The three secondary schools Cehegín Vega Alquipir Argos and institutes and subsidized school Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, have joined this morning in a public reading of the book 'Platero y yo', writer Juan Ramón Jiménez, for commemorate the centenary of its first edition in 1914. activity held in the street Ginés de Paco, has also benefited from the inclusion of the arts and music through the involvement of the coordinators of the three centers.
About 100 students, along with their teachers, have jumped on the stage and have been reading passages from the work of Juan Ramón Jiménez while classmates were in charge of the musical part, playing pieces that in some cases have even been composed expressly for this activity .
Meanwhile, other colleagues have devoted to color life-size four reproductions of the famous hero of the play, the donkey Platero.
During the presentation of the activity, framed within the program of World Book Day 2014, Councillor of Culture, Nicholas del Toro has stated that "only from the book from reading, we can seize the domain of reality, of our history and our closest present.'s book should be a companion. Someone who does not abandon us. Which is always there. "
Del Toro added that "no one is aware that the cultured societies in reading are more mature, more respected companies.'s Book would become the backbone instrument. A world without books is an empty world".
Tomorrow, April 30, the House of Culture will host the awards to the winners of the Children's Story Contest V and will be presented the Giant Book, the winners being invited children story contest and his companions.
He also will present a gift to the younger and older more loans made during the year 2013 in the Municipal Library readers over the course of that act.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín