With the presence of writers like Camila Sosa Villadacinema on the beach on full moon nights, the return of the novel bookstore project i’ll call you friday -which this year will include a kind of seaside fair-, an artistic workshop to build machines for looking and exhibitions such as the photographic PH15an artistic collective of social integration that this summer exhibits by cartoonists such as Liniers, returns to the cultural cycle that is already a summer classic at the Old Hotel Ostende (VHO).
“To coincide is an action and in its infinitive, a power” is the name of the cycle co-created with Fundación Medifé that this season will take over the spa and interiors of the old hotel that in 2023 will celebrate its 90th anniversary. Born in 1913, before Pinamar and Villa Gesell, when that point of the Atlantic seemed more like a wild wasteland of wind and dunes than a rest center for Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires closer than Mar del Plata.
In its etymology, that word has three themes that interest both Roxana Salpeter, responsible for the VHO as for the people of Medifé, for this summer experience: “’con’, names how important it is to be with ‘others’, ‘in’ refers to an interior, a certain reflexivity, and ‘cadere’, to fall ”. Something like “dropping in this summer, taking advantage of the less busy time to turn inward and listen to us, approach some beautiful experience and think that there is a point -always- in which you can find some coincidence”.
But also “celebrate the discovery”, they point out about those coincidences that will lead to Juan Mattiofor example, to be interviewed before his own readers and others in the spa garden of the Old Hotel -on February 9 at 6:00 p.m., Garay and Rambla Sud- about that beautiful and tremendous book about madness and words, or about a mother and a son, who was materials for a nightmareFilba-Medifé 2022 award. Or the advance that will make Julian Lopez of a novelty, his new novel the infinitesimal foreston the 20th at 6:00 p.m. in the same place.
These are “times that require a lot from everyone” and “we understand that there may be friendlier and more challenging ways of being together”, a common space for the will to enjoy and achieve some well-being”, they explain about these days that, always as an open invitation and free, and as far as literary visits are concerned, always on the beach too, they will open at sunset on January 21 (7:30 p.m.), with a public reading of Camila Sosa Villada in front of the sea, of fragments of his books The bad ones, Sandro’s girlfriend and I’m a fool for loving you”.
There will be no shortage of music in January and it will come from the hand of Daniela Horovitz with the presentation of illuminated beauties, on January 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the hotel’s spa garden, where the singer-songwriter will take an intimate and poetic journey through her songs. “This is the true return to face-to-face -says Roxana Salpeterresponsible for the historic hotel where writers such as silvina ocampo Y Adolfo Bioy Casares-, 2022 was a complicated season due to its intricacies, there was face-to-face but with the onslaught of the Covid that we survived, but protocols and counter-marches had to be adjusted on the fly. In the microclimate of the hotel it went well, but it was a stress, like living two seasons in one. Well, 2023 will be something else, ”he promises.
In this sense, he highlights: “Here we are very excited about this new season, already started on December 16, those who spent Christmas are already leaving and those who will be in New Year and those who will spend their summer began to arrive. The main coincidence between the organizers of this 2023 cycle is in the ways of looking at the world and these free public activities are our small contribution”.
The grid starts with a sweet and expected return. That first exhibition that in 2016 showed in the hotel rooms photos taken by boys between the ages of 10 and 20 from Ciudad Oculta, one of the most populous shantytowns in the country, within the framework of the PH15 Foundation workshop and reinterpreted by cartoonists as Liniers either Vero Gattihe returns with the third leg that the editor gave him Silvia Group when to those recreations he added texts by writers such as Marina Mariasch, Pia Bouzas Y Ana ojeda either Mariano Quiros.
If before there were more than 12 diptychs called Great illustrators, little photographersnow there are more than 12 triptychs that bear the title Three stories in one clickpart 2, because another part of those triptychs had already arrived at the hotel in 2019.
Ph15 It is a space where children and adolescents learn to look at what surrounds them and what they carry inside to express who they are and what they feel through images built with light and shadow. Ph means photography, which in turn means drawing with light, and 15 is the number that identifies the town, where the photographers are from, where the workshop created 22 years ago in the middle of the sociopolitical crisis of 2001 ended up, with the idea of find beauty and generate a tool for social inclusion, if not to work from photography, to learn new ways of looking and thinking, starting at home.
“The biggest challenge now is subsistence, returning with the annual workshops canceled in the pandemic and continuing with projects such as Visual Translator that this year will take us to Bariloche to work with Mapuche children,” he says. Moira Rubio Brennanco-director, together with Miriam Priottiof the foundation with which you can collaborate through http://www.ph15.org.ar and that since its creation it has worked in more than 200 neighborhoods and communities from Ushuaia to La Quiaca, with more than 3,500 children who have produced more than 40,000 images.
In the hotel there will be some of the album books 3 stories in 1 click published by the independent label 27 Pulqui, Fa Editora and Fundación Gráfica Campichuelo, in which more than 150 photographers, writers and cartoonists took part; There will also be posters expanding the exhibition.
i’ll call you friday also returns and reopens for vacationers, the bookstore project that, together with the legacy of the Spanish writer almudena Large (1960-2021) whose title of one of his novels gives its name to the project, and at the wish of two book lovers, he brought a bookstore to the seaside town of Ostend for the first time with a catalog of novelties and peculiarities designed for tourists and vacationers but also for their own. “Last year it reached out to hotel guests and it was very well received. We really like the idea of having been a hotel with a library and now with a bookstore,” says Salpeter.
On January 13 and 14 from 1 to 7 pm in the garden of the parador there will be a sale to the public. “Last year, despite the restrictions that still existed due to the pandemic, we had a beautiful and enriching experience, we verified the importance of bookselling: people want to talk, exchange ideas and readings, and receive recommendations. Something that as professionals in the publishing world we already knew but that the project forcefully showed us,” he says. paulina cossianother of the promoters of the project.
“This season we launched the website where you can see the complete catalog with the titles that can be purchased only at the hotel, www.tellamareviernes.com.ar, and in the spa of the Viejo Hotel Ostende we will repeat that meeting with the readers”, he recalls. Tuesday and Thursday in January and February at 5:00 p.m., meanwhile, there will be guided tours of the hotel, traveling between the present and the past of 100 years of history, recalling anecdotes and events. While at 8:00 p.m. on Twelfth Night and with the first full moon of the year – lounge chairs and canvas on the sand of the spa – the Cinemar will open (it is suspended due to rain) with the projection of the comedy Clementinefrom the production company El Pampero Cine.
And it will continue on February 5 at 8:00 p.m., the second full moon night of the year, with a tribute to the pioneers of cinema Georges Méliès, Segundo de Chomón, Fritz Lang in the projection of The astronomer’s dream (1898), the trip to the moon (1902), Journey to Jupiter (1908) and the trailer for The woman in the moon (1929) by the company Máquinas de mirar that aims to disseminate, promote and bring young and old closer to the stage prior to the birth of cinema, claiming the old animation techniques as a bridge to understand the technologies of the present through play. and creativity.
In fact, they will be responsible for the moon-gazing kaleidoscope construction workshop that will take place on Saturday, February 4 at 6:00 p.m. in the spa of the old hotel with prior registration at [email protected]and the kinetic art that will take place on Sunday, February 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Source: Télam SE
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