RIHIHIU
The RIHIHIU is a festival that aims to recover, reflect on and rethink local and landscape heritage from a gender perspective. The RIHIHIU brings together different contemporary artistic disciplines that have emerged as part of a new heritage which, in a way, will generate, value and consolidate identities around our territory.
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Did you know that the rihihiu was the cry, similar to a horse's whinny, that people used to communicate among these olive-tree plains? It was a shrill, high-pitched, prolonged cry used to let others know that people were already out in the field and could meet up to share a meal, or to chat, celebrate or tell stories by the fire. In fact, this cry takes different forms, all similar to one another, depending on the area where it is found.
Similar cries exist today in Ibiza, the Basque Country, La Gomera and Asturias. Language scholars detect cries that might remind us of the rihihiu in Arab and Hebrew culture. And so the Arab women who live in this area often remind us that their cultural repertoire also includes a festive cry known as the zaghareet.
