Tag: reading club
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 […]
Reading Club “The Divine Comedy” (Guatemala)
The Reading Club was inaugurated with “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri. This first session served to give a general introduction to the club, a brief biography of the author, […]
New Acropolis participated in the First Meeting of Virtual Reading Clubs organized by the House of Peruvian Literature (Peru)
The meeting called Readers and Readings in Community was organized by the House of Peruvian Literature, as part of the celebrations for Library Month and brought together various organizations linked […]
Talk on the book “Alice in Wonderland” (Guatemala)
The Reading Club offered an online chat with the aim of discussing and reflecting on Lewis Carroll’s novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Sentences from the book were extracted and analysed […]
Plato protagonist of the recent ‘Librosophicos’ reading group (Colombia)
The gathering of the ‘Librosophicos’ reading group focused on discussing Plato’s Seventh Letter from its two expositions, the novel and the original letter written by the philosopher. A journey from […]
