Hay Festival Arequipa 2023 – Arts & Culture

The podcast and book It’s a continent are two of the best contemporary introductions to the history and current affairs of African countries intended for a broad public. Created and produced by two British communicators with African origins, Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, it explores in an entertaining and accessible way the history of each African country, dismantling myths and celebrating the cultural and historical riches of a set of countries and peoples that constitute a very large percentage of the world population. Together with the BBC journalist Matías Zibell, Madimba and Ukata will tell us how the idea for the podcast arose, and why it is important to communicate the reality of each African country to a world that still has much to learn and a long way to go in terms of decolonising.

Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available

The book Un'idea più grande di me (An idea bigger than me) is a compilation of the extensive experience of Armando Punzo (Italy), who has been in theatre for over 40 years. Punzo, winner of a career Golden Lion at the 2023 Venice Theatre Biennial, is a director, playwright and actor. Since 1988 he has been working at Volterra prison, where he founded the Compagnia della Fortezza, the first and longest-lasting theatre experience in a penitentiary institution, currently made up of around 70 prisoner-actors. The co-author of the book, Rossella Menna (Italy), teaches Literature and the Philosophy of Theatre at the Accademia di Brera (Milan) and co-edits the theatre column in the cultural publication Doppiozero. She has also edited a number of films and has recently written Qualcosa di sé: Daria Deflorian e il suo teatro, about the life and career of this actor, author and theatre director. In conversation with Andrés Luque Ruiz de Somocurcio.

Simultaneous interpretation from Italian to Spanish available

We celebrate ten years of the Hay Festival in Peru with the publication of a commemorative book, which compiles 15 memorable conversations that captured the interest of the public as part of the festival. We talk to the book’s editor, Dante Trujillo (Perú), the author Jeremías Gamboa (Perú), the photographer Daniel Mordzinski (Argentina), the author Karina Pacheco (Perú) and the journalist Clara Elvira Ospina (Colombia) about the positive and inspiring effects of the conversations that the Hay Festival Arequipa has made possible in the decade it has been running. Introduced by Cristina Fuentes La Roche.

Alonso Ruiz Rosas is a poet, cultural manager and founder of the UNSA Cultural Centre in Arequipa, among other projects; he and Juan Carlos Belón, an accomplished Arequipan photographer based on France, will talk, among other matters, about the importance of artistic and cultural questions, and about Sin interés aparente, the exhibition of Belón’s work that is being shown at the UNSA Cultural Centre. In conversation with Ros Postigo.