Hay Festival Cartagena 2025 Agenda

Starts at	Biblioteca Popular de Playa Blanca	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)	Clemencia	Colegio Politécnico El Pozón	Corporación Ruleli	La Canoa Literaria	Membrillal	Palacio de la Proclamación (Auditorio Juan José Nieto)	Plaza de la Proclamación	Teatro Adolfo Mejía	Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de la Merced (Salón Eréndira)	Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de San Agustín (Biblioteca)	Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (sede Manga)
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09:30					09:30 HFC19. Elisa Guerra Tribe of giants			09:30 HFC20. Mary Grueso in conversation with María Buelvas	09:30 HFC21. Maricruz Rivera Clemente in conversation with Cielo Puello
09:45
10:00			10:00 44. Alejandro Gaviria and Bruce Mac Master in conversation with Claudia Gurisatti Contemporary realities	10:00 43. Ava DuVernay in conversation with Mábel Lara		10:00 46. Laura Ortiz Gómez and Raúl Quinto in conversation with Guido Tamayo	10:00 HFC22. Javier Cajiao				10:00 HFC23. Carlos Agudelo Montoya	10:00 47. Justin Torres in conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel		10:00 45. Piedad Bonnett, Charlotte Higgins, Nicola Lagioia and Cristina Rivera Garza in conversation with Pilar Reyes 20 questions: culture and literature			10:00 HFJ17. Javier Zamora in conversation with Claudia Ayola
10:15
10:30	10:30 HFC24. Jorge Eljaik My neighborhood comets workshop
10:45
11:00								11:00 HFC25. Yuliana Ortiz Ruano and Yurieth Romero in conversation with Cielo Puello
11:15
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11:45
12:00		12:00 CL4. María Dueñas in conversation with Ana María Aponte	12:00 48. Peter Frankopan, Virginia Mendoza and Gustavo Ulcué Campo in conversation with Rosie Boycott 20 questions: climate emergency	12:00 49. Florence Thomas in conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel When women speak out								12:00 51. Bocafloja, Tanya Hernández and Maricruz Rivera Clemente in conversation with Agustín Laó-Montes Anti-racist activism		12:00 50. Piedad Bonnett in conversation with María Elvira Samper		12:00 HFJ18. Leonardo Padura in conversation with Silvia Valero	12:00 HFJ19. Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in conversation with Joel Samper
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14:00
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14:30					14:30 HFC26. Carlos Agudelo Montoya
14:45
15:00									15:00 HFC27. Carolina Garzón Blanco Singing, storytelling and bullerengue
15:15
15:30	15:30 HFC28. Jesús Herrera Babilonia Workshop: Writings about us: territorial empowerment through the word	15:30 CL5. Melba Escobar in conversation with Ana María Aponte	15:30 52. Susan Neiman and Rinaldo Walcott in conversation with Paula Moreno Dreaming the impossible? Reinventing memories of slavery	15:30 53. María Negroni and Cristina Rivera Garza in conversation with Daniela Pabón Creation								15:30 55. Rachel Eliza Griffiths in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez		15:30 54. Conference by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, followed by conversation with Norberto Paredes What Makes us Human?		15:30 HFJ20. Tanya Hernández in conversation with Laura Martínez Salcedo
15:45
16:00
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16:30										16:30 HFC29. Ana Belique in conversation with Laura Romero de la Rosa
16:45
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17:15
17:30			17:30 56. María Dueñas in conversation with José Manuel Acevedo	17:30 57. Marcus du Sautoy, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga and Rafael Yuste in conversation with Sylvie Duchamp 20 questions: AI		17:30 59. Camila Sosa Villada in conversation with Melba Escobar						17:30 60. Mayra Santos-Febres, Rinaldo Walcott and Suraj Yengde in conversation with Agustín Laó-Montes		17:30 58. Anne Applebaum, Edward Chancellor, Daniel Coronell, Nataliya Gumenyuk and Susan Neiman in conversation with Jon Lee Anderson 20 questions: democracy	17:30 HFJ22. Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé in conversation with Estela Simancas South to South Diplomacy	17:30 HFJ21. Raúl Quinto in conversation with Lázaro Valdelamar Sarabia
17:45
18:00
18:15
18:30
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19:00						19:00 64. Poetry Gala
19:15
19:30			19:30 61. El País event: Jorge Ramos in conversation with Diana Calderón	19:30 62. Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Óscar Guardiola-Rivera South to North conversations								19:30 65. Cindy Herrera and María Hesse in conversation with Elisa Guerra		19:30 63. Gioconda Belli, Bocafloja, Ochy Curiel, Colm Tóibín and Justin Torres in conversation with Ayisha Osori 20 questions: equalities
19:45
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20:15
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21:00													21:00 66. Screening of the Hay Festival 20 Years documentary
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