Last Sunday, the Auditorio de Ondara hosted the nineteenth Premis Ocell gala, which this year held a new festival based on the recognition of the personalities that the members of the Ocell Cultural Association have chosen through their votes.
In this sense, the regional award was for the EMMA -School of Mathematics of the Marina Alta-. The awarded entity, integrated by 19 teachers and professors of the region, was born in 2008 with the objective of detecting, guiding and stimulating in a continuous way the outstanding mathematical talent of 12 and 13 years students.
The school is a space for fun, fellowship and, above all, a space where the students develop mathematical and social skills, enjoying. It is worth mentioning that the structure of the school is based on that of ESTALMAT of the Valencian Community, but the role of the monitors is the distinguishing feature of the EMMA. On behalf of the association, the regional award was collected by Sara Llorca, Juan Carlos Femenia and Florencio Burrel.
On the other hand, regarding the local prize, it has been granted to the philologist Olarense Veronica Zaragoza. Researcher of the BIESES research group (Bibliography of Spanish Writers), Zaragoza has a PhD in Catalan Philology from the University of Girona from 2016 and Catalan Philologist from the University of Valencia.
He began his research adventure in 2009 and has participated in more than 50 congresses and seminars with the intention of raising awareness of women's voices that had traditionally been silenced and forgotten. His research work has been complemented with translation and editing work and with teaching at the University of Valencia, at the Open University of Catalonia and now at the UNED, as well as teaching Valencian in several centers. In 2016 he received the Borsa d'estudi Ramon d'Alòs-Moner (Premis Sant Jordi) of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, to carry out the project The feminine literature of the XVI-XVIII centuries: catalog of authors and works of the Catalan linguistic domain.
Then it was released on the stage ondarense montage Turn the arrels, a recommended work of the company Va Com Va Teatre that already accumulates remarkable recognitions by its defense of the oral culture and the linguistic patrimony. In fact, a long applause certified the acceptance of a show that closed with the vindication of the legacy of Vicent Andrés Estellés the edition of the Ocell 2019 Premis.
