The current climate of confusion and disorder forces us to think, so it is important that there are spaces that encourage us and prepare us for it. This is what was suggested by Joseph Ramoneda, content director of the most important festival in this sense: Dénia Festival of the Humanities.
Concern about the future, distrust towards it, will be the theme addressed by the third edition of the festival that will be held in Dénia between 24 and 26 October. It will be the second major event almost consecutively after D*na, "managing to make the autumn of Dénia a meeting point for both eating and thinking," he stressed. Vicent Grimalt, Mayor of Dénia, during the presentation that took place this Monday. And this autumnal duality will be reflected for the first time on the stage of the Festival de les Humanitats, where they have created a meeting point between the two festivals with an expectant talk between a chef, Quique Dacosta, and a philosopher, Javier Gomá Lanzón.
As usual, the range of guests is very wide, with some of the greatest personalities in different fields of the humanities. The guest for the opening speech will be Massimo Cacciari, philosopher and former mayor of Venice. Other guests will be the American journalist John Carlin, the writer Remedios Zafra, the journalist Pilar Bonet, Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Cristina Gallach, former Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, the writer Lucia Lijtmaer, and a long etcetera of no less importance.
They will deal with topics ranging from the limits of politics, the limits of the human body and the limits of art and literature, to the limits of science, rights and democracy. "About what we are doing wrong," Grimalt summarised, but seeking to convey an optimistic message at the festival.
Also, as has been happening since the first edition, there will be a space for business debate, the Lluís Vives Space, where names such as Adolfo Utor, President of Baleària, Àngel Font, executive director of CaixaResearch, Araceli Ciscar, executive director of Dacsa Group, or José-Félix Lozano, professor of Moral Philosophy, will question what a good company is.
With this third edition, we continue to make progress towards achieving, as Joanmi Rafet, director of Dénia City of Thought, recalled in the presentation, a space in which to recover the tradition of Dénia as a humanistic reference and create the binomial culture-humanities as a tool for transforming the territory.
Where to watch, dates, times…
On the progressia page.
There are no more problems in Denia.
Long live progress!!!!!!!!!!!!