Hay Festival Arequipa 2023 – Events for Children and Young People

The Carpa Librera is a space for reading and listening, where the reading mediators Estefani Bengoa and Sandra Linares Reategui will read children’s books. In a place designed for both young and old —including those who cannot read—, they can enjoy the stories hidden in books, and so perhaps the reading bug will bite them. The Carpa Librera will also have a small mobile library for children, young readers and adults.

What is a book? Starting with this question, the participants in this workshop, given by Anaisa Cornejo, will create new items based on the object-books they have at hand. At first, the pages will be completely blank, but will be given stories by means of collage, and so leave behind their status as objects and become books.

Playing with games that already exist is fun, but it isn’t every day that we can experience designing our own, with the excitement of seeing how ideas take shape and sharing them with others. Participants at this workshop with Rodrigo Laguna will design and build a boardgame inspired by an idea that motivates them. An activity that awakens creativity and encourages working together.

Celebrating the centenary of the birth of Nicómedes Santa Cruz, the renowned Afro-Peruvian poet, ethnomusicologist and intellectual, we celebrate the culture with a lesson in Afro-Peruvian zapateo with Karen Jara and Juan Felipe Miranda, known as Juno Miranda. The perfect and most enjoyable way to learn Afro zapateo.

The Carpa Librera is a space for reading and listening, where the reading mediators Estefani Bengoa and Sandra Linares Reategui will take turns reading children’s books. In a place designed for both young and old —including those who cannot read—, they can enjoy the stories hidden in books, and so perhaps the reading bug will bite them. The Carpa Librera will also have a small mobile library for children, young readers and adults.

A journey into the past to discover what happened when the Spanish reached the Incas. How did life, beliefs and habits change in the Inca Empire with the new government? Melissa Siles, Yesenia Silva and Patricia Villanueva present Perú virreinal, a way of understanding this cultural encounter, and of cultivating a critical look at a past that marks the Peruvian identity of the present day.

The children that take part in this workshop will receive sheets to colour in, with printed characters from the colonial period —leaders, intellectuals, clergy…—. They will also be able to paint the frames with motifs taken from the Cusco School. An activity for getting to know one’s past, boosting creativity and relating it to respect and national identity. With Melissa Siles and Yesenia Silva.