Autumn activities at the La Mercè Cultural Centre

The La Mercè Cultural Center will host more than thirty activities during the autumn of the next school year 2022-2023, among which the tributes to the writers Aurora Bertrana, Gabriel Ferrater and Joan Fuster, and the artist Quim Corominas, as well as such as the exhibitions of Tura Sanglas and Mercè Ibarz. The vice-mayor and Councilor for Culture of the Girona City Council, Quim Ayats, has remarked "from Mercè, we offer a powerful and comprehensive country cultural program to remember and pay tribute to Catalan writers such as Fuster, Ferrater, Pla, Bertrana, and also with local intellectuals and artists whom we continue to support and project, without forgetting the cultural activities organized by the Girona association".

As for the recognition of Aurora Bertrana, on September 15th the "Moviments Bertrana" event will take place, organized jointly with the Prudenci Bertrana Foundation, which will feature the interventions of Txell Bonet, Josep Maria Fonalleras, Mercè Pons, Gal·la Pont , Queralt Albinyana, Mariàngela Vilallonga, and the accompaniment of the jazz trio formed by Marta Roma, Èlia Bastida and Leonor Falcón. The tribute will continue with the exhibition "Aurora", by the artist Cati Salazar, between September 22 and October 21.

On the occasion of the publication of the artist's book El meu cementiri marí , with poems by Valery and illustrations by Quim Corominas, these will be shown in an unprecedented exhibition at La Mercè, between 17 and 21 October. The exhibition will be inaugurated on October 19 with the dialogue "Quim Corominas paints Paul Valery" between Antoni Puigverd and the artist himself, and will feature a musical recital by Josep Tero.

In the case of the Ferrater Year celebration, the Girona facility will host the "Gabriel Ferrater Tribute Evening", organized on September 28 together with the Joan Vinyoli Chair of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Girona, which will the poet in dialogue with the figure of Vinyoli. Carles Dachs, Àngels Moreno, Chantal Poch, Marc Rovira and Elisenda Bautista will participate.

This year the centenary of the birth of the writer Joan Fustera is also celebrated in La Mercè with two activities. On the one hand, the autumn essay reading Club Trias will be dedicated to it, in collaboration with the Ferrater Mora Chair in Contemporary Thought at the University of Girona, which will begin on October 4. On the other hand, the series "Joan Fuster, writer of ideas" will be held, which will include the round tables An idea of politics and An idea of literature , as well as a recital by Josep Pedrals, on the 13th, 26th and 30th november

The humanities program will close with the last Josep Pla Route in Girona, on October 2; the activities of Bòlit Pensament, with Julià Guillamon, Adrià Pujol and Eudald Espluga, on November 3 and 9, and two monographs of the Writing Room, with Cristina Massanés throughout the month of September, and with Maria Callís between November and December.

As far as the Municipal School of Arts is concerned, in addition to the exhibitions already mentioned, the highlights include the exhibition of engravings "Eight Serps and More", by Tura Sanglas, which will take place from September 29 to November 11, and "Transitant entre fils", with the textile work of Mercè Ibarz, which will take place from November 17 to January 13. The autumn program will be completed by the exhibitions "Meanwhile", between October 27 and November 23, with watercolors by Antonia Roig Perera; the works of Marc Lorente and Mahuel Forchini, which will be exhibited as part of the "Sculptures in the Cloister" cycle between September 13 and November 4, and between November 8 and December 23, and Alex's murals Silva and Meravella Rodríguez, who will be located in the Propi Art panel between October 5 and 21 and between October 26 and November 25.