The Mandarache Project defends the benefits of reading and writing as a counterweight to the anxiety that hyperconnection and overinformation can cause during the confinement decreed due to the health emergency.
However, it is still true that communication with others has become, thanks to technological advancement, one of the main weapons against loneliness and isolation.
That is why a group of young members of Libreta Mandarache, the Mandarache Prize literary creation workshop, organized for four years together with the library of the National Museum of Underwater Archeology ARQVA, has proposed a literary action on networks under the slogan ' Words like windows. '
The Councilor for Youth, David Martínez Noguera, explained that "the initiative consists of a reading of poems and literary texts, both their own and that of others, that the young people will recite and that will be disseminated from the Instagram profiles of the Mandarache Prize and the ARQVA Museum throughout the entire confinement under the hashtag #palabrascomoventanas â€.
In these four years of the Libreta Mandarache workshop, 60 young people have passed through its classes, initially taught by the poet and publisher José Alcaraz and currently led by Professor Ignacio García Fornet, also having master classes and exclusive sessions with all Finalists of the Mandarache and Hache Awards when they visit Cartagena.
"Thanks to this workshop we discover every year great writers who share their creations with us, now the networks allow them to continue sharing these literary wonders and give them to us every day from their profiles," concluded the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena