Pepen’arte Collective, on tour in Chiapas
After its success in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the promoters of reading and selling books at low cost will visit other important cities of the entity
Because “the ability and taste for reading gives access to what has already been discovered by others”, groups in Chiapas seek to bridge the educational gap by promoting reading with texts of all tastes.
Pepen’arte is a group of people who sell books and take cultural projects to different parts of the country, including the sale of used books, but in good condition and at affordable prices.
Arielle Melgar, a member of this group that settled in the Central Park of Tuxtla Gutiérrez on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 September, indicated that the response from the Tuxtla population has been good; however, to reach more population, they will settle in the central park of Chiapa de Corzo municipality and they will do the same in Comitán de Domínguez at the Cultural Center.
“We have our page on Facebook, it’s called Pepen’arte and there we usually publish where we are going to be, the project is a bit slow due to the issue of the pandemic, but we are opening the way to cultural spaces in various places, now we come to Chiapas We were in San Cristóbal de Las Casas ”.
Reading population decreases in 2020
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) in its report on the Module on Reading, announces that, until February 2020, of the literate population aged 18 and over, four out of 10 people declared that they read at least one book in the last 12 months, which represents a decrease of almost 5 percent if compared to 2016 where 45.9 percent of the population of 18 years and over literate considered themselves a reader, but in 2020 the record has decreased to 41.1 percent.
The main reasons for the literate population aged 18 and over who stated that they did not read some type of material considered by Molec was lack of time and interest.
Source: diariodechiapas.com
