Transhumant Cookings: Wooden Spoon
Villanueva de la Vera, Extremadura
This laboratory is part of Cocinas Transhumantes, a project by hablarenarte · 2026
What is this lab like?
There are moments that only happen around a table. Wooden spoon. Pastoril food and generational transmission proposes to capture these moments by filming them: six short films shot in dining rooms, kitchens, huts and porches of six cabrera families from La Vera and the Tiétar Valley. At each meeting, a meal is shared with family members and guests linked to the pastoral culture: musicians, artisans, cooks, architects. The script is minimal. The excuse, pure: the dish and the spoon. It is not a forced connection but letting happen what only happens when people eat together. The films are projected in the villages of origin of each family through the cycle Visiones Veratas, the film club of El Cinorrio active since 2024, with a supra-municipal character that expands the scope and territorial accessibility of the project.
Programme of meetings
Session 1 · Thursday, 7 MayVillanueva de la Vera (Cáceres)
Internal activation session | Confirmation of the technical aspects of the short films, contact with families and scheduling of the first recordings.
Session 2 · Week 18-24 May
Candeleda (Ávila)
Retamal family meeting and recording | First short film: traditional recipe and reflection on the importance of goat meat consumption.
Session 3 · Week of 18-24 May
Guijo de Santa Bárbara (Cáceres)
Encuentro y grabación Familia Castañares | Segundo cortometraje: receta tradicional y relevo generacional.
Session 4 · Week of 15-21 June
Villanueva de la Vera (Cáceres)
Meeting and recording Tarango Riveiro Family | Third short film: entrepreneurship and alternatives to traditional livestock life.
Session 5 · Saturday 27 June · 18:30-20:30h
Villanueva de la Vera (Cáceres)
Public presentation · Afternoon snack
18:30 Screening of the 1st short film and presentation of the project
19:00 Activity with shared curation
19:30 Screening of the second short film
20:00 Round table (dinner) with families protagonists.
Session 6 · Week 6-12 July
Villanueva de la Vera (Cáceres)
Meeting and recording Familia García Jara | Fourth short film: life in the mountains and legacy cabrero.
Session 7 · Week 27 July - 2 August
Losar de la Vera (Cáceres)
Meeting and recording Familia cabrera de Losar | Fifth short film: la limpieza del monte y los incendios.
Session 8 · Week of 24-30 August
Guisando (Ávila)
Meeting and recording Reunion of all the families | Sixth short film: collective meal with all the protagonist families, conversation about the current situation in the goat sector and its future.
Session 9 · October- December
Towns protagonists (Extremadura and Castile-León)
Cycle of screenings Visiones Veratas | Screening of the 6 short films in the villages of the protagonist families, followed by a conversation with the audience.
Who’s driving the lab?
Local agent: El Cinorrio
El Cinorrio is an intergenerational community of neighbors and friends of Villanueva de la Vera constituted as an association in 2020. Without physical headquarters - all the houses are headquarters, the hammocks of the neighbors are offices -, they work with cultural language and citizen innovation to value extensive pastoralism in the Sierra de Gredos. His lines of work include: recovery of folklore, valorization of the local product, landscape regeneration, youth roots and audiovisual creation. Present in national forums such as the Meeting of Culture and Citizenship and in the EPA! Rural Youth network, with European connections. Their goal: to bring the voice and knowledge of bastards and cabreras to places that are unaware of their reality.
This laboratory is part of Cocinas Transhumantes (Transhumant Cookings), a project by hablarenarte · 2026
