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PalmI will spend a good part of the week listening to some of my favorite writers at the second edition of the La Coma festival, organized by the Fundació Mallorca Literària. This year, the program includes talks by Mariana Enríquez, Laura Fernández, Lucia Pietrelli, Roser Cabré-Verdiell, and Desirée de Fez, among many others. And it will all begin with the highly anticipated inaugural conversation about Els fils del desig between Christina Rosenvinge and Begoña Méndez. From May 7 to 10 between Palma and Binissalem.

I will return to childhood thanks to the proposals of Tinta Il·lustre, the festival dedicated to the illustrated album and children's and young adult books organized by Rata Corner, which will feature authors such as Rocío Bonilla and Jarvis. This year, they are moving the bulk of their programming to Casal Son Tugores in Alaró, where there will be storytelling, workshops, and games. Saturday, May 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

I will take the extraordinary reviews that the novel Seriesboja si no ho fessis has received so far into account, a satire on motherhood by the writer and translator Mara Gaye Lethem. It has been published in Catalan by Males Herbes.

I will rewatch a fascinating film, based on an even more fascinating short story: Los destellos, the adaptation that filmmaker Pilar Palomero made of an extraordinary story by Eider Rodríguez. On Filmin from May 4.

I will enjoy the possibility of listening live to Pitxtorines' new album, Sa falda girada, which will surely continue in the vein of their first, the successful Un so qui no es gasta, released two years ago, with which these eight Mallorcan musicians took themes from the popular songbook of Mallorca and made them their own. The presentation concert for the new album is part of the Cranc Illa de Mallorca Festival program. Friday, May 8, at 8 p.m., at the Principal theater in Palma.

I will listen to some of the leading experts in Catalan literature at the seminar on Blai Bonet organized by the Universitat de les Illes Balears as part of the year dedicated to the poet from Santanyí. The activities will begin on May 6 at Casa Blai Bonet in Santanyí and will continue on May 7 and 8 in Palma, at the La Riera building. The sessions include speakers such as Nicolau Dols, Pere Rosselló Bover, Gabriel de la S. T. Sampol, and Xavier Pla, as well as a presentation by Carles Rebassa on Blai Bonet and the discourse on desire.

I will recommend the people from Ibiza to go to the Cas Serres auditorium to see the Dúo Ekríktiko live, formed by cellist Mónica Marí and pianist Carolina Santiago. Within the framework of the twelfth edition of the Dies Musicals cycle, they will perform classical and contemporary music pieces included in the project Rapsòdia: ressons d’un so oblidat, with which they aim to recover forgotten works by 20th-century female composers and vindicate the musical heritage of Ibiza. Saturday, May 9, at 8 p.m.

I will go to the Manacor Auditorium to see Roger Coma and Maria Molins on stage in the play Göteborg, where a man and a woman meet again, years after the events, to reconstruct the night their relationship broke and to try to clarify what really happened. Saturday, May 9, at 7 p.m.

I will wish to be in Menorca to listen to the great music divulgator Ramon Gener, always as enthusiastic and erudite as he is encouraging and entertaining. Gener returns to the Principal de Maó theater to talk about the opera Un ballo in maschera, by Giuseppe Verdi, which will be performed on the same stage at the end of May for the 55th opera season. Friday, May 8, at 8 p.m.

I will see the film Arrival on the big screen, and I will also do so to hear the reflections of Dr. Victoria Cano in the discussion organized after the screening. Monday, May 4, at 7 p.m., at CineCiutat.