The Carl Faust Foundation has organized various activities related to the centenary of Marimurtra with the aim of bringing science and botany closer to the public
Taking advantage of the celebration of the centenary of the creation of the Garden and the 150th anniversary of the birth of the founder, Carl Faust, Marimurtra has initiated a collaboration agreement with the Blanes Regional Library. The activities include conferences, reading club meetings in the Garden surrounded by nature, an exhibition of winners of the children’s drawing competition and various informative exhibitions to explain the history of one of the most important botanical gardens in Europe.
The activities will kick off today, Monday, May 6, at 6 p.m., with the inauguration of the first of the three exhibitions that have been organized in the library. The exhibition Llavors del Jardí Botànic Marimurtra can be visited until Friday, June 14. On the other hand, from May 13 to June 14, you can visit the Centenary of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden exhibition, which recounts the passage of these hundred years of history of the Garden. From Tuesday, May 28 and until June 11, it will be the turn of the school drawings exhibition. These are the winning drawings, finalists of the Centenary of Marimurtra school drawing competition in which all Primary Education students from all schools in Blanes were able to participate on three different themes: the Marimurtra Garden, its biodiversity and Carl Faust. The awards ceremony will take place on June 12, at 3:30 p.m. in Marimurtra: the winners will receive a diploma and a Marimurtra Family Fan -which allows the whole family to enter the garden for a year-, in addition to additional gifts for the first three winners.
Literature will also be present in this set of events with four proposals created jointly with the library. On the one hand, on Monday 13 May, at 10 am, the Reading Club Quedem per léger, in which the El Vilar-Aspronis workshop participates, will move to the garden, where the members will previously take a guided tour of the facilities. On Monday 20 May, at 10 am, it will be the turn of the Lletraferits Reading Club – from Salut Mental Blanes – who will enjoy their literary gathering at Marimurtra, where they will be able to discuss books in a privileged environment surrounded by vegetation after taking the guided tour. And on Wednesday 22 May, at 10 am, students from the IFE Serrallarga in Blanes will also give their Easy Reading Club Quedem per léger! at the Marimurtra facilities and will visit the botanist. Finally, on Saturday, June 8, the Reading Corner hosted by Adrià Zurita will move to the Garden for a discussion, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., with the presentation of the book Cuando perdí mis ojos marrones, by the writer Marta Bustos Góngora.
To discover the world of botany with your family, two very interesting workshops have been organized, both with prior registration at the library. The first will take place on Tuesday, May 21, at 5:30 p.m., which will consist of a family botany workshop in the children’s room of the Blanes library. This is a manipulative activity that aims to encourage families to connect with nature. Botanical and scientific concepts will be introduced through observation and manipulation. During the activity, adults and children will discover curiosities of nature together. The second workshop that has been organized is the Children’s Botany Workshop (from 4 years old) and will take place on Thursday, May 30, at 5:30 p.m., with prior registration at the Library. It is a manipulative activity for the little ones where they will learn to identify plants, their parts and how to take care of them.
Library users will be able to enjoy a free guided tour to discover the garden and the species. It will be on Thursday, May 23, at 10 a.m., and prior registration is required at the library. Another action to publicize the Garden’s hundred years of history is the Centenary of the Botanical Garden conference, given by Josep Maria Camarasa, patron of the Carl Faust Foundation, on May 24, at 6 p.m., at the regional library. Camarasa is the author -together with Maria Elvira- of the book From the sea of Blanes to the planetary ocean, in which he presents the correspondence between Faust and the Catalan botanist Ramón Margalef.
It is one hundred years since Carl Faust created a botanical garden on the first cliffs of the Costa Brava to offer it to science and scientists. He created a place where plants and life could be studied. One hundred years later, the Carl Faust Foundation continues to manage the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, maintaining its botanical collection and making it available for research, conservation and scientific dissemination. All this, facing the new challenges posed by the modern management of biodiversity and climate change. In short, it continues to realize the dream in to which Carl Faust dedicated his heritage and his life.
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