The Ministry of Culture and Sport, through the General Directorate of Books and Promotion of Reading, has launched a new edition of the program of activities for reading animation in Secondary Education Institutes spread throughout Spain and Morocco, which is part of the Reading Promotion Plan 2021-2024. Five activities will be carried out in Cantabria.
The aim of this initiative is to bring young people closer to quality reading and, at the same time, contribute to spreading the work and creative activity of our authors. Students have the opportunity to get to know the work of narrators, poets, playwrights, illustrators or translators, and these, take the pulse of the interests of young readers.
In Cantabria, the five activities will take place between March and May and will take place in centres in Torrelavega, Piélagos, Laredo and Los Corrales de Buelna, all in face-to-face format.
The first will be held at the IES Las Estelas de Cantabria, in Los Corrales de Buelna, on March 16, with the poet Menchu Gutiérrez López; the second will be at the IES Garcilaso de la Vega de Tanos, in Torrelavega, on April 20, by Javier Menéndez Llamazares and focused on the literary genre of the essay.
The IES Bernardino de Escalante de Laredo will host the third activity on April 28 and will be starring the poet Amalia Bautista Malillos. Already in May, the program of the Ministry of Culture will arrive on day 3 to the ECA of Renedo, in Piélagos, with the illustrator Sara Fernández Morante, and on day 10 to the IES Marqués de Santillana de Torrelavega with the illustrator Fermín Solís Campos.
In this installment of the reading animation program of the Ministry of Culture, which already has more than two decades of existence, 275 activities have been selected, almost one hundred more than in the previous edition, given the exceptional demand by the institutes, with more than 400 proposals received.
The program, which will be developed in two modalities, face-to-face and telematic, has two different types of activities. On the one hand, the ‘Literary Encounters’, where the author, proposed by the center, will talk about his work and his creative process, maintaining an open dialogue with the students. On the other hand, ‘Why Read the Classics’, where the authors focus on the activity programmed in the work or the figure of an author whose transcendence goes beyond a specific historical period or literary current.