Last October 6, at 5:00 p.m., we started a Creative Writing Workshop promoted by the very active librarian Maite Picó and sponsored by the Most Excellent Godelleta City Council.
Two sessions per month were planned, on alternate Fridays, and it is as follows: October 6 and 20, November 3 and 17, and December 1 and 15.
Currently, there are eight “creative workshops”, who have focused primarily on short stories, although they have had and have absolute freedom when choosing which literary genre they prefer to develop.
I was delighted to accept the proposal that the librarian made to me and all of us who participated are working enthusiastically.

SESSIONS

In the first session we focused on answering a series of questions related to our interest in creative writing and I already began to teach theory, in addition to indicating tasks to be carried out during the following 15 days.

In the second session, the work carried out was shown, as well as issues that were considered important to highlight and doubts that arose. Theory was expanded and homework was written down for the third session.

In the third session, the workshop leaders already brought prepared stories. More than one per workshop owner. Meanwhile, we advanced in theory and were writing down tasks to do for the following sessions. Doubts and different options arose.

In the fourth session, each workshop participant chooses the stories they will write over 15 days to be read publicly on Friday and advances in theory. More and more tasks are being written down to carry out at home.

In the fifth session there were several activities carried out by each of the workshop participants: choose a passage from your favorite author and talk about it; choose a protagonist and apply an intense desire to him to encourage him to act; assigning a character with negative characteristics some positive quality to enhance a multiple dimension; take back the protagonist with intense desire and assign him two opposite traits; create a passage in which something happens to said protagonist that enhances and, at the same time, neutralizes the desire that was applied to him.

In the sixth session, the activities developed by all the workshop participants were three.
The first one go out into the street and observe someone you don’t know at all or know little about. If possible, talk to him, take mental or written notes and fill in the gaps created by the theory questions. It is clear that most of them are invented.
The second one take back the character about whom you answered the questionnaire, place that fictional person in the world and let it show itself. Imagine that you enter a certain place, such as an office or a consultation room, and write a passage in which you are described through what you do, say, look and think. It would be interesting to put him in a stressful situation and see how he reacts.
The third one is to go to a social network, open it and write down a name. Make that person the protagonist and think about what they can really be like. You can also try to fit the character into the chosen name. Let the mind form an image and write down the details of that character.

THEORY EXPLAINED
First session:
Definition of stories and their evolution.
Indicate some stories and notable authors in that genre.
Structures and styles of stories.
Offer titles and authors for workshop participants to read.
Distinction between novel, novella and short story.
Origin of the word “story”.
Different definitions of a story.
History of short stories.
Similar subgenres: example, fable, allegory, parable, bestiary, lai, fabliau, sketch, anecdote, yarn, fantastic story.

Second session:
The beginner's mind, pen and paper.
The first thoughts.
Writing as practice.
Make the compost.
Artistic stability.

Third session:
Definition of “fiction”.
Literary and genre fiction.
List of the best works of fiction in universal literature.
Ideas as the initial nucleus of a fragment and, then, of a story.
Where to look for ideas that will create stories.
Establish a well-defined daily writing schedule.
Types of writing schedules: writing and thinking.
The creator and the censor in every writer.

Fourth session:
Promising ideas + hard work + craft.
How to earn a job.
Is it necessary to publish what is written?
There are people who write because they want to, they don't need to publish.
The “journaling”.
The characters: how to create good characters.
Desire as a motor of action.
Human complexity must be transmitted to the character.
The character must present opposite traits and have the ability to change and talk about it in a coherent way.
Where do we get our characters from?
Try to know your characters deeply.

Fifth session:
Get to know the characters in the written story in depth through their appearance, background, personality, primary identity and asking questions about them and their daily lives.
Choose the type of characters for the story: protagonists, prominent characters, secondary characters, and antagonists.
Presentation of the characters through descriptions and narration of their actions.
Way of showing the traits of a character, their actions, their way of speaking, their appearance, their thoughts, and a combination of all the methods mentioned.
The choice of significant details that define the characters and the exclusion of superfluous ones.
The choice of names for the characters.

Sixth session:

Plot features.
The big question that is answered at the end of the story.
Characteristics of the protagonist.
The objective of the characters.
The conflict.
Plot structure: approach, middle and end.
Plot in the novel and in the story.
Subplots.
Development in different ways.

Video FROM INSIDE The Albufera: https://youtube.com/shorts/qvBp4XaO8Xg?si=0VYfOMiJnn7sIiGt

THE LAGOON AND CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

(text by Juan Solbes)

If this book shows us anything about La Albufera de Valencia, DESDE DENTRO is the importance of Nature in our lives and the need to take care of those who take care of us, to love those who love us, and to be with those who are with us.

I don't know when human beings turned their backs on Nature. I also can't understand why we cut down the trees that convert our garbage and our bodily waste into oxygen to live and to build niches and houses that we will inhabit only 15 days a year.

Nor am I able to justify how human beings destroy the natural landscapes that give them Life, fill them with waste, kill them or clog them, and believe that we are above everything that exists around us.

And that is what this book is about in which the Albufera tells us, with a certain innocence but a lot of attitude, the wonder and how beautiful it is to live in the middle of Nature and enjoy its beauty. That is what has led us all to fall in love with her throughout all the pages and images of the book.

But if the beauty of the Albufera is captured on each page with images where it shows itself and its entire surroundings, what it does want to convey to us with each turn of the page is the need to make decisions to recover everything that as a society we have destroyed.

Recover transparency.

Recover life in its depths, its plants, and iths inhabitants...

Recover the joy of being able to feel how we bathe every day in its waters...

Because life is only life when we enjoy it, with health and with desire. Sick e cannot enjoy anything.

Recover transparency. Let Nature heal itself without human beings intervening. Or that we intervene helping this process to be carried out in a simple and natural way.

And we are already doing it in the “Tancat de la Pipa”, in the tancats of L'Illa and Milia, where some spaces have been recovered and some native species have been planted through which we let the water of the Albufera flow so that it become cleaner and more transparent, that the waters that we have dirty throughout its life are purified.

An exemple of becoming aware is the importance of taking care of Nature, through any expression it manifests. That our little ones can understand that the best way to love is to love and respect the other, even if the other is a lagoon in the middle of rice fields...

We have an opportunity to tell everyone, to tell, to shout, to sing... that to save the planet we must leave it alone, respect it and not dirty it, that we must work to preserve and clean our home. To have the best water and the best air to breathe...

This book only tells us abouyt the beauty and satisfaction that caring for those who care for us can give us human beings...

Caring for Nature in all its expressions.

Live respecting the environements.

Enjoy everything we have in health.

And Thank you for being able to contribute from here and today to putting an end to so much disregard towards Mother Nature in its expression through the Albufera of Valencia.

Saturday 28, David Quiles, Mayor of Geldo, chosen Cultural City of the Valencian Community in 2023, will present my book, Amores Viajeros (Traveling Loves), and the wonderful wines of José Arenes Vicente. We will talk about love, travel, wine and gastronomy. Mike & Mona will liven up the evening. I will raffle a watercolor among those who want to buy Amores Viajeros and José Arenes will guide us in a tasting through the secrets of his wines.
Afterwards, for those who want to continue in good company, there is a tasting dinner at the Balú Bar.

Video of the event: https://youtu.be/JbfxT7Ptc1M?si=BZyqVZMkKlRYqTBV

EDIBLE PLANTS AROUND US
Walk througn Carcaixent. On Sunday, 2013 / 10 / 22. From 10:00 to 13:00.
The “Wild Edible Plants” workshop, given by the expert and pedagogue Antoni Orengo, has shown us a handful of plants that grow freely in our fields and mountains and that we can use to cook and benefit from: health, aromes, beauty…
This activity consists of:
• A guided tour through the fields of the municipal territory with collection of different plants.
• Tasting of cakes and “coques” previously made with these products.
I havent taken photograhs of those plants that our expert has focused on the most.

THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Rafel Sena i Guzman. Born in Russafa St. in Valencia (1940/01/3). Son and grandson of Valencian studio photographers. He studied at the Lluís Vives Institute, the School of Fine Arts and the Photo-Club Valencia. Professionally, he dedicated himself to the continuation of the family lineage in the field of salon photography. As a young man, he became involved in classical music, theater and cinema.
L’any 1963 va ingressar en ”Lo Rat Penat”, on va conèixer la seua innovadora joventut encapçalada pel dinàmic Enric Tàrrega i, junt amb un grapat d’entusiastes, reinstauraren “La Marxa a Peu al Monestir del Puig” durant la convocatòria del “V Aplec del País Valencià”(1964). A la qual, amb entrebancs, ja son més de 50 anys que cal aplegar al Puig i la seua persistent reivindicació. In the Societat Coral El Micalet, he belonged to the Orfeó and the theater group that inaugurated the new auditorioum in 1960. Faced with the growing emergence of new singer-songwriters, he formed the amateur collective “AMICS DE LA CANÇÓ” (1968), which were leaders in various towns in the Valencian Community when it came to native song. However, he organized the auditions for “Tuesdays at the Micalet” (1969-1971), the “Primer Premi Revelació” (1970-1971), and, during the Fair in Valencia city in July (1972-1973), the First and the Secong “Festival Folk of the Valencian Country”. For his pioneering activity in the dissemination of the “Nova Cançó” (New Song) in the Valencian Country, he received the “TIO CANYA” Award (2006 ) from the Bloc de Progrés Jaume I de l’Alcúdia (Ribera Alta).
Since 1969, he has belonged to the Assotiation of Residents of Russafa / Gram Via, where he organized the first calls for Valencian Dance; first that of ·Russafa” and then that of “Sant Blai”. In 1975 he became part of the legalized Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV) and, when it joined the PSOE (1978), the asked to leave. In 1992, he founded and legalized “LA BRÚIXOLA, CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF THE VALENCIAN COUNTRY”, which, until 2014, organized dinner-talks on the most diverse topics, related to arts and culture, ecology, sex, feminism, the environment and politics. In particular, solidarity with the people fighting for their rights. They made several excursions through the Valencian regions. Some of the most important defenders and vindicators of our “officially” abused culture and the manifest social inequality have been honored by the organization. Since 2001, he has edited the magazine “BRÚIXOLA”, which has published 37 issues.
In November 2013, the Societat Coral el Micalet awarded him the “Miquelet Award” and in November 2018 the Russafa District Municipal Council awarded him its annual individual distinction. Recentrly, in 2022, he received the Gold badge of the Societat Coral El Micalet, a distinction for his more than 50 years as a member.
In 990 he held his first photographic exhibition focused on the linguistic standardization of the urban toponymy of Valencia “Carrer – Street”, which was shown traveling annually in the City (4 spaces), with a special one in Silla (l’Horta) and the other in Vila-real (La Plana Baixa). The ignorance of the majority of the population about its origin motivated it to carry out a careful and documented investigation, concluded with the publication, this year 2023: Els carrers de la Ciutat de València. Since 2000, he has collaborated in the magazine “Marxa Popular Fallera” and, since 2024, in “Plaer de ma vida” of the A.C. “Macarella”. On April 25, 2013, he published his first book: The Public Shows of the City of Valencia. And on October 9, 2016, the second one: Great Valencian Performers of the Show, a Synthesis of Around 250. Despite the fact that he is already in years, he plans to publish other books such as The disappeared streets in Valencia, the biography of the great Fallas’ artists, and, if he arrives in time, about his beloved RUSSAFA.

SPEAKERS

Lídia Arenós Mata, Vila-real (1956, Plana Baixa) Degree in Romance Philology (French and Italian), University of Valencia (1973-1978).
Journalist.
Professional route:
From 1982 to 1989, Editor of RNE.
From 1989 to 2011, Editor of Channel 9 (RTVV) news services and of Ràdio 9 programs.
Reports and live broadcasts like “Els Premis Octubre”, “Cremà de Falles”, “Festes de la Magdalena de Castelló”, “Fogueres d’Alacant”, and “Moros I Cristians d’Alcoi”.
Director and presenter of the cultural program “L'Esfera de la Cultura” (1994-1995).
Has collaborated in different media like “Noticias al Día”, “Cartellera Túria”, “LEVANTE-EMV”, “Qué y Dónde”, “Saó”.
From 1987 to 1996, Press office of the Sala Parpalló of the Provincial Council of Valencia.

Emili Casanova Herrero (Agullent, 1956). Professor at the University of Valencia. He is a Valencian philologist. Doctorate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Valencia in 1981 with a thesis on the lexicon of Antoni Canals. Directed by Doctor Manuel Sanchis Guarner. He obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Award there.
He has been an assistant professor at the University of Navarra (1978-1980). Also from the University of Valencia (1980-1981). Course manager (1981-1984), and holder from the 1984-1985 course until now. He has also been a professor of Catalan in Information Sciences at the CEU San Pablo in Valencia from the year 1986-1987 to 1999-2000. [1]
He got the Faraudo of Sant Germain Prize, from the Institut of Catalan Studies (IEC). He has co-directed tye PATROM-Patronymica Romanica,[2] IEC project coordinated with the rest of the Romance Languages, and with professor Vicent Rosselló, the First Master’s Degree in Toponymy (1990-1991) in a European university. He has been deputy director of the Linguistic Atlas of the Valencian Community.
Member of more than 10 European scientific associations, like the AILLC an the ICOS; academic of the Valencian Language Academy and member of the Catalan Knowledge Qualification Board. He has been a member of the General Council of the Interuniversity of Valencian Philology from 1982 to 2000. Likewise, president of the Federation of Institutes of Regional Studies and president of the Institute of Regional Studies of the Vall d’Albaida. He has published about twenty books.
His publications can be grouped into several topics:
• Onomastics, both toponymy and anthroponymy, where the studies on Valencian lineages through history, gentilicis and toponymic monographs on various names stand out.
• Historial Grammar, where the studies intended to explain the formation of the particularities of Valencian stand out, such as the combination of third person pronouns or the final conjunction per a què.
• Historical lexicon, especially the one dedicated to authors like Antoni Canals,[6] Joanot Martorell[7] or Joan Roís de Corella,[8] and current lexicon dedicated to writers like Enric Valor[9][10] i Vicent Andrés Estellés,[11] and lexicographers like Francesc Ferrer Pastor i Pompeu Fabra.[12]
• Syncronic dialectology, especially focused on the central regions[13]
• Language of the media and its linguistic model.
• Editions of texts, from various periods, such as Memòries d'un capellà del segle XVIII, or l'Espill de Consciència (XIV century).
• Joan Coromines’ Work, both the lexicon and the onomastics.
• On the language of Decadence.
• On the interference between Catalan and Spanish.
• Others, such as studies on administrative language, translation of literary texts, and studies of local history.

Antoni Furió i Diego (Sueca, 1958) is professor of Medieval History at the University of Valencia and president, from October 2011 to 2018. Also from the civic platform Valencians pel Canvi. He was director of Publicacions de la Universitat de València for more than a decade. He runs L’Espill magazine. Member of the editorial board of the magazines Revista d'Història Medieval and Pasajes (both published by the University of Valencia), El Contemporani (Barcelona), Recerques (Barcelona), Anuario de Estudios Medievales (CSIC, Barcelona), Anales de Historia Antigua y Medieval (Buenos Aires), Continuity and Change (Cambridge) and Hispania (del CSIC, Madrid).
The main lines of research in medieval history are:
• The history of the rural world
• Finance and taxation
• The 13th and14th centuries
Main publications
• Camperols del País Valencià. Sueca, una comunitat rural a la tardor de l'Edat Mitjana, Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 1982.
• València, un mercat medieval, Diputació de València, 1985 (editor).
• Història del País Valencià, IVEI, 1995, i Tres i Quatre, 2001.
• Edició crítica i estudi de Breu descripció dels mestres que anaren a besar les mans a sa majestat del Rey Phelip de Gaspar Guerau de Montmajor (1557-1600)[3]
• Llibre d'ordenances i estatuts municipals de la ciutat de València (segles XIII i XIV), Universitat de València, 2006.
• El rei Conqueridor. Jaume I entre la història i la llegenda, Bromera, 2007.
• Historia de las Españas, Tirant Humanidades, 2015. Also directs the publication of the
Another line of research ha focused on the life and work of the essayist Joan Fuster. The book is a biographical approach the book Album Fuster, IVEI, 1995. Also directs the publication of the Correspondència de Joan Fuster, of which 16 volumes have already appeared, edited by Tres i Quatre. Likewise, he is in charge of the edition of the Complete Work of Joan Fuster, in seven volumes, of which the first volume has now appeared.
He is also permanent secretary of the Assemblea d'Història de la Ribera, promoted by Fuster in 1980 and of which he was the first local secretary.

Rosa María Solbes López (Alacant, 1950) is a Valencian journalist, first director of Ràdio 9, ex-president of the Union of Valencian Journalists, member of the Board of Directors of Valencian Radiotelevision (RTVV), vice-president of Valencians for Change, and outstanding feminist activist.
She started in journalism at the age of fifteen with Lucentum, the magazine of the Jorge Juan Highschool where she studied. The fact earned her the name of a state news agency as the youngest director in Spain, and the director of “Informacion” Newspaper, Félix Morales, invited the editorial staff of Lucentum to visit his newspaper, offering them a section juvenile. In that newspaper she wrote the obituary of Martin Luther King.
In 1968 she entered the Journalism School of the Church of Valencia, doing an internship at the Alicante newspaper “Primera Página”, directed at the time by J J Pérez Benlloch. In 1970 they renewed and increased her salary to settle in Valencia shortly after. There she would jouin the theater group, Gorgo, and in 1973 JJ Pérez Benlloch the tab for the weekly “La Marina”. She would continue in “Ciudad de Benidorm”, and make a substitution in “La Verdad”.
Rosa Solbes settled in Valencia in 1974 to work as editor of the economic weekly “Valencia Fruits”, which she combined with the correspondence of “La Verdad” and collaborations in “Ya” and “Reporter”. She directed the progressive weekly “Dos I Dos”; later, already in the decade of the 80s, she was head of reports for “Valencia Semanal”, collaborator of “Cal Dir” and “Saó”, delegate of “La Calle”, “Interviu”. “El Periódico de Catalunya” and “Tiempo”. In the years 1980, 1981 and 1982 she was responsible for political information, reports, supplements, and local (successively) for “Diario de Valencia”. From 1983 to 1986, she worked as head of programs of Radiocadena, and then news editor-presenter in the Valencian TVE branch. In both media she directed and presented for years the first programs with a feminist theme: “Entre nosotras” and “La otra mitad”.
In 1989, she was the first director of Ràdio 9. She later held the position of head of press at the Ministry of Culture. In recent years she has been a news editor and editor for TVE’S territorial center and a regular columnist for “El País”. An important part of her articles has been analyzed in Manuel Peris Vidal’s doctoral thesis “Macho violence in the columns of the newspaper El País. Literary and journalistic discourses in the work of Luisa Etxenique and Rosa Solbes (2001-2010)”.
She has written several books on current affairs, as author and co-author, one of them on women and political power (‘Valencian women, between will and power’). She is also the author of “Matilde Salvador. Conversation with a passionate writer” (Tandem). Another book is entitled “María Cambrils, el despertar del socialism feminist”. This work is made in collaboration with the historian Ana Aguado and the archivist Joan Manuel Almela. The foreword is by Carmen Alborch. Her latest work is “Shots, Images of the Valencian Transition”, with the photojournalist Josep Vicent Rodríguez. Edited by the Alfons el Magnànim Institution, it offers 500 images captured by Rodríguez in the 70s and 80s and contextualized by texts by Rosa Solbes.
She has been part of the directives of different civic associations and has chaired the Union of Valencian Journalists. She was vice-president of Valencians for Change until its dissolution, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Equality Unit of the University of Valencia and the UGT Culture Council of the Valencian Country.
In 2013 she received the Vicent Ventura Award for her civic career in defense of the dignity of the Valencian people. It is part, among other national and international networks, of the group of Valencian feminist journalists “Les Beatrius”, and also of Gamag-Europe, the Global Media and Gender Alliance emanating from UNESCO.

PUBLISHER

Josep Maria Orteu

MODERATOR

FOR MORE INFORMATION: ESCOLA DE PENSAMENT LLUÍS VIVES

Video of the event: https://youtu.be/KEBsSUnyDKQ?feature=shared

Last September 9th, Saturday, ASECOCV (Association in defense of production and promotion of sustainable food) organized a conference at the Agrarian Experimental Station of Elche.
Eighty attendees from the province and a group of professionals from the rest of the Valencian Community analyzed and evaluated the 30 years of organic farming in Alicante.
After registration and reception of participants at 9:45 a.m., the Conference was inaugurated by Juan de Dios Navarro, representative of the Elche City Council at 10:00 a.m.
Next, there were two presentations moderated by Domingo García Catalá (ASECOCV): “Ecological agriculture in the province of Alicante, statistics and evolution”, by Vicent Cabanes (Director of Communication of the CAECV), and “Economy and Planning of the ecological sector at the province of Alicante”, by David Bernardo López Lluch (professor of Environmental Economics at the UHM).
After a break, Josep Roselló (ASECOCV) presented / reported about the association and its newly created Bioplataform.
The Day closed with a Round Table: “30 years of AE in the province of Alicante”. Ana Limiñana (Agri-food Cooperatives of the Valencian Community), Ricardo Ballester (La Unió Union), José Vicente Andreu (ASAJA-Alicante), Helena Cifre (SEAE), José Carbonell (COIAL), Juan Carlos Catalán, and Paco Rubio (OPEM) were the participants. José Antonio Rico and Vicente Sanz (ASECOCV) were the moderators.
Closing was delayed until 2:45 p.m. due to de enormous interest expressed by those present, and fell to José Antonio Rico y Juan de Dios Navarro.
The event has been financed by the Alicante Provincial Council and has had the collaboration of the SEAE and the Generalitat Valenciana.
PRESS KIT
ASECOCV was born in 2020 to defend the production and promotion of sustainable food. The last action carried out was the creation of the BIOPLATFORM.
More information about ASECOCV:

VALENCIA PLAZA NEWS

LEVANTE-EMV NEWS

BIOECOACTUAL WEB NEWS

CASTELLÓN PLAZA NEWS

CAECV FACEBOOK

CAECV TWITTER

Regarding the Conference held last September 9th, the program can be found at this link:
https://agroecologia.net/30-anos-de-produccion-ecologica-en-la- provincia-de-alicante-perspectiva-y-futuro/
The event focused on the analysis of the current situation of organic agriculture in Alicante and its future.
According to the official data held by ASECOCV, Alicante has 1,546 operators and 38,000 hectares dedicated to organic farming. Although the moment is positive, the future is uncertain, as pointed out by Josep Roselló: “The sector has been able to serve an AMAZING market, but it is necessary to organize itself in the face of increasing competitiveness and complexity. From ASECOCV, we are ready to defend our sector.”
José Antonio Rico added: “Now there are marketing problems due to the lower purchasing power of the consumer, a climate change that affects productivity and attracts new diseases to our crops and the behavior of large areas that makes our sales difficult.”

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Our Association of Agroecological Producers was invitad to talk about our goal: get the quality framework for our oranges, because they are traditional, ecological, from smallholdings, and related to our Cultural and Commercial Heritage as “Cradle of the Orange”.

I read the poem Una illa una immòbil feblesa (An island an immobile weakness) by Begonya Mezquita.

Una illa, una immòbil feblesa
un tros de terra sense ombra, un marge erm.
Escenari terrible de soledats i versos,
una illa de llums
que has trobat sense nom.
Perquè el sol és ací has dit
salveu-me l'insomni, el desig.
Una illa com un nen,
una boca oberta
i la paraula que fa d'espasa
cenyida al no-res, com un desert lentíssim.
Tot s'esdevé en aquesta illa, malgrat l'acer,
la por i l'espera continuada.
Envoltada de blaus tremoles, tant és l'horitzó
en què cerques la set i els núvols,
l'alegria.

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