Món Llibre embraces interculturality

The most diverse edition of Món Llibre, the children’s literature festival, will take place on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 April. The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), the Plaça de Joan Coromines, and the Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta and Francesc Candel libraries will be the venues for an event that is the prelude to Sant Jordi (23^rd of April) in the city, and that this year will be filled with stories from around the world. Storytelling, projections, workshops, interviews, and other activities will bring literature closer to children in a magical and entertaining way.

Among the many proposals, there will be, for example, a performance by the Kudyapi choir singing traditional Philippine songs and tales, the small-format show El lleó que va ser rei, a session dedicated to Chinese literature and cinema named La bellesa de la vida, or the show Tales from the Periphery, with different narratives that have in common the presence of people of African descent as protagonists. Kids and adults will be able to get closer to the trajectory of creators Tina Vallès, Oriol Canosa, Mariona Cabassa, and Miquel Pang Ly through their interviews. They will also have the opportunity to write with a typewriter just like the ones from before computing or to make a bookmark decorated with Chinese letters, a workshop initiative by the Confucius Institute Foundation of Barcelona. The heart of the festival will be “The library of the world”, with books for all tastes and ages and in different languages. Those who attend Món Llibre can also learn Chinese calligraphy, Urdu, Baybayin (Filipino pre-colonial script), Arabic and Bangla. And in the “Tron de lectura” you will find children reading aloud in their mother tongue and also in Catalan. Furthermore, different publishers have prepared activities and surprises based on their latest published books.

All this and much more, at the Món Llibre festival. Entry is free. Check all the details of the program on the event’s website.