The Dénia Humanities Festival will turn the city into the state epicenter of reflection and critical thinking about today's world

Thursday, 10 de March 2022

At the end of October, the festival will bring together leading figures of humanistic, economic and scientific thought, theater performances, films and documentaries, exhibitions and creators from other artistic disciplines.

The Dénia Creative City of Gastronomy Foundation of the Valencian Community has approved this midday to carry out the organization of the Dénia Humanities Festival project. An event that arises from the concerns that assail human beings and that have been aggravated by the experience of the pandemic, which has renewed awareness of our fragility and the state of uncertainty that characterizes us; a meeting for reflection aimed at citizens that proposes and demands a critical look that allows us to understand the keys to the world in which we live; a forum to spread the ideas and debates of the moment that will make Dénia the state epicenter of critical thinking about today's world.

The festival was born with the aim of becoming an annual event attended by representative figures of thought, science, economics, theatre, the audiovisual universe and the visual arts to share ideas and experiences, in spaces and formats directed to a wide audience, who feels challenged by the desire to think, create, imagine and live together.

The proposal approved today by the Foundation has the support of Dénia City Council and the Generalitat Valenciana, and will be developed with the collaboration of the magazine La Maleta de Portbou directed by Josep Ramoneda, writer and journalist, and the fundamental involvement of the business community venue with the initial sponsorship of the Fundació Baleària.

The organization of this action, which will mainly have private funding, will allow the Foundation to fulfill one of its founding purposes, defined in the statutes, by contributing to the creation, development and dissemination of humanistic thought in different aspects within the geographical area of ​​the Marina Alta.

The Dénia Humanities Festival will be held at the end of October, in different settings and with a list of participants that will be presented later.

Once approved at the Foundation meeting, the mayor, Vicent Grimalt; the delegate councilor in the Foundation, Rafa Carrió; the rest of the private employers, Baleària, Cercle Empresarial de la Marina Alta and the Association of Hospitality and Tourism Entrepreneurs of the Marina Alta; and the councilors of the corporation that are part of the Foundation, Paco Roselló and Òscar Mengual, have informed the spokespersons of the municipal groups about the project.