In its desire to make these days more enjoyable for its public, the Fundación Tres Culturas has reformulated its traditional reading club, which has been running for more than a decade, so that it can be enjoyed from home and fully online.
In this way, and through its project Three Cultures With YouThe Foundation fulfils a double function: on the one hand, to continue supporting culture and being an instrument to promote Mediterranean literature and, on the other hand, to open the club to all those who wish to participate, finally allowing those people who have been on the waiting list of the club to join, since to participate it is only necessary to have the book in the format of a book. ebook and have an Instagram account.
This initiative was launched at the beginning of April, with the play The sky according to Google (Acantilado), by Marta Carnicero, which was also very well received by the public despite being a new format.
The latest work analysed so far (in collaboration with the publishing house Destino) has been They have always spoken for usan essay by the Moroccan-born Catalan author Najat El Hachmi in which she lucidly and courageously dismantles the patriarchy.
The follow-up to this second proposal of the club has been a great success, both in the first sharing session and in the meeting held with the author herself on 27 May, which was followed live on Instagram by more than 300 people.
Najat El Hachmi, in conversation with the head of the Fátima Mernissi library of the Fundación Tres Culturas, Olga Cuadrado, delved into the meaning of her work during more than an hour in which the active participation of the audience was enormous, as was the involvement of the writer in answering the questions posed by the public.
El Hachmi has been a point of reference for the reading club since he made his name more than ten years ago after winning the Ramon Llull prize with The last patriarch (Planeta), a work that was presented at the Foundation in 2016.
Since then, he has participated in numerous activities to promote Mediterranean literature organised by this institution and has presented three of his works to date: The foreign daughter, Mother of milk and honey and the present essay, They have always spoken for us (all published by Destino).
To continue this successful initiative, a new reading is planned of Three with books at home in the month ahead, Little Red Women (Anagrama), a crime novel by Madrid writer Marta Sanz.