Projects and partners

Hay Festival Arequipa works in collaboration with several organisations.

Promperú

Live Peru at the fullest, every experience here is unliquely special. Hay Festival Arequipa promotes the arrival of tourismo to Arequipa and Peru by its activities and is sponsorished by Promperú.

More information about tourism in Peru at https://www.peru.travel/en

SURA

SURA, Latin American Partner of the Hay Festival continues to support the Festival. On this occasion, they supported four conversations: Homage to Mario Vargas Llosa. Héctor Abad Faciolince, Patricia del Río and Carlos Granés in conversation with María Grazia Ríos, Talking about artificial intelligence. Laura G. de Rivera and Rodrigo Quian Quiroga in conversation with Layla Hirsch; and two book clubs.. Additionally, SURA is the sponsor of the digital broadcasts of Hay Festival Arequipa 2025.

South to South Conversations

With the series of South to South meetings, Hay Festival Global aims to create a space for encounters between the most innovative voices of the Global South, sharing different ways of viewing the world and non-Western solutions to the problems we face. This series is supported by the Open Society Foundations. During Hay Festival Arequipa 2025, we had various South to North conversations: Feminisms. María Galindo, Arwa Mahdawi and Rafia Zakaria in conversation with José Luis Ramos Salinas; The Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Rodolfo Sánchez-Aizcorbe and Arwa Mahdawi in conversation with Natalia Sobrevilla; This democracy is not democracy. Nelly Luna and Josefina Townsend with David Marcial Pérez; In first person. Marie-Pier Lafontaine and Rafia Zakaria in conversation with Nelly Luna; French ethnology in Peru Pascal Riviale in conversation with Mario Rommel Arce Espinosa; Catholicism in the 21st century. Elise Ann Ellen, Pablo Quintanilla and Paola Ugaz in conversation with Camila Osorio; Violences. Carlos Enrique Freyre and Enmanuel Grau in conversation with Paola Donaire; 'Coreografía para trenzas solas'. Teresa Ruiz Rosas in conversation with Augusto Carrasco; From the trenches and the periphery. María Galindo in conversation with Camila Osorio and Inhospitable countries, sartling stories. Alejandra Moffat and Dany Salvatierra in conversation with Jorge Malpartida.

ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA (AC/E)

Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) is a public organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing Spain's culture and heritage, both within and outside its borders, through a broad range of activities including exhibitions, meetings, lecture series, film, theater, music, audiovisual productions, and initiatives that foster the mobility of professionals and creators. Within the initiatives that promote the internationalization and mobility of professionals in the Spanish literary sector, AC/E has launched a collaboration program with Hay Festivals held worldwide, co-organizing activities to promote and disseminate the work of our creators abroad. The Hay Festival Arequipa 2025 featured a strong presence of Spanish talent: Andrés Barba and Laura G. De Rivera.

BRITISH COUNCIL

The Hay Festival and the British Council launched a global partnership at the Hay-on-Wye Festival in 2010—deepening their collaboration since the birth of Hay Festival Cartagena—and have since worked together to bring UK writers and thinkers to global audiences. The British Council's literature team promotes British editors, poets, and writers to various communities and audiences worldwide, developing innovative and high-quality events that connect writers, editors, and cultural institutions. British authors at the Hay Festival Arequipa 2025 was supported by the British Council to ensure that the UK’s literary expertise and knowledge are recognized and appreciated by different Peruvian audiences. These are the British authors who will participate in the festival: Jerssica Andrews and Claire Bishop. Besides that, we had a conversation about the publication of Why Technology Needs Artists: 40 International Perspectives, with Jose Carlos Mariátegui and Sissi Hamann.

BBC MUNDO

To complement the programming of the Hispanic festivals and expand its reach through digital media, Hay Festival partners with BBC Mundo to create complementary programming where guests at Hay Festival Arequipa, and other significant cultural figures from the Americas and Europe, will discuss current issues, offer book recommendations and authors they admire, and share their insights on specific topics. Readers will also find interesting notes and test their knowledge of literature and the Spanish language. BBC Mundo journalists moderated several talks at the festival.

This digital programming, featuring exclusive videos, texts, images, and conversations, will be published on the BBC Mundo and Hay Festival websites and social media platforms.

EL PAÍS AMÉRICA

Hay Festival and El País have established a media partnership for all festivals in Latin America, bringing festival content to the newspaper's readers and the paper’s interviews and research to festival attendees. The newspaper hosts a talk at each festival with a significant international figure, and both organizations share content to bring the Hay Festival closer to El País readers. This time, we have the following conversation: Pablo Cateriano in conversation with David Marcial Pérez.

THE ECCLES INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES

The Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Global Writer’s Award is an annual literary prize awarding £20,000 to a writing project that explores a theme related to the Americas; the award is organized by the Eccles Institute for American Studies at the British Library, in association with Hay Festival Global. The prize is aimed at writers working on non-fiction or fiction books, in English or Spanish, that require the use of the Americas collection at the British Library. The Hay Festival is pleased to support this award and contribute to publicizing the call for entries and the work of the winners, inviting them to its festivals. At the Hay Festival Arequipa 2025, we featured the conversation Archives of a return journey. Carlos Chávez, Esther Cruces, Jorge Lossio in conversation with Edward Ybarra.

HAY DIALOGUES WITH CUADERNOS HISPANOAMERICANOS

Hay Dialogues with Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos aims to foster knowledge and exchange between writers of different generations and nationalities, united by a shared language and literary tradition enriched by authors from diverse backgrounds. This proposal, which will be developed at each Hay Festival, will feature a renowned author who will, in turn, propose another younger one, either from Latin America or Spain (Spanish authors are invited to propose a Latin American writer and vice versa). It is thus a dialogue that builds bridges between generations and different countries, with Spanish literature as a bridge. On this occasion, Andrés Barba from Spain and Fernanda Trías from Uruguay conversed with María Gracia Ríos.

AREQUIPA MEN'S AND WOMEN'S PENITENTIARY ESTABLISHMENT

In line with our goal of identifying with the most vulnerable sectors of the community, since 2019 the Hay Festival Arequipa has been organizing sessions in the Socabaya men's and women's prisons. This year, in addition to the scheduled talks with program guests, we have designed a sensitization strategy through reading, together with the participants of the Bibliobici project. The plan consists of four scheduled visits to the prison, aiming to collect the voices of the inmates around readings, texts, and other creative documents with which we will work at each stage. The visits took place before the Hay Festival Arequipa. Enmanuel Grau and Paula López Espinosa were the authors who will visit the men's and women's prisons, respectively.

Activities at the Colegio de Alto Rendimiento de Arequipa (COAR)

While the Colegio de Alto Rendimiento de Arequipa (COAR) welcomes high school juniors, seniors, and fifth-year students with proven capabilities for engaging in an educational process aimed at enhancing their remarkable skills in various fields of knowledge, the Hay Festival Arequipa wants these young people to interact with prominent guests to inspire them and encourage them to design their own careers with a broad, transversal vision that impacts their target groups: family, friends, neighborhood, school community, university community, and finally, as agents of transformation in the country. In this edition, María del Milagro Lozada delivered a lecture.