Welcome to the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias 2023 programme, to be held from 26 to 29 January. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Joven activities tor university audiences, Hay Comunitario sessions which will take place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.
The tickets of the general programme and reading clubs are on sale for in person events. If you wish to register to see the live streaming of events, please select the option "Register to watch online" when this option is available. Hay Joven, Hay Comunitario and Talento Editorial are 100% in person and free of charge.
If you have any issues regarding the payment of your tickets, please contact us at tickets@hayfestival.org or at +57 317 516 55 13.
If you are a students a wish to request free tickets, you can write to us at estudiantes@hayfestival.com.
If you have any general questions, you can find us at contacto@hayfestival.org.
The author of Uno siempre cambia al amor de su vida (Por otro amor o por otra vida) and Cosas que piensas cuando te muerdes las uñas, has sold millions of copies of her books and is a social media phenomenon. In her latest book, No sé cómo mostrar dónde me duele, Amalia Andrade (Colombia) returns to the theme of mental health and the body-mind relationship, writing about poetry, music and cultivating good practices to help us educate our sentiments and balance the internal world of the emotions. In conversation with Teresita Goyeneche.
The comedian, actor, writer and activist Ruby Wax is an outstanding media personality in the United Kingdom. The author of various bestsellers, the latest is I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was, in which she deals honestly and with humour about her mental health, shedding light on a matter that is not always easy to tackle, and inviting the reader to an exercise in empathy. She will talk to Silvana Paternostro about her work as an activist, raising awareness about mental health and its importance in our lives.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Through his book Bailando con la muerte (Dancing with Death), doctor and politician Roy Barreras (Colombia) will share his experience on treating and curing his own cancer. Barreras has written this book with the aim of providing support to all those who have faced cancer, as well as to the families of patients who have suffered from this challenging disease. His work represents a clear invitation to face the most primordial ancestral fear of all human beings, which is the fear of dying, transforming it into the pleasure of living with a purpose. In conversation with Andrea Bernal.
All Sunday events will be free for people who has an ID expeded in the Bolívar Department. You must request their courtesy tickets at the box office of the Hay Festival (CCCI) showing your ID, between 22 and 28 of January.