Alumni UV has organised an intense programme of activities for the month of April, starting with the Quixote reading club in Spanish this week. The programme will continue with the following activities: a free guided visit to the exhibition ‘Freedom, freedom' at La Nau on Thursday 18, a trip to Alpuente on Saturday 20, the meeting of the Tirant club in Valencian on Monday 22, and the presentation of the book 'Arcis', set in 15th century Valencia and its rich heritage, on Wednesday 24.
In collaboration with the UV Cultural Volunteering, UV Alumni will take a free guided tour of the exhibition 'Freedom, freedom. The decade of the 70s in the Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection: politics and beyond', curated by art critic Juan Manuel Bonet, which is on display at La Nau Cultural Centre until next September.
The selection of the exhibition focuses on the decade that saw the assassination of Carrero Blanco, the death of Franco, the return of the exiles, and the first free elections; and includes a good number of Valencian artists, such as Genovés, the Crónica and Realidad teams, Anzo, Martín Caballero, Rafael Calduch, Antoni Miró, Monjalés, José Vento, Manuel Boix, Artur Heras and Rafael Armengol, among others.
The visit will take place on 18 April (Thursday), at 17:00, and registration will be open until the same day via this link.
Living in Alpuente. The fight against depopulation
Within the programme 'Alumni Comparteix', Alumni UV will travel to the town of Alpuente on Saturday, 20 April, to visit the region with the local guide and alumni Yann Javier Medina, geographer and environmental educator. On this trip, there will be a poetic walk through the small villages of Almeza and Corcolilla, full of cereal and juniper, where you will learn more about the demographic and socioeconomic reality of the territory, visit the traditional Moorish oven of Corcolilla, and in the afternoon there will be the Monumental Route through Alpuente and a visit to the Ethnological Museum.
Those interested can sign up until 15 April here.
The novel 'Arcis' and the musical angels of Valencia Cathedral
The Faculty of Geography and History (Boardroom) will host the second of the activities of the 'Alumni Comparteix' cycle this month on Wednesday 24 April at 18:00, by the philologist and writer Eva Ruano, who will present her novel 'Arcis', set in 1469, just when the High Altar of Valencia Cathedral was involved in a fire during the celebration of the feast of Pentecost.
This activity will serve to approach the rich Valencian heritage through one of its most emblematic buildings: the Cathedral.
Eva Ruano is an expert in the history of the 15th century, a historical period that has been her passion and which she has begun to disseminate among locals and foreigners with the publication of the book 'Arcis'. Here she unravels the origin of the ten great musical angels discovered at the beginning of the millennium during the restoration work on the dome of the Cathedral carried out by the 'La Luz de las Imágenes' Foundation, which, according to scholars, are only a small part of the Renaissance frescoes that decorate all the walls of the Main Chapel and which are still hidden behind the 17th century Baroque work.
This activity is free of charge and requires registration here.
The Alumni UV reading clubs
Literature is the main theme of the first activity in April with the debate on the reading in Spanish of the book 'Piedra, papel, tijera', by Maxim Osipov, on Tuesday 9; and will continue on Monday 22 with the meeting of the Reading Club Tirant in Valencian, which will present its impressions of the novel 'Els dies bons', by the young writer Aina Fullana.
This novel explores the underworld of Mallorca with a daring delinquent touch - not very common in current narrative - and is the Balearic writer's debut in narrative at only 24 years old, offering the reader a dazzling exercise in style that has earned her the València Prize from the Institution “Alfons el Magnànim”.
The Tirant Reading Club will be held in the Sala Gonzalo Montiel at La Nau, at 18:00, and is free of charge for UV Alumni members; just register here.
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