26—29 January 2012

CARTAGENA DE INDIAS

Hay Festival Cartagena celebrates its seventh anniversary in 2012, and we are proud to offer a more diverse and exciting programme than ever. Writers and artists help us to understand the changing modern world. They inspire us with new and fresh ideas in these difficult times. The 2012 programme includes events on philosophic thinking, gastronomy, sociology, psychology and dance... more concerts, the most important writers' new books and, as always, 20% of tickets free for students.

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  • Magic in fact as well as fiction, Mark Skipworth in The Telegraph

  • “Hay Festival Xalapa’s aim is to pursue the exchange with readers with no formalism: it is a huge party of words.” Milenio

  • “The power of words to achieve peace is the leitmotiv of Hay Festival.” La Gaceta

  • “Michael Nyman’s brilliant closing concert was packed, while beneath it Martin Amis, and then Richard Ford, were interviewed alfresco. These were beautiful moments.” Tiffany Murray, The Telegraph

  • “At the four-day festival, there were internationally renowned mathematicians, poets and musicians; journalists, critics and novelists – including Martin Amis on fine form.” John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times

  • “Hundreds of young people listening in perfect silence. Xalapa was the best city that Hay Festivals could have chosen to host the festival.” Juan Cruz, El País

  • “At this cultural celebration, you could see young people and whole families talking to the great figures of culture.” Informador

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HAY FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD

For more than twenty years Hay Festival has brought writers, thinkers, musicians, film-makers and scientists together around the world to cross cultural and genre barriers and foster the exchange of ideas. Hay sets literature within a wider cultural and social context and creates high-definition live festivals and internationally resonant media impact. In Bill Clinton's famous phrase it is ‘the Woodstock of the mind’.

Hay Festival is rooted in the Welsh book town of Hay-on-Wye. In 2009 we were awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade. There are now Hay Festivals in India, Bangladesh, Colombia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico and Spain as well as at home in Wales.

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WHAT THEY SAY

A heady mix of great speakers and insightful audiences make the Hay Festival such a joy. The Telegraph
One of the best festivals in the world The Independent
In my mind it's replaced Christmas Tony Benn
One of the finest, most thought-provoking literary gatherings I’ve ever attended Junot Díaz

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