Miguel de Cervantes is still a big unknown, especially among young people. It is a reality that the organizers of the commemoration of the fourth centenary of the death of the writer want to fight through an extensive program of 229 activities taking place both in Spain and in the rest of the world.
All this to try to make accessible the figure of the writer and his time to society, because, as highlighted yesterday at the presentation of the program secretary of Culture of Spain, Jose Maria Lassalle, a recent survey of the Research Center sociological shows that most Spaniards have not read Don Quixote or well known biography of Miguel de Cervantes.
the events have a special significance in Latin America, Spain as the guest in the Cervantino Festival of Guanajuato, in Mexico, and that of Uruguay, while Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile will host activities also come to Moscow and Shanghai.
will be held a couple of conferences which they will be devoted to analyze the relationship between Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare. Also, the vast program will approach the figure of Manco de Lepanto through exhibitions, concerts, theater productions and dance, film, publications and studies, research projects, tourist routes and projects . digital, as well as activities to promote reading and outreach
Among the exhibition highlights made by the Spanish National Library Cultural Spain and Action (ACE), Miguel de Cervantes: life the myth. 1616-2016 ; others will 16 characters wonder and Miguel de Cervantes in Mexico and Colombia; Quijotes the world , the Instituto Cervantes and ACE, and the Project Back to Barataria , a photographic journey to streets named after Sancho Panza.
Among the proposals are music and performing concerts Miguel de Cervantes: travel and utopias, Danzas and cervantinas adventures and Ballet Don Quixote , by the National Company Dance.
There are a total of 229 projects already approved, though the official program will remain open to artists, actors and institutions who wish to participate by presenting their proposals by April 23.
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