Virtual literary meeting with the writer Violeta Monreal. 2020-21
On March 16, a very stimulating activity took place in our center: a literary meeting with Violeta Monreal, a prestigious writer, illustrator and specialist in children's drawing.
In three online talks, he shared with our 6th grade, 2nd and 3rd grade ESO students experiences about his book "Another world around the corner", a work read by our students, which conveys values of solidarity and the idea that it is possible to create a better world, since generosity has a contagious effect. "We can change what we don't like with our commitment," says the author of it.
The Alborán School, within the Reading Project of the Department of Language and in coordination with the Anaya publishing house, has developed another course of this interesting reading animation activity, on this virtual occasion.
Violeta, who participates in various conference cycles and coordinates workshops to promote creativity, encouraged the young people to be constant, explaining how to achieve our goals in three steps: dare and start working, resist even if it means overcoming obstacles and, finally, persevere and insist.
During his online visit to our center, he promoted the values of respect and tolerance, because as the title of his book suggests, there may be other worlds very close to us and we cannot look the other way.
Likewise, he stressed the importance of having a positive attitude, encouraging attendees to adapt to the circumstances with a good disposition, because "It is important to accept mistakes and improve every day."
In an atmosphere of trust, he explained that problems must be overcome and not give up in the creative process, “we don't need to be perfect to do what we like, what we have is to face problems freely”.
With a restless spirit, he took us on a tour of his studio, where he creates and develops editorial projects in which he coordinates texts and images for book collections in collaboration with various publishers, and he showed us the original drawings that appear in the book.
Likewise, Violeta, a graduate in Fine Arts and known for her original drawing technique (images composed of torn paper), created precious collages of genuine characters live in each session.
The writer, with more than hundreds of published books, a thirty-year professional career, and a career full of awards and mentions, kindly answered all the questions raised.
We can affirm that it was an enriching activity in which the attendees were very participatory, enjoyed and learned to value the work of both writers and designers and illustrators today.
