Hay Festival Querétaro 2024

Brenda Lozano in conversation with María Concepción Castillo González and Mariana Oliveros Trujillo

Thursday 5 September 2024, 10am –  Tec de Monterrey, Pabellón Tec

Brenda Lozano (Mexico) is a fiction writer, essayist and publisher. In 2017 she featured on the Bogotá39 list as one of the best Latin American fiction writers under the age of 40. She is the author of the novels Todo nada (2009), Loop (2019), Witches (2022) and the recent Soñar como sueñan los árboles (2024), which tells the story of two women whose lives cross after the kidnapping of a girl, in the Mexico City of the 1940s; this is a story full of suspense, but also of humour, which portrays a period of splendour for the capital and Mexican culture. It also focuses on matters of contemporary interest, such as motherhood, and women’s place in society. In conversation with María Concepción Castillo González and Mariana Oliveros Trujillo.

Ernesto Galán in conversation with Elisa Guerra

Thursday 5 September 2024, 11am –  COBAQ 9

Ernesto Galán has degrees in Performing Arts and Law. He is the Artistic Director of La Miscelánea Teatro company and has written and directed a range of plays. He is also the manager of a reading space for child workers, and creator of the La Bodega forum and the La Miscelánea Escénica theatre festival. In this conversation with Elisa Guerra he will discuss the subject of drama based on his experience with children and young people.

BBC Mundo workshop with Andrea Díaz Cardona, Daniel Pardo and José María Rodero

Thursday 5 September 2024, 1pm –  Auditorio Fernando Díaz Ramírez de la UAQ

Henry Marsh in conversation with José Luis Copado Gutiérrez

Thursday 5 September 2024, 1pm –  Universidad Anáhuac, Aula Magna Edificio C

Henry Marsh is a renowned British writer and retired neurosurgeon. He is the author of, among other books, And Finally. Matters of Life and Death, which tells of his own experience as a cancer patient. At this event he will talk about the principles and goals of palliative care, and about the challenges and opportunities that currently exist in terms of a dignified death, offering advice and recommendations to help patients and their loved ones face this difficult stage of life with dignity and compassion. In conversation with José Luis Copado Gutiérrez.

In English

With the support of British Council

Angela Saini in conversation with Eduardo Becerra

Thursday 5 September 2024, 1pm –  UNAM ENES

Angela Saini is a British scientific journalist and radio presenter, as well as a writer whose work has been acclaimed and translated into 14 languages. Her penultimate book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named Book of the Year by Nature, the Financial Times and the NPR programme Science Friday. On this occasion she presents The Patriarchs, an audacious, radical book that unearths the roots and history of how this system of domination arose for the first time in societies and spread around the world, from prehistory to the present. Saini offers a hopeful narrative bringing to bear the many possible human agreements that question the old stories of inevitable male supremacy, and reveals that these stories are an element that is constantly changing within systems of control. She will talk to Eduardo Becerra.

Event in English

With the support of the British Council

Guiomar Rovira and Rosaluz Pérez Espinosa in conversation with Kevyn Simón Delgado

South to south conversations: Thirty years of the Zapatista movement

Thursday 5 September 2024, 3pm –  Aula Forense en la Facultad de Derecho

With the support of Open Society Foundations and Acción Cultural Española, AC/E

Andrés Cota Hiriart

Thursday 5 September 2024, 4pm –  La Solana

Andrés Cota Hiriart is a biologist, zoologist and writer. He has written books including Cabeza ajena, Faunologías, El ajolote. Biología del anfibio más sobresaliente del mundo and Fieras familiares, and has come close to all kinds of animals in their natural habitats, travelling to some amazing places around the world, like the Galapagos, Borneo, Sulawesi and the island of Guadalupe. At this event, Cota will focus on a wonderful creature from his native Mexico: he will start out with the iconic axolotl and move onto the ajolote of Queretaro state, which is not so commonly mentioned. During the event, he will share images and excerpts from his books.

Neige Sinno in conversation with Elvira Liceaga

Thursday 5 September 2024, 5pm –  Teatro de la Ciudad

The French author Neige Sinno has recently published her book Triste tigre in Spanish. This is a work that has startled the world of publishing. The book, which won the 2023 Fémina Proze, takes a precise and pitiless look at the monstrous and taboo theme of incest, which the author tackles based on her own experience, discovering it to be a crime that affects both family and society, which lives among truths and lies, and is linked to consent and the desire for power, and whose consequences are far-reaching in the lives of victims. It is also a book that speaks about the role of language and literature as safe spaces, which allow a freedom of thought. In conversation with Elvira Liceaga.

Los buscadores de migrantes perdidos en el desierto de Sonora

José María Rodero and Alberto Ortega with Daniel Pardo

Thursday 5 September 2024, 5pm - 6.30pm –  Cineteca Rosalío Solano

According to the International Organization for Migration, hundreds of migrants disappear and die each year in the Sonoran Desert between Arizona and California; this makes it the most dangerous overland migration route in the world. A brave group of people, known as the Desert Eagles, dedicate their weekends to looking for migrants lost in this hostile territory, where temperatures can reach 50ºC and dehydration is the main cause of death. José María Rodero, from BBC Mundo, accompanies members of this team on one of their expeditions, in which they hope to rescue people before they perish, something that is not always possible. One of the members of the Eagles, Alberto Ortega, will be present. In conversation with Daniel Pardo, BBC Mundo journalist.

Duration of the documentary: 22 minutes

Co-organized with BBC Mundo

Vasilisa Stepanenko in conversation with Daniel Pardo

Hay Festival & Lviv Bookforum series: 20 Days in Mariupol

Thursday 5 September 2024, 7pm –  Teatro de la Ciudad

The Ukrainian Vasilisa Stepanenko, in conversation with the BBC Mundo journalist Daniel Pardo, will talk about 20 Days in Mariupol, a documentary project, co-produced by her, which won an Oscar in 2024. This award-winning work offers a detailed look at the siege which the city experienced, capturing the impact on the population and the devastation caused by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This is a valuable testimony to the impact of the war on the civilian population, and the resistance of the Ukrainian people.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

With the support of Open Society Foundations

Screening of short films by Brenda Vanegas, Comfrey Films and Joel Zito Araújo

Film with a message

Thursday 5 September 2024, 7pm - 8.20pm –  Cineteca Rosalío Solano

With the support of the Ford Foundation

The state of Querétaro Philharmonic Orchestra and the pianist Marcela Roggeri in concert

Hay Festival & Lviv BookForum series

Thursday 5 September 2024, 8.30pm – 10pm –  Teatro de la Ciudad

With the support of Open Society Foundations

Mukí sopalírili aligué gawichí nirúgame

Screening of the documentary followed by a discussion with Ángeles Cruz, Santiago Esteinou and Adrián Moreno

Thursday 5 September 2024, 8.30pm - 10.30pm –  Cineteca Rosalío Solano

On the International Day of the Indigenous Woman, we present the documentary Mukí sopalírili aligué gawichí nirúgame (“The Woman of Stars and Mountains”), about the heartbreaking, incredible story of the Raramuri woman Rita Patiño, from Chihuahua. Rita left her community in the Tarahumara mountains and walked all the way to Kansas, where she was interned in a psychiatric hospital against her will, since the hospital authorities were unable to determine who she was, where she came from and what language she spoke.

Directed by Santiago Esteinou

Duration: 100 min

Screening of the documentary followed by a discussion with Ángeles Cruz (Actress), Santiago Esteinou (Director) and Adrián Moreno (Linguist).

With the support of UNESCO