We haven’t quite chewed dust, but the heavens have closed in like an eclipse and a sepia-colored filter has come between us and reality. There are those who already wait, resigned, for the plague of locusts, the crash of the meteorite or even the coming of aliens who, rather than invade us, rescue us. It’s getting ugly and the only thing we can do to not panic is live up to date.
The finishing touch to this orange week has come from the hand of Latin jazz. The Dominican pianist Michel Camilo, a world reference, performed yesterday at the Palacio de Congresos de Cáceres together with the Extremadura Orchestra. You don’t get the opportunity to enjoy these jewels every day and the public savored it as it deserves. Michel Camino has shined on the city’s cultural agenda, with books, art, architecture and poetry, among other things.
On Thursday, La Puerta de Tannhäuser bookstore presented ‘The lie ahead’, the first graphic biography made on Francisco Umbral, signed by Lorenzo Montatore and where the trajectory of the unique writer and columnist is collected. More books have starred in the city’s cultural week. At almost the same time, but in the Public Library of Cáceres, ‘The true language of the birds’ was released, a project by De la Luna Libros that includes photographs of nature and birds by José María Benítez Cidoncha and the poems of Marino Gonzalez Montero. It is a bilingual edition translated into English by the poet Ben Clark.
We are not moving from this library, where just yesterday Norbanova’s ‘The Classroom of the Word’ held a meeting between the writer Fernando Alcalá and also the author Pilar López Ávila. Alcalá has signed ten works aimed at young readers. Along with Geòrgia Costa, he has published titles such as the trilogy ‘The second revolution’ or ‘The song of the ruins’, his latest work.
One more book. The historian Juan García Pérez presented yesterday at the ‘Diego Muñoz Torrero’ university residence a work dedicated precisely to this priest and politician born in Cabeza del Buey who had an important role in the elaboration of the Constitution in 1812.
We link with the Colegio Mayor San José, which last Thursday celebrated its 48th anniversary with an institutional act. There are currently 104 students residing in this space, through which 7,000 young people have passed during their lifetime.
March has become the month of women, because the activities of 8-M are not limited to that day. Last Thursday, the Coade (Official College of Architects of Extremadura) held an event on women architects in which a video was shown in which eight female architects reflect “on issues such as professional recognition, glass ceilings, their female references or other issues related to gender equality in architecture”, indicates this college.
Next Monday, March 21, spring arrives and it is Poetry Day, but yesterday, Friday, the ‘Julián Rodríguez Marcos’ Municipal Library already celebrated it with the poetry recital ‘Lorca and the generation of absence’, a dramatized poetry show by Marcelino Cotilla Vaca and Oscar Amorós Portí on guitar with texts by authors from the generation of 27. There were only texts by one author, Josefina de la Torre, one of those ‘sunsombreros’ who had to fight so that her name would not will be in shadow.
Art has not been lacking this week either. Yesterday, Rogério Timóteo’s exhibition ‘Layers of Time’ was inaugurated at the Cáceres Museum. It is a sample of sculptures that focuses above all on the human figure and uses above all stone, marble and bronze and resin. There is a sculpture in the Plaza de las Veletas itself.
The exhibition can be seen until May 29. It will be almost at the end of a spring that is about to begin and that we will ask that all the clouds that devastate us disintegrate and the sun can be seen again, without filters of any color.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.