Hay Festival Cartagena 2025 Agenda

Starts at	Ballestas	Bayunca	Casa Hay (Centro de Convenciones)	Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)	Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona)	Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (biblioteca)	Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)	Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (Salón Mutis)	Colegio Politécnico El Pozón	Corporación Ruleli	El Pozón	La Canoa Literaria	Palacio de la Proclamación (Auditorio Juan José Nieto)	Plaza de la Proclamación	Pontezuela	Teatro Adolfo Mejía	Turbana	Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de la Merced	Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de la Merced (Salón Eréndira)	Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de San Agustín (Aula Máxima de Derecho)	Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de San Agustín (Biblioteca)	Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (sede Manga)	Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (sede Manga) - Explanada Auditorio Jorge Tahua
09:00			09:00 CL1. Juan Gómez-Jurado in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina														09:00 HFC8. Performance-based reading from the Semilla collection
09:15
09:30						09:30 HFC9. Javier Cajiao The secrets of the birds			09:30 HFC12. Maricruz Rivera Clemente in conversation with Rosmery Armenteros
09:45
10:00		10:00 HFC11. Jorge Eljaik My neighborhood comets workshop		10:00 17. Charlotte Higgins, Pablo Montoya and John Sellars in conversation with Toni Celia Lessons from the classical world	10:00 18. Greg Clark in conversation with Sergio Díaz-Granados The challenges of cities		10:00 20. Virginia Mendoza in conversation with Olimpia Palmar A biography of water	10:00 TE1. Victoria García, Valentín Ortiz and Tomás Rubio in conversation with Raúl Quinto Bookstores. Not Everything Goes: Bibliographic Collection and Community Commitment		10:00 HFC10. Mary Grueso			10:00 21. Lyonel Trouillot in conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo South to North conversations			10:00 19. Gioconda Belli in conversation with Ana Cristina Restrepo Literature and resistance			10:00 HFJ6B. Journalism workshop with Abraham Jiménez Enoa	10:00 HFJ6. Rafael Navarro de Castro in conversation with María del Rosario Osorio Fortich	10:00 HFJ8. Mayra Santos-Febres in conversation with Ricardo Chica
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00									11:00 HFC14. Yomi Adegoke and Johny Pitts in conversation with Mónica Moreno Figueroa
11:15
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11:45
12:00			12:00 CL2. Camila Sosa Villada in conversation with Margarita Valencia	12:00 22. Nikole Hannah-Jones in conversation with Aurora Vergara Figueroa The 1619 Project and historical reparations in the Americas	12:00 23. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Javier Zamora in conversation with Leonard Benardo South to North conversations								12:00 25. Polly Russell and Gustavo Ulcué Campo in conversation with Adriana Martínez Archive and library, more than just places of knowledge			12:00 24. Colm Tóibín in conversation with Charlotte Higgins				12:00 HFJ9. Mariano Sigman en conversación con Rita Sierra	12:00 HFJ7. Virginia Mendoza in conversation with Jorge Sará	12:00 HFJ10. Florence Thomas in conversation with Julián Navarro
12:15
12:30								12:30 TE2. Luis Solano and Pilar Reyes in conversation with Mario Jursich Publishing Houses. The Construction of Their Catalog: Rationality, Passion, and Social Responsibility.
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00												14:00 HFC13. Brillith Sossa Wilches Workshop on being: our local identity
14:15
14:30	14:30 HFC18. Elisa Guerra Las voces de los árboles					14:30 HFC15. María Hesse					14:30 HFC17. Workshop with Carolina Garzón Blanco Musical biographies				14:30 HFC16. Javier Cajiao
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:30			15:30 CL3. Piedad Bonnett in conversation with Ana María Aponte	15:30 26. Leila Guerriero in conversation with Ana Cristina Restrepo	15:30 27. Jon Lee Anderson in conversation with Leonard Benardo South to North conversations			15:30 TE3. Adriana Martínez-Villalba and Leidy Johana Galvis Mejía in conversation with Mario Jursich Libraries					15:30 29. Osmundo Pinho in conversation with Flavia Rios Healing art and knowledge in Brazil			15:30 28. Nicola Lagioia in conversation with Camila Osorio			15:30 HFJ11. María Jimena Duzán and Diana Uribe in conversation with Milton Cabrera Podcasts
15:45
16:00																						16:00 HFJ12. Camila Sosa Villada in conversation with Mercedes Posada
16:15
16:30
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30				17:30 30. Juan Gómez-Jurado in conversation with Juan Lozano Todo muere	17:30 31. Yurieth Romero and Gilbert Shang Ndi in conversation with Paula Moreno Zapata Manos Visibles event: our own references. Africa-Latin America		17:30 33. Weildler Guerra, Olimpia Palmar, Gustavo Ulcué Campo and Ricardo Villafañe in conversation with Martin von Hildebrand South to North conversations: managing our territory	17:30 35. Rafael Navarro de Castro in conversation with José Zuleta					17:30 34. Txell Feixas and Laura Ortiz Gómez in conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel Women who take the reins			17:30 32. Jennifer Ackerman in conversation with Rosie Boycott Wise owls			17:30 HFJ14. Jorge Eljaik, Lusdary Martínez and Katherinne Vidal talk to Daniela Pabón and Óscar Daniel Campo Why publish what we write? Creative processes in university spaces		17:30 HFJ13. Cristina Rivera Garza in conversation with David Lara
17:45
18:00																							18:00 HFJ15. Lecture and poetry performance with María Buelvas and Luisa Ochoa, together with Katherine Osorio
18:15
18:30																		18:30 HFJ16. Bocafloja in concert
18:45
19:00
19:15
19:30				19:30 36. Salman Rushdie in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez	19:30 37. Wolfram Eilenberger in conversation with Óscar Guardiola-Rivera		19:30 39. Carlos Vives and Ricardo Silva Romero in conversation The art of writing songs	19:30 41. Ana María Belique, Ochy Curiel and Lyonel Truillot in conversation with Yuderkys Espinosa Racism in Haiti and the Dominican Republic					19:30 40. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha in conversation with Odette Yidi David Poetry and activism			19:30 38. María Negroni in conversation with Mario Jursich
19:45
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20:15
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21:00														21:00 42. Screening of the Hay Festival 20 Years documentary
21:15
21:30
21:45
22:00
22:15
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