Hay Festival Querétaro 2024 will run September 5-8. Besides the general programme events -20MXN per ticket-, we have plenty of free activities at Hay Festival Joven and Hay Festival Comunitario.
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Frida Martínez in conversation with Tere Alcántara
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Museo de la Ciudad (Biblioteca)
What do you have to do to win an Olympic medal or play at a football World Cup? In her book Súper-deportistas mexicanos, Frida Martínezportrays 24 high-achieving Mexican sportspeople. Her book reveals the hard work, discipline and dedication of her chosen protagonists, who train in karate, gymnastics, athletics, baseball and more, until they reach the top of their sport. Frida Martínez shares these stories, which show how high we can fly as long as we have imagination, consistency and effort. In conversation with Tere Alcántara.
This activity is accessible to neurodivergente and disabled people.
Andrés Cota Hiriart is a biologist, zoologist and writer. He has written books including Cabeza ajena (2017), Faunologías (2015), El ajolote. Biología del anfibio más sobresaliente del mundo (2016) and Fieras familiares (2022), 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 excepts from his books.
Raúl Zurita in conversation with Jan Martínez Ahrens
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Teatro de la Ciudad
Raúl Zurita (Chile) is one of Latin America's most celebrated poets. He suffered during the repression of the Pinochet dictatorship and in 1979 founded, together with other artists, the Acciones de Arte collective, which undertook grassroots public art actions against the dictatorship, and in 1993, using excavators, wrote the words "NI PENA NI MIEDO" (“NO REGRET NO FEAR”) in the Atacama Desert. Zurita has received Guggenheim and DAAD (Germany) fellowships, and awards including the 2000 Chilean National Literature Prize, the 2016 Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Prize, and the 2020 Reina Sofía Ibero-American Poetry Prize. He will talk to Jan Martínez Ahrens, the Director of El PaísAmérica, and the event will conclude with a poetry reading.
Angela Saini in conversation with Javier García del Moral
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
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 the 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 it is an element that is constantly changing within systems of control. In conversation with Javier García del Moral.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Anthony Passeron in conversation with Gabriela Jauregui
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
The writer Anthony Passeron (France) will talk to the writer Gabriela Jaureguiabout Les enfants endormis, a book about the heroine and HIV epidemic in France, which links up the personal history of the author and his family, with the story of scientific advances, achieved working against the clock to control the virus. This moving book has been received in France as one of the best debuts of the year. Les enfants endormis has won a number of major awards, including the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Post and the Prix Première Plume. Passeron teaches Humanities, History and Geography at a higher education institute.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
Gina Jaramillo is an art historian, General Manager of Radio Chilango, has worked as a children’s activist through the Colectivo Niñeces Presentes initiative, and now brings her talents to children’s literature. In her new book El guardián de los quesos she tells us the story of Tigre, a cat that visits various homes in the neighbourhood, which inspires Bibi and Mon to explore the different ways of seeing and forming a family. Jaramillo highlights the importance of love, empathy and respect, and she uses inclusive language to reflect the evolution of communication and family structures and relationships in today’s society.
Raúl Robin Morales is the creator of the animated short film El tigre sin rayas and of the illustrated book of the same name. In the story, we meet a little tiger from the savannah who, until the others, has no stripes. The young feline undertakes a journey to seek them, and finds other things on the way. At this event, we will watch the short film and discover the book that tells this beautiful story.
Elisa Guerra(Mexico) holds a Master’s in Education at Harvard University. In 2015 she was named Best Educator in Latin America and the Caribbean by the Inter-American Development Bank, and was a member of the UNESCO Futures of Education’s International Commission. At this event, she will talk about her latest book, Las voces de los árboles, a work that takes readers to a parallel world in which trees of different species around the world tell us their story and let us reflect on the harm we are doing to the planet.
Adriana and Ana Grimaldo offer a workshop on the subject of architecture, aimed at children. Using the spaces, forms and colours found in the buildings of the Mexican architect, Luis Barragán, we will be able to discover the artistic details that are hidden in Mexican sweets, toys and traditions. The construction of a model inspired by one of the spaces in Barragán’s house will be the starting point for a reflection on how to turn our own history into original creations.
Montse Bizarro in conversation with Daniel Montes Pimentel
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La Otra Bandita
Montse Bizarro (Spain) is a Journalism graduate with a Master’s in Literary Creation. She is also an activist who raises awareness about, and works against, discrimination linked to mental health, autism and gender. Her novel Mañana ya no hablaremos de nada explores these matters through the lives of Mar and Lorena, who have a relationship permeated by psychological and emotional instability, the result of living in a hostile context, with the city of Barcelona as the backdrop. A very contemporary reflection on the structures of our relationships and mental health. In conversation with Daniel Montes Pimentel.
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With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
This event promises to be a magical experience full of stories and laughter. We present an exciting puppet kamishibai of Mi abuelo se comió un reloj, a story by the puppeteer Raúl Ángeles, illustrated by Arturo Trejo Delgado and published by the Queretaro Municipality Department of Culture. This is an adventure where imagination and fun come together to make for an unforgettable performance. The author will guide us through the pages of his story, while the characters come alive before our eyes, becoming enchanting puppet figures.
Emiliano Monge in conversation with Javier Lafuente
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Teatro de la Ciudad
Emiliano Monge(Mexico, 1978), formerly a lecturer in Politics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is a publisher and journalist. He debuted as an author with Arrastrar esa sombra (2018), shortlisted for the Antonin Artaud Prize. He has won a number of other awards, including the 28th Jaen Novel Prize and the 5th Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos Prize, for El cielo árido (2012); and the Elena Poniatowska Prize for his novel Las tierras arrasadas (2015). He was also recognised in the book México20 and the Bogotá39 list (2017) as one of the best writers aged under 40 in Mexico and Latin America. His new book, Los vivos, tells the story of Hincapié and Vestigia, a couple in crisis, devastated by terrible experiences that bring on a fear of losing each other, and problems of lack of communication. In a working environment characterised by migration and constant disappearances, Vestigia seeks answers by interacting with other characters who shed light on the vacuum left by the disappeared, and the profound impact on those who wait for them. The book finds new perspectives on presence, absence and reappearance, not only physical aspects, but also ones related to language, feelings and the past. Emiliano will be in conversation with Javier Lafuente.
Actress and director Claudia Sainte-Luce will be reading fragments of Monge's novel.
César Rendueles in conversation with Eduardo Rabasa
The utopia of the commons
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
The Spanish sociologist and writer César Rendueles, a CSIC scientist and outstanding thinker, known for his many cultural projects and essays such as Sociofobia (2013), Capitalismo canalla (2015)and Contra la igualdad de oportunidades (2020), presents Comuntopía. Comunes, postcapitalismo y transición ecosocial (2023). This book proposes a global “politics of the commons” as a crucial opportunity for the social forces that advocate democratic, progressive and emancipatory strategies in the context of the new post-capitalism; framed in a context of ecological, political and technological emergencies. This is where the struggle for our "common goods" happens. In conversation with Eduardo Rabasa.
Mohamed El Morabet and Ana Sofía González in conversation with Diana González
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
Two writers from each side of the Atlantic will talk to the journalist Diana González. With Mohamed El Morabet (Morocco), who in El invierno de los jilgueros, his second novel, tells the story of Brahim, a man wounded by death, illness and war. And with Ana Sofía González (Mexico), an architect and teacher who presents her literary debut, No matarás, a novel about violence in the domestic sphere and class tensions, with complex women characters who are looking to escape from extreme situations.
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With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
The Mexican artist Paulina Suárez studied Illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California, where she lived between 2008 and 2013. She is currently based in Mexico, where she works as a freelance artist and art educator. Her illustrations have appeared in work for different publications and publishers, including Editions FLBLB, Cacciani, FCAS, Esto es un libro, Revista Marvin, Cartelera CCUT Tlatelolco, Far Faria, as well as for the Coco Lab, Llamarada and Los Hijos de Jack animation studios. At this workshop, participants will have the chance to use stickers to create their own monsters, and then to colour and decorate them.
Ernesto Galánhas degrees in Performing Arts and Law. He is the Artistic Director of the 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 theatre festival. At this activity, those attending will be invited to participate in writing and group rewriting in order to stimulate creativity, fantasy, observation and memory. Participants will use and reappropriate sentences taken from the public digital space and the tangible public space. These will mix with other words, images, feelings and contexts, and so create a collective writing of “stories of a thread”.
Amalia Andrade in conversation with Yuriria Sierra
Mind and health
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Teatro de la Ciudad
Amalia Andrade, the Colombian author of works such as Uno siempre cambia al amor de su vida (Por otro amor o por otra vida), Cosas que piensas cuando te muerdes las uñas and Tarot magicomístico de estrellas, has sold over a million books and is a social media phenomenon. In her most recent book, No sé cómo mostrar dónde me duele, Andradereturns to the theme of mental health and the body-mind relationship, writing about matters such as poetry, music and the cultivation of good habits to work on our emotional education and balance the internal world of the feelings. In conversation with Yuriria Sierra.
Baruc Martínez Díaz and Angela Saini in conversation with Diego Rabasa
(In)equalities
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
At this event, which is part of the Equities series, co-organized with the British Council, two academics and writers will talk about the racial bias for the construction of historical narratives and how, with an intersectional reading, we can see how history has traditionally been written by the colonisers. With Baruc Martínez Díaz(Mexico) and Angela Saini(United Kingdom), in conversation with Diego Rabasa.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Ester Bautista Botello, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Tamikuã Txihi with Eduardo Rabasa
Art and public space
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
What happens when an intervention is made in a public space by an artist or an architect? How can interventions make use of and improve communal spaces for the enjoyment of citizens? We talk to three artists and architects whose work tends in this direction, and to whom we will talk about matters such as public space, accessibility, aesthetics and community. With the academic and thinker Ester Bautista Botello (Mexico) the Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas and Tamikuã Txihi(Brazilian artist of the Pataxó people), in conversation with writer and editorEduardo Rabasa.
Simultaneous interpretation from Portuguese to Spanish available
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Co-organized with CAF and with the support of the Ford Foundation
Sara Barquinero and Myriam Moscona in conversation with Guillermo Núñez
Cuadernos hispanoamericanos
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Patio de la Delegación del Centro Histórico
Cuadernos hispanoamericanos aims to promote knowledge and exchange between writers of different generations and nationalities, united by a single language and a literary tradition enriched by authors of diverse origins. On this occasion, two acclaimed Spanish-language poets and novelists will talk to Guillermo Núñez. With Sara Barquinero (Spain), author of Los escorpiones, philosopher, essayist, and novelist; and Myriam Moscona (Mexico), an outstanding Mexican poet, essayist, and translator with Jewish roots. She is well-known for promoting the rich heritage of Jewish culture and the Sephardi diaspora. Her new book, León de Lidia, which has won various awards, is a varied look, through photographs, drawings and literary portraits, of the interlaced aspects of her heritage.
Paola Llamas Dinero in conversation with Yudi Martínez
Poems for otakus
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Museo de la Ciudad (Biblioteca)
Divided into five sections, with an opening and an ending in the anime tradition, the poems of Paola Llamas Dinero explore the sensations that occur when fiction forms an essential part of our lives. Through language based on words, images and signs, characteristic of the street, television and Internet, the author examines our relationship with the world of fiction through anime, manga and the social media. She will ask how imaginary worlds determine many of our feelings and identities. She also wonders, if we are constantly relating to characters who do not exist, watching a series or scrolling through stories on Instagram, whether we can really form links with other people. In conversation with Yudi Martínez.
Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in conversation with Isabel Posadas
In the mountain’s embrace
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Plaza Miguel Hidalgo, Tequisquiapan
The guest at this event is a pioneer with great achievements. She was the first Peruvian woman to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Sagarmatha (Mount Everest), and to climb the six highest peaks on the other continents She is also the first openly LGTBI+ person to reach the seven summits. Silvia Vásquez-Lavado tells her story in the book In the Shadow of the Mountain, winner of the Stanford Travel Book of the Year. In it, the author tells of these milestones, as well as a past of trauma and excess, of alcoholism and promiscuous sex, and before this, childhood abuse. Vásquez-Lavado reveals how an ayahuasca ceremony helped her to connect to the mountains. It is part of her story that she undertakes her expeditions together with other victims of sexual abuse, as part of the Courageous Girls project, founded in 2014. She will talk to Isabel Posadas about her activism, her memories and about the film that is currently being made.
Oleksandra Matviichuk in conversation with Mario Arriagada
Hay Festival & Lviv BookForum series
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Teatro de la Ciudad
Oleksandra Matviichuk (Ukraine), is a lawyer and activist of the Center for Civil Liberties, awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize together with Memorial. Human rights defender, works on Ukrainian and OSCE issues. She currently heads the human rights organization Civil Liberties and also coordinates the work of the Euromaidan SOS initiative group. She has experience in creating horizontal structures for the mass participation of people in human rights activities against attacks on rights and freedoms, as well as several years with her practice of documenting violations during armed conflicts. In 2016 she received the Defender of Democracy Award for her "unique contribution to the promotion of democracy and human rights" of missions to the OSCE. In 2017 she became the first woman to participate in the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program at Stanford University. She will talk with Mario Arriagada.
With simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish
One of the founding members and the bassist with the most legendary group in the history of punk, the Sex Pistols, comes to Queretaro to tell us about his musical history. Glen Matlock (United Kingdom) made a decisive contribution to the sound and image of the Sex Pistols, and co-wrote many of their iconic songs, including Anarchy in the UK and God Save the Queen. Since then, Matlockhas continued his musical career, working with various artists, and releasing music as a soloist and with his own band, Rich Kids, and also writing the musical autobiography Triggers, a Life in Music. In conversation with Mariana H.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Fuentes La Roche and Josefa Sánchez Contreras with Felipe Restrepo Pombo
On museums and colonialism
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Patio de la Delegación del Centro Histórico
In 2022, Hay Festival and the British Museum teamed up to create the anthology Volver a contar: escritores de América Latina en los archivos del Museo Británico, in which a group of ten writers took up narratives about the past using the collection of Latin American objects in the museum, ones that have never been seen before. In 2023 we present the anthology Exploradores, soñadores y ladrones, in which six fiction writers look at the museum collections to bring to the surface a new collection of texts that question and reimagine predominant narratives. With Yásnaya Elena Aguilar(Mexico), Cristina Fuentes La Roche (Spain), and Josefa Sánchez Contreras (Mexico) in conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo.
Coinciding with the publication in Mexico of Sisters of the Yam, by the great African-American thinker bell hooks, we bring together three writers, all admirers of hooks, to talk about her work and the influence of her legacy. With Jumko Ogata (Mexico) is a writer and anti-racist activist from Veracruz; she contributed to the anthology Tsunami II and is the author of the children’s book Mi pelo chino; she has also translated this edition of hooks’ work. They will talk to the writer Gabriela Jauregui.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
The writer and violinist Jay Sandoval(Guatemala) has accumulated over 19 million readings on Wattpad of his saga, La teoría de Kim. A talented child, he learned to play the violin aged eight and aged 13 he went to the Guatemalan National School of Music. His passion for literature, with the aim of creating a safe place where readers can find themselves and feel free, has led him to publish his stories on digital platforms, creating an extensive community that advocates for the ideals of inclusion, authenticity and self-discovery. In conversation with Romina Pons.
Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Heather Cleary
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Teatro de la Ciudad
The writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit is an important voice when it comes to matters such as feminism, environmental and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, walking and wandering, hope and catastrophe. She is the author of over 25 books, including the anthology she co-edited in 2023, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, as well as Orwell’s Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. She writes regularly for The Guardian and is on the board of the climate group Oil Change International. On this occasion she will talk about her work with Heather Cleary.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
