CENAL certified 71 Spanish teachers from the seminar “In the Footsteps of Teresa de la Parra”
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Published at: 01/10/2024 10:36 AM
The National Book Center (CENAL)
awarded certificates to 71 Spanish teachers of General and
Technical Secondary Education who attended the seminar “In the Footsteps of Teresa de la Parra” through
the Venezuelan Storytelling Workshop School (ESTANAVE).
The certificates were awarded at the National Art
Gallery, with the purpose of holding the 15th Caracas Book
Fair in this space, a literary festival organized by the Mayor's Office of the Libertador
Municipality through Fundarte.
The activity was attended by the
Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, who highlighted the
importance of this training proposal to search for the Teresa de la Parra
of tomorrow.
“You are the protagonists of a very important
native discourse. We must vindicate Teresa de la Parra, bring her to the
present, not marginalize her, not let her suffer what patriarchy and machismo
make creative women suffer, but we must also go to meet the Teresa de la Parra of today,
of tomorrow. That's why these initiatives are
extremely important, I would say strategic,” he said.
He also highlighted the importance of
having initiatives such as these, since they allow us to find “a bridge
between the individual and the collective, making reading and
literary creation a national event, not merely an individual one”.
For his part, Deputy Minister Raúl Cazal,
who also accompanied the activity, congratulated the teachers of
General and Technical Secondary Education who participated in the seminar and explained that they will now be able to
share with their students the acquired writing and reading tools,
so that these students can participate in a literature contest that
will open up to new talents in narrative.
“This is, let's say, a chain that
allows us to build a hotbed of literature,” he said.
The seminar is an initiative promoted
by CENAL, an institution attached to the Ministry of Popular Power for
Culture, to create, together with pedagogues in educational centers, the seedbeds of
new women writers under the inspiration of the author of the novels Iphigenia and Memories of Mamma Blanca.
MINCULTURA/Mazo News Team