For the second year in a row, the Fundación para la Cultura Urbana, La Poeteca, Qué Leer, Autores Venezolanos and Jardín La Riviera join forces to celebrate this event among books and roses. On this occasion, Book Day will be dedicated to the life and work of Victoria De Stefano, a Venezuelan writer who died earlier this year.
The Foundation for Urban Culture, La Poeteca, Qué Leer, Autores Venezolanos and Jardín La Riviera will be this Saturday, April 22, at 11:00 am, in El Mijao square, in the Mene Grande building, in Los Palos Grandes, to celebrate together the International Book, Language and Copyright Day.
The activity seeks to bring together readers from the city to join the activity and share around the books. In addition, those attending the event will receive as gifts, from the organizing institutions, books and roses, fundamental elements that are part of the tradition of this day in which the love of reading, books and the word is celebrated.
The general manager of the Foundation for Urban CultureDiajanida Hernández, asserts that “Book Day, more than a celebration, can be a day that allows us to reflect on the importance of the book in our society, on the need to keep alive the spaces where we find literature, with culture and that they are a way of promoting citizenship”.
For her part, María Alejandra Bello, one of the founders of what to readrefers precisely to the community value of this meeting open to all: «Based on the need to connect citizens with activities around books and reading, #LibrosyRosas has emerged for several years, and counting on the participation of La Poeteca, the Foundation for Urban Culture, Venezuelan Authors and Jardín la Riviera make this celebration an unforgettable book day, as it is celebrated around the world in the best style of Saint Jordi”.
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On this occasion, Book Day will be dedicated to the life and work of Victoria De Stefano, a Venezuelan writer who died earlier this year. «We live devastating moments in the world of books in Venezuela, but not in Venezuelan literature. We must read our authors and think from the elements that literature gives us. Those elements, especially, are found in the work of Victoria de Stefano. For her, this tribute”, adds Ricardo Ramírez Requena, director of the poetand explains that soon the allied organizations will announce other activities to remember De Stefano.
An alliance around books and culture
For four years, Qué Leer, La Poeteca, Autores Venezolanos and the Fundación para la Cultura Urbana have been working together to organize cultural activities. This alliance has sought to strengthen the idea of the importance of creating spaces to promote books and reading in the city, to promote the meeting between people, to encourage ideas, discussions and recognition of diversity.
In this sense, Tibisay Guerra, creator of Venezuelan Authors, he explains, “it is in difficult moments that we need each other the most, we appeal to our sense of humanity to offer us support, to keep us afloat. Joining forces with other cultural initiatives, although it may seem cliché, is what has allowed us to continue doing, contributing, living culture in an active way»
For this reason, these allied institutions maintain an agenda throughout the year with recitals, talks and book presentations that allow those interested to be part of the cultural spaces of their city.
For more information on the celebration of Book Day, you can expand the information on social networks: @CulturaUrbana, @Poeteca1, @QueLeer and @AutoresVzlanos.
With information from a press release.
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