The First “El Viaje y Sus Culturas” Festival
The first edition of this event is held in Madrid from February 16-28
February 11, 2015
MADRID
This event, dedicated to “Visible Cities,” has been organized by La Línea del Horizonte Factory and the Conde Duque Cultural Center. Its goal is to become Madrid’s most important gathering about travel and travel cultures. The program includes debates, films, music, a sound installation, museums, a gathering of bloggers, bookstores, walks through the city and other offerings.
In a world undergoing constant change, filled with challenges, travel is a necessary pretext for effective dialogue between cultures. The “El Viaje y Sus Culturas” Festival (Travel and Its Cultures Festival) was created to celebrate the art of travel in all of its forms of creativity: art, literature, thought, music, images, exploration…etc
“Go on a journey, explore every shore and seek out that city. Then return and tell me whether my dream is true,” the Great Khan begged Marco Polo in the book The Invisible Cities, in which Italo Calvino wrote a declaration of his love for cities. This was the starting point for beginning this Festival in one city, Madrid, which has used its identity to create a universe of integration and dialogue with the world’s cultures. Madrid is a city of cities in which the individual and universal, the internal and external, coexist side by side. Every day it is reinvented with the energy of those who come here. That is why we have begun by dedicating the first Festival to the topic of cities.
The “El Viaje y Sus Culturas” Festival celebrates the joy of travel and the passion of travelers, conversations between cultures and the enriching diversity of the world. This is why it is hoped to become an important annual event focusing on a central theme around which the main parts of its programming will always be organized, always in close collaboration with other cultural institutions in Madrid.
On February 25 at 7:30 p.m., Casa Árabe will be joining this event by participating in the debate “Library Cities/Cities of Memory: Timbuktu and Alexandria.” It is an event which will include participation by Ismael Diadié, the latest heir of the mythical Kati Collection, and Manuel Romero, a critic and specialist. The event will be moderated by Nuria Medina, Casa Árabe’s Coordinator of Cultural Programs.
Further information: www.festivalelviajeysusculturas.com
