The Mallorca Literary Foundation is organising a new edition of the cycle from the 4th to the 25th of May: four Saturdays with family activities, literary presentations and open-air concerts.

The Consell de Mallorca presents the programme for Spring in the Garden 2024. The island institution is organising, through the Mallorca Literary Foundation, a new edition of the cycle from the 4th to the 25th of May: four Saturdays with family activities, literary presentations and open-air concerts.

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The programme of the Spring in the Garden 2024

As every year, when spring arrives, the Casa Llorenç Villalonga – Museu Literari opens the doors of its garden, a unique space in the middle of Binissalem with vegetation that bursts into a thousand colours during the spring months.

This year, as a novelty, it will also be possible to access the ‘Maria-Antònia Oliver’s chamber’, a new space inaugurated last March where you can discover the Manacor-born author through her bookshop and some of her objects.

The Spring in the Garden cycle brings the public together every Saturday in May to offer family activities, presentations of new literary novels in narrative, poetry and essays, and performances linked to words and music. At all the activities there will be a stall run by the Espiral bookshop in Binissalem, where you can buy new literary works by the guest authors.

This year, as a novelty, it will also be possible to access the ‘Maria-Antònia Oliver’s chamber’, a new space inaugurated last March where you can discover the Manacor-born author through her bookshop and some of her objects.

The Spring in the Garden cycle brings the public together every Saturday in May to offer family activities, presentations of new literary novels in narrative, poetry and essays, and performances linked to words and music. At all the activities there will be a stall run by the Espiral bookshop in Binissalem, where you can buy new literary works by the guest authors.

These activities coincide with different cultural events in Binissalem. On the one hand, the Correllengua, which will take place on Saturday the 4th of May in the church square, where the family activity ‘Boiets i juguetons’ will be held. On the other hand, the last two weekends in May Binissalem will host the ‘Winedays’ and, during the Spring in the Garden activities, Binissalem D.O. wines will be on offer. In addition, on the weekend of the 25th of May, the Stone Fair will be held in the village, from where visitors will be invited to take a look at the Casa Llorenç Villalonga, which is open to the village in the hope of another year’s broad and generous participation.

Spring in the Garden’ programme

Every Saturday in May, from 11 am to 2 pm, the Fundació Mallorca Literària opens the doors of the garden of the Casa Llorenç Villalonga to offer free activities for the whole family.

Saturday 4th May

10.30 am Family activity ‘Boyets i juguetons’.

Toy library and workshop to create new legends of Treasure Island in Binissalem’s church square. In collaboration with the Correllengua.

11 am Guided tour of the Casa Llorenç Villalonga and Maria-Antònia Oliver’s own House.

Noon Presentations of new narrative:
Forgive me for wanting it so much, by Carme Serna.

The Myopia, by Joan Tomàs Martinez

1 p.m. Literary musical performance:

Arannà presents ‘La Salamandra’, with stories by Mercè Rodoreda.

Saturday 11th May

11 a.m. Day of legend and fable games for children and young people in collaboration with Binitrui:

Come and play the game ‘You’ll go and you won’t come back’ with Marc Cantallops and Llucia Serra, creators of the game.
Treasure Island in the museum: Start the game!’ with Victoria Parra
Noon Presentations of new narrative novels:

Deimos, by Lucia Pietrelli

The Time of Pomegranates, by Caterina Karmany

1 p.m. Musical performance:

Geometrical Sardine

Saturday 18 May

11 a.m. Family activity

Las Contadores’ with Francesca Vadell in Maria-Antònia Oliver’s own House

Noon Presentation of new poetry and narrative novels

Sepulcro de barro, by Clara Fontanet

Our house is an abyss, by Llorenç Romera

The Federal, Sebastià Alzamora

1 p.m. ‘Estellés al oído’: Pau Alabajos sings Vicent Andrés Estellés

Saturday 25th May

11 a.m. Family activity

Come and play ‘Rondaulles’ with the creators of the game

12-noon Presentations of new rehearsal novelties

Las cenizas de Pasolini (Pasolini’s Ashes), by Jaume Pons Alorda

The Other Truth, by Alda Merini, translated by Nora Albert, with Pau Vadell, publisher

25 years of Espai Mallorca: warp and woof, with Margalida Galmés, coordinator of the edition.

1 p.m. Musical performance:

‘A tientas’ with Anna Gual and Angeladorrrm.

All activities are free of charge, but some of them require prior registration.

All the information on the activities is available on the website www.mallorcaliteraria.cat.