Famalicão celebrates again the Portuguese language, reading and books.
The 13th Reading Week is back with new features. The initiative, which until now was mainly dedicated to young people, also wants to reach the public that is normally more distant from libraries - the adult employed population - and for that, it will promote a book swap fair in three large companies in the municipality: Continental Mabor, Riopele and Coindu.
This year's edition of the Reading Week will thus be divided into two dates.
From 13 to 18 of March, it will essentially focus on the school community, involving 36 libraries in the municipality.
The opening session is scheduled for the 13th, at 15h00, at the Secondary School Padre Benjamim Salgado, and will count with the presence of the writer Maria João Lopo de Carvalho, "godmother" of the event.
Presentations of books, workshops and reading sessions are some of the initiatives that fill the program of the initiative that, on March 16th, at 10h15, will count again with the action "Famalicão to Read", a moment in which all the Famalicense community interrupts its tasks to enjoy a relaxed moment of reading, be it a book, a newspaper or a magazine.
From 27 to 31 of March, the initiative then approaches the adult public and companies in the municipality with the promotion of the project "My company reading: exchange for exchange, leave a book, take another one", with a book swap fair at Continental Mabor, on March 28 and 29, at Riopele, on March 30, and at Coindu, on March 31. The main objective of this initiative is to encourage the development and consolidation of reading habits among the adult population.
The Reading Week is a national event launched annually by the National Reading Plan, which aims to invite schools and public and private entities to promote activities to celebrate reading as an act of pleasure, imagination and knowledge, a creative and collaborative meeting place. In this sense, the Municipality of Famalicão, through the Famalicão Libraries Working Group, has been challenging the municipal libraries and the school libraries of the municipality to mark the event through a commemorative program.