The call is for Friday, April 26 from 17 to 23 p.m. with live readings, artistic interventions, creative workshops, screen printing, guided tours of UNR Radio and the University printing press, which opens its doors to the public for the first time to share the process of creating a book.
On Friday, April 26 from 17 to 23 p.m. The UNRato book festival will be held in Urquiza in 2000. It is an invitation to celebration and collective cultural agitation with the book as a transversal axis, with a fair of unpublished and out-of-print editions of the UNR Editora and the Municipal Editorial of Rosary beads.
There will be live readings, artistic interventions with renowned illustrators from the city, creative workshops, screen printing and guided tours by Radio UNR and by the University printing press, which opens its doors to the public for the first time to share the process of creating a book . Various gastronomic proposals will accompany the event, in a neighborhood network that seeks to combine books with enjoyment and encounters, with snacks and fast food for all tastes. It is a joint proposal of UNR Editora, Radio Universidad, the Directorate of Physical Education, the Directorate of the Graphic Design program and the Communication and Media Area of the UNR.
There is a LOT of books in all their facets: books to listen to, books to put together, books to carry and books to intervene. The festival will be held in the Urquiza 2046 gym building and will include creative workshops led by the Aloe Chair of Graphic Design UNR, screen printing from the Popular University (you can bring your t-shirt to print), letterpress from Capitana and a special fair of balance books, with a wide range of titles for students of all UNR majors at affordable prices.
In addition, artists from the city will join UNRemix of books, a live intervention of covers of discontinued editions of the UNR Editora with various techniques such as collage, openwork, drawing in pencils, acrylics and embroidery. Florencia Balestra, Michele Siquot, Verónica Sendra, Ligia Rossi and Shuly Roberts, Rouse, Malena Guerrero and Estefanía Clotti from the Cuadrilla Feminista collective participate. Leila Sergi, visual artist, will join with a mapping proposal on books. Members of Rosario's leading narrative workshops such as Leandro Di Paolo, Florencia Manasseri, Martín Sansarricq, Armando Durá and Andrés Mainardi will also add their voices, sharing their productions in addition to other miscellaneous readings. Likewise, during the day there will be live shows by Microbio Microbio and Ayelén Beker.
The UNR Editora printing plant will open its doors throughout the night with guided tours to get an inside look at the process, materials and machines that come into play to make a book. In the workshop, a fanzine with stories by Pablo Colacrai and Vanesa Gómez will be printed live. The UNR Radio studio will also be open, which will broadcast its Bardos program on live radio. Finally, a collective mural will be made intervening on the façade of both spaces, by the direction of the Graphic Design degree.
Adding to the gastronomic proposals are the El Viduño wine bar, the Gin Felini, the Peruvian restaurant Mistura de Sabores and the Alabasta sandwich shop.
Nicolás Manzi, director of UNR Editora, highlights the UNRato book meeting: “It is a proposal to make visible the space of the University in which the publishing house, the radio and the gym of the UNR operate, which is the building on Urquiza Street at 2000. It is a place where the University fulfills other types of functions dedicated to the community, students do not always know that very important tasks are carried out there, such as the production of books that for any University in the world is a fundamental tool or the issuance of the radio signal, which in the case of UNR is one of the most listened to radio stations in the city.”
“Highlighting these projects is important to continue growing and having readers and audiences, it is a proposal for these labels to grow,” Manzi highlighted and added: “The publishing house is a factory that has been producing books of all kinds for years, but especially books from the academic production of the UNR, books that were designed for UNR students and graduates, which compile information that is of interest to all professionals in their respective studies.”
In that sense, Manzi announced that the meeting will make it possible to buy books at a low cost. “Many times, there are books left in warehouses and we believe it is time to get them out of there and go in search of their readers. That is why one of the initial proposals of UNRato de libros is to offer at super-affordable prices those books that for some time were not marketed for some reason,” he concluded.
Within the framework of book week, the UNRato book festival is an opportunity to highlight culture, encounters and art with an impeccable gastronomic proposal. A hug that brings together the neighborhood, affections, the public and the love for books and the city.