Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Spain spent 4.4 million dollars on celebrations for Cervantes – El Universal

Miguel de Cervantes is still a big unknown, especially among young people, a fact that the organizers of the IV centenary death writer want to fight through an extensive program of 229 activities to be developed both in Spain and in the rest of the world.

the events have a special significance in Latin American countries, with Spain as guest country in the Cervantino Festival of Guanajuato Mexico , and that of Uruguay, while Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile will host activities also come to Moscow and Shanghai.

and two conferences dedicated to analyze the relationship between Cervantes and Shakespeare-who this year also met the 400th anniversary of his death will also be held. One usually in Valladolid (north) and another focused on his plays, in Madrid.

The program will approach the figure of Cervantes through exhibitions, concerts, theater productions and dance, film , publications and studies, research projects, tourist routes and digital projects, and activities promoting reading and informative.

the official program will promote academic research on Cervantes through a scanning funds and projects such as the Cervantes Cervantes Digital Encyclopedia or portal and virtual experiences such as the National Library of Spain (BNE) to facilitate public access to all funds of “Don Quixote”.

will be published “Don Quixote” in Guaraní in an illustrated edition to be presented in Paraguay, while in Honduras the contest will be organized “See Cervantes” and there will be performances of some of his best known in Nigeria, Luxembourg, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile works or . Peru

Among the exhibition highlights organized by the National Library of Spain and Spanish Cultural Action (AC / E) “Miguel de Cervantes: the myth of life. 1616-2016, “which will open on March 2 and to which were invited the Kings of Spain

Other exhibitions will.” 16 characters wonder and Miguel de Cervantes “in Mexico and Colombia; “Don Quixotes of the world”, the Cervantes Institute and AC / E, or the “Back to Barataria Project,” a photographic journey streets are named after Sancho Panza and the region of Barataria in Louisiana (USA) . which can be seen in the United States and Mexico

Among the musical offerings and performing concerts are “Miguel de Cervantes: travel and utopias” and “Dances and cervantinas adventures” or “Ballet Don Quijote” , by the National Dance Company, which will tour Spain, Mexico and ends at Lincoln Center in New York.

the embassies and cultural centers of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECI) and the Cervantes Institute will allow the celebration of Cervantes year is present in all countries where Spanish diplomatic presence.

all this to try to make accessible the figure of the writer and his time to society, because, as highlighted today at the presentation of the program secretary of Culture of Spain, Jose Maria Lassalle, a recent survey of the Centre for Sociological Research shows that most Spaniards have not read “Don Quixote” or know While the biography of Miguel de Cervantes.

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, a program for which the central government provides EUR 4 million ( $ 4.4 million ).

on April 23 is the date set to celebrate the anniversary of the death of both Cervantes and Shakespeare but actually the Spanish died a day earlier, on 22, and English on May 3.

Nevertheless, it is still used as the April 23 anniversary date as delivery day Cervantes Prize, which this year will feature not only the winner, the Mexican Fernando del Paso, but all previous winners who want to attend.

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