Elvira Lindo, Jesús Carrasco and Boticaria García at the Mérida Book Fair

The authors Jesús Carrasco, Elvira Lindo and Boticaria García will present their works this weekend at the Mérida Book Fair, which will also offer children’s workshops, storytelling and animation to reading in the Diana Temple and the Alcazaba Cultural Center.

Jesús Carrasco will present ‘Praise of the hands’ This Friday at 9:00 p.m. and, in addition, an Once exhibition will take place over the 200 years of the creation of the Braille Lecture System, storytelling with Concha Rodríguez and a Pintacaras workshop, the City Council of Mérida informed in a statement.

This Friday, from 7:00 p.m., in the Diana Temple, the presentations of Esperanza Mateos, Moisés de las Heras, Alonso Guerrero and Isabel Rodríguez Palop and there will be a story marathon at the Alcazaba Cultural Center will begin.

A weekend of presentations, workshops and storytelling

On Saturday the program includes the presentations of Natalia Jiménez, José Ángel Ayucar, the UAPEX Awards of Theatrical Texts, Rafael Jiménez and Ángel Espinosa, José Antonio Ramírez Lozano, Israel Espino, Lucía Sesma and Elvira Lindo, the latter at 9:00 p.m. with ‘In the mouth of the wolf’.

At the Alcazaba Cultural Center at 12:00, a spino poetic recital will take place and at 6:00 p.m. children’s puppet and storytelling workshops.

On Sunday, book presentations will be from Teo Carrasco, Francisco Teixidor Gómez and Francisco Teixidor Basurto and, finally, Boticaria García, at 7:30 p.m. with ‘Your brain is hungry’.

Every day of the fair the program will close a musical performance at 10:00 p.m. in the Diana Temple with “Furriones”, “Labosoul Laoctava” and the Municipal Band of Music with Pilar Vizcaíno.