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The Mandarache Project postpones the official announcement of the Mandarache and Hache Awards in its 16th edition and is committed to a special edition dedicated to expanded literature and radio dialogue between people who write and people who read.
This is the project promoted by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena with the main support of the General Directorate of Books and Promotion of Reading of the Ministry of Culture, which this year will be modified due to the fact that the school year affected by the crisis sanitary.The mayor of Youth, David Martínez Noguera, explained that, after learning about the latest measures in non-university teaching centers published by the Autonomous Community in early September - in which the school library service was suspended - and given the risk of not being able to complete the voting for the Mandarache and Hache Awards this year, "the promoter group decided to postpone the ordinary celebration of these literary awards until the following school year 2021-2022, thus avoiding the contingency of the authors' participation finalists that the project announced at the close of its previous edition ".The fact that the Mandarache postpones the convocation of the jury and the ruling of its official awards does not mean that this is not going to be a deeply literary edition.
From an expanded conception of the literary fact, Mandarache embarks on the realization and production of podcasts that put authors who have passed through the awards over these years in dialogue with readers of the project on different topics of interest.
It is about promoting critical thinking and argued debate about issues raised from the finalist and winning books in the history of the project; go from literature and reading to public speaking, citizen participation and creative communication.In fact, it is something that has been a constant in the spirit of the project since its inception: the stimulation of the intellectual capacities of youth related to the exercise of active citizenship.
For Mandarache the goal has never been to read for the sake of reading but to transform readers into culturally restless people with a stimulated critical awareness, in communicative environments that are increasingly complex.
The books chosen by the promoting group throughout all the editions have frequently alternated the escape literature with more committed literary proposals, with the aim that young people can face the challenges of their time with more refined and creative responses.
.RADIO MANDARACHE: #LET'S TALK In this way, the Councilor for Youth has communicated that this edition of Mandarache will be dedicated mainly to podcasts, for which there will be the experience of Clara García Sáenz de Tejada, founder of Biblioactiva and collaborator of the project since its first editions.
In these podcasts, small groups of young people from all participating centers will debate with authors about various issues and questions of interest raised from the Mandarache and Hache books of all previous editions.The podcasts, whose participation is also open to adult reading clubs that regularly participate in the project, will have a fortnightly periodicity and will begin to be recorded during the second and third quarter of the school year to be published on the Mandarache Prize website.
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Meanwhile, this first quarter is being devoted to teacher training, the development of the set of topics to be discussed and the structuring of content.Martínez Noguera has highlighted the poster designed by the illustrator Salvador Roldán Jiménez and the video made by the Barcelona production company La Rabiosa with which, under the slogan # let's talk, this radio edition of Mandarache is announced that will have the voice as the protagonist, the voice of readers and authors.
Podcasts create an intimate and trustworthy environment, they accompany us on our mobile devices and offer us infinite possibilities of approaching literature through the oral.A NECESSARY CATARSIS: READING RESPONSES TO THE PANDEMICThe health emergency and the increasingly pressing economic emergency are taking the main attention of the media and administrations due to their extraordinary severity.
In this regard, it is possible that other levels are being neglected, such as the emotional one, in which the consequences of the pandemic may also be catastrophic but are not perceived as so pressing.
However, it is easy to perceive that the population is experiencing a situation of generalized emotional stress that can have consequences in all areas of life.Faced with this, the organization of the Mandarache Project understands that the humanities and culture can be a valuable tool for managing this crisis from an emotional and emotional point of view.In this regard, other literary actions focused on the emotional aspect are planned, such as the podcast directed by the Las Monstruas Company.
In this other program, complementary to the main podcast mentioned above and dedicated to the dialogue between authors and readers, sound literary proposals and participatory actions will be launched that serve to share, process and elaborate from an emotional point of view everything experienced by the consequences of COVID-19 , from small calls launched on networks, in institutes and libraries and addressed to the thousands of regular participants in the different sections of the project.PAUSE OR RESET¨?The authors selected for the 2021 edition of the Mandarache Prize, Alfredo Sanzol, Xavier Aldekoa and Ana Pérez Cañamares, as well as the finalist writers of the Hache Prize, Elia Barceló (recent winner of the 2020 National Prize for Children's and Youth Literature), Paloma González Rubio and Eva Mejuto, postpone their candidacy and their participation until the next edition, which will begin if circumstances allow it in autumn 2021 and will culminate in spring 2022.However, far from seeing the current situation as a threat, the Mandarache Project organization hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to restart, to rethink; an occasion for in-depth self-assessment as well as to investigate areas of reading education that had not been explored in the project until now.In this sense, an impact study of the project has been started with the expert in cultural management David Roselló, to study the influence of the Mandarache and Hache Awards on the reading habits of the young people who have participated throughout these years.
For this study, different discussion groups, surveys and interviews with different agents involved in the project have already been carried out and their results will be presented throughout this course.GUEST REGIONAL AUTHOR The promoter group has decided to extend during this school year the participation of the one who was the protagonist of the Regional Guest Author section in 2020, the Cartagena poet and editor José Alcaraz, whose cycle of visits and meetings to the participating institutes and centers was frustrated due to to the alarm state.Alcaraz, who participates in this section with his collection of poems El mar en las cenizas, which earned him second prize to the prestigious Adonáis Award, will celebrate throughout this year the meetings with readers that had to be postponed this spring as well as new ones in the institutes that request it.MANDARACHE 2021 NOTEBOOK Other usual activities of the project have adapted their development to the current circumstances with considerable ease.
This is the case of the literary creation workshop Libreta Mandarache, organized in collaboration with the National Library of Underwater Archeology.
ARQVA, which this spring was already doomed to the telematic format, to which it successfully adapted, despite having to suspend the usual creative writing jam for the closing.Este año han sido seleccionados ocho estudiantes de entre 14 y 17 años que ya están recibiendo de manera telemática clases de escritura y de literatura del profesor y miembro del grupo promotor Ignacio García Fornet.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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