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My words, others’ words
Event 1 • Friday 2 September 2011, 7.30-8.30pm •
Venue: TORREÓN DE LOZOYA
First encounter between Eduardo Mendoza and his readers. The author will begin reading his work Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936, which will be followed by Aurelio Martín, Teresa Sanz, Luis García Méndez, Jesús García Calero, José Manuel Calvo Roy, Ignacio Bazarra, Peio H. Riaño, Carlos Aganzo, Carlos Blanco, César Gómez, José Antonio Quirce, Clara Luquero and Malaquías del Pozo. Chaired by Ana Gavín.
An interpreter for sign language will be available.
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Event 2 • Thursday 8 September 2011, 7.30-8.30pm •
Venue: LIBRERÍA ANTARES
Ilze Barobs and Jennie Gant, teachers at the British Council Segovia, will read texts by British author Michelle Paver.
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My words, others’ words
Event 3 • Friday 9 September 2011, 7.30-8.30pm •
Venue: BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA DE SEGOVIA
Final reading of Eduardo Mendoza’s work Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936. Representatives of various reading clubs in Segovia will read along with Miguel Ángel López Fernández. Chaired by Luis García Méndez.
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My words, others’ words
Event 4 • Saturday 10 September 2011, 7.30-8.30pm •
Venue: LIBRERÍA SOLIDARIA AIDA
First encounter with Tagore’s universe. Readings in Bengali, English and Spanish. Shirsh Chandra Jaswal and Teresa Herranz will read poems by Tagore, Juan Contreras, Upamanyu Chatterjee and St John of the Cross.
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Event 5 • Thursday 15 September 2011, 7.30-8.30pm •
Venue: BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA DE SEGOVIA
Ilze Barobs and Jennie Gant, teachers at the British Council Segovia, will read texts by British author Michelle Paver.
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Event 6 • Friday 16 September 2011, 7.30-8.30pm •
Venue: BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA DE SEGOVIA
Luis García Méndez, Nona Domínguez Sanjurjo and Susanne Teichmann, from the Goethe-Institut, will read texts by Rüdiger Safranski.
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Two free voices
Event 7 • Saturday 17 September 2011, 7pm-9.15pm •
Venue: AULA MAGNA, CAMPUS DE SANTA CRUZ LA REAL-IE UNIVE
Rüdiger Safranski, German philosopher and writer, member of the German Language and Poetry Academy, will talk to Javier Moreno, Berlin correspondent in 2003 and editor at El País since 2006. Chaired by Santiago Íñiguez, president of IE University.
Simultaneous translation will be available from German into Spanish.
Inauguration of the Invited Work: “Am Grunde der Moldau /Drei Kaiser”, by Anselm Kiefer
20:30-21:15, MUSEO ESTEBAN VICENTE The work invited by the Fundación AXA to Hay Festival 2011 is one by Anselm Kiefer, belonging to the Fundación de María José Jove collection. Kiefer’s work is a continuous reference to the historical, cultural and geographic events that intermingle between literary and poetic inspirations. Its name, “Am Grunde der Moldau”, comes from the words Bertold Brecht uses to start his work Song of the Moldau.
Co-organized with the Fundación AXA and with the collaboration of the Goethe-Institut, the Museo Esteban Vicente, the Fundación María José Jove and the Grupo Matarromera. Diputacion de Segovia, Renfe.
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Event 8 • Wednesday 21 September 2011, 12pm-1pm •
Venue: SALIDA DEL PALACIO QUINTANAR
Join us for a tour through the various exhibitions of the visual arts programme. The walk will begin at the Palacio Quintanar, where the British Council will present the photography exhibition “Sueños compartidos/Shared dreams”, by Britain’s Gabriella Sancisi and Spain’s Juan Valbuena, as well as retrospective of the 110 years ofEl Adelantado de Segovia and the work of Leopoldo Pómez. The tour will move on to the Casa de los Picos to view the sculptures of the AHEC contest as well as those by Sou Fujimoto, from Wallpaper magazine. The next stop will be at La Alhóndiga for the screening of EFE agency’s video El reloj, and the “Álbum ilustrado danés/Danish Illustrated Album” exhibition. The last stop will be at the Museo Esteban Vicente, to view Esteban Vicente’s exhibition, “Improvisaciones concretas: collages and esculturas”, and the invited work, “Am Grunde der Moldau/Drei Kaiser”,by Anselm Kiefer. The tour will end in the Plaza Mayor.
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My words, others’ words
Event 9 • Wednesday 21 September 2011, 1.15-1.45pm •
Venue: TEMPLETE DE LA PLAZA MAYOR
The programme to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore will begin with a ritual lighting of the deepa lamp dedicated to the god Ganesha and the reading of Tagore’s poetry in English and Bengali by actress Sharmila Tagore, the poet’s great-grand-daughter. The event will conclude with a dance of Tagore’s poems in Spanish performed by Mónica de la Fuente in the bharata natyam Indian classical dance and the musicians Ido Segal and Nantha Kumar.
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The culture of bullfighting
Event 10 • Wednesday 21 September 2011, 7.30-9.30pm •
Venue: CAJA SEGOVIA
(19:30) The culture of bullfighting. Andrés Amorós talks to Enrique Ponce
France protects bullfighting as an element culture, while in Spain prohibition of bullfighting looms over Catalonia. This year Hay Festival welcomes an unusual cultural debate, and to do so has enlisted speakers with first hand knowledge. As a cornerstone from which books have been made, bullfighting finds its roots in the myths of our culture and brings depth of meaning to our life and our place in the world as well as our relationship with nature and death. The bull has been a constant in the art of our culture from the time of the bison in cave paintings. ABC critic Andrés Amorós, an expert in bullfighting history and literature, interviews matador Enrique Ponce to shed light on this debate.
(20:15) Of bulls and men. Agustín Díaz Yanes, Francis Wolff, Silvia Clemente, Rosario Pérez, Paco Aguado and Ignacio Bazarra
There is a lot of talk about bulls in Spain and in certain Latin American countries with a bullfighting history, and there are strong voices in the world of culture who defend the values of this tradition. Film, literature and philosophy find reasons for the survival of this spectacle that can be at once a festival, an art, a barbaric encounter or a way of life. Film maker Agustín Díaz Yanes, French philosopher Francis Wolff, Regional Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Junta de Castilla y León Silvia Clemente, and the bullfighting journalist Rosario Pérez debate along with Spanish journalist Paco Aguado. Chaired by Ignacio Bazarra, Culture editor at EFE agency.
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Event 11 • Thursday 22 September 2011, 10-11am •
Venue: IGLESIA DE SAN NICOLÁS
Meeting with Timothée de Fombelle, author of the Tobie Lolness series. In each of the two books in the series (La Viesuspendue and Les Yeux d’Elisha), both of which have had huge international success, the author immerses the reader in a highly original miniature world where unforgettable adventures unfold.
Event in French.
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Event 12 • Thursday 22 September 2011, 11.30am-12.30pm •
Venue: IGLESIA DE SAN NICOLÁS
Michelle Paver, British author of children’s literature awarded with The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, will talk to Fitch O’Connell as well as with teenagers and teachers about her work. She will do a reading, illustrated with images, of her work, a series of stories set in prehistoric times.
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Event 14 • Thursday 22 September 2011, 12pm-1pm •
Venue: CAMPUS DE SANTA CRUZ LA REAL-IE UNIVERSITY
Workshop produced by IE University Medialab and which will be broadcast via streaming on www.abc.es and will be open to collaboration from all through hashtag #ABCenHay. The writers Eduardo Mendoza and Patricio Pron will talk about literary journalism as a genre from the 1970’s until the arrival of Twitter. The event will be chaired by Pedro Cifuentes, director of the Master in Digital Journalism at IE University, and moderated by Jesús García Calero and Inés Martín Rodrigo, from ABC newspaper. At the end of the event, participants will compose a micro-summary of the event with a maximum of three tweets (presentation, conflict, resolution) and the most accomplished will be awarded.
Information and reservation: Nicky Sharp, IE University, +34 921 412 410, hayfestival@ie.edu
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Event 13 • Thursday 22 September 2011, 1pm-2pm •
Venue: IGLESIA DE SAN NICOLÁS
Michelle Paver, British author of children’s literature awarded with The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, will talk to Fitch O’Connell as well as with teenagers and teachers about her work. She will do a reading, illustrated with images, of her work, a series of stories set in prehistoric times.
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Event 15 • Thursday 22 September 2011, 7pm-8pm •
Venue: CAJA SEGOVIA
Eduardo Mendoza inaugurates the literary events with a chat with journalist Antonio San José. He will talk about his novel Riña de gatos. Madrid 1936, an impressive tableau of the tumultuous climate the country lived through immediately before the civil war, and takes a look at his narrative from his debut with La verdad sobre el caso Savolta.
Simultaneous translation will be available from Spanish into English.
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Event 17 • Thursday 22 September 2011, 9pm-11pm •
Venue: CAJA SEGOVIA
The legendary Indian actress and great-granddaughter of Rabindranath Tagore, Sharmila Tagore, who was recently recognised for her lifetime achievements by the prestigious IIFA awards in Toronto, and Spanish film director Jaime Chávarri, who is currently working on full length feature which will be shot in India, will discuss the influence Tagore has exerted on the art film culture in India. At the end of the event the film Devi will be screened.
Simultaneous translation will be available from English into Spanish
‘Devi’ (1960, 93 min, Bengal), by Satyajit Ray
The story of this film, set in rural Bengal in the 1860’s, centres on Doyamoyee, whose father-in-law Kalikinkar Roy, sees in dreams as the embodiment of the goddess Kali, to whom he is devoted. His belief spreads through the community who start to regard the character as a transformation of the goddess, an idea that she herself ends up believing.
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Event 18 • Friday 23 September 2011, 10.30-11.30am •
Venue: IGLESIA DE SAN NICOLÁS
Michelle Paver, British author of children’s literature awarded with The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, will talk to Fitch O’Connell as well as with teenagers and teachers about her work. She will do a reading, illustrated with images, of her work, a series of stories set in prehistoric times.
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Event 20 • Friday 23 September 2011, 11am-2pm and 4pm-7pm •
Venue: PALACIO QUINTANAR
Designer Emilio Gil will provide a master class on signage in urban centres of historical townships. He will address matters such as signage and visual contamination, the balance between the need for information and the respect for historical venues, how to intervene without visual noise, etc, and point out outstanding models. Participants will have put forward a solution for the signage around the Palacio Quintanar in Segovia.
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Event 21 • Friday 23 September 2011, 11.30am-12.30pm •
Venue: CÁMARA DE COMERCIO
In this meeting with young readers, British novelist Tiffany Murray will talk about renowned authors Charles Dickens and Neil Gaiman. Murray is the author Diamond Star Halo and Happy Accidents, novels which were nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award. The British daily The Guardian has billed her as the “Dodie Smith of glam rock” and selected Diamond Star Halo as the best work of fiction in 2010.
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Event 19 • Friday 23 September 2011, 12pm-1pm •
Venue: IGLESIA DE SAN NICOLÁS
Michelle Paver, British author of children’s literature awarded with The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, will talk to Fitch O’Connell as well as with teenagers and teachers about her work. She will do a reading, illustrated with images, of her work, a series of stories set in prehistoric times.
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