This Tuesday, March 9, the IES Mediterráneo launches its X Literary Week, which will last until the 13th of the month, to encourage reading among young people, while encouraging the use of the school library as a space for cultural development, and he does it with the writer Care Santos, with his novel Fear, before the students of 3rd of ESO.
The conference, organized by the institute, has the collaboration of the Department of Education of the City of Cartagena.
The Councilor for Education, Irene Ruiz, has highlighted this "very important commitment to encourage reading and bring young authors closer to learn more about literary production."
Likewise, the coordinator of the Literary Week, Eugenia Pérez, explained that "in the second evaluation, the students of the ESO and first of Bachelor read a book that they can comment with the author in a meeting".
The writer who starts the week, Care Santos, says that "it is a huge responsibility to engage young people to read, something she believes and likes", and also "is a way to convey the secrets of the author who does not know they can know only by reading. "
In addition to this first encounter with Care Santos, the writers Sara Sánchez, JE Álamo, Paloma González and Víctor Mirete will pass through the IES Mediterráneo center, and students from the cycles from 1st of ESO to 1st of Bachelor will participate.
The priority objective of this project is the animation to the reading and the approach to the libraries, so that the young people get used to the use of these facilities and discover the possibilities of adventure that the literature offers them, while they develop their artistic sensibility and enrich themselves Humanly and culturally.
For this, it is necessary to bring books to the reading public from different perspectives, so that they can live the adventure and the lives of the protagonists, meet the creators of the stories read, their creative process, and their relationship with other disciplines, such as music.
To achieve this, on this tenth anniversary, there will be the presence of several institutes in the city as guests at the meetings, thus opening the Literary Week to teachers and students from other centers.
The conference will be coordinated by the professors of the IES Mediterráneo, Eugenia Pérez and Antonio Parra, as well as by the Department of Language and Literature.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena