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Fifteen young people have been selected to participate in the activities of the second edition of Mandatache Book, an initiative promoted in collaboration by the library of the National Museum of Underwater Archeology (ARQUA) and the Mandarache Award of the City of Cartagena in order to educate young people in literary creation, the professional world of books and research.

The councilor of the Area of ​​Culture, Archaeological Heritage, Youth and Sports, Ricardo Segado, together with Julia Moñino and Ana Villar, of ARQUA, received on Thursday the group of fifteen young people in the museum, where they made a special visit.

The Libreta Mandarache workshop will be coordinated by the poet and editor José Alcaraz, who throughout the school year will teach writing and literature classes to students as a seminar in the museum's library in order to generate growth processes in the world of book 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 participants will not only obtain new literary knowledge and progress in the creative field, they will also learn to start in the literary and research environment.

From theory and writing will give way to a global conception of the world of books.

The group of selected students consists of 11 girls and 4 boys between 15 and 28 years old.

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 representatives of the ARQUA Museum and the coordinator of the workshop, José Alcaraz.

The last session of the workshop will take place on May 8, 2018 at the ARQUA facilities and will consist of a live writing jam.

It is designed as an act open to the general public and consists of an impromptu writing session coordinated by Marcos Xalabarder, founder of the project 'Escritura en vivo' in Barcelona, ​​in which the participants, as a 'jam session', will write live and they will project their texts so that the public can share the magical moment in which the writers create.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena