Hay Festival Jericó 2021 - Programme

Discover Hay Festival Jericó 2021's programme.

Friday 22 January 

Screening of the documentary The Smiling Lombana with Daniela Abad

Film by the director Daniela Abad and the producer Miguel Salazar. This is a story about uncomfortable and taboo matters, and about family secrets. The film shows us a personal history, of a smiling, enigmatic man who tried to avoid pain, Tito Lombana, who led a double life of loving father and man of amoral conduct. This story is also a look at the recent history of Colombia, its snobbishness, its urge for success, its indolence and two-faced morality. The film questions this view of things.

Duration: 90 min

Language: Spanish

[2] 19.30- 20.00 Digital venue

Daniela Abad in conversation with Perla Toro

Conversation with the film director Daniela Abad (Italy-Colombia) in which, together with Perla Toro, she will look at her documentary films and work as a producer. Abad organizes the Medellin International Short Film Festival and has directed the documentary Carta a una sombra (together with Miguel Salazar) and The Smiling Lombana, her second feature length documentary.

[3] 20.15 - 21.00 Digital venue

Screening of the documentary El mundo perdido de Cumbiana

This musical documentary tells the story of the recording of the 14th album by the Colombian musician, Carlos Vives, one of the country’s most important singers. It also looks at the origins of cumbia, going to the regions where the style, which has become a true cultural phenomenon and badge of identity, was born.

Duration: 23 minutes

Language: Spanish

Saturday 23 January

[4] 09.00 - 10.00 Digital venue

Culture and the future. Alejandro Gaviria and Juan Luis Mejía in conversation with María del Rosario Escobar 

The Rector of the University of the Andes and member of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission, created to help develop global solutions to the pandemic, has written a book of essays that undertakes to recover the philosophical and artistic legacy of the great thinker Aldous Huxley, author of the influential novel Brave New World, while reflecting on matters related to progress, life, health and medicine, drugs and their prohibition, education and the climate emergency. Juan Luis Mejía (Colombia) was the Rector of the EAFIT University for 16 years. A lawyer by education, his career has been in cultural management and he has also worked as a diplomat. They will talk to María del Rosario Escobar, Director of the Museum of Antioquia.

Buy Hoy es siempre todavía by Alejandro Gaviria at Librería Nacional
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Buy Siquiera tenemos las palabras by Alejandro Gaviria at Librería Nacional
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Buy Otro fin del mundo es posible by Alejandro Gaviria at Librería Nacional
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Buy Alguien tiene que llevar la contraria by Alejandro Gaviria at Librería Nacional
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[5] 11:00 - 12.00 Digital venue

Responsible consumption and economy. Daniel Christian Wahl in conversation with Mariana Matija

Daniel Wahl is a writer and consultant who specializes in innovation and sustainability. In his book Designing Regenerative Cultures he set out the path to follow to undo the past and correct many things that we have been doing wrong. In conversation with the environmentalist Mariana Matija (Colombia), author of 10 pasos para alinear la cabeza y el corazón y salvar el planeta. Matija creates and shares educational content on a range of crucial and interconnected matters, making them accessible and comprehensible to all.

Buy 10 pasos para salvar el planeta by Mariana Matija at Librería Nacional
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[6] 14.00 - 15.00 Digital venue

Democracy and liberty: a contemporary conversation. Sandra Borda and Jorge Giraldo in conversation with Camilo Arango 

Winston Churchill once said “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” How is it possible to ensure that democratic systems work as well as they can? What role does the separation of powers play? What is the real value of the vote for citizens? Camilo Arango will talk to the political scientist Sandra Borda (Colombia) and the academic Jorge Giraldo (Colombia) about this political system, which is still imperfect yet guarantees its people greater liberties.

Buy ¿Por qué somos tan parroquiales? by Sandra Borda at Librería Nacional
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Buy Parar para avanzar by Sandra Borda at Librería Nacional
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[CL1] 14:00 - 14:45 Digital Venue

Book club. Marta Orrantía will talk about Cipriano

At this event we will share a lovely Jerico-style coffee with Marta Orrantia and we will talk about her most recent book, Cipriano, a reflection on aging told through the eyes of Cipriano, an octogenarian who has been widowed for three years when he receives the news of his daughter’s death. As well as her long career as a journalist working for Colombian media, Orrantia has also written the non-fiction book Todopoderosos de Colombia and the novels Orejas de pescado and Mañana no te presentes. An intimate encounter between readers and the author, moderated by Guido Tamayo.

Buy Cipriano by Marta Orrantia at Librería Nacional
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Buy El inquilino by Guido Tamayo at Librería Nacional
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Buy Juego de niños by Guido Tamayo at Librería Nacional
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[7] 16.00 - 17.00 Digital venue 

The End of the Pacific Ocean. Tomás González in conversation with Juan David Correa 

Tomás González, one of Latin America’s most acclaimed writers, will talk about his new book, El fin del Océano Pacífico. González is the author of a dozen novels, several short story collections and a poetry book. The book he presents at the festival acts as a reminder, expressed using characters and language, that life and death are consubstantial: just as there could be no ocean without coast, there cannot be a beginning if there is no end. In conversation with Juan David Correa.

Buy El fin del Oceano Pacífico by Tomás González at Librería Nacional
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Buy Las noches todas by Tomás González at Librería Nacional
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Buy El rey de Honka Monka by Tomás González at Librería Nacional
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Buy La historia de Horacio by Tomás González at Librería Nacional
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Buy Abraham entre bandidos by Tomás González at Librería Nacional
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Buy El expreso del sol by Tomás González at Librería Nacional
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[8] 17:15 - 18:00 Digital venue

10 steps to align your head and your heart and save the planet. Mariana Matija in conversation with Ana María Cano

The environmentalist Mariana Matija (Colombia) offers a guide for children about how to take care of our planet and commit to sustainability. Author of 10 pasos para alinear la cabeza y el corazón y salvar el planeta, Matija creates and shares educational content on a range of crucial and interconnected matters, making them accessible and comprehensible to all. She will talk to Ana María Cano about her teaching and her learnings.

Buy 10 pasos para salvar el planeta by Mariana Matija at Librería Nacional
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[9] 18.30 - 19.30 Digital venue

Amphibious dialogues at 1910 meters high. Carlos Vives in conversation with Juancho Valencia

The exceptional Carlos Vives, a multi-award winning musician of international fame, acclaimed around the world, is also a great expert on the Colombian musical tradition, which he has paid homage to and also contributed to with his own work. Vives will talk to Juancho Valencia about Cumbiana: Relatos de un mundo perdido, his book about the style that is most closely identified with Colombia: cumbia.

Buy Cumbiana by Carlos Vives at Librería Nacional
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[10] 20:00 Digital venue

COMFAMA concert

Sunday 24 January

[11] 09.00 - 09.45 Digital venue

My culture(s). Local Identities. Pedro Adrián Zuluaga and Sergio Vila-Sanjuan in conversation with María del Rosario Escobar

The journalist and film critic Pedro Adrián Zuluaga is the author of the recent Qué es ser antioqueño, a book that explores the complexities of Antioquian culture, showing its wealth and diversity, seeking to depart from certain stereotypes and offering an overview of its realities. The Spanish writer and journalist Sergio Vila-Sanjuán has published several books, many of which are related to the world of literature and journalism, including his second novel, Estaba en el aire, with which he won the 2013 Nadal Novel Prize. He is also the author of books about journalism and Catalan- and Spanish-language culture. They will talk to María del Rosario Escobar, Director of the Museum of Antioquia.

Buy Todas las cosas y ninguna by Pedro Adrián Zuluaga at Librería Nacional
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Buy Otra Cataluña by Sergio Vila-Sanjuán at Librería Nacional
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Caring for our environment, biodiversity and ecology. Brigitte Baptiste and Ignacio Piedrahíta in conversation with Ana María Cano 

If there is something that the recent and ongoing crisis has taught us it is the vital importance of the environment, our home, and caring for it in order to ensure that people can lead full and abundant lives. The scientist and thinker Brigitte Baptiste (Colombia), Rector of the EAN University and regular contributor to media such as La República, was at the head of the Humboldt Institute for many years and is an authority on the management and care of Colombia’s incredible biodiversity. The writer Ignacio Piedrahíta, a geologist and novelist, brings the two fields together in his books, with published novels that include Un mar and the books of travel writing Al oído de la cordillera and Grávido río . His book La verdad de lo ríos, a work published together with the national Truth Commission, talks about the importance of rivers for communities, as well as about their history and development. In conversation with Ana María Cano.

Buy Grávido río by Ignacio Piedrahíta at Librería Nacional
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[CL2] 10.30 - 11.15 Digital Venue

Sara Jaramillo Klinkert will talk about Cómo maté a mi padre

At this event we will share a lovely Jerico-style coffee with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert and we will talk about her most recent book, Cómo maté a mi padre, a striking novel about the death of the author’s father, killed by contract killers in Medellin in the 1980s. An intimate encounter between readers and the author, moderated by Ana María Aponte.

Buy Cómo maté a mi padre by Sara Jaramillo Klinkert at Librería Nacional
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[13] 12.00 - 13:00 Digital venue

Poetry to face life with. Lucía Estrada, Luis García Montero and Juan Manuel Roca in conversation with Perla Toro.

Juan Manuel Roca is an acclaimed and award-winning Colombian poet, essayist and educator and the author of a diary that has been much read in recent months (Diario de un anarco-dependiente en cuarentena) as well as an extensive body of poetry. Luis García Montero is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, teacher of Spanish Literature and, since July 2018, Director of the Cervantes Institute. Lucía Estrada is a Colombian poet whose work explores the world of the night, the symbol, writing as a destination, the mystery of being and the dream. They will talk to Perla Toro.

With the support of the Spanish Embassy