The pioneering cartoonist who redefined graphic journalism
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The Wild Detectives
Joe Sacco —widely regarded as a pioneer of graphic journalism— joins The Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawifor a conversation about the politics of storytelling, the ethics of bearing witness, and the power of comics to confront uncomfortable truths. From Palestine to Safe Area Goražde, he has chronicled war zones, refugee camps, and marginalized communities with an unflinching yet deeply human gaze. His unique blend of on-the-ground reporting and meticulous pen work has earned him comparisons to both Ryszard Kapuściński and Art Spiegelman.
This year sees the release of two major works from Sacco. The Once and Future Riot returns to the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in northern India, examining the sectarian violence and political forces that continue to shape the region. In parallel, the updated reissue of War on Gaza brings renewed urgency to his reporting on the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, expanding the context and resonance of a conflict that remains devastatingly unresolved. Together, these titles reaffirm he’s commitment to documenting injustice with depth, empathy, and a fierce attention to truth.
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With the support of Open Society Foundations, South to North project
I Like Your Face with Brad Davidson & Rachel Más Davidson
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Whose Books
Join us for a joyful storytime and signing with Brad Davidson and Rachel Más Davidson, the author-illustrator duo behind I Like Your Face—a sweet, funny celebration of friendship, emotions, and all the silly, loving faces we make for those we care about most. Perfect for fans of My Best Friend and Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too), this picture book is both heartwarming and hilarious, offering gentle lessons in empathy and kindness. A perfect event for young readers, families, and anyone who knows the magic of having a best friend. Book signing to follow. Free and open to all!
Writing as Digging: Uncover what lies hidden, waiting to be told
With Gabriela Jauregui
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North Oak Cliff Branch Library
Writing isn’t just about telling stories—it’s about excavation: getting below the surface of language, of memory, of what we think we already know. This is how I approached the writing of Feral, my first novel, where a group of friends try to understand who murdered their best friend, a young archeologist and where underground feral archivists dig up the past to create the future. When I sit down to write, sometimes it feel like I’m uncovering something. Something buried under layers of forgetting or deliberately hidden, or maybe just something that's been waiting for the right tool to bring it up into the light. Digging, like writing, isn't always clean or linear. But that’s part of the work. Digging asks us to go slow. To listen. To be uncomfortable. And also to be astonished by what we find.
In this 2-hour workshop, we will approach writing as digging or excavation. Bring a pencil and some paper and be ready to get your hands dirty with words, images, and your imagination!
Carlos Manuel Álvarez in conversation with Lourdes Molina
On exile, estrangement, and the fragile humanity of lives lived in motion
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The Wild Detectives
What does it mean to live untethered from a homeland, caught between departure and return, belonging and estrangement? In his work, Cuban writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez explores the fractures of migration, the disorientation of exile, and the intimate human moments —tenderness, joy, loss— that emerge from lives lived in constant motion. His writing captures the weight of displacement and the quiet battles waged by those who can neither fully leave nor truly remain.
In his latest novel, False War, he draws these themes into a sweeping, multivoiced narrative that moves from Havana to Mexico City, Miami, New York, Paris, and Berlin. Shifting between noir, autofiction, and lyrical portraiture, he weaves together the stories of ordinary people —barbers, émigrés, dissidents, wanderers— each immersed in their own private struggle. At once fractured and profoundly humane, False War confirms Álvarez as one of the essential voices of contemporary Latin American literature.
From Mumbai to Harvard—rethinking caste through a global lens
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The Wild Detectives
In a world reckoning with race, inequality, and structural violence, what does caste teach us —not just about India, but about the global architecture of oppression?
Dalit scholar, public intellectual, and activist Suraj Yengde joins us to discuss caste as both a historical force and a living system that continues to shape the present. Drawing from his latest book Caste: A Global Story, he examines caste as a form of power and social control, its intersections with race and class, and the need for radical solidarity across geographies.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Yengde explores caste not only as an Indian reality but as a global issue, tracing its connections to struggles for justice around the world. From the work of Ambedkarite organizations to the resonance with movements such as Black Lives Matter, he reveals how the fight against caste oppression speaks to broader battles against inequality and exclusion.
With deep insight and clarity, Yengde challenges dominant narratives in academia, media, and politics—foregrounding dignity as a political demand and centering the voices of those historically pushed to the margins.
This conversation will explore caste not only as an Indian reality but as a global issue, and consider how movements for justice across the world —from Black Lives Matter to Dalit rights— can learn from each other in building a more equal future.
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Eduardo Rabasa en conversación con Camilo Rodríguez
Mexico City as a labyrinth of youth, where every street corner opens into delirium, excess, and unexpected revelations
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Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Novelist, translator, editor, and musician Eduardo Rabasa(Mexico City, 1978) is one of the most incisive voices in contemporary Mexican literature. Co-founder of the publishing house Sexto Piso, he has built a career that combines writing with critical reflection on the role of books in public life. His novels explore, with irony and sharp insight, the mechanisms of power, alienation, and the tensions of contemporary urban existence. He is also the founder and lead singer of the band El Gran Otro. At Hay Festival he will present The Hotel of Broken Hearts (2025), a narrative set in Mexico at the end of the 1990s that weaves together initiation, student politics, and urban delirium—confirming his ability to construct vertiginous, deeply human narrative worlds. In conversation with Camilo Rodríguez.
Don’t Go Into the Woods at Night! - Making and Reading Dark Stories
With Lauren Brazeal Garza, presented by The Writer's Garret
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North Oak Cliff Branch Library
In this generative two-hour workshop, we will explore the global evolution of scary stories and the important functions they’ve served over time. We will also look at what makes a story scary, and why we are often drawn to horror as a genre. Finally, we will begin working on our own dark narrative based on a writing prompt designed to inspire creativity. Participants will be invited to read their work to the group.
Lauren Brazeal Garzais the author of four books of poetry and fiction, including her memoir-in-verse, Gutter, which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager. Her most recent chapbook, Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte: I was Here, Release Me, features fictional interviews with ghosts. She earned her M.F.A in creative writing from Bennington College and her Ph.D. in Literature from The University of Texas at Dallas, with a specialty in testimonial literature and narratives from marginalized voices. Lauren teaches literature at UT Dallas and regularly offers creative writing workshops at independent writing schools like Writing Workshops (partnered with Electric Lit) and Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.
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This workshop is made possible thanks to the support of The Writer's Garret
Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami on dreams, detention, and the fight for freedom
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The Texas Theatre
Laila Lalami’s new book The Dream Hotel included with the ticket!
Novelist and essayist Laila Lalami joins us to discuss The Dream Hotel, her latest novel and a recent selection for the Read with Jenna book club. Set in a near-future America shaped by predictive surveillance, The Dream Hotel follows Sara Hussein, a Moroccan-American archivist and mother, who is detained upon returning to Los Angeles. An algorithm flags her dreams—captured via a neuroprosthetic device—as indicating she may harm her husband, triggering her long-term confinement in a privatized retention center.
Lalami uses this chilling dystopia to examine surveillance, algorithmic bias, privacy, and the commodification of consciousness. Sara’s efforts to regain control of her life offer a deeply humane lens on the consequences of sacrificing personal freedoms for security.
The author of Conditional Citizens and The Moor’s Account, Lalami continues to explore themes of identity, belonging, and justice in fiction and essays for outlets like The New York Times, The Nation, and The Washington Post.
In this conversation, she reflects on how fiction reframes urgent political questions and invites us to oppose systems that strip away autonomy under the guise of protection.
Seven years embedded with “coyotes”: De León’s National Book Award winner
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The Wild Detectives
Over seven years of immersive ethnographic research, Jason De Leónlived among human smugglers —central figures in the migrant trail— tracing their lives from border crossings through Mexico to the U.S. Each journey reveals stories of survival, loss, and longing that challenge the stereotypes of coyotes and cast them as complex individuals striving within a violent global system.
In conversation with journalist John Gibler (I Couldn’t Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us, To Die in Mexico), they will explore the moral dimensions of migration, the blurred lines between smuggling and trafficking, and the power of storytelling in bearing witness. How do we reckon with border violence, U.S. policy, and human agency when the people guiding migrants are themselves running from history, exclusion, and death?
Their dialogue offers audiences a rare ethical and emotional reckoning—centered on De León’s Soldiers and Kings, winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction—and invites us to confront a migration crisis marked not by abstraction, but by lives in motion.
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Pulitzer Prize winner and author of 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'
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The Texas Theatre
What does it mean to belong —to one’s home, to language, to memory— in a world shaped by migration and diaspora?
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Junot Díaz joins us for a conversation on identity, race, language, and the emotional complexities of immigrant life. His acclaimed novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao has become a landmark of contemporary literature, praised for its linguistic inventiveness and bold engagement with Dominican-American experience. His short-story collection This Is How You Lose Her was a finalist for the National Book Award and further cemented his place as one of the most distinctive literary voices of his generation.
Díaz’s work —ranging from fiction to essays and children’s literature— interrogates masculinity, memory, and exile. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN/Malamud Award, he currently teaches at MIT and continues to write about diaspora and the politics of narrative from multiple angles and forms.
This event will delve into the stories that shape us and the cultural histories we carry, as Díaz reflects on three decades of work at the intersection of art, activism, and imagination.
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Katie Kitamura & Eimear McBride in conversation with Lori Feathers
Two boundary-breaking novelists on language, intimacy, and the shape of the modern psyche
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The Texas Theatre
In this special conversation, two of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature —Eimear McBride and Katie Kitamura— discuss the evolving role of the novel, the possibilities of voice and form, and the shifting ground between intimacy and estrangement.
McBride’s work has been widely celebrated for its radical use of language and emotional intensity. Her writing pushes grammar and syntax to their limits in order to capture interior states with raw immediacy, offering readers a deeply intimate and unsettling experience. She has been credited with reshaping modernist tradition for the 21st century, bringing new urgency and depth to the psychological novel.
Kitamura is known for her elegant restraint and precise psychological portraits. Her novels explore power, detachment, and the limits of knowing—quietly immersive works that often center on women navigating opaque moral and emotional terrain. With a style marked by clarity and quiet tension, she invites readers into the uncertain spaces between identity, language, and action.
The conversation will be moderated byLori Feathers, co-owner and book buyer at Interabang Books in Dallas, a respected literary critic, and chair of the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US).
Edgar Castro Zapata, Rossy Lima Padilla and Héctor Rendón in conversation
History Meets the Present: Emiliano Zapata’s Great-Grandson on Revolutionary Storytelling
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Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Edgar Castro Zapata (Mexico) is a historian, president of Fundación Zapata, and great-grandson of Emiliano Zapata. He is the author of Emiliano Zapata: Testimonios de la Revolución del Sur. He will be joined by Rossy Lima Padilla (Mexico/US), poet, activist, and author of Por qué tanto he perdido – Let it Burn, whose work examines migration, identity, and resilience. Also participating is Héctor Rendón(Mexico/US), assistant professor at Washington State University, award-winning scholar, and host of Latino Book Review Presents. Together, they will discuss how revolutionary narratives reclaim memory, challenge power structures, and reshape cultural identities across borders.
How can hip-hop, poetry, and fragmented storytelling dismantle the colonial gaze —and propose new ways of knowing from the Global South?
Bocaflojais a Mexican interdisciplinary artist whose work spans music, literature, photography, and documentary film. An Afro-Indigenous descendant born in Mexico and based in the U.S. for the past 17 years, he has become one of the most influential voices in Spanish-speaking hip-hop. His recent book, Del mondongo al Ojalá, combines short fiction, poetry, micro-narratives, and images in a bold, non-linear exploration of memory, resistance, and anti-colonial epistemologies rooted in racialized experience.
Over a career spanning more than two decades, Bocafloja has performed in over 35 countries, sharing stages with artists such as Bahamadia, Dead Prez, Brother Ali, Kool Herc, and Dilated Peoples. His work —reviewed by outlets including Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, BBC, and Okayafrica— uses the rhythms of rap to address systemic racism, colonialism, and social justice across the Americas. A founding member of collectives like Lifestyle and Microphonk, his solo albums have left an indelible mark on Latin American music and political thought.
This conversation invites audiences into Bocafloja’s immersive creative world —where sound, text, and image converge as radical acts of memory and liberation.
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Author of 'Citizen', a genre-defying meditation on race and American life
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The Texas Theatre
What does it mean to live in a racialized society that refuses to name itself as such?
Poet, playwright, and cultural critic Claudia Rankine joins us for a conversation on race, visibility, and the emotional landscape of American life. Her landmark book Citizen: An American Lyric fused poetry, essay, and visual image to capture the intimacies and aggressions of everyday racism —becoming one of the most talked-about and taught books of the last decade. Her follow-up, Just Us: An American Conversation, continues that interrogation through essays, dialogues, and reflections on whiteness, privilege, and accountability.
Rankine’s work resists easy categorization. Whether writing for the stage, publishing in literary journals, or founding The Racial Imaginary Institute, she creates spaces for difficult and necessary conversations around power, visibility, and the structures that shape our lives.
This conversation will explore the evolving role of the artist as a public intellectual, and the ways in which she continues to expand what literature can do in our time.
Rodrigo Fresán & Mark Haber in conversation with Lori Feathers
A Republic of Consciousness Prize spotlight on bold fiction and independent publishing
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The Texas Theatre
This conversation brings togetherRodrigo Fresán (Argentina), winner of the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize (U.S. & Canada) for Melvill (Open Letter Books), and Mark Haber (United States), shortlisted for the same award with Lesser Ruins (Coffee House Press). The Republic of Consciousness Prize celebrates exceptional literary fiction from small independent presses. Moderated by Lori Feathers, co-owner of Interabang Books and founding chair of the prize’s U.S. & Canada chapter, the discussion will highlight the authors’ work, the role of translation, and the importance of independent publishing in bringing ambitious, boundary-pushing fiction to readers across languages and cultures.
The conversation will be moderated byLori Feathers, co-owner and book buyer at Interabang Books in Dallas, a respected literary critic, and chair of the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US).
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This event is presented and brought to you thanks to the Southwest Review
AfroPerreo is back. DJs Elkin and El Nick reunite for a one-night-only set blending reggaetón, dembow, dancehall, Afrobeat, and perreo profundo. A celebration of resistance and rhythm, AfroPerreo honors the roots of Black and Afro-Latinx musical traditions while opening space for joy, movement, and unapologetic expression.
This late-night dance party transforms the backyard into a kinetic zone where beats drop harder, hips move freer, and the bass tells its own story. Come ready to sweat, connect, and lose yourself in a sound that crosses borders and bodies alike.
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With the support of Open Society Foundations, South to North project
The Hay Festival Dallas Day Pass gives you access to all ticketed and free events for the day, so you can attend any panel, talk, or performance that interests you. The pass also includes access to The Wild Detectives bar, where you can enjoy a unlimited selection of drinks throughout the day, and a special lunch from Sketches of Spain featuring an appetizer and paella. It’s a simple way to take in the full festival experience—good conversations, good food and drink, and a day spent exploring the neighborhood.
How does a manuscript become a book? What goes into selecting, editing, and ultimately publishing a text? In this workshop, two renowned publishers share their experience and open a window into the world of contemporary publishing.
Will Evans, founder of Deep Vellum in Dallas, and Eduardo Rabasa, novelist and co-founder of Editorial Sexto Piso in Mexico, will guide participants through the editorial process—from discovering new voices to shaping a manuscript for publication and bringing it into the hands of readers. Together, they will reflect on the challenges and opportunities faced by independent presses, the value of translation, and the role of editors as cultural curators.
This is a unique opportunity to learn directly from two leading figures in independent publishing and to better understand the path a text takes from idea to finished book.
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This event is possible thanks to the support of Frost Bank
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and Michel Nieva with Carmen Álvarez
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The Wild Detectives
Argentine writerGabriela Cabezón Cámara is one of the most vital literary voices in Latin America today. A fearless stylist and outspoken public intellectual, her work spans fiction, journalism, and activism, often dissolving the boundaries between them. She writes with boldness and precision about gender, class, desire, and collective memory—always attuned to voices from the margins and histories that resist erasure.
A founding member of the feminist movement Ni Una Menos, Cabezón Cámara brings a radical political imagination to both her writing and her public life. Her work is known for its rhythmic intensity, lyrical daring, and deep commitment to justice—not as abstract principle, but as lived experience. She moves fluidly between registers: high and low, poetic and profane, historical and speculative.
In addition to her writing, she has worked as a culture editor, teacher, and literary mentor, shaping new generations of Spanish-language writers. Her presence in the international literary world has helped open space for a more expansive, multilingual conversation about what literature can be—and who it’s for.
At Hay Festival Forum Dallas, she joins us to reflect on writing as a form of resistance, pleasure, and reimagination.
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Jorge Carrión in conversation with Cristina Rodríguez
Author of 'Against Amazon'
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The Texas Theatre
What does it mean to defend literature in the age of Amazon? How do we protect cultural spaces when convenience threatens to erase them?
Spanish writer, critic, and cultural theorist Jorge Carrión has emerged as one of the most articulate and passionate defenders of independent bookstores in the face of digital monopolies and algorithmic culture. Through essays, lectures, and investigations, he has made a case for the bookstore —not just as a place of commerce, but as a site of memory, imagination, and democratic possibility.
Carrión’s work challenges the dominance of platforms like Amazon, exposing how they reshape what and how we read, and how those shifts impact local economies, cultural ecosystems, and intellectual freedom. He brings a global perspective to the conversation, drawing from his extensive research on bookstores around the world and his writing on the future of publishing, authorship, and cultural resistance.
Join us for a timely conversation on literary infrastructure, the politics of convenience, and why defending bookstores is about more than just books —it’s about defending how we think, connect, and imagine.
What does it take to transform lived experience into published work? In this workshop, writer Lorena De Luna, author of Born on the Border, shares her journey of turning her story as a third generation Mexican-American woman into a poetry collection and bringing it to readers through self-publishing.
Drawing on her personal path, De Luna will discuss how to find the right form for your voice, how to shape personal experience into writing that resonates, and what it means to tell stories that often remain unheard. She will also provide practical insights into the self-publishing process, from preparing a manuscript to building an audience outside traditional publishing channels.
This session is designed both for writers exploring how to tell their own stories—especially those shaped by migration and identity—and for anyone interested in alternative routes to publishing.
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This event is possible thanks to the support of Frost Bank
Tsunami: Marina Azahua, Gabriela Jauregui and Sara Uribe
A groundbreaking feminist anthology from Mexico, now in English
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The Wild Detectives
When Tsunami was first published in Mexico, it struck a deep cultural nerve. Bringing together essays, manifestos, and poetic reflections by women from across generations and social movements, the anthology became a touchstone for a rapidly growing feminist wave. It gave voice to a plurality of experiences —urban and rural, Indigenous and Afro-Mexican, trans and cis— breaking open public discourse around gender violence, power, and liberation.
Now available for the first time in English, Tsunami: Women’s Voices from Mexico arrives as both a literary achievement and a document of ongoing social urgency. With its bold mix of genres and uncompromising honesty, the book reframes feminist writing as collective, disruptive, and deeply rooted in lived experience.
This event brings together three contributors —Gabriela Jauregui, Marina Azahua, and Sara Uribe— to reflect on the anthology’s impact in Mexico, the challenges and responsibilities of translation, and what it means to carry these conversations into new languages and contexts.
At a time when global feminist movements continue to intersect and diverge, this is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the voices behind a book that helped reshape the cultural conversation in Mexico and beyond.
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With the support of Open Society Foundations, South to North project
Angela Saini in conversation with Nishanshi Shukla
Author of 'The Patriarchs on how male dominance was built—and how it can be dismantled'
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The Texas Theatre
Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist whose work exposes how deeply ingrained ideas about race, gender, and hierarchy have been shaped—not just by culture and politics—but by science itself. Her latest book, The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, is a sweeping and deeply researched investigation into the historical construction of patriarchy—revealing that male dominance is not inevitable, but the result of specific political decisions, power struggles, and cultural reinforcements over time.
Across her body of work—including Inferior, Superior, and The Patriarchs—Saini has become one of the most trusted and courageous voices challenging how we think about human difference. She brings a rare combination of scientific literacy, journalistic clarity, and social critique to some of the most urgent debates of our time.
In this conversation, Saini will discuss how we unlearn dominant narratives, how science can both harm and heal, and why reexamining the roots of patriarchy is essential to imagining a more just future.
Tim Z. Hernández on recovering the lives of migrant workers lost to history
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The Wild Detectives
El escritor y poeta Tim Z. Hernández, autor de All They Will Call You, dialoga sobre su trabajo recuperando las historias de trabajadores migrantes silenciados por la historia. Modera Claudia Vega, fundadora de Whose Books (Dallas).How do we give voice to the forgotten? What does it mean to turn research into remembrance, and remembrance into literature?
Presented by Manuel “Pantro Puto” Sánchez Viamonte from El Mato a Un Policia Motorizado
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The Texas Theatre
Launched in 2020, Festiclip was born in La Plata as a grassroots festival dedicated to celebrating the creativity and DIY spirit of Argentina’s independent music video scene. What began as a local initiative quickly evolved into a traveling showcase, bringing together visual and musical storytelling from across the country. With screenings in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, and beyond, Festiclip has become a platform for emerging filmmakers and musicians alike.
At the heart of the project is Manuel Sánchez Viamonte, guitarist of the iconic Argentine indie rock band Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado. Known for shaping the sound of a generation, Manuel now extends his artistic vision beyond the stage, highlighting the rich intersection between music and film.
As part of Hay Festival Dallas, Manuel will present a special U.S. edition of Festiclip—a handpicked selection of standout music videos that capture the energy, experimentation, and voices of Argentina’s contemporary indie scene. Guiding the conversation will be writer Fernando A. Flores, acclaimed author, whose own work bridges cultures and artistic forms. Together, they will open a window into one of Latin America’s most dynamic cultural movements—a rare opportunity to discover the stories behind the sound and the screen.
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Hugo Burnham and Brendan Canty in conversation with David A. Ensminger
Fugazi meets Gang of Four—two legendary drummers on rhythm, politics, and the sound of defiance
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The Texas Theatre
What happens when two of post-punk’s most iconic drummers —each from opposite sides of the Atlantic— sit down to talk rhythm, rebellion, and the sound of resistance?
Brendan Canty(Fugazi) and Hugo Burnham (Gang of Four) helped define not just the sound of their bands, but the urgency of their eras. Their drumming wasn't just timekeeping —it was structural, confrontational, and deeply political. Both Gang of Four and Fugazi pushed the limits of what a band could be: musically experimental, fiercely independent, and unapologetically critical of the systems they moved through.
In this rare conversation, Canty and Burnham reflect on what it meant to build music from the margins —one from Washington, D.C.’s DIY punk scene, the other from Leeds’ art school revolution. They’ll discuss how percussion became a form of protest, how band dynamics mirrored political struggle, and how sound continues to serve as a tool for cultural disruption.
This event offers a unique chance to hear from two musicians whose work shaped generations of artists and fans. More than just drummers, they are architects of a movement —still asking what art can do in a world that demands resistance.
The Hay Festival Dallas Day Pass gives you access to all ticketed and free events for the day, so you can attend any panel, talk, or performance that interests you. The pass also includes access to The Wild Detectives bar, where you can enjoy a unlimited selection of drinks throughout the day, and a special lunch from Sketches of Spain featuring an appetizer and paella. It’s a simple way to take in the full festival experience—good conversations, good food and drink, and a day spent exploring the neighborhood.
The Hay Festival Forum Dallas Access Pass gives you access to all ticketed and free events across the entire weekend, so you’re free to attend any panel, conversation, or performance from Friday through Sunday.
The Hay Festival Dallas Weekend Pass gives you access to all ticketed and free events across the entire weekend, so you’re free to attend any panel, conversation, or performance from Friday through Sunday. The pass also includes access to The Wild Detectives bar, where you can enjoy a selection of drinks throughout the weekend, and two meals: one at Sketches of Spain featuring an appetizer and paella, and another at Taco y Vino with a set menu designed specially for festival guests. It’s an easy way to enjoy everything the festival has to offer—literature, music, food, and a great atmosphere across the neighborhood.
