2023-09-13 17:17:29
The La Mercè Cultural Center in Girona promotes the Vicenç Pagès Jordà Memorial. Contemporary narrative lessons. On December 14, the day the writer would have turned 60, the first edition of‘this meeting between readers and authors eager to reflect on contemporary literature. Starting from the admiration for the work and the figure of the writer from Emporda, topics and authors that have points of contact will be discussed. In its first edition, the professor of English literature at Pompeu Fabra University, Miquel Berga, will put Pagès alongside the literature of great authors with the conference A Cat and an Errand: Hemingway, Carver and the Chekhov Trail.
Friends and readers of Vicenç Pagès and Jordà remember the writer on the first anniversary of his death
The Vicenç Pagès Memorial will be one of the highlights of La Mercè’s autumn programming, which opens this Thursday with the opening conference of Bertrana Week (6.30pm), given by Ramon Rolsonai the opening of the exhibition Rag and bone by Quico Estivill. Curated by Eduald Camps, art critic of Girona newspaperthe exhibition presents a journey that calls into question the most transcendent symbols of society, the flags, and the old dreams of human permanence (skulls and funerary masks) from a transversal poetics, from the most traditional painting to the installation videography.
In terms of humanities programming, the cycle stands out Feminist thought, which will include the writer M. Àngels Cabré, the sociologist Marina Subirats, the historian Sílvia Planas and the psychologist specializing in gender violence Alba Alfageme. There will also be a new edition of the Trias Essay Reading Club and the Bòlit Pensament.
In the programming of visual arts, they stand out the photographic exhibitions of Mercè Ribera and Cristina Ferrer. In addition, Verònica Aguilera, winner of the Bòlit 2022 residency grant in contemporary ceramics, will exhibit the result in Capsula del temps #Girona2022. Sabrina Arnault, María Monegro, Jorge Egea and Edgar Massegú are other artists who will exhibit at La Mercè this season.
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