Hay Festival Cartagena 2023

Based on her experience of racism and inequality, Indhira Serrano will talk about the mindsets that hinder the realization of racialized individuals, launching a message of self-acceptance, respect for differences and pride in the Afro-Colombian heritage. Serrano began her career as a model, which gave her a very clear view of the media’s influence on people’s perceptions of themselves. Since 2015 she has been running a series of talks and workshops called Reconstruyendo Imaginarios (“Rebuilding Mindsets”), which reflects on the relationships we have with money, education, our partners and power. She has just published her first book, Rosa la crespa.

Hegemonic and even official cultures that live alongside those of people who come from other parts of the world, who are the descendents of migrants or who belong to indigenous cultures. How can we navigate through what can be seen as cultural wealth but which can also involve difficulties, often due to disagreement caused by a lack of understanding of others, since we operate in different codes or even languages, and a frustration that can be generated by seeing badges of identity disappear? Yásnaya Elena Aguilar (Mexico), mixe thinker and writer; Amets Arzallus (Basque Country/France), writer and poet in the Basque language; and Darrel McLeod (Canada), writer and Executive Director of Education and International Affairs of the Canadian Assembly of First Nations, will talk to Ingrid Bejerman.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

A society that offers its citizens quality public services, where peace and access to education are guaranteed, is also a less violent and unequal society, one where cultural manifestations flourish. We speak to four experts who, from their various specialities, present ideas about how to achieve this equity. With Darrel McLeod (Canada), a writer who was chief negotiator for land claims with the Canadian Federal Government and Executive Director of Education and International Affairs of the Canadian Assembly of First Nations before turning to writing; Paula Marcela Moreno (Colombia), former Minister of Culture, Chair of Corporación Manos Visibles and author of Soñar lo imposible and Maria Ressa (Philippines), journalist, winner of the Peace Nobel Prize in 2021 for work denouncing Duterte's regimen, corruption and and brutality. In conversation with Karim Ganem Maloof.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available