The institution accompanying the launch of El corazón del cuidador treats Spanish as a cultural practice, not as a school subject.

This Saturday, August 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) hosts the presentation and signing of El corazón del cuidador. El arte como puente / The Caregiver's Heart. Art as a Bridge, by Yamilet Uzcanga Trujillo. Opening remarks will be delivered by Edith Monge Silva, director of Languages Foundation, one of the institutions backing the project. She is worth pausing over, because her presence on Saturday's program goes well past protocol.

Languages Foundation is a Miami-based nonprofit devoted to the development and encouragement of language in its varied expressions — written, oral, musical, artistic — with particular emphasis on Spanish within Florida's Latino community. The wording repays attention. Language appears there in the plural and in several registers at once, so that writing, music, and image are understood as versions of a single impulse. This is exactly the ground on which a book about art as a bridge finds its natural interlocutor.

The foundation sustains that principle through concrete programs. Its Adult Program offers intensive workshops and activities designed to strengthen Spanish in the United States through interactive practice, with the declared aim of keeping a linguistic inheritance alive and fostering continuous learning of the language. Alongside it runs Dímelo en Español, a campaign producing titles and short pieces for young audiences, and a series of brief documentary videos. One of them, devoted to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, was filmed at the Books and Books bookstore in Coral Gables, with Mallorcan artist Miquel Salom contributing the visual work. A foundation that calls on a visual artist to speak about Cervantes has already settled what it means by language.