SANTANDER, 23 (EUROPA PRESS)
Santander today celebrates Book day with a set of cultural activities open to citizens, organized with the aim of bringing reading and books at all ages and all neighborhoods.
The mayor, Gema Equal, has participated in the events scheduled for this day in which, for the first time, the six libraries of Cisneros Street have organized various proposals.
The governor has stressed that, on this symbolic date, which recalls the strength of the written word, the City Council of Santander has wanted to promote, with the active collaboration of the six bookstores, a diverse, participatory and thought programming so that each neighbor can live this day as an opportunity to reunite with reading, discover new literary voices or recover the link with their library.
The day began on Monday 21 with a route guided by the Barrio de la Florida, which allowed to tour the literary footprint that permeates its streets and recognize, by José Antonio Sánchez Raba, the importance that this urban environment has for the reader map of the city.
However, the bulk of acts are being held today, with proposals for all audiences and with special attention to families, young readers already who want to know better the municipal library spaces.
The governor has attended the reading scheduled in El Corte Inglés in the morning and subsequently went to the Municipal Library to share a time with the participants of a children’s workshop that intended to start the children in reading and promote from an early age the habit of approaching books as a source of play, discovery and affection, organized by the Municipal Library.
As detailed, one of the axes of this day has been the opening of the new headquarters of the Municipal Library with two guided routes for small groups and designed to show the public internal work spaces, documentary funds and bibliographic tasks that usually remain out of the reach of users.
In parallel, a participatory activity entitled ‘The verse of your life’ has been organized, which has allowed neighbors to record their relationship with poetry by writing its own or foreign verse in canvases installed next to the library.
Acts this afternoon
Already in the afternoon, at 5:30 p.m., the new Gloobal bookstore has organized a children’s storyteller with Valeria Kiselova, aimed at children between three and seven years. And at the same time, the Artpapel bookstore will host an intergenerational artist’s book workshop, under the title ‘of a sheet of paper a world of possibilities’.
At 6.30 pm, in the Assembly Hall of the Cisneros College, the Santander Municipal Band will offer an outdoor concert, playing works by Edvard Grieg, Georges Bizet and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
At 7:00 p.m., the Gerardo Diego Foundation has organized the initiative ‘Books and beautiful magazines’, a tour of Spanish poetry and culture in the silver age.
Also, at 7.30 pm, the presentation of the book ‘Treaty of Architecture’ by Andrés Julián de Mazarrasa, a manuscript dated in 1752 and recently incorporated into the city’s documentary fund, will take place in the municipal library.
The mayor will attend the presentation of this work, so far unpublished, which represents a valuable contribution to the knowledge of architecture in Cantabria in the 18th century, and its publication allows not only to recover the figure of its author, but also value the conservation and study work carried out by the municipal library personnel.
The day will conclude at 8:15 p.m. with a concert at La Vorágine bookstore, by Chebú.
Also, throughout the day, participating bookstores -gloobal, Santoveña, Artpapel, La Vorágine, Carmen Alonso Books and Nemesis- offer a ten percent discount on the purchase of books, reinforcing their active role in the cultural life of the city.
