the festival in the library

Due to the building works at the Dos Rius Library, the activities that were usually carried out during the festival have been moved to the Biblioteca Barri Montserrat and the Casal Cívic.

Tuesday 15. 

7:00 p.m. 
CASAL CÍVIC

CONFERENCE
CYCLING THROUGH THE NORTH OF MONGOLIA

Xavi Tarafa has done a two cycling trips in Mongolia. In 2008, Xavi cycled in the north and in 2016, in the north-west of the country. He took part in a project that took him around the Altai Mountains, cycling through Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan. In this talk, Xavi Tarafa will explain the adventures and anecdotes he lived on these trips, he will show some of his photographs, and the differences he encountered when returned to the country eight years after his first trip.

Xavi Tarafa has a long history of traveling, especially by bicycle. He has traveled, among many other countries, to Armenia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ladakh and Bolivia.

 

Wednesday 16. 

6:00 p.m.
Biblioteca barri MONTSERRAT

Limited capacity, prior registration is required.

STORY TIME
THE SHAMAN, THE HUNTER, THE SHEPHERD, THE MAN WHO LIVED MANY YEARS AND THE BOY WHO KNEW NOTHING, UNDER THE MONGOLIAN SKY.

Where there is no land more extensive, no plain more open, no sky so generous, no land so long, no people so welcoming.
Given by Carles Alcoy, philologist, translator and narrator.

 

7:00 p.m.
Biblioteca barri MONTSERRAT

READING CLUB. WOMEN WHO WRITE
GATHERING ON THE BOOK “TRIPS THROUGH MANCHURIA AND MONGOLIA”
BY AKIKO YOSANO

Akiko Yosano (Osaka, 1878 – Tokyo, 1942). A poet and translator, she is recognized for her contributions to Japan's first feminist creative writing magazine, Seito. In addition, she became a strong advocate for women's education and suffrage, and in 1921 she became headmistress and teacher of Bunka Gakuin, a free co-educational school that she founded with her husband and others.
Gathering conducted by Mariona Fontserè.
Thursday 17

 

6:00 p.m.
Biblioteca barri MONTSERRAT

Limited capacity, prior registration. Children from 2 to 5 years in family

STORY TIME
ORIENTAL TREASURES HEARD HERE AND THERE

Tales of the Mongolian lands and their inhabitants. From the valleys to the hills. From the desert to the lakes, and in plain sight or hidden.
By Susagna Navó, actress, narrator and seamstress by training.

 

7:00 p.m.
CASAL CÍVIC

CONFERENCE
MONGOLIA, THE VAST PLAINS OF GENGHIS KHAN

Using an audiovisual, Enric Soler will explain the two trips that he has carried out so far in this vast country of contrasts and peculiar ways of being and doing. Mongolia is not one and it is not monolithic; and the Mongols are not either. Traditionally dedicated to grazing their herds (which, depending on where they live, can be camels, horses, goats and sheep, yaks and reindeer), lately the country has placed itself at the forefront of the world for its mining exports.

Enric Soler Raspall has a long history as a traveler, writer and since 2012 director of the Tushita Edicions publishing house, specialized in mountain and travel books.