Andrés Trapiello, Pablo d'Ors, Silvia Congost and Juan Manuel de Prada will visit the LA VERDAD Culture Classroom | The truth

M. Ángeles Bonmatí, sleep researcher at the University of Murcia and author of 'Let nothing keep you awake (Why sleeping well is essential for your health)' (Crítica, 2023), will be the first to intervene this quarter and will reveal This Tuesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the Cajamurcia Foundation (Gran Vía, 23, Murcia), the details of a new project in institutes in the Region of Murcia, an event that will be led by the journalist from THE TRUTH Fuensanta Carreres.

Silvia Congost (Monday, April 29), psychologist expert in emotional dependency, self-esteem, toxic relationships and relationship conflicts, who will present her new book in Murcia, 'Diary of a Breakup' (Aguilar), a manual with which to learn and overcome the grief of a sentimental separation.

The writer and editor Andrés Trapiello (Tuesday, May 7), recently published 'We were others' (Ediciones del Arrabal), the twenty-fourth installment of that unique work in Spanish literature that is his 'Hall of lost steps', the collection of his newspapers, will have a conversation with Pepe Pérez-Muelas, writer and teacher from Lorca, author of one of the books of the year, 'Homo viator' (Siruela) and columnist and literary critic for LA VERDAD. Trapiello, closely linked to Murcia due to his friendship with writers such as Pedro García Montalvo and Eloy Sánchez Rosillo, is one of the greatest enthusiasts of the figure of the painter and writer Ramón Gaya.

The writer and priest Pablo d'Ors (Monday, May 20) will present for the first time in Murcia his latest book, 'The Contemplatives', which according to the publishing house Galaxia Gutenberg addresses “with as much humor as lyricism, with as much lightness as depth, the great questions of self-knowledge and personal growth: the body, emptiness, shadow, contemplation, identity, forgiveness and everyday life. His last visit to Murcia was in 2002, when he presented 'Biografía de la luz'.

Juan Manuel de Prada (Wednesday, June 5), writer and columnist, will speak in Murcia about 'Raros como yo' (Espasa), a gallery of cursed, rare writers, including the Lorca-born Eliodoro Puche, Concha Espina, Víctor de la Serna or Concha Alós, among others.

All these meetings will take place in Murcia, at the facilities of the Cajamurcia Foundation.

The last event of the LA VERDAD Culture Classroom this quarter will have as a guest the architect Juan de Dios de la Hoz (Wednesday, June 12), from the Lavila Arquitectos studio, and will be held at the facilities of the Cajamurcia Foundation in Caravaca de la Cross. LA VERDAD joins the celebrations of the Jubilee Year with this meeting, in which De la Hoz, Rafael Manzano International Prize for New Traditional Architecture in 2018 for his reconstruction work after the Lorca earthquake, will outline some projects carried out for the Diocese of Cartagena, among which is the restoration of the Imafronte of the Cathedral of Murcia, whose works are ongoing.

Next guest: M. Ángeles Bonmatí

M. Ángeles Bonmatí, with a degree in Biology and a doctorate in Physiology from the University of Murcia (UMU), practices excellence from the UMU Chronobiology Laboratory, the Murcian Biomedical Research Institute (IMIB) and Ciberfes (Biomedical Research Center). in the Fragility and Healthy Aging Network of the Carlos III Health Institute), said this Sunday in an interview prior to his participation in the LA VERDAD Culture Classroom this Tuesday, April 16, that “a society that does not sleep enough is a “less productive society and, in addition, it consumes more resources because it is a society more prone to disease.”

Regarding the project with schoolchildren, the specialist announced that this new project from the UMU aims to analyze sleep in several institutes in the Region of Murcia. «We will evaluate the physiological aspect, we will monitor the students with bracelets that will measure their temperature, activity and exposure to light, and we are interested in knowing their perception as a concept, as a physiological process, and if they are aware of the problem of not sleeping enough. . We're seeing a lot of mental health issues, and we think lack of sleep may be involved. “We are not only talking about psychological well-being, but also about academic performance.”