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Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Elvira Liceaga
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Teatro de la Ciudad
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most celebrated and outstanding authors in contemporary Colombian literature. At this event he will talk about his most recent book, Los nombres de Feliza, a recreation of the life of the sculptor Feliza Bursztyn, who was a freethinking artist who went beyond the limits set by the times for women like her. This rigorous novel weaves together art, history and memoir.
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Patricia Ledesma in conversation with Ayelén Oliva
Hay Festival Constellations: archaeology
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
Hay Festival Constellations creates a space for intergenerational dialogue within the Mexican cultural scene, in fields such as literature, film, music, science and activism. To understand the present, it is necessary to understand the past, and in this regard we owe to Eduardo Matos Moctezuma much of Mexico’s current identity. Together with Patricia Ledesma, this event examines that history in order to think about what has made us. The past and the present will come into dialogue here, in a conversation moderated by Ayelén Oliva.
How can we stop being macho? The journalist Nacho Lozano has written Macho menos, aimed at those men who want to deconstruct themselves, in order to open the way to new masculinities. This is a book that also incorporates women’s voices in order to shed light on some of the more questionable aspects of men’s behaviour.
LSM Mexican sign language interpretation available
Olivia Rosenthal in conversation with Javier García del Moral
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
Olivia Rosenthal (France) is a writer whose work fuses fiction, essay and personal testimony. For Que font les rennes après Noël?, which examines our relationship with animals and the domestication of emotional feeling, she interviewed several people who work with animals. In On n’est pas là pour disparaître, she reconstructs the case of a man suffering from Alzheimer’s who attacks his wife, and confronts us with the fragility of identity and personal links.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
Janet Martínez, Alan Riding and John Vaillant in conversation with Alejandra Claros
The United States of the Americas
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Museo de la Ciudad (sala 2)
Mexico, the USA and Canada share more than borders: migratory policies, the climate emergency and common challenges. The relationships among the three countries have not always been stable, and according to who is in power, changes in course occur. Three experts will talk about the urgency of building bridges among the three nations: Alan Riding (United Kingdom), who has written about the complexity of these relationships; John Vaillant (USA/Canada), a witness to the ecological disaster; and the Mexican journalist Janet Martínez. They will be joined by Alejandra Claros Borda, General Secretary of the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF).
Consecutive interpretation from English to Spanish available
Carmen Aristegui in conversation with Daniel Pardo
Hay Festival Constellations: journalism
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Teatro de la Ciudad
Hay Festival Constellations creates a space for intergenerational dialogue within the Mexican cultural scene, in fields such as literature, film, music, science and activism. Truth, ethics and the urge to tell us the facts are all a part of good journalism. Carmen Aristegui and an emergent journalist selected by her will dialogue about the current state and value of a profession that has gone from being seen as «the Fourth Estate», to being mistrusted and even vilified by certain discourses and some sectors of society.
LSM Mexican sign language interpretation available
Michel Nieva (Argentina) is a creator of gaucho-punk, which fuses the gauchesca tradition with the cyberpunk genre. In Ciencia ficción capitalista he draws our attention to the capitalist fantasies of the technological gurus. This essay explores how the language of science fiction has been kidnapped by the neoliberal ideas of Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and co. In conversation with Eduardo Rabasa.
Fernando Benavides in conversation with Paula Rosas
True crime, from podcast to novel
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Jardín Guerrero
Mix a few drops of murder, disappearance, political investigation and unsettling theories, and stir in some vigorous narrative rhythm and a great sense of story, and you have all the ingredients that have made Fausto, the true-crime podcast by Fernando Benavides (Mexico), the most listened to in Latin America. On this occasion, he presents the novel La vulnerabilidad del azar, a work written in his characteristic style: based on a real case, with multiple murders, and the resulting police investigation.
LSM Mexican sign language interpretation available
John Vaillant (USA/Canada) won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction for Fire Weather, a book about the terrible forest fire that burned Fort McMurray, the centre of the Canadian oil industry. In this brilliant work, Vaillant argues that it was not just a fire, but a warning that we need to prepare for an ever hotter and more inflammable world.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Mar García Puig and Mariana Matija in conversation with Felipe Rosete
Reconnections
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Museo de la Ciudad (sala 2)
Mar García Puig (Spain) and Mariana Matija (Colombia) advocate for a reconnection with fundamental aspects of our existence, from different perspectives. In her book, Això tan tenebrós, García Puig presents an argument in favour of the complexity of metaphors and the darkness, as against the prevailing literalness and desire for purity; in her work of non-fiction Niñapájaroglaciar, Matija looks to a more aware and harmonious relationship with nature.
Gina Jaramillo and Patricia Vázquez del Mercado in conversation with Alejandra Claros
Universum: learn about science through play
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Patio de la Delegación del Centro Histórico
The UNAM’s Museum of Science has created Universum, a space for children to learn about science through curiosity and play. Gina Jaramillo and Patricia Vázquez del Mercado will discuss the museum’s new proposal, a pioneer in Mexico due to its accessible and inclusive approach, and because of the cooperation between the public and private sectors involved. In conversation with Alejandra Claros Borda, General Secretary of CAF.
In his most recent book, Goth, the legendary founding member of The Cure, Lol Tolhurst (United Kingdom) returns to his origins: the music scene of the late 70s and early 80s, years when new bands were arriving: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division and, of course, The Cure. This work records the channelling of a force that goes beyond music: a community, a feeling of belonging, and something that meant the shadows and darkness –and those basslines– became a light that drew people together.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Pedro Baños (Spain), a reserve colonel and geopolitical analyst, is one of the most influential thinkers on strategy and international relations in the Spanish-speaking world. In his latest book, Geohispanidad, he considers a geopolitical strategy to unite Spanish-speaking countries and strengthen their global influence. He will talk to Javier Solórzano about the new alliances that are being forged, and they geopolitical map that is taking shape today.
Mardonio Carballo and Alejandra Sasil Sánchez Chan in conversation with Rafael Volta
Hay Festival Constellations: poetry
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Jardín Guerrero
Hay Festival Constellations creates a space for intergenerational dialogue within the Mexican cultural scene, in fields such as literature, film, music, science and activism. At this event, Mardonio Carballo and Alejandra Sasil Sánchez Chan will talk to Rafael Volta about the power and value of poetry: or when language is a weapon that can fight for existing and resisting.
Deborah Levy and Rebecca Makkai in conversation with Gaby Wood
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
Two award-winning writers share the floor with Gaby Wood. The two-time Booker prize shortlisted, Deborah Levy (United Kingdom), returns with a novel about her own life: August Blue, which is a revision of her old stories and a renewal of her identity in a dazzling portrait of a transformation. Rebecca Makkai (USA), shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, presents I Have Some Questions for You, a true crime story that hones in on the grey areas of truth, memory and collective responsibility.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Yadira González, Alma Delia Murillo and Mirna Nereida in conversation with Héctor Guerrero
Disappeared in Mexico
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Museo de la Ciudad (sala 2)
In a country that, unfortunately, has become used to horrors, the discoveries at the Izaguirre Ranch, in Teuchitlán, were on such a scale that they have shaken the country. It has also served to bring back into the spotlight one of Mexico’s most painful realities: forced disappearances; and to place value on a group of brave women, the Madres Buscadoras. Guests are Mirna Nereida, founder of the Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte; Yadira González, a rastreadora who discovered the Tepeji del Río mass grave; and Alma Delia Murillo, a fiction writer who has written about the strength and grief of these mothers in Raíz que no desaparece.
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Faced with an autobiographical book called La mujer incierta, it might be thought that it deals with an amalgam of uncertainties. Yet, in reality, the Colombian poet, fiction writer and essayist, Piedad Bonnett, takes her own experiences as a starting point to tackle the times she has lived through, and reading it we can know a bit about the many women she has been; all written in a prose that is poetic, sensitive and emphatic.
What if music and illustration came together? Kevin Johansen sings and Liniers draws, until they mingle to create a concert in which the sings are illustrated and the drawings sing. A spontaneous, unpredictable show… or, in other words, chaotic good fun.
Thousands of people have come to poetry thanks to the warmth of Elvira Sastre. With poetry books such as Baluarte and Aquella orilla nuestra —in addition to the novel Las vulnerabilidades— she has made poetry an everyday form of expression for a generation of readers. Here, the Spanish author will speak to Laura García, and offer the audience a poetic reading.
Price: $10.00 (MXN)
With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Aura García-Junco, Ángeles Romero and Tamara Tenenbaum in conversation with Connie Garrido Sicilia
On love
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
Feminisms have taught us that there is not only way to love, just as love has not just one goal or way of working. Aura García-Junco (Mexico), Ángeles Romero (Mexico)and Tamara Tenenbaum (Argentina) reflect with Connie Garrido Siciliaon the many ways of creating emotions and living love.
