At the Torrent Adult Education School, we are committed to promoting respect and care for our ecosystem by encouraging values such as sustainability, environmental responsibility, and harmony with nature. We believe it is essential for the entire educational community – students, teachers and other – to be actively involved in raising awareness for a greener, healthier environment.
As part of our complementary activities program, we organize environmental awareness actions in collaboration with local organizations. These include practical workshops on recycling, guidelines for reducing waste, and clean-up days in natural spaces. We also include talks and educational proposals to help understand how our everyday actions can positively – or negatively – affect our surroundings.
We believe that transformative education also means learning to love and protect the world we live in.
Recycle with the Five Senses Workshop for First Cycle
On Monday, December 9th, the first cycle took part in the workshop “Recycling with the Five Senses.” The importance of recycling and reusing was reinforced, and above all, the need to reduce the amount of waste we generate.
Escape Box at the FPA Torrent!
On Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th of January, our students took part in the activity “Código EMTRE,” an exciting Escape Box where they had to work as a team to solve clues and crack a secret code. Through various interactive challenges, they discovered the importance of proper waste management and how we can reduce our impact on the planet.
The Torrent Adult School: A Space for Multiculturalism and Inclusion
The Torrent Adult School is a center with students from over 40 nationalities. This diversity is a great asset that we seek to embrace in order to foster integration and coexistence among all members of our educational community. Following the Welcome Plan and the PADIE, we organize Welcome and Multiculturalism Days to support newly enrolled students and promote interaction between cultures.
This year, we have organized the following activities:
“Flavors of the World” – Discover diversity through gastronomy
“Flavors of the World” is an activity where all students will share traditional dishes from their cultures of origin.
Each student will bring a typical dish from their country or region, giving us the opportunity to taste unique and special flavors.
This event is a perfect opportunity to celebrate the multiculturalism of our school, enjoy delicious food, and learn about the traditions of our classmates.
2. Multicultural Week: Workshop “1492: Memory, Colonialism and Anti-Racist Struggle”
As part of Multicultural Week, the FIPA 2 and ESPA groups will take part in a series of educational workshops aimed at exploring history, identity, and intercultural understanding.
Under the title “1492: Memory, Colonialism and Anti-Racist Struggle”, the sessions will invite participants to reflect on how the events of 1492 shaped our world and how their legacy still affects present-day inequalities.
The workshop will include the following topics:
Introduction
The Massacre of October 12, 1492
Racism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Consequences of Colonialism
Anti-Racism Today
Closing and Final Reflection
💬 Goal: to encourage critical thinking, historical awareness, and respect for cultural diversity.
Knowing our past is the key to building a fairer and more inclusive future. 🌎
🎓 As part of our school’s Welcome and Multicultural Week, on Wednesday, October 15th, students from ESPA I and II (evening and night groups) took part in the workshop “1492: Memories, Colonialism and Anti-Racist Struggle. From Invasion to Resistance, Genealogies of Racism and Horizons of Global Justice”, led by Lamar Bailey and Gabriella Nuru from the Valencian pan-Africanist collective UHURU.
The session was a highly engaging and meaningful experience, offering a critical and contextualized historical review of what is really commemorated on October 12th — from the devastating impact of the conquest and so-called “discovery” of the Americas on native cultures, to the lasting consequences of the enslavement of African peoples.
It also emphasized the need to raise awareness of structural racism and to challenge the language and habits that still carry its traces. An inspiring and successful activity that helps us continue building an inclusive, critical, and transformative education.
3. Committed Citizen Film Festival (FCCC) – Screenings at Torrent Adult School
Committed Citizen Film Festival (FCCC) – Screenings at Torrent Adult School
The Citizenship and Communication Association (ACICOM) presents the 11th edition of the Committed Citizen Film Festival (FCCC), taking place from October 13th to 27th, 2025. Founded in 2009, ACICOM is a civic organization that promotes citizens’ rights and supports communication as a tool for social awareness and transformation. The festival brings together filmmakers, producers, and engaged audiences to reflect on today’s social challenges.
As part of the Welcome and Multiculturality Days, the Torrent Adult School, in collaboration with the Torrent City Council, will host the screening of two documentaries exploring migration, memory, and human rights:
🎬 Camigrants Five young migrants from Africa and Latin America share their personal journeys after arriving alone in Spain. Based on José Figueres’ book, the film raises awareness and reflection on migration and solidarity.
🎬 Refugee Women on Stage. Exile, Memory, Peace The Collective of Refugee, Exiled and Migrant Women, founded in Alicante in 2004, uses theatre to shed light on the struggles and resilience of Colombian women human rights defenders in exile.
The event will feature Sergi Tarín Galán (director of Refugiadas en escena), Alba Teresa Higuera Buitrago (co-coordinator of the Collective), and Julia Garrido López from ATELIER ONGD, producer of the documentary.
🎥 A cultural gathering to reflect, connect, and celebrate human stories through cinema.
4.Exhibition of posters inspired by Shaun Tan’s work The Arrival
The Graphic Novel The Arrival – A Journey of Shared Humanity
The graphic novel The Arrival by Shaun Tan invites readers to follow the journey of a man who leaves his home behind in search of a new beginning. Through a powerful, wordless visual narrative, Tan portrays the universal experiences of migration, loss, adaptation, and belonging.
The Arrival tells the story of migration entirely through images that evoke a distant and almost forgotten past. A man leaves his wife and child behind in a bleak city to seek a better life across a vast ocean. When he arrives, he finds himself in a bewildering city filled with strange customs, fantastical animals, floating objects, and indecipherable languages. With only a suitcase and a handful of coins, he must find shelter, food, and work. Along the way, he meets kind strangers, each carrying their own silent stories of struggle, survival, and hope in a world marked by violence and confusion.
Structure of the Novel
The story unfolds over six chapters, each representing a stage in the migrant’s journey:
The beginning of the journey and family separation.
Arrival and the sense of strangeness.
Adaptation, full of challenges and discoveries.
Integration through work and friendship.
Family reunification.
Creating a new home and family adjustment.
Universal Themes
The Arrival explores universal human emotions — loneliness, nostalgia, fear, and the search for belonging. It evokes deep empathy in the reader and encourages reflection on shared experiences of migration. The story ends on a hopeful note: the protagonist’s daughter welcomes a new arrival, symbolizing the cycle of compassion and renewal.
The Author
Shaun Tan, an Australian author and illustrator of Chinese, Malay, Irish, and English descent, is celebrated for his poetic visual storytelling. He received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2011) and an Oscar for his short film The Lost Thing. His work often explores themes of isolation, migration, and the thin line between reality and imagination.
NOVEMBER 25th INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
The Equality and Coexistence Commission of the Adult Education Center of Torrent organizes various activities to help eradicate gender-based violence, such as creating awareness posters and developing “femiglossaries” with terms of Anglo-Saxon origin and newly coined words that highlight often normalized gender inequalities. These glossaries are available in Valencian, Spanish, English, French, and Romanian. The femiglossaries are designed as books with an index listing all the terms and pages where each word’s definition appears. Each page is illustrated with an image. On pages where there is a blinking image, it indicates that if you click on it, the image will enlarge for better viewing.
The Valencian version also includes the game Obrim portes cap a la igualtat while the English version features a video in which the terms are explained and pronounced by Ruchika Kilaparthi, an American and former language assistant at the school.
FEMIGLOSSARI EN VALENCIÀ I QUIZ OBRIM PORTES CAP A LA IGUALTAT
CASTELLANO FRANÇAIS ROMÂNA
ENGLISH VIDEO
In addition, in collaboration with the Casa de la Dona of Torrent, talks and conferences are held, along with other initiatives.
During the 25N Week, the Adult School, in collaboration with the Women’s Center (La Casa de la Dona), organized the talk-workshop “How to Talk About Violence Against Women with My Sons and Daughters?”, which was held on November 20 in the Assembly Hall of the Women’s Center with the participation of other educational institutions. This space provided practical tools to recognize and prevent gender-based violence within the family environment, promoting healthy and equal relationships.
Additionally, the workshop-talk “Prostitution: An Exploitation and Violence Against Women” was conducted for second-cycle evening shift students. The session, led by sociologist Marisa Escribà Crespo, an expert in human trafficking and sexual exploitation, addressed prostitution not as a job, but as a form of violence and exploitation, supported by sociological and statistical data.
For the first cycle, the film Bajo terapia was screened, portraying misogynistic situations that many women endure in relationships, highlighting gender inequalities from a critical perspective.
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