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Event 40
Martha Isabel (Pati) Ruiz Corzo in conversation with Claudia Ivonne Hernández
Caring for the land
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Pinal de Amoles, Kiosko Municipal
Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo, Pati (Mexico) has dedicated her life to environmentalism, as founder of the Sierra Gorda ecological group, and guardian of one of the country’s most biodiverse areas. At this event, we can find out about her background and very important work in ecological activism.
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Huimilpan, Plaza Cívica del Jardín Miguel Hidalgo
Joselo Rangel is a multidisciplinary artist. Although he is well-known as the guitarist of Café Tacvba, one of the most iconic bands in Spanish-language rock, as a writer Joselo is the author of books such as One hit wonder, the novel Los desesperados, and the book for children La niña aburrida. His creativity as a musician, composer, producer and writer means he can move freely from one genre to another. On this occasion he will talk to another multifaceted artist, also known as one of the most important bassists in the world of music, Cha!.
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.
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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.
Hiram Ruvalcaba in conversation with Javier García del Moral
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Jardín Guerrero
Hiram Ruvalcaba is a contemporary voice who tackles the complexities of memory and violence in Mexico. After winning acclaim and awards for her stories and reporting, Todo pueblo es cicatriz is Ruvalcaba’s debut novel. He will talk to the cultural producer Javier García del Moral.
Bibiana Collado and Fatima Ouassak in conversation with Yael Weiss
South to North Conversations
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
«There is only one mother», as the saying goes, but there are many different motherhoods. Such as one of the characters in Yeguas exhaustas by Bibiana Collado (Spain), a mother whose fingers are stiff from work, in a novel about exhausted mothers; or that motherhood that never comes in Chispitas de carne. Fatima Ouassak (France), in La puissance des mères, proposes that mothers can become a new revolutionary subject, able to challenge institutional violence and transform fear into resistance. From a force for peace to a threat to the established order.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
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With the support of Open Society Foundations, the French Embassy in Mexico and Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
In La hermana, the Argentinean journalist Liliana Viola reconstructs the story of Martha Pelloni, the nun who challenged the political authorities of Catamarca (Argentina) in the 1990s after the rape and murder of the young woman María Soledad Morales. A profile and a work of literary journalism that has won the 6th Anagrama Reporting/Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation Award.
Elvira Liceaga, Paulina Flores and Tania Tagle in conversation with Miguel de la Cruz
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Patio de la Delegación del Centro Histórico
Both Elvira Liceaga, in Las vigilantes, and Tania Tagle, in Fauce, explore the complexities of bereavement and female relationships. Liceaga does so through the link among three women marked by loss; Tagle, through the voice of a mother who must speak to her son about death. In La próxima vez que te vea, te mato by Paulina Flores, the grief lies in the future —or perhaps not—, since the protagonist is trapped in the midst of a polyamorous relationship. In conversation with Miguel de la Cruz.
The story that all Mexico believed: the kidnapping of a child and the later media campaign of a mother seeking justice, which involved the highest spheres of power in the country. This was the Wallace case, when the victim became the perpetrator. In Fabricación, the journalist and writer Ricardo Raphael (Mexico) tells how a manufactured grief became a spectacle, and a manipulation of the reality, justice and the media. A true story that could have been a thriller and a systematic reminder of the impunity that haunts us.
Ilse Salas and María Fernanda Monroy Gómez in conversation with Romina Pons
Hay Festival Constellations: film
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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 architecture. At this event, Ilse Salas and María Fernanda Monroy Gómez talk about the profession of telling stories on screen, playing the part that is the simplest and most complicated of all: oneself. In conversation with Romina Pons.
In order to understand Un millón de cuartos propios (2025 Paidós Prize) by Tamara Tenenbaum, we must go back to mid-2022, when the Argentinean writer was asked to translate Virginia Woolf’s famous book, A Room of One’s Own. Against this background, she proposes a re-reading of the classic work in order to reflect on the current situation of women. Her view is that even a major landmark of feminism such as Woolf’s deserves an update, a hundred years after it was first published. In conversation with Jumko Ogata.
Eduardo Rabasa and Mariana Salomão Carrara in conversation with Gina Jaramillo
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
Mariana Salomão Carrara (Brazil), winner of the 2023 São Paulo Literature Prize in the Best Novel category for Não Fossem as Sílabas do Sábado, deals with the intimacy of human relations at moments of vulnerability. Eduardo Rabasa (Mexico), who presents El hotel de los corazones rotos, explores in this novel matters related to identity and impostures, and social and family expectations. They will talk about their different approaches to writing with Gina Jaramillo (Mexico).
Simultaneous translation from Portuguese to Spanish available
Andrés Cota Hiriart and Mariana Matija in conversation with Connie Garrido Sicilia
Literature and nature
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Museo de la Ciudad (sala 2)
The power of literature also reaches into the natural world. In nature writing, our natural surroundings become another character, the foundation of the narrative experience. Books such as Fieras familiares by Andrés Cota Hiriart(Mexico) and Niñapájaroglaciar Mariana Matija(Colombia) reimagine our relationship with nature. Our guests will talk about habitable futures, writing, and harmony with the world around us together with Connie Garrido Sicilia.
Brenda Navarro in conversation with Ateri Miyawatl
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Jardín Guerrero
Brenda Navarro's(México) first two novels, Casas vacías and Ceniza en la boca, have captivated audiences and critics alike. With writing that addresses themes such as non-normative motherhood and migration in a sensitive way, she has received various literary awards. Furthermore, Casas vacías has been taken to the stage, and Diego Luna will direct the film adaptation of Ceniza en la boca. In conversation with Ateri Miyawatl.
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With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Diego Luna and Diego del Río in conversation with Javier Lafuente
Hay Festival Constellations: film
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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 architecture. Commitment to social and political causes has been something that has characterized the careers of Diego Luna and Diego del Río, who will talk to Javier Lafuente about how to raise awareness and promote change.
Deborah Levy(United Kingdom) is back with a novel in which she delves into her own life experience. August Blue is a stunning and melancholic portrait of a transformation; that of a virtuous pianist that abandons the stage at the peak of her career and embarks on a journey to the island of Poros, where she revisits her personal history and renovates her identity. After her autobiografic trilogy, Levy draws an intimate, personal and introspective text. In conversation with Brenda Navarro.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Tatiana Bilbao and Inés Vachez in conversation with Ayelén Oliva
Hay Festival Constellations: architecture
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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 architecture. Tatiana Bilbao and Inés Vachez believe in the importance of human requirements, and in an architecture that is integrated into its setting. A dialogue on how to inhabit a city and a country, moderated by Ayelén Oliva.
Alberto Villarreal in conversation with Olivia Zerón
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Jardín Guerrero
Alberto Villarreal confronts the open scars of broken hearts in Nada nunca termina, pero hay que decir adios with advice, anecdotes, recommended reading and reflections. This is not a tool for forgetting, but rather a guide to heal through accepting that, sometimes, we have to learn to let go.
Legendary American record producer and author Joe Boyd(United Kingdom) is renowned for his work with artists such as Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, R.E.M., Cubanismo and Toots and the Maytals, among many others over the course of a sixty-year career. Following his acclaimed 2005 memoir, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, he has published And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, a thrilling history of the personalities, places, politics, and connections that have contributed to the way our world sounds. This event, which will take listeners on a global journey from Cuba to India, Brazil to Jamaica, Eastern Europe to Africa, will show how the modern musical world was shaped by colonial slavery, migration, and the 78 rpm record—and how unstoppable music is, and how alien to oceans and borders. In conversation with Mariana H.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
