Tag: reading club
Fables and Virtues a reading club for thoughtful souls (Australia)
Fables & Virtues reading club. We delved into Aesop’s fable of the Peacock and the Crane and uncovered various layers of meaning. Surprisingly, the Peacock did not remain the apparent […]
Book Club: Isabel Allende, first session of La Casa de los Espíritus (Guatemala, Guatemala)
At the Centro Histórico venue, we kicked off this year with the book ‘La Casa de los Espíritus’ by Isabel Allende. We learned a little about the trajectory of this […]
Book Club: ‘The Dream of the Just’ (Cobán, Guatemala)
In the Cobán Reading Club we read ‘The Dream of the Just’, by Francisco Pérez de Antón, and during the session we were able to reflect on the history of […]
Winter Reading Club (Australia)
We held our first reading club round table session on a cozy, rainy evening. It was full of open discussions and meaningful conversations where we explored the dimensions of time […]
Book Club Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ (Guatemala, Guatemala)
In this session of the Book Club we began an intriguing heroic journey with The Odyssey. We learned a lot about the roots of the book’s history and its author. […]
Reading Clubs (Guatemala)
In most of the country’s Centres, we hold Reading Clubs. The process is similar: we choose a classic literary work, we read it and then on the day of the […]
Reading Club: “Rayuela” by Julio Cortázar (Guatemala, Guatemala)
This year we resumed our Reading Club, starting with with Rayuela by Julio Cortázar at the New Acropolis branch in the Historic Centre. Each month we meet to discuss what […]
Reading Club: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Guatemala)
This year the Reading Club resumed its activities, which began with Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. It went on to El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, by Miguel de […]
Nike: a reading and research circle for senior citizens (Peru)
The Niké culture circle meets weekly to learn about and share topics pertaining to history, poetry, music appreciation and mental dynamics, with a philosophical approach to the meaning of life. […]
Book club: wrapping up ‘The Divine Comedy’ (Guatemala)
After four months of reading and analyzing The Divine Comedy by the poet Dante Alighieri, The Reading Club closed this cycle. A small activity was held to mark the end […]