CaixaForum and CosmoCaixa are celebrating Sant Jordi on their social networks

Throughout this week, CaixaForum and CosmoCaixa will be celebrating Saint George's Day and Book Day on their social networks by disseminating content of literary inspiration featuring writers, scientists and artists who will be making book recommendations and giving lectures online. As part of the #YoMeQuedoEnCasa campaign, the "la Caixa" Foundation's cultural and scientific dissemination centres are joining in the celebration of an exceptional Saint George's Day that will be posted on the Internet due to the coronavirus crisis. The CaixaForum initiative aims to continue disseminating culture in times of isolation within a special line of content launched on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram channels, after the closure of centres due to the coronavirus crisis.

The writers Alejandro Palomas, Najat El Hachmi, Lorenzo Silva, Luna Miguel, Raül Garrigasait, Bel Olid, Julià Guillamon and Víctor Amela, the poet Antoni Clapés, the artist Mabel Palacín, the art critic Mery Cuesta and the historian Enric Ucelay will star in a series of videos in which they will offer book recommendations and, in some cases, reveal the literary works that they have been reading during these days of confinement. In addition, Alejandro Palomas and Lorenzo Silva will hold online events with readers via Facebook at 7 pm this Tuesday and Thursday, respectively.

With the aim of highlighting the importance of culture and the community at the present time, the "la Caixa" Foundation, through its Instagram profile, "Alma, the social network" and the profile of the illustrators 72Kilos and Dalmaus have sponsored the preparation of a collaborative book that will include supportive statements that users have sent and that will be made available to people who are going through difficult times. From all the messages, a selection of 23 expressions of affection has been made which will be included in the final book that will be available on the website of the "la Caixa" Foundation, as well as on the website miradasconalma.org. Later, the intention is to try and make this digital book available to hospitals, social entities and other groups especially affected by this crisis.

Next Wednesday, CosmoCaixa's Facebook channel will broadcast the Science and Literature conference-dialogue at 7 pm, a close relationship, within the framework of the Live Talks cycle initiated with the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC) and which this Wednesday will be led by Xavier Duran, who will delve into how literature has brought us closer to science.

On Friday it will be the turn of the lecture Reading Science is not Only for Library Rats, with the archaeologist Jordi Serrallonga and the director of Edutorial (Ed.Crítica) Carmen Esteban. Throughout the week, scientific readings will be recommended through online books and there will be no shortage of the astronomical capsule by Jordi Aloy, which will offer some indications for seeing phenomena within space Astronomy from your window.

Over the course of these days, a selection of the best science stories written for children and young people will be published as part of the Let's Make Science Stories competition, which CosmoCaixa is promoting to encourage interest in science and scientific thought among students of all ages.

The artist Joan Brossa will be the protagonist of #ZoomAlaColección which, during these weeks of confinement, focuses on works from the Art Collections of the "la Caixa" Foundation. In the space #Confined Works, we will talk about pieces that are currently in some of the eight centers that make up the network CaixaForum and this week will be about the work The Silent Sea, by Bill Viola, which is in the exhibition Poetics of Emotion, opened at CaixaForum Seville

A new video of the Confined Encounters cycle will also be published, dedicated to creators of the current artistic panorama in these exceptional times, such as Cabeza Patata; the operatic cycle will take place, with a detailed presentation by the expert Marcel Gorgori, and the Small Cinephiles space of the weekend will be dedicated to the film La Revuelta de los Cuentos.