Hay Festival Cartagena 2023

The people of this planet use energy. In recent decades, the exponential increase in the population and the consumption of fossil fuels have caused irreversible damage, and we must change our ways. It is a matter of the greatest urgency to undertake global climate action through the reduction of emissions, to make great efforts to adapt, and to channel appropriate funding flows. This needs to happen as part of an integrated framework of sustainable development that will tackle poverty, hunger and unemployment, and improve the empowerment of young, Afro-descendent, indigenous and LGTBIQ+ people, as well as local communities and women; this is a transition that needs to have the planet at its heart. Our guests will talk to Ricardo Chica about this important challenge for humanity. With Jazmín Romero (Colombia), legal representative of the Wayuu Feminist Movement; Maira Alejandra Jayariyu (Colombia), communicator for Fuerza Wayuu; and Nohora Alejandra Quiguantar (Colombia), representative of the Pasto indigenous village of the Muellamués community.

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