association Ronselz in 1990. Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Estonian, English and Macedonian.

She has published Urania (Ourense: Calpurnia, 1991); Heloísa (A Coruña: Espiral Maior, 1994), translated into Spanish by Xosé Manuel Trigo (Madrid: La Palma, 1998); Fascinio (Muros: Toxosoutos, 1995); Nínive (Vigo: Xerais, 1996) —awarded the Losada Diéguez Prize—; A ponte das poldras (Santiago de Compostela: Noitarenga, 1996),  m-Talá (Vigo: Xerais, 2000), translated into english by Erín Moure (From m-Talá, Nomados, 2003) and Un Ganges de palabras, bilingual anthology, edited and translated by Iris Cochón (Málaga: Diputación, 2003).

Parts of her poetry are included in the anthologies Escolma de poesía galega 1976-1984, edited by Xosé Lois García (Barcelona: Sotelo Blanco, 1984), Palabra de muller, edited by Camiño Noia (Vigo: Xerais, 1992); Poesía dos aléns (Ourense: Grupo Dolmen, 1993); Daquelas que cantan. Rosalía na palabra de once escritoras galegas (Padrón: Patronato Rosalía de Castro, 1994); Poésie en Galice aujourd’hui, by Anxo Angueira (Namur: Maison de la Poésie, 1999); Rías de tinta. Literatura de mujeres en francés, gallego e italiano, by Marta Segarra, Helena González & Francesco Ardolino (Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2000); Defecto 2000 (Santiago de Compostela: A. C. Amaía, 2000); Poetry is the world’s great miracle, by María do Cebreiro (Santiago de Compostela: PEN Clube de Galicia, 2001); A tribu das baleas, by Helena González (Vigo: Xerais, 2001); Poetas e narradores nas súas voces (Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, 2001); Intifada: ofrenda dos poetas galegos a Palestina (Santiago de Compostela: Fundación Araguaney, 2003); Antoloxía consultada da poesía galega (1976-2000), by Arturo Casas (Lugo: TrisTram, 2003); Xuro que nunca volverei pasar fame. Poesía escarlata (Ourense: Difusora de Letras, Artes e Ideas, 2003); and Negra Sombra. Intervención poética contra a marea negra (Santiago de Compostela: Federación de Libreiros de Galicia/Espiral Maior/Xerais, 2003), among others. There is an interview made to her Do lado dos ollos. Arredor da poesía, entrevistas con 79 poetas do mundo, by Emilio Araúxo (Vigo: Edicións do Cumio, 2001).

She has contributed to magazines such as Akadeemia, La Alegría de los Naufragios, Andaina, Animal Sospechoso, Barcarola, Batiscafo, Boletín Galego de Literatura, Clave Orión, Cume, Dorna, Escrita, Festa da Palabra Silenciada, Galerna, Galicia. Revista del Centro Gallego de Buenos Aires, The Gig, Grial, Gume, Infolios, Luzes de Galiza, Madrigal, A Nosa Terra, Ólisbos, La Ortiga, Papers de Versàlia, Quimera, El Signo del Gorrión, Texturas, A Trabe de Ouro, Valdeleite, Veneno, Xanela and Zurgai.

Xosé Carlos Sierra
(Pontevedra, 1950)

He studied History at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Valladolid, where he took doctoral courses at the department of Archaeology, Prehistory and Ancient History. He was a scholar and collaborator at the Provincial Museum of Pontevedra. At the Complutense University of Madrid, he attendedd a course on Anthropology at the Department of History of America. He worked as an assistant lecturer, teaching Prehistory and Anthropology (with Proffessor Alfonso del Real at the Universitary School of Ourense and at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University Of Santiago.

In 1985 he entered the facultative body of museum curators of the State. He was entrusted several museums and directed the Ethnonlogical Museum of Rivadabia between 1993 and 2005. Currently he is a repesentative of the Galician Regional Ministre of Culture & Sport in Ourense

He has given courses and conferences on patrimonialisation and ethnographical museology in different museums, centres and universities in Andalusia. Valencia, Asturias, Cantabria, Catalonia, Extremadura and Portugal. He represented Galicia in the technical works for supporting the candidacy of the "Itinerary of the Life and Wine of the Mediterrranean Peoples" to be declared World Heritage. In 1996 he presided the commission of Museology and Patrimony in the 3rd  Congress of History of Anthropology and Applied Anthropology, which took place in Pontevedra.

In the last ten years, he has re-orientated the focus of his researches towards the fields of ethnological museology and social activation of the cultural heritage, and he has published more than 35 works about these subjects.

He was a promoter and organiser of an Oral Documentation Fund in the Etnological Museum (Ribadavia, Ourense), with the collaboration of a group of agrarian historians and ethnologists. Currently, this fund comprises more than 800 interviews and life histories from the peasantry and people from the villages all across Ourense province. At the same time, he promoted the creation of a photographic fund for this museum, orientated from the point of view of visual anthropology and constituted by more than 35,000 images from the village and agrarian world.

He promoted and directed a museological program for the Galician Wine Museum, project in which he has been working since 1996. He coordinated the director plan and the museological programme of the Ethnological Museum. As an ethno-museologist, he has been adviser for several projects of heritage recovery and "musealisation" inside and outside. Coordinou o plan director e o programa museolóxico do Museo Etnolóxico (Ribadavia).

He is a member of the Father Sarmiento Galician Studies Institute (CSIC), the  management and governing board of the Galician People Museum, the management of the Vicente Risco Foundation, the MINOM-Portugal (International Movement of the New Museology), the Galician Association of Anthropology (AGA), the directive board of the Professional Association of Museologists of Spain, the Marcelo Macias Group of Contributors to the Archaeological Museum and the Historical Archives of Ourense and he is also a member of the Section of Anthropology of the Galician Culture  Council.

Xesús Vázquez
(Pentes, Ourense, 1946)

Plastic artist. He has been showing his work all around the world:Germany, Austria, Colombia, the United States, Egypt, France, England, Moroc, Poland, Switzerland, Venezuela and Japan, since 1968.

He published the engravings folder Desexo e Morte (etching and poems by himself, 1977), Para el ojo (engravings and poems by himself, 1979), Sicut (engravings by him and poems by Fernando Pessoa, 1981), and the book Mitad del Gozne (1991).

In 1982 he received a grant for artists from the Ministry of Culture. In 1987 he achieved the 1st Prize in the II Albacete Painting Biennale.  In 1992 he was awarded the "Constitution" Painting Award from the Extremaduran Regional Government, and in 1999 the Todisa Painting Award.

He has given numerous conferences and lectures, for example during the course "Possibilities of Painting", directed by Juan Manuel Bonet at the  University of Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca, 1989); that in the workshop on Art Critics, also directed by J. M. Bonet at the Arteleku (San Sebastián, 1993), and for the course "The Artist Job". On the concept, situation and perspectives of the plastic artist in contemporary societies", directed by Enrique Andrés Ruiz in Salamanca (1996) —the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Castile Leon Regional Government published the book El oficio del artista compiling the speeches of the course—; and in the course «"Dalí and the artists" directed by Fernando Huici and organized by the Complutense University in El Escorial, (2004).

He has directed several art workshops, such as the one called "After Auschwitz», at the Faculty of Fine Arts of La Laguna (1995) and at the Ourense County Council Cultural Centre (2003).

He has contributed to diverse media with his articles; and as illustrator for for the 4th issue of the magazine Pasajes and the issues 1 and 6 of Estación Central. He was a member of the editorial board of the magazines Comercial de la Pintura and La Ortiga.