CENAL started reading and art workshop with 250 students from Caracas and Miranda

Published at: 05/06/2026 12:38 PM

On June 3, the National Book Center (CENAL) began the workshop “Reading takes art”, an initiative that brings together 250 girls and boys from the fourth to the sixth grade of primary education with the objective of encouraging reading habits and promoting the work of Venezuelan authors.

According to information from the Ministry for Culture, the activity, which will run until June 26, includes the participation of students from nine educational institutions in Caracas and Miranda, to stimulate artistic expression through the reading of the children's story Jalico, between notebooks and beasts, by the Venezuelan writer Aquiles Silva, winner of the II National Biennial of Children's and Youth Literature Carmen Delia Bencomo in 2025.

Through this training proposal, CENAL promotes critical thinking, creativity and the strengthening of cultural identity among schoolchildren. The sessions are guided by a team of reading mediators comprised of Norma Guatarama, Cristina Molinati, Martha González, Ana Mirian Nava, Yerly Herrera, Roger Herrera, Leonardo Cádiz and Andrés González.

In this regard, the strategy manager of CENAL, Yris Villamiza r, stressed that the initiative is part of the actions to encourage children and young people to approach books, taking as a reference titles from the 25 to 25 collection, distributed free of charge throughout the country by the Ministry for Culture in partnership with the Fund for Economic Culture of Mexico.

As a result of the workshop, participants will produce drawings and paintings inspired by Silva's work, works that will later be exhibited in an exhibition open to the public at the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Public Library.

MINCULTURA/Mazo News Team