The Gibunco Gibraltar International Literary Festival today announces a stellar line- up of international authors for its 2014 programme. The Festival, commissioned by the Government of Gibraltar and curated by the organisers of the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, returns to the Rock following the success of last year’s inaugural event.
The Instituto Cervantes in Gibraltar yesterday evening hosted a talk entitled "Prosperity in human systems: a point of order. The systemic perspective in Spain" by the director of the Systemic Institute in Mexico, Dr. Manuel Mora.
The Jazz workshops hosted as part of this year’s Jazz Festival are already underway with the presence of great musicians such as Elie Massias, Juan Galiardo, Pedro Cortejosa, Jose Lopez and David Leon.
As part of next week’s Jazz Festival activities trumpeter and composer Randy Brecker will offer a clinic at the Eliott Hotel on Wednesday 22nd October at 10pm.
Randy is said to have helped form jazz, R&B and rock as we know it today, over four decades, having graced hundreds of tracks by a gamut of artists including Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, James Taylor and Frank Zappa.
A talk on James Joyce’s novel ‘Ulysses’ will be delivered next month by Charles Durante. ‘Ulysses’ is considered a landmark of world literature. Published in 1922, it has acquired iconic status, becoming the quintessential modernist text, endlessly and exhaustively read and studied by devoted readers and academics. Joyce wanted to write a modern Irish nationalist epic, a vast comic novel, full of pathos, satirical humour, vitality and playfulness.
