CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES
Book Club in the Biblioteca de Julio Cortázar (Fundación Juan March)
24 January.
We’ll be reading “Casa tomada” (House Taken Over). A copy of the first edition, illustrated by Juan Fresán, is kept on display in the library. In late 1992, Aurora Bernárdez donated the personal library of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) to the Fundación Juan March in Madrid. The 4,000 books he kept at his home on Martel en París, where he died on 12 February 1984, are kept in a beautiful space lovingly maintained by librarian, Celia Martínez.
META ARTE: METAVERSO, MUNDO CRIPTO Y NFTs.
31 January
Miguel Ángel Naddaf Borrás and Ángel Haro, from Universelle, visit UFV to talk about the subject that’s changing the art world: NFTs, the world of crypto and the metaverse. We’ll begin with a historical introduction on crypto art. They’ll give us the practical details, what an NFT is and how it’s created, from both an artistic and a collector’s perspective. We’ll finish with an overview of the new emerging professions related to the world of crypto: programing, art, finance, creation, consulting. Don’t miss it!
PAST ACTIVITIES
19 to 22 April 2022
We celebrated literature, books, writing, creation and the arts around a subject that has always fascinated humankind since Antiquity: travel and opening up to new landscapes and cultures
6, 19, 21 and 28 April 2022
Mozart’s comic opera set in 18th century Seville offers the perfect opportunity to discover the Teatro Real de Madrid.
12 Febryary 2022
A community of neighbors come together to solve common issues and it’s all simplicity and harmony. Until, upon conclusion of the meeting, a new tenant arrives, with mental health problems.
Pedro Fuentes
4 October 2022
Since the beginning of cinematography, music, inherited from the classics of the last third of the 19th century, has not only been a resource: it has been configured as the field of emotion and sometimes of script, of many great films by brilliant composers. It has been and will continue to be the soul of dialogue, photography and film editing itself.
21 November, 9:30, Pecera del edificio H.
Humanist conference on wine in Mediterranean culture in collaboration with Bodegas Valduero. You can see all the videos in our virtual classroom.
26 November
On 26 November last -the anniversary if the death of Isabel I, we traveled to Ávila and Segovia in the footsteps of Isabel the Catholic and Saint Teresa of Ávila. Download information here aquí
22 April 2023 2023 –coinciding with the anniversary of the birth of Queen Isabel,is the second outing as part of the activity, this time visiting Toledo.
Book Club: A Brave New World.
Friday 4 November
We kick off our book club with this masterpiece of dystopian literature by Aldous Huxley. “A Brave New World” presents a hypothetical future scenario in which every vestige of the past has been eradicated with the purpose of sealing a new era of humanity, totally devoid of historical content and meaning.
Celebrating the Year of Picasso 2023:
15 December
Get ready for the Year of Picasso 2023 with a conference around the artist hosted by Professor Pablo López Raso, at the invitation of Padres UFV. It will be held on 15 December at 19:30 in the Sala de Grados. What’s more, on 16 December, the Fundación Mapfre exhibition “Julio González, Pablo Picasso y la desmaterialización de la escultura” (Julio González, Pablo Picasso and the Dematerialization of Sculpture) opens at 13.30. Admission is 3 euros and the exhibition is recognized for up to 0.25 ECTS.
The Answer: Christmas Concert
Date: 16 December 2022
Description: An anthropological journey that explains and reflects on the meaning of Christmas in texts and songs like “Somewhere Only We Know” by Keane; a version of the popular “Holy Night”, combined with the lyrics of “Es El Amor Que Llega” by Jose Luis Perales; “Where Is The Love?”, Black Eyed Peas; a cover of “Christmas Truce” by Sabaton; and “Popurrí Navidad”, by Rosana.
The Picasso Century
15 and 16 December 2022
Celebrating the year of Picasso with a conference with Pablo López Raso and a visit to the Picasso and Julio González at the Fundación Mapfre
Book launch for ”XIII La otra familia del rey” (XIII: The King’s Other Family)
5 October 2022
Lucas Montojo tells us a series of stories with King Alfonso XIII the protagonist and unifying theme, looking at the more human side of the monarch.
Christmas at the Museo del Prado
1 December 2022
Visit to the art gallery for a Christmas-themed with Fra Angelico, Brueghel, Rubens and Murillo.
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