Baeza working on a comprehensive program to commemorate the centenary of the arrival of the city Machado
Photo: EUROPA PRESS / CITY OF BAEZA.
Baeza (Jaén), 3 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -
Baeza working on a comprehensive program to commemorate the centenary of the arrival of Antonio Machado in the city of Jaén, where between 1912 and 1919 he taught French at Holy Trinity Secondary School.
Given the importance of the poet's stay was for poetry and English culture, this conventional circumstances should become, according to Europa Press insisted municipal sources, "a celebration of culture and opportunity knowledge, recognition and celebration "of the writer from Seville, bearing in mind also that your stay in Baeza caused "one of the most prolific and profound periods of his literary activity and thought."
Therefore, the Sectoral Council for the centennial celebration, appointed by the Consistory in plenary session October 29, 2009, has decided to schedule a series of activities to commemorate the centenary of the arrival of Machado in Baeza, who marked his return to Andalusia after his family stay in Madrid, his trips to Paris and his years as a professor at the Institute of Soria.
These initiatives will be developed between on 22 February and 1 November next year, coinciding with the anniversary of the death LXXIII the poet and the first centenary of his arrival in Baeza. Thus, the opening ceremony will take place on the said day of February, when it also will open the "Temporary Exhibition and Baeza Antonio Machado: History, Culture, Arts and Literature." The curator of the exhibition is José Luis Chicharro Chamorro, former director of the Provincial Museum of Jaen and member of Giennenses Studies Institute, and professor of the institute where he taught Antonio Machado.
The official closing will coincide with the exact date which marks the centenary: 1 November 2012 and with the International Congress on Antonio Machado and Andalusia, to be held at the Antonio Machado International University of Andalusia.
RECITALS AND TRIBUTES
These two major activities are accompanied by others that will taking place throughout the centennial year, coinciding with each month of the same. For example, the Sectoral Council has agreed to promote the Short Film Contest for Young Directors' Antonio Machado and Baeza ', the gathering of young poetry "No voice is mine', a conference in honor by local writers and poets and by poets awarded the International Prize for Poetry Antonio Machado in Baeza.
also be edited publications on the event and organize related initiatives in schools and culture of Andalusia, recitals, lectures, panel discussions, musical and theatrical performances. Baeza both as in other parts of the autonomous region.
addition, with the aim of identifying the hundredth power and make it known to the public Baeza and the rest of Spain has adopted a logo and poster. They aim also to the many readers that the poet may have in different parts of the world, recognize this celebration and to the extent of the possibilities of making their own, hence it has already been ahead of schedule.
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