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Other activities are also carried out within the project, such as the First Grandparents Storytelling Competition, "Storytelling Smiles", "Library Tales", "To School with the Story" and two workshops aimed at encouraging the recreation of selected stories, the creation of trust and knowledge in representation.

Elderly who wish may join this program on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Social Services Center located at Alameda de Cervantes.

The Councilor for the Mayor of the City of Lorca, Bethlehem Perez, reported this morning that this area of ​​municipal management has already opened the registration period for the storytelling program for the elderly in our municipality.

It is a training project that aims to promote the memory of our elders and also lead to cross-generational cross-generational projects and the transmission of values ​​that complements and extends the profits reported by these storytelling workshops that have been developing since the Lorca Consistory .

Belén Pérez has pointed out that "from the Mayor's Council we are developing a great task and a great job to promote active aging among the elderly of our entire municipality, a main objective for our seniors feel sheltered, useful and integrated into a society He owes them a lot and he has them.The implementation of this program aims to revalue the figure of our elders, grandparents and the influence they exert on children, so that they are seen as individuals capable of interacting and communicating with others. generations through the exercise of reading, storytelling and storytelling. "

The Mayor Councilor has indicated that "among the novelties of this program highlights the First Grandparents Storytelling Contest with children of social programs of Caixa Proinfancia." From the Department of the Mayor have chosen as a motivating element the technique of "Kamishibai", which In Japanese, it means "theater of paper", it is a way of telling stories of wide roots and popular settlement in Japan, the objective of which is to encourage reading among children and young people as well as their creativity, for which they have created five categories: children from 6 to 9 years old (narrative classic story tale), children from 10 to 12 years old (narrative tale of own creation and narrative classic story tale), and children from 13 to 18 years old (narrative creation tale) own and narrative tale of classic story.) This contest will give way to "The Battle of Storytelling" to be held during the Active Aging Week.

Pérez added that "other activities of various projects in which our elders can also participate as social agents for the promotion of reading and awareness of values ​​are:" Storytelling smiles ", the elderly come to tell stories to APANDIS, CEE Pilar Soubrier , Nursery San José de Calasanz, Eleosol and Early Care "Tales of Library", a project that is carried out with the library within our program of promotion of reading, and finally, another novelty this year: "To school with the story ", mainly intended for schools in the most disadvantaged areas of the city."

The Mayor Edil has also stated that "in addition, two storytelling workshops will be held to promote the recreation of the chosen stories, the creation of trust and knowledge to represent them in different contexts that users consider their sensitivity will take place in the morning and afternoon from February, taking place on Tuesdays from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm in the Civic Center of San Cristóbal and Wednesdays from 10 am to 12 pm in a Central place of the city It should be remembered that the elders of all our municipal district who wish to participate in this program of the Grandparents Storytellers have at their disposal an information and attention service on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Service Center Social located in the Alameda de Cervantes, 32 (Concejalía del Mayor) ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca