The week of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats starts with a complete cultural agenda

Monday, 24 de October 2022

Dénia already breathes thought, culture and reflection. The week of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats kicks off with a complete agenda of parallel cultural activities, which will be held in different locations in the city and which includes exhibitions, conferences and other forms of artistic creation, all of them open to the public.

The cultural agenda of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats begins today, Monday, October 24, at 7:00 p.m., with the celebration, at the Municipal Public Library of Dénia, of the conference “Dialogues of proximity. Humanities and sciences in the face of a changing world”, which will be given by the intellectual and writer Javier López Alos and the physicist, writer and lecturer Vicent Botella, and which will be presented by Joanmi Rafet, political scientist and Festival collaborator.

One of the highlights of the Festival's cultural program will arrive on Tuesday, October 25, at 5:00 p.m., with the “Chirbes Territory” Literary Day: keys to its writing. A meeting that will reflect on the work of the Valencian writer and that will begin with the projection of the talk "Open City (Runes i Progrés)" at the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (2014), to give way to two interesting conferences: "The ethical and moral ruin of capitalist society according to the work of Rafael Chirbes” (by Jacobo Llamas Martínez, from the University of León) and “(Re)writing the territory. The Valencian coast as a palimpsest in the narrative of Rafael Chirbes” (with Aina Vidal, researcher in Literary Studies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). The day will close with the round table "Newspapers", in which Mª José Micó (President of the Rafael Chirbes Foundation), the writer Alfons Cervera and the journalist Marina Lesouef will participate.

Art will also be the protagonist in the cultural program of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats. On Wednesday, October 26, at 7:00 p.m., at the Centr d`Art l`Estació de Dénia, the exhibition “Self-portrait” A haptic or tactile NFT, by the multidisciplinary Spanish artist involved in social activism, Amparo Sard, will be inaugurated. A work that creates a new trend in the art world as it is the first haptic NFT that transcends from the visual to the tactile.

The program of cultural activities will continue during the three days of official celebration of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats with various music and dance shows.

On Thursday, October 27, at 6:30 p.m., in the lobby of the Dénia Maritime Station, the David Vento Dance Theater company will offer the contemporary dance show 'Indala'.

The well-known Marqués de Campo de Dénia street will serve as a musical stage, hosting street music shows and family musical workshops, by the Dénia Musical Artistic Group and the Dénia Tenor Cortis Conservatory. These performances will be held in different sections of Calle Marqués de Campo on Friday, October 28, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and on Saturday, October 29, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

To close the program, on Saturday October 29, after the closing ceremony of the Festival, at 2:00 p.m., the Muixeranga de la Marina Alta will perform in the square of the Social Center accompanied by the group Canya Badà. In the afternoon, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., in the Plaza del Consell de Dénia, a swing workshop and exhibition will be held by the La Marina Lindy Hop School in Dénia.

These parallel activities are added to the complete program of meetings and debate sessions included in the official program of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats, which will take place from October 27 to 29. A unique multidisciplinary event that will turn the capital of the Marina Alta into a great space for reflection where prestigious thinkers and experts in economics, neuroscience, medicine, anthropology, philosophy, history, geography, humanistic thought, ethics and culture, among others, will gather. many scientific and artistic disciplines, to reflect on the concerns of human beings in today's world.

Denia Festival of the Humanities

Dénia Festival de les Humanitats is an initiative of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Dénia City Council, Baleària and the Dénia Ciutat Creativa Foundation, directed by Josep Ramoneda and Jordi Alberich, and coordinated by La Maleta de Portbou. Among its founding objectives, the following stand out: the aim of becoming an annual event for reflection and dialogue on the human condition. Offer civil society an open forum where they can participate with top-level experts in the field of humanistic thought. Promote training in values and knowledge of the roots and history of the human being. Value and promote the humanities as a field of knowledge to form a citizenry with critical thinking. Turn Dénia into a benchmark for thought, reflection and the humanities in the Mediterranean.

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