April 23 is celebrated internationally the great celebration of reading, the Book Day.
On the occasion of this date, the City of Cartagena has organized an extensive program of activities and events related to the promotion and enjoyment of reading habits.
Among the sites for this program Open Book, the Roman Theatre Museum is one who works with the network of municipal libraries and has planned various activities for all ages during the days 22, 23 and 24 of this month.
ACTIVITY PROGRAM
April 22
20.00 pm in the Museum library - Presentation of the book: Women under Augustus: Social Reality and legal imposition.
The theme of this interdisciplinary monograph is the woman in the saeculum augustum.
In this historical context and from different fields of study that reflect the Roman law, ancient history, archeology or art history.
The book includes several research papers on real women in the temporal and political border between the Republic and the Empire.
On the table will involve various authors of the monograph.
18.00, 19.00 and 20.30, at the Museum - Screening of the documentary The creative process.
It is a work of Miguel Peñalver on the creation in the region of Murcia and fusion between flamenco and jazz.
Maximum of 80 people per pass.
April 23rd
13.00 h, in the temporary exhibition hall of the museum - Olga Rodriguez displays his notebook personal trip to Tuscany guiding Marmoris exposure.
Move the soul of marble.
The sample of his own experience at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara (Italy) and shows that trip to the past where the artist has traveled the soul of marble has experienced a symbiosis with the landscape and monuments of Tuscany, breathing the air and renaissance poetry, and presents a work where the soul of marble between memory and art of his sculptures is perceived.
In it, the artist has entered the study of materials and their behavior in various processes and surface treatments, but offering a personal and contemporary proposal which merges images of travel and stone intermingle in pleasant harmony, creating sculptures capable of retain visual experiences and memories collected in this personal travelogue of the artist through the towns and villages of Tuscany.
Arches, capitals and columns, doors and windows sometimes with sketches by Michelangelo, other projects of Andrea Palladio or Brunelleschi documents also become embodied in stone.
April 24
12.00 h, in the temporary exhibition hall of the Museum - Children Teatrillo Three mascots for three altars.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena