The Vara de Rey de Vila promenade will once again celebrate this Sunday the Sant Jordi’s Day in a big way, from ten o’clock in the morning, with 40 stands of bookstores, publishers, florists, organizations and associations, as many writers signing new publications and other activities around the feast of the book.
During the day, different activities have been organized such as the Library in the street, from 11 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm, and a storytelling by David i Monma at 5 pm. For its part, the Colla de Vila will offer at noon an exhibition of ball pagès to also give prominence to the island traditions in this special day.
The bookstores participating this year are Mediterrània, Barco de Papel, Hipérbole and Sa Cultural. In addition, the publishers of the Instituto d’Estudis Eivissencs (IEE), Edicions Aïllades, Ibiza Editions, Balàfia Postals – Neus Escandell and Miquel Costa editor, now directed by Vicent Marí, will be on the Paseo de s’Alamera. Also present will be different entities and institutions such as the Conciència Foundation, the Association Against Cancer, the Apima Sa Joveria, Esquerra Republicana, PhysiRehab Kineterapy or the Kadampa Vajrayama Meditation Center, among others. As for the florists, they will be located on the promenade, Es Detall and Es Baladre.
The Councillor for Culture, Pep Tur, highlights the great participation this year “with significant numbers and an occupation of the promenade with all the publishers, a very large number of writers who will sign their copies and workshops for children.” In addition, “Sunday is a good day for the family to come and everyone can share this festival that recovers normality after these years we have lived. It is a very good moment for our culture. We have a lot of novelties published on our island and I think it’s a great time for both local publishers and to enjoy the written word as humanity has always done,” said Tur.
Book signings
Between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., there will be book signings by the authors who are presenting new publications this year:
From 11 am to 12 pm there will be Nora Albert, translator of ‘Nits de pau occidental’ by Antonella Anedda; Santiago Beruete, ‘Un trozo de tierra’; Lluís Ferrer Ferrer and Antonio Rodríguez Cano, ‘Noves rondaies d’Eivissa i Formentera’; Rocío F. Fraile and Alberto Ruiz, ‘Air Koboshi’; Nuria Ros Molina, ‘¿Cómo vivir sin sentir?’; Marta Torres and Paquita Marí Boned, ‘Un año al revés’, Marta Torres, Josep Colonques and Toni Escobar, ‘Eivissa, de la terra a la taula’, accompanied by some of the cooks that appear in the book; Marta Torres with ‘Prova de foc: relats de pandèmia’, and Eva Veiga, ‘Regurgitar’.
From 12 to 1 pm will be Joan Cardona, Joan des Pou, ‘El regne pàl-lid de l’elegia’; Enrique García Gatica, ‘Huellas en la otra orilla’; Valèria Gaia, ‘Les esglésies blanques’; Joan Gomila, ‘L’obra folklòrica d’Isidor Macabich’; Paula Malugani and Julia Fragua, ‘La jaula de agua’; Josep Marí, ‘Paratges habitats’; Jordi Pereyra Marí, ‘Guía para sobrevivir en el espacio’; Pere Prieto and Joan Antoni Torres Planells, ‘La música a Ibiza. Tom I. Dels rituals púnics al segle XVIII’, and Neus Riera Balanzat, ‘Evocacions. Dies feliços a la Mola’.
From 1 to 2 p.m. Joan Costa ‘Sant Miquel, un port de vida’, with Abel Martínez, Xavier Mas, Joan Pereyra, Vicent Planells, Javi Soto and Simon Vila; Antoni Ferrer Abárzuza, Antonio Espino, Marcus H Hermanns and Antoni Tur Torres, ‘Galiotes! Una batalla oblidada. 12 de juny de 1607’; Ramon Mayol, ‘Ofertes a l’interior i altres relats’; Tomás Méndez, ‘Las dos almas de Ibiza’; Rebeca Hidalgo Martínez and Irene Jaumà Maragall, ‘La meua mare de dia’, and Fanny Tur Riera, ‘Epidèmies. Ibiza i Formentera (1799-1930)’.
From 6 to 7 p.m.: Iolanda Bonet, ‘Crits de mar publicat’; Iolanda Bonet and Ana Jakimov ‘ S’endevineta’ and ‘Es germà ric i es germà pobre’; Bernat Joan, ‘Stepanakert, cor de magrana’, and ‘Mujahidí’; Esperança Marí, ‘Dones de la sal’; Marina Ribas, ‘Recetas ketomediterráneas’; Rafael Giménez Perry, ‘Isla negra. Stories of the mysterious Ibiza’; Verónica Pérez Montoro, ‘Tu carita y su boquita’; Javier Serapio, ‘Hechizos de mar’, and José M. Prats Marí, ‘Corsarios ibicencos en Gibraltar’.
From 7 to 8 pm: Vicent Canals Riera, ‘Tal com érem’; Eva Llorente, ‘También te puede pasar a tí’; Artur Parron Guasch, ‘El Partit Comunista a Ibiza i Formentera (1932-1979)’; Bernat Ribas Planells, ‘Tornar a Balansat’; Bartomeu Ribes, ‘Màscares del poema’; Bartomeu Ribes and Toni Roca, ‘Correspondència 2 (seguirà)’; Toni Roca, ‘Clítoris. La figa fràgil VI’, and Marga Torres Planells and Marc Roig Torres, ‘Es drac de sa Font Nova’.
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