This month started with a holiday – a cult of deep-rooted customs – but I’m more interested in what comes after. Guayaquil will host a multitude of cultural activities that seem to say goodbye to the year, which is considered closed with the arrival of Christmas. There are initiatives in the cultural field that choose a point on the calendar and stay there, embodied in our body, so eager for opportunities to grow. Let’s assume that most of them come from private grants, and that little or nothing is received from the authorities on the ground.
The University of Arts fulfills its usual LibreLibro in the IX edition, which is mobile because it was organized in different months of the year. The idea that “behind the book is a community” is very valid, as there are many people who take actions to create, print and circulate the precious artifact. The existence of the book also gave rise to the gathering of other arts and skills around it, which create, outwardly, an always attractive beehive effect, so that the curious and the faithful can turn to it.
The name associated with cinematography is that of Daniela Creamer because she works as a journalist, critic and producer. Our focus was to attend famous European festivals, mainly Cannes, and the jury of the Platino awards. She is now convening Guayafest for the second time, to which she has invited prominent figures of Colombian cinema. Forums, panels and screenings will take place at the Hilton Colón Hotel, UEES, University of the Arts and the Historical Park.
(…) an ordinary citizen wants comfortable transport and safe movement on the streets…
November is also the month of the Poetry Festival of Ileana Espinel Cedeño, which with admirable perseverance reaches its 15th edition, thanks to the unwavering work of poet Augusto Rodríguez. This festival achieved the action I saw at the Guadalajara book fair: bringing many poets to the schools of Guayaquil and surrounding cities. I hope, I say, that teachers have prepared adolescents for listening to contemporary poetry, which could seem so distant to new ears, unaccustomed to the freedom of today’s verse, separated from rationality. I imagine that poets from Taiwan, Iraq and India will read in their native languages and can only be experienced as the chirping or twitching of unfamiliar birds.
Through social networks, I found out about the Guayaquil International Book Fair (pay attention to this name so you don’t confuse it with FIL-GYE), which comes from the Cultural Center – Núcleo del Guayas and is supported by the International Confederation of Books. They offer activities typical of the fair, with domestic and foreign authors for presentations and discussions, as well as titles for purchase.
With all these open options, an ordinary resident wants comfortable transportation and safe movement through city streets. We need more information in all possible ways so that cultural consumption is naturally placed in the spiritual desires of the citizen, so that the psyche hears, looks and renews itself, so that they are a little freed from hopelessness. Artists pour out their visions of reality, the fruits of their imagination, and make them available to us. Now it’s our turn. (OR)
Source: Eluniverso
Mario Twitchell is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing on a wide range of topics including general and opinion. He currently works as a writer at 247 news agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
