Last week the director of El Calendari dels Brillants, Joan Josep Cardona, and the manager of MACMA, Jovi Seser, met in Benissa in a very special setting regarding the history of the literary almanac: the home of Mr. Joan de Plamolins, alter ego of the project coordinator and at the same time the backbone of each volume. A meeting to address the next edition of this veteran almanac that exceeds three decades of existence.
As for the role of the Cultural Association of the Marina Alta, the publisher of the almanac, work is already being done on the 2021 volume in relation to the compilation of business collaborations in the region that act as patrons of each edition together with the municipalities , which act as co-publishers through MACMA.
For his part, Joan Josep Cardona valued during the meeting the quality and plurality of the signatures that will once again make possible a unique document within our literary field. And it is that this year, given the overwhelming imperative of COVID-19 and all the consequences and implications of the pandemic in the economic, social and cultural tissues, the message of El Calendari dels Brillants aims to be more optimistic and bright than ever, for which the publication will be free of viruses and analysis of the aforementioned phenomenon after a year of informative saturation.
In this sense, Cardona has had an impact on the sharpness that has allowed for more than three decades to spin a multidisciplinary discourse where the rigor and depth of the topics covered are combined with a peaceful and, above all, close point of view. A register, a tone, which, without forgetting the growing capacity for analysis of the central dossier - which will focus mainly on the economy of proximity as an antidote against the economic and vital crisis - and of sections such as The reasoned nature, will be promoted in the new edition.
In short, new incentives to strengthen the trajectory of El Calendari dels Brillants, which will be released at the end of the year, specifically in early December 2020. Meanwhile, however, the creative machinery of the Brillants is already underway.
