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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, with the mayor of White, Rafael Laorden, presented the project Selina (Week Blanca Independent Literature) to be held in the town from 28 September to 4 October.
The presentation also included the Vice Chancellor of University Extension, University of Murcia, Francisco Guillermo Diaz, director of the Business Area La Caixa, Rosa Rios, along with event organizers Ubero Antonio and Alfonso Garcia-Villalba.
This initiative, in Villa Blanca cultural project of the Book, is "one of the most interesting cultural activities, will be released this year has just begun," said Cruz.
For one week, about 40 writers and about 30 publishers from all over Spain will participate in creative writing as well as booksellers, distributors and other industry experts to discuss editorial reality and the future of literature and independent publishing.
The counselor noted that "this is one of the few independent literature shows that there are on the European scene and, moreover, is to step out of one of the realities that we are richer now in the Spanish publishing scene is that most of the best titles from publishers precisely those that generate lines of dissent with respect to commercial products, "while" publishing lines are not governed both by commercial constraints, but by the quality and rarity of titles they publish. "
For his part, stressed the importance Laorden the municipality for the promotion of literature and his interest in making White a meeting place for writers and editors.
The aim of the new literary project, promoted by the Municipality of the town in collaboration with the Ministry, is to promote literature in all its aspects, as an instrument of leisure, as a tool of knowledge and an instrument to promote culture.
SELINA will feature workshops for children, poetry, literary lectures, panel discussions on various topics of literary background, illustration workshops, and even a concert.
Moreover, some of these publishers take advantage of their presence in the SELINA to present their latest developments with artists such as Jesus Ferrero, Ana Cristina Herreros, Manel Moya, Paco Lopez Mengual, Lazarus Covadlo, Miguel Serrano, Ernesto Pérez Zúńiga, Ramirez and Antonio Luque Llucia.
It also reserves space for new corporate initiatives organized in the Region of Murcia as the Association of Writers and Publishers Guild, which may occur in society and make public its proposals.
Furthermore, will offer two workshops, one in Creative Writing, taught by Professor of the Universidad Popular de Cartagena Lola Fernández, and another illustration given by the artist Juan Álvarez.
Contests will also be made of micro, spontaneous poetry and other leisure activities.
Among the planned events there are also several concerts by the Municipal Band of White as well as performances by hip hop DJ MC Nano & Hem, Escobijazz and La Troupe Orchestra.
The SELINA offered to all professionals in this field a working forum in which writers who begin their careers to find publishers for his work and be small publishers in search of new talent and innovative stories to offer to readers.
"White thus become an opportunity for new authors and quality literature apart from the big business that are sometimes difficult for all people starting his literary career," said Cruz.
The organization has a web selindeblanca.es that will extend the meeting beyond the annual meeting.
This is a permanent virtual space with the same intentions Literary Week.
Thus, among other tools, small publishers and authors on the net will also find a place to work and promoting this type of literature.
Source: CARM
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