- The programming of these spaces includes auditions, conferences, exhibitions, and workshops, among other initiatives.
- Tomorrow, Friday 7th, the Benimaclet-Carola Reig Library will host two conversation groups in French and English.
- The libraries are also on the Fronteres Festival circuit, in which music professionals talk about literature, and writers talk about music.
This month the Municipal Libraries will host a total of 23 cultural activities for all audiences and all ages. The programme of these 30 centres spread throughout the different neighbourhoods of the city will include auditions, conferences, exhibitions and workshops, among other proposals. Specifically, they have announced 6 exhibitions, 4 reading club sessions, two workshops (with different sessions each), a book presentation, a hearing and a conference. In addition, the libraries, which next Friday will also host two conversation groups, will be part of the Fronteres Festival circuit in June. They will be the setting for 6 actions of this meeting in which music professionals talk about literature, and writers talk about music.
The councillor for Cultural Action, Heritage and Cultural Resources, José Luis Moreno, recalled that the municipal libraries ‘are dynamic cultural centres that are open to the proposals of residents, associations and artists’; and explained that ‘the different initiatives are programmed with the aim of bringing culture closer to the citizens and to publicise the municipal libraries as a space for disseminating values and educational leisure, learning and meeting’.
Among these proposals, exhibitions stand out which, due to their temporary nature, ‘allow for greater social participation’. In June, the Sant Marcel-lí-Camí Real library will be the busiest in this respect. Thus, the Clara Santiró i Font Library, which until Tuesday 4 June hosted an exhibition of drawings and paintings by the Centro Tiempo Libre 3.ª Edad San Marcel-lí association, will host an exhibition of photographs by the neighbourhood’s cultural association from Tuesday 11 June onwards.
As for the concept of libraries as meeting places, this will be materialised in activities such as the French and English conversation groups organised by the Benimaclet-Carola Reig Library for tomorrow, Friday 7th June.
Festival Fronteres, Thursday 13 and Friday 14 at the Municipal Libraries
During this month, the libraries will also take part in the second edition of the Festival Fronteres Comunitat Valenciana, which will be held in Valencia and Elche from today, 6th June, until 15th June. Specifically, they will host six actions of this meeting in which music professionals talk about literature, and writers talk about music.
On Thursday 13 June, the Benicalap-Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas Library will host the workshop ‘Crónica musical’ by the writer Fernando Navarro; on the same day, the Benimaclet-Carola Reig Library will host the workshop ‘Música después del apocalipsis’ by the music producer Xavier Güell; and in the Patraix-Azorín Library the writer Parco Cerdá will give the conference with music ‘Estellés fet música’.
On Friday 14th the Fronteres Festival will be held at the Arrancapins-Eduardo Escalante Library, where the artist Bety Basarte will explain ‘How to make a song’; at the Marxalenes-Joanot Martorell Library, which will host a ‘Rock and Roll’ workshop by the musician Jorge Ilegal; and at the Cabanyal-Canyamelar-Casa de la Reina Library, where the also musician Raúl Rodríguez will explain that ‘We are the sound that sounds like us’; and at the Cabanyal-Canyamelar-Casa de la Reina Library, where the also musician Raúl Rodríguez will explain that ‘We are the sound that sounds like us’.