The Consell Insular de Menorca (CIM) presents the video Talayots for Human Rights 2021 about the Talayot lighting ceremony for Human Rights that took place on March 27th, when 32 Minorcan talayots and watch towers were lit. This was the third edition of this event, organized by the CIM in conjunction with 22 different social actors including community organisations and cultural groups. The main event took place at the Torre d'en Galmés site (Alaior), including the reading of a manifesto and a rendition of the song Ítaca by Lluís Llach.
"In moments of darkness, the lighting of the watch towers and talayots represents light and hope", as manifested in the audiovisual piece produced by Bendito Films. A fragment of the song Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol by Jaume Sisa marks the beginning of the audiovisual summary of this year's event. The video, in its three versions (Catalan, Spanish and English), will be distributed through the different institutional networks of the CIM, Talayotic Menorca and Menorca Illa de Cultura.
The objective of «Towers, watch towers and talayots of the Mediterranean. A cry for Human Rights» is twofold: to sensitize citizens about the drama suffered by migrants in the Mediterranean; and within the framework of Talayotic Menorca’s candidacy as a World Heritage Site, to recreate what might have been the means of communication between talayotic settlements in prehistoric times, when movement across the Mediterranean was already commonplace.