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'Written with art', 'A tu escala' and 'The URJC that is not seen' are the titles of the Cultural Promotion Contests that the Rey Juan Carlos University launched on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. The plastic arts, photography and short story competitions aim to promote culture among the university community.
III Plastic Arts Contest: 'Written with art'
Through this contest, various authors offered their literary works so that other members of the university community could illustrate them. All the designs have been free technique, and have been made on the first pages of the work, where the author of the book and the publisher appear. Thus there would be a variety of designs, since each book had very different measurements.
This year's winner was Ismael Corredor Perrone, with his short story 'Cafeteria? -What a joy!', Who, in addition, has obtained a prize of 500 euros for his writing.
Ismael has expressed his gratitude for obtaining this award, "I wanted to show that there are also artists in the field of health sciences." He was curious and complicated, he wanted to draw something that would unite all the students at the university, and regardless of what you study, all the students meet in the cafeteria ”. “The most beautiful moments I have lived have been in cafeterias”.
For his part, Luis Nahuel, winner of the second prize of 300 euros, also wanted to thank him for the recognition he had been given and pointed out that in his illustration he wanted to reflect all the memories of a person from his time at the university. "The book that touched me was a collection of poems in which the person took a tour of all his memories of the university, in my drawing I wanted to qualify all the moments that he had lived."
XVI Photography Contest: 'The URJC that cannot be seen'
The sixteenth edition of the photography contest was focused on 'The URJC that is not seen'. Through this motto it was intended to go into detail and find a more personal look at the day-to-day life of the university through photographs.
The first winner was Verónica Alexandra González, under the title 'Through the window'. "I wanted to photograph a friend who studies in Vicálvaro through the reflection of the window, longing to leave the university and thinking about when the day she graduates will be," said the winner.
Second prize went to Lourdes Cecilia Calderón with 'red', and third prize went to Luis Ovejero Martín.
XVI Short Story Contest: 'At your scale'
Under this title, the contest wants to give voice through literary creation to the university life of all the people who study or work at the Rey Juan Carlos University. The participants had to focus their story on stories that start, transit or end in the URJC. "A short story inspired by a university atmosphere, written with a personal voice" was the maxim of this contest.
Francisco Javier Guirado, grateful for his first position with the story 'Aleph, the Substitute' He explained that the objective of his story was "the most beastly deformation of a teacher." In it, she wanted to reflect a teacher with strange attitudes. "What is striking about the story is that none of the characters react to those strange attitudes of the teacher."
Laura Lezama was the second winner of the short story with the name 'Magical realism'. “I wanted to reflect the ordinary things of the day to day. The protagonist is a rather jinxed 'Gafotas Manolito', but with his different and fun vision of life, he takes his day to day in a different way, with humor. Sometimes life is like this, bizarre” explained Lezama.
The third winner was Lucía Villaseñor, with the story "Dear Professor", and with a prize of 200 euros.
Mercedes del Hoyo, Vice Chancellor for Campus Community, Culture and Sports, closed the awards ceremony by thanking all the participants for their proposals, encouraging others to continue participating in the coming years and that culture continues to be present in every corner. of the URJC.