Yesterday the Fundación Tres Culturas presented the Three Festivals, voices of the Mediterranean during the presentation of the XXXV Edition of the Granada Book Fair at the Federico García Lorca Centre. The festival is part of the Feria del Libro de Granada, and will be held from 28 to 30 April as a meeting point for more than thirty high-level authors from the Mediterranean area, including several Nobel Prize candidates, such as Cărtărescu and Nawal al-Saadawi.
Three Festivals, voices of the Mediterranean is a unique meeting in its speciality that is born with a vocation for continuity and usefulness, addressing current issues that are also reflected in the literary universe, such as migrations and returns, the roots of violence and terrorism, the debt with the Greek cultural legacy, the parallelism between the Spanish Transition and the so-called "Transition to democracy" and the "Spanish Civil War". arab springsThe challenges facing women and the economic crisis.
With a novel and entertaining format of three-way conversations, this is a multidisciplinary festival that includes in its programme parallel activities such as concerts, exhibitions and film screenings, all of them related to the world of Mediterranean literature. But above all, as José Manuel Cervera, director of the Fundación Tres Culturas, remarked during his speech, the Three Festival is "a literary meeting dedicated to Granada and which wants the city to make it its own". For more information: http://www.tresculturas.org/noticia/tres-festival-voces-del-mediterraneo-la-gran-cita-literaria-esta-primavera/
The Three Festivals, voices of the Mediterranean is part of the programme of the Granada Book Fair, which will take place from 22 April to 1 May, with numerous presentations, festivals, round tables, music and educational and children's activities. For more information: http://www.ferialibrogranada.org/
At the same time, the festival is part of the programme ALQANTARA: bridges for dialogue and coexistenceThe Three Cultures Foundation and the Ministry in charge of Moroccan Communities Residing Abroad and Migration Affairs aim to address the major debates in today's Mediterranean area. For more information: http://www.tresculturas.org/blog/categoria/alqantara/