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Fifteen young people have been selected to participate in the Libreta Mandarache activities, an initiative promoted in collaboration between the ARQVA Museum library and the Mandarache Award of the City of Cartagena, in order to educate young people in literary creation, the professional world of book and research.

These fifteen young people were received this Wednesday, November 21, by the Councilor of the Area of ​​Culture, Tourism and Equality, David Martínez, together with Ana Villar, from the National Museum of Underwater Archeology ARQVA.

The Libreta Mandarache workshop, which celebrates its third edition, will be coordinated by the poet and editor José Alcaraz, who throughout the school year will teach writing and literature classes to the students as a seminar in the Museum's library, in order to generate growth processes in the world of books and literary creation continued in time and at a deep level.

In addition, the fifteen members of the workshop will enjoy six master classes taught by each of the official finalist authors of the Mandarache and Hache Awards.

The group of selected students is composed of 11 girls and 4 boys, between 15 and 30 years of age, most of them coming from secondary schools that participate in the Mandarache Project.

The selection, during which their letters of motivation and the sample of their literary works were evaluated, has been carried out by non-teaching members of the Promoting Group of the Mandarache Project together with members of the ARQVA Museum, as well as the coordinator of the José Alcaraz workshop.

The last session of the workshop will take place on May 7 and will consist of a live writing jam.

It will be an act open to the general public and will consist of an impromptu and video-projected writing session under the coordination of Marcos Xalabarder, founder of the Escritura En Vivo project in Barcelona.

As a jam session, the participants will write live and project their texts accompanied by live music so that the audience can share the magical moment in which the writers create.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena