Poetry Evenings. Winter 2020.
Bajo el azul de Francia
de un austinita cielo de verano
arden las luces rojas
de un semáforo a solas:
Arcos triunfales
hacia la nada,
Como el arabesco sin raza
que la vida impone a la vida,
como la llama que concluye,
ya para nada requerida.
Ida Vitale. Variaciones de la nada (Poesía reunida, 1949-2015).
Come and join our conversation in Spanish! In a relaxed atmosphere, we will share our favorite poems, we will talk about our different ways of approaching poetry and we will learn about the poetic worlds of very diverse authors and artists and their different forms of expression: written text, music, performance or visual arts.
Besides, through different dynamics, we will do creative experiments with the image and the word. It will be fun!
Marién Pereira is a graduate of English Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She completed her teacher training qualification at the University of A Coruña and postgraduate studies in translation at the National Distance Education University (UNED). She has a master’s degree in the teaching of Spanish as Foreign Language from the Menéndez Pelayo International University. She trained as a teacher at the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and Leeds and worked at the Leeds centre between 2004 and 2009, and this is where she now works. She has given classes at the University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University and other academic institutes in the United Kingdom, Spain and Denmark. She has collaborated in academic projects for teacher training. She has given workshops on the emotional dimension of teaching languages, motivation and group dynamics.
Times and dates
In the first quarter of 2020 we will celebrate three Poetry Evenings. You choose whether to join to all or just to one or two, depending on your availability.
- Friday 31st January 2020, from 6 to 8 pm.
- Friday 28th February 2020, from 6 to 8 pm.
- Friday 27th March 2020, from 6 to 8 pm.
It is required an intermediate level (B1) of Spanish or beyond in order to attend the Poetry Evenings.