7th MARCH See you there, then!

Hello everyone,

Spring is in the air and  the reading group will be meeting once again at the local library but this time you are invited to write a page and read it to us. This is our way of marking St Patrick's Day which is on March 17th. Ireland is a great country for storytellers.

Here are some lines that might inspire you, if , like me, you have no imagination. It is from Everyman by American writer Philip Roth.

''Then he resumed where he had left off, looking through the large sunny window of their boyhood years.'

March 7th 19:15h Biblioteca Central 
Plaza Andrés Caballero. San Sebastián De Los Reyes, ...which is exactly here:

Monumento de los toros

And here is a picture of some shamrock. Notice it has yellow flowers and has three heart shaped leaves so it is similar to clover (trébol) but different.

Some shamrock

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Talking group

Who would be crazy enough to take a one way ticket to Mars? Apparently they had no difficulty finding volunteers to leave this planet and go and live and die in Mars. Explore the future of space travel.

This is our topic for Wednesday 22nd Feb at 18:30h. in la U.P. San Sebastián De Los Reyes. 
Metro Baunatal 
See you there
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DISCUSSION ABOUT ART AND GRAFFITI 15th Feb 18:30h U.P. Sanse

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The voyage

This and more 7th February 2017

Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton had a stricter policy with her young fans - sending out standard replies to all letters. Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter recalled writing to the author aged six, during an episode of Desert Island Discs in 2014.

“I had a dreadful experience with Enid Blyton. I had a reply and it was wonderful: the best day of my life.

“Three weeks later I wrote to her again and I received an identical reply.

“I remember bursting into tears and going to see my mother saying: ‘She doesn’t remember me’. That was something I was so aware of. We tried not to send duplicate letters.”

And because of this Ms Baxter enforced a strict policy with her Blue Peter team, ensuring they wrote individualised replies to each child who wrote in, keeping an index to ensure that if a child wrote in twice they would have their first letter referenced in reply to the second one, to let the child know that both letters had been read.

We will continue reading letters from important writers to their fans whch tell a lot about their personality.

8th February 2017 DISCUSSION

GENETIC MODIFICATION IN CROPS

Scotland is taking a stand.

GENETIC ENGINEERING IN HUMANS

Not a topic we can ignore. These controversial issues offer great advances but at what price?

Weigh up the pros and cons. 

Read our interesting articles and join our talks  in la U.P. this Wednesday  8th Feb at 18:30h

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Iré a Santiago

 You left the theatre with  that  mantra of hope and evasion ringing in your ears .
Thanks to the young talent of Irene Escolar and the magnificent performance of Will Keen  we feasted on the verses of the immortal Federico García Lorca.
 An intense hour and one quarter that flew by. It was not easy. This was not the Lorca I remembered of the Romancero gitano and the dark staccato- like drama  I saw performed in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. These verses were rendered in English and Spanish. The two actors'  brilliant delivery will send us back to our bookshelves to relive the performance.
A letter written by the poet when he was at la Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid was read on stage We heard  how much he loved his life in Madrid where he was able to  live his Art.
A touching finale.
Impossible not to remember Oscar Wilde and to smile and to weep.