Puerto Vallarta celebrates the International Day of the Book

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Reading aloud, storytelling,  selling, and loan books are part of the activities carried out from Wednesday until April 29.

Oblivious to the onslaught of new technologies, the book resists and remains the major activator of imagination, and to celebrate, the Vallarta Institute of Culture in collaboration with the Public Library "Sister Cities" and the Civil Association "Young Profile" as part of the commemoration of the International Day of the Book, conducted a series of itinerant activities in the colonies of the city, which began Wednesday at the Square Pitillal, following the 24 in the main square of Boards; 28 in the Plaza Las Mojoneras and 29 in the Arcos del Malecón, in a time of 16:00 to 18:00.

The program is promoted in these spaces, is reading aloud from the works of José Emilio Pacheco and Gabriel García Márquez, by the young writer Ioshio Vallarta Hernandez, who has two independent publications of poems and short stories.

You also have the loan, sell raffle books, stories Fabiola Mantecón storytelling, face painting for kids, body paint by artist Mara Diaz, the workshop "embodies a stripper," the giant book made of recycled material, in which attendees authors write sentences.

Promulgated by UNESCO since 1995, after the death of William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca de la Vega Garciliaso, April 23 is celebrated as World Book Day by several countries. In Spain this date to take delivery of the Cervantes Prize; and Catalonia coincides with the Day of Saint George, accompanied by flowers where books are given away. Over the years, the celebration has been gaining strength and roots in our country.