Thursday, May 8, 2025, 15:54
This article corresponds to the Newsletter ‘Serendipia’, which informs you of cultural activities.
If you are in Cáceres you can not miss the Womad and if you are for Badajoz or visits the city, you have an appointment with the Badajoz Book Fair, where numerous writers and their muses await you to recommend books that, surely, will make you a more open and free person. Simply because books make you think and that is vital for you. Possibly you are right to think that I am getting intense, but it is that music and reading are the pillars that improve your life day by day, and these days you have at your fingertips books everywhere in Badajoz and music in all corners of the center of Cáceres. Take the opportunity.
The Badajoz Book Fair begins tomorrow Friday at the Paseo de San Francisco, where thousands of stories to discover are waiting for you until May 18. Starts with the proclamation of the journalist and translator Pilar del Ríowidow of José Saramagoand during these days they will share their time with you authors as recognized as Juan Gómez-Jurado, Máximo Huerta, María Oruña, Paloma Sánchez-Garnica, Javier Sierra, Manuel Loureiro, Juan Manuel de Prada, Rodrigo Cortés, Inma Rubiales, Reyes Monforte, Rafael Tarradas Bultó, Jen Bernal, Cristina Mellado, Toni Quint Cardalda.
You have 43 booths at your disposal and you can attend the presentation of 73 books, among which is ‘Poy forgiveness’, of the writer and articulist of today Hope Mancerawhich will take place next Thursday, day 15, at 6:00 p.m. in the conferences tent, where a history of mystery and betrayal that takes place in Castuera awaits you.
And you can’t miss the literature exhibition ‘¡Boom, Crash, Bang. Imaginary Pachón !!! Alejandro Pachóndeceased last year. In the exhibition, curated by today’s art critic Martín Carrascoyou will discover the extraordinary universe of Alejandro Pachón, his love for the printed, to the task of compilation of the ephemeral art that populated his world and also shows you posters of movies and film music in his memory.
As for the music of the Womad, from Thursday to Sunday 11, you can attend 21 concerts of different nationalities and styles in the Plaza Mayor, the Plaza de San Jorge and the Plaza de Santa María de Cáceres, totally free, in addition to participating in the scheduled workshops, attending the projections in the Filmoteca and other activities framed in ‘World of Words’, a space dedicated to literature and oral narration.
The Womad opens it today Thursday the concerts of Extremaduran The cat with jotasthat has reinvented traditional Extremadura music through the sound that has called electrojota; The flamenco singer Jienense Ángeles Toledanoand the Belgian rapper of Congolese origin Balojiall on the stage of the Plaza Mayor.
Tomorrow Friday you can choose between eight concerts, which will take place in the Plaza de Santa María, where Extremaduran will perform Indigo child with his indie-folk music; and Fönala group that touches from industrial electronics to post-punk. In San Jorge it will encourage you to dance the French group Downdelinthat combines electronics, jazz and Caribbean rhythms such as the GWO-KA and the Biguine; and Rustthe duo of the Lebanese vocalist Petra Hawi and the Syrian producer Honyclewhich fuses the melodic and poetic wealth of the Arab tradition with contemporary electronic rhythms. In the Plaza Mayor they wait for you Asina ahead with its mixture rhythms of reggae, blues, funk, cumbia, soul and dub; The Murcian singer, composer and poet I bite The new author song will bring you; Angelique Didjo He will dazzle you for his musical versatility and his powerful voice; and the Mexicans Tell the bubble They will offer you their fusion of tradition and modernity through a sound that combines classical cumbia with influences from reggae, Dub, African music, rock and Peruvian girl.
-Ten concerts complete the Womad program for Saturday: in the Plaza de Santa María will perform San Antonio setwhich brings you your Tex-Mex style; The Cácereña band The Ruffos It offers your music with R&B influences, soul, rock of the 70s and funk; and the Moralejans of This They will merge for you traditional African rhythms with contemporary sounds. In San Jorge, Ana Lua Caiano It will mix Portuguese traditional music with electronic sounds; and Panther acid It will merge traditional rhythms with synthesizers and musical technology. In the Plaza Mayor will perform Canchalerawith the placentina Marta Jiménez as a voice of this proposal that rap and flamenco has as main styles; The leading group Guadiana Sanguijuelas It offers you from the Extremadura Siberia that reflects a balance between roots and evolution; The Zawose Queensthe duo formed by the Africans Love y Leah Zawosewill channel the ancestral essence of Gogo Music of Tanzania; Nusantara Reat It will show you the musical diversity of Indonesia reinventing the traditional songs of the twentieth century with a fresh and creative style, merging tropical sounds; And finally, Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers It will merge organic funk music with dark synthesizers, low bubbling lines and enveloping guitars.
You cannot stay at home with so many literary and musical proposals within your reach.
A book on health and food in the culture of culture today
If you are interested in your health and how to improve it through food, you can not miss the next culture classroom today, in which the book ‘For my kidneys will be presented that today as well’, written by Borja Quiroga Gilnephrologist at the University Hospital of the Princess of Madrid, together with Miguel Coborenowned Michelin star chef, which gives the book a creative and delicious touch with its recipes. Borja Quiroga awaits you on Wednesday, May 14, at 8:00 p.m., in the auditorium of Cajalmendralejo in Badajoz, and with him you will learn and spend a time entertaining with the talk about ‘For my kidneys that today as well’, which addresses health from an essential and frequently forgotten perspective: the health of our kidneys. This book is born from the need to combat the worrying social ignorance about a fundamental organ, because, as Quiroga, more than six million people in Spain have a kidney disease, and half of them do not even know, because the big problem of kidney diseases is precisely that they do not hurt and can even reach early death.
If you attend the presentation and read the book, you will see that ‘by my kidneys that today as well’ is not a boring medical treaty, much less, nor a soul -free cooking recipe book, but an invitation to discover the mysteries of nutrition and how they directly impact your health, all of the expert hand of a renowned nephrologist.
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