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Doctor Who Day

Doctor Who Day 

Last weekend I went to the "Doctor who day" in Barcelona. Three months ago, I made a post about the TV show "Doctor who" And I said that I'm a huge fan. I also commented that the show is divided in two parts: from 1963 to 1989 and from 2005 to the present day, so this year is the tenth annyversary of the new series. In Spain, the "Club Català de ciència Ficció Fantasia i Fàndom" organized a thematic weekend with activities related to the British show, and I obviouly went to it.
There were some conferences, Q&A, contests, photo shoots, signings, concerts... And much more!
My favourite conferences were the one about the regenerations of the Doctor and the one about the books of the show in Spanish.
There were some special guests too, like Peter Roy ( An actor who appeared in Doctor Who, Star Wars, James Bond, Harry Potter, Superman, Indiana Jones...) and Andrew Cartmel (A novelist, screenwriter and writer of comics) and others, but my favourite is Sergi Páez. He is the creative director at Vision Factory Entertainment Studios, fan of Doctor who and the science-fiction, writer and director of the first Spanish Fanfict series about the Doctor, "The No-Nose Dog Project". When I heard that he was coming I was excited, so I took one of his books and he signed it to me.
But that wasn't the best: Sunday afternoon was the theater contest, and I was not enrolled because I was not interested on it. I met two girs and we became friends, and we were going to the room where the contest was conducted, but we arrived almost one hour late so we just could see the two last participants (The contest was played by pairs) And then, the presenter said: "Ok, so since we have Sergi Páez here, and he is a famous screenwriter, he must improvise some screenplay and we could take volunteers to represent it"  And I raised my hand. But nobody else raised his hand. So the presenter said "As it seems like no one wants, Sergi will do it and I'll invent the screenplay" When we finished, I was so embarrassed, but that was over, or that was what I thought... We won! I couldn't believe it! I wasn't even enrolled on it!
Anyway, there were two awards, one for each of us, but we had to decide who was taking which. And how to decide? Doing another performances duel. Guess what? I won again! That was amazing!

My ideology

Feminism

In one of my last posts I said that I'm a bit feminist. I decided to be feminist when I was 13 years old and I realized about the gender inequality, and I'm not speaking about underdeveloped countries, I'm speaking about EEUU, the UK and obviously Spain.
Today, feminism is an unpopular word, through the point of view of the people, the feminists are seen as too strong, too aggressive and anti-men. Well, the more I spoke about feminism, the more I realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating, and that's ridiculous! Because, what people don't know is that feminism by definition is literally the belief that men and woman should have the same rights and opportunities. That means political, economic and social equality for the sexes.
I have girl friends that left their favourite sports: basketball, football... and all because they didn't want to seem muscly. I have boy friends who are 17 or 18 years old that are unable to express their feelings. Do you thing that's normal?
Once I told these thoughts to the head teacher at my school and I was pleased to see that she agreed with me, although she doesn't consider herself a feminist. She said that actually, our society  somehow "compels" us to do it.
Did you know that woman in Spain are paid on average 25% less than men? I think is right I'm paid the same as the men, I think it's right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body.
There are some campaigns which fight for gender equality, like HeForShe, but it's not enough, it's important to know that without the help of men we won't obtain equality.

The no-books of Keri Smith

THE NO-BOOKS OF KERI SMITH

Today I'm going to talk about Keri Smith and her books, or rather her no-books as she call them.
Keri Smith is an author, illustrator and a guerrilla artist, which means that she creates street art. She is also a freelance illustrator and has most recently worked for "Random House", "The Washington Post", "The New York Times" as well as for companies like "Ford Motor Company"
Her writing is usually on the topic of creativity.  The first book of Keri Smith that I bought was "Wreck this journal" As the title sais, is a journal that you can wreck. It's an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking the readers to must up their best mess making habilities to fill the pages of the book and destroy them.
Through the pages of this book you can do things like add photos and defacing them, paint with coffee and more in order to experience the true creative process.
The second book of this autor that I bought was "This in not a book" this no-book can be a lot of things, for example a secret message, I remember that in one of the firts pages I had to tear out a page, write a note on it for a stranger, and leave it in a public place. In other of the pages I had to write the name of everyone I contacted that day, and other page asked me to create as many sounds as I can using the book, like flipping the pages fast or slapping the cover.
There are many photos about the things you can do with the journal: