The presentations of the books The great replacementd’Albert Pijuan, i The contract Cruyff, Carabén, Catalonia, by Ramon M. Piqué, will open the literary fire of 2025 at the Francesc Pujols Library. The equipment will give continuity this January to Dr. Álvaro Guallar’s ‘Connection with change’ sessions, to the Cinexic cycle for children, to trips to Barcelona to talk about history and to ‘Babies in the Library’. A talk to learn how to compare information will be the icing on the cake of the fun and cultural proposals.
The 23rd of Gener (6:30 p.m.) is presented The great replacementa novel by the writer and translator Albert Pijuan. “While waiting to undergo plastic surgery, the protagonist, Dino, explains the reasons that have made him make this decision and reflects on important issues such as identity, the weight of the family or strange contemporary idolatries ”, describes Josefina Canals, Culture technician.
Canals considers that it is a topic that can be very interesting, because it approaches “very real issues, and puts on the table why there are young people who make these decisions and how social networks influence us”. Javier Gil will present the author and the work.
Josefina Canals, tècnica de la Biblioteca Martorell
On Thursday 30 (6:30 p.m.), the communicator and publicist from Lleida Ramon M. Piqué brings his new book to Martorell, The contract Cruyff, Carabén, Catalonia. An essay “that can be of great interest to all people who like football and who belong to Barça”, and which explains the signing of a figure who marked an era and a country. “The history of friendship between the Carabén and the Cruyffs made possible an impossible signing that would forever change Barça, and in turn, Catalonia.” Journalist Humbert Ruiz will make the presentation.
Josefina Canals, tècnica de la Biblioteca Martorell
The Library is also preparing a couple of sessions of the ‘Connect with the change’ cycle, with doctor Álvaro Guallar, on January 8 and 22 (11.00am). There will be two talks on ‘New paradigms. Conscious physical activity’ and ‘New paradigms. The wisdom of water’, respectively.
As for children’s cinema, the Cinexic will screen on Saturday 11 (11.30am) Zog, dragons and heroinesrecommended for children from 3 years. Zog is a dragon who goes to school to learn how to fly, breathe fire and kidnap princesses. He doesn’t do too well, but he overcomes the obstacles thanks to the friendship of a princess who helps him and makes him understand that they don’t have to be what the world expects of them. A story accompanied by four shorts starring brave and imaginative girls. Tickets cost 3 euros general and 2 reduced (for members of Òmnium, the Library and La Xarxa).
Journalist and cultural guide David Revelles will propose an outing this January to discover ‘Jewish Barcelona. Histoires del Call’, which reveals the two thousand years of the presence of Jews in Catalonia, a footprint that, especially from the 11th century, was very deep in the capital, with the configuration of the call in the current Gothic. Remove from oblivion the memory of men and women who still live in the Call alleys. It will be on January 15, and the meeting point will be Plaça de Sant Jaume (10.30am).
Josefina Canals, tècnica de la Biblioteca Martorell
After the visit we will have lunch in Can Culleretes. You must book in advance at entrades.martorell.cat. Canals comments that, although the meeting point is Plaça de Sant Jaume at 10.30am, “we will leave Martorell at 09.00am from the Martorell-Castellbisbal stop of the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat”.
Josefina Canals, tècnica de la Biblioteca Martorell
The following day, librarians Mercè Brau and Noemí Serón will propose (6:30 p.m.) the adventure and escape game Zoom (Escape book), to solve an enigma and aimed at children from 8 to 13 years old.
On Thursday 23, from 11.45 a.m. to 1.15 p.m., the talk ‘Learn to check information’ will be held, a workshop for adults taught by young people, to learn the keys to verifying fake news, by Learn to Check in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Barcelona and the European Commission. There are 35 places available.
‘Nadons a la Biblio’ offers a children’s aromatherapy and reflexology workshop with Montse Albiol Rodergas, ASSIR Martorell midwife, on Monday 27 at 5.30pm. Children’s foot reflexology is a natural therapy with no side effects that improves the functioning of the body’s different organs and, by adding some essential oil, enhances its therapeutic effect. 30 places will be admitted, including babies and adults.
The facility will offer the Study Room service -between January 2 and February 9-, from Monday to Sunday in the mornings (from 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.) and in the afternoons from 4.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. Exceptionally, on the 5th it will be open until 8pm and on the 6th it will be closed.
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