Hay Festival Arequipa 2024 is here! The tenth edition of the festival in Peru will take place from November 7th to 10th, featuring 96 events and over 100 local, national, and international participants. The Hay Festival Forum Moquegua will be held on November 8th. The form to request free tickets for university students and seniors will be available soon.
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Event 45
Natalia Sobrevilla and Irene Vallejo in conversation with Magally Alegre Henderson
Societies of the archive
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
Historical archives are sources of an incalculable value for understanding the past, present and future of nations. Natalia Sobrevillais a historian, researcher and lecturer in the History of Latin America at the University of Kent (United Kingdom), and is also the author of Independence and Nation Building in Latin America. In the context of the crisis affecting the National General Archive, we want to highlight the importance of protecting this legacy, which belongs to all citizens. In her contemporary classic,Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, Irene Vallejo explores the development of the book and libraries in the ancient world, and how they became effective ways for transmitting and preserving ideas, while also pointing out that “a dislike of books is a tradition with strong roots in our history”. In conversation with the Head of the Riva-Agüero Institute’s Historical Archive, Magally Alegre Henderson.
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With the support of the Eccles Institute for the Americas
Grandes culturas milenarias is a detailed compendium of the major pre-Colombian cultures which grew and flourished in Peruvian territory, from the arrival of the first inhabitants of Peruvian territory, to the formation, rise and decline of the Inca Empire with the arrival of the Spanish in Peru. This event offers a chance to meet the great cultures that existed before the Inca Empire, connecting with the past, understanding the ways of life and cultures developed by the first Peruvians, appreciating their diversity, and reflecting on how we can present our amazing cultural heritage. With Patricia Villanueva.
Ages 6 and over
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With the support of la Municipalidad Provincial de Arequipa
Workshop with Adriana Roca and Patricia Villanueva
Goldsmiths for a day
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Plaza San Francisco
Goldsmiths and artisans were very important figures in pre-Colombian societies. At this event, children can pretend to be one of them, and will have the sacred mission for the day of creating an artistic figure to be offered to the most important deity of the culture that they choose. To do so, they will receive a clay pot, paints and decorative elements. They will have to paint and decorate the pot as they wish, and to finish, they will receive sheets to colour in on the subject of these cultures of the past. This activity aims to boost the creativity and expressive capacity of children, and is related to respect, self-understanding and national identity. With Adriana Roca and Patricia Villanueva.
Ages 6 and over
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With the support of la Municipalidad Provincial de Arequipa
Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Philippe Sands
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Teatro Municipal
The British novelist and academic, of Tanzanian origin, Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is celebrated for his skills in examining the human condition, linking matters such as exile, migration, identity, colonialism and the destiny of refugees among cultures and continents. In conversation with Philippe Sands.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Clare Pollard and Gemma Ruiz Palà in conversation with Elisa Guerra
Always the family
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Gemma Ruiz i Palà (Spain) is a writer and journalist. In her book Les nostres mares, she pays homage to various generations of women in a Catalan family. With its intimate, emotional plot, the book tells of the struggles, sacrifices and strength of mothers and grandmothers, exploring their crucial role in the creation of family identity and Catalan society. Clare Pollard (United Kingdom) is a poet, fiction writer, translator and dramatist, author of various books of poetry. Her first novel is Delphi,a story that occurs in a London flat, where a woman who lives with her husband and ten-year-old son sees how the world is coming apart: the arrival of Trump, the occurrence of Brexit and a virus that spreads around the world, causing mayhem and forcing a lockdown. These two authors will talk to Elisa Guerra.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
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With the support of British Council and Instituto Ramón Llull
Juan Luis Ossa and Natalia Sobrevilla in conversation with Magally Alegre Henderson
Bicentenaries in Latin America
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
We talk about the bicentenaries of independence in the Latin American region from a historical perspective, and looking at changes over the course of these last two-hundred years, at decolonisation processes and at relations among countries with a common past but very different present courses. With Natalia Sobrevilla (Peru) and Juan Luis Ossa (Chile) in conversation with Magally Alegre Henderson.
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Sponsored by Cerro Verde and with the support of the Embassy of Chile
Liliana Colanzi in conversation with Verónica Ramírez
You shine in the dark
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Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia) won the 2015 Aura Estrada Prize and in 2017 she was selected for the Bogotá39 list of the 39 best Latin American fiction writers aged under 40. She has a publishing project in Bolivia called Dum Dum and she is the author of the books of short stories Vacaciones permanentes and Nuestro mundo muerto. Her latest book is Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (Ribera del Duero Prize),a collection of short stories that explore the narrative through time and space of the exuberant historical and geographical riches of Latin America. She has a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where she currently lectures. In conversation with Verónica Ramírez.
Farid Kahhat, Rocío Silva Santisteban and Carlos Umaña in conversation with Jonathan Castro
Rethinking the continent
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Teatro Arequepay
Three festival guests offer some ideas regarding the most pressing problems of our times, giving hints for putting us on a better path. With Farid Kahhat (Peru), sociologist and writer, an authority in the political analysis of contemporary Latin America; Carlos Umaña (Costa Rica), a doctor, activist who works for the abolition of nuclear weapons and winner of the 2017 Novel Peace Prize; and Rocío Silva Santiesteban (Peru), writer and academic, former member of the Peruvian parliament and human rights activist. In conversation with Jonathan Castro.
María Larrea, Enrica Pérez and Judith Vélez in conversation with Juan Fernando Londoño
On film
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
Within the framework of the new film law in Peru, two Peruvian filmmakers and a Spanish-French director will talk with Juan Fernando Londoño about the science and art of creating films, as well as about their great cultural value. María Larrea(Spain/France), director, screenwriter and author of fiction, born in Bilbao (Spain) and raised in Paris, where she studied film at La Fémis, is the author of Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren. Judith Vélez(Peru), a director, university lecturer and active participant in the Association of Women Film Directors, has made outstanding movies, including her prizewinning first film, La prueba (2006), and Volver a ver (2018),which represented Peru at the Goya Awards. Enrica Pérez (Peru) also trained as a filmmaker at La Fémis and studied Film Direction at the University of Columbia, New York; in 2009 she founded Sexto Sentido Producciones, and through this company she developed, produced and distributed her first work, Climas.
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Sponsored by CAF and with the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Christophe Talmont in conversation with Doris Zuzunaga
Music, a means of communication
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Plaza San Francisco
Music is, essentially, a communication tool, often underutilized for connecting with the community. If we look at the career of the French maestro Christophe Talmont, known for his eclecticism and his passion for sharing his experience with younger generations, we’ll see that we have many unresolved issues regarding musical management in our environment. How do we use public spaces to educate and attract the public to music? How do we demystify the belief that classical music is only for connoisseurs? How can we establish a more constructive dialogue between parents, teachers, and students around music? How do we replace hard-to-access instruments due to their high cost with materials available to everyone? In a conversation that will encourage public participation, Doris Zuzunaga, a musical educator from Arequipa, will take advantage of Christophe Talmont's warm disposition to leave us with ideas that we can adapt to our environment, to learn and have fun in the process.
Family event
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With the support of la Municipalidad Provincial de Arequipa and the French Embassy
Diego Enrique Osorno in conversation with Camila Osorio
El País event
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Teatro Municipal
En la montaña is a book about the encounter between the journalist and documentary-maker Diego Enrique Osorno (Mexico) and the Zapatista movement, which is 30 years old this year. This text, which is a mixture of reporting and personal reflection, begins in 2021 with the invitation sent to him by the Zapatista National Liberation Army to join the crew of the ship La montaña, in which a Zapatista delegation was to cross the Atlantic Ocean, beginning a journey of visits to Zapatista communities around the world over the course of many months. His task was to be a witness to register the events of that journey. In conversation with the El País journalist, Camila Osorio.
No figure has had more impact on Peruvian popular culture than Lorenzo Palacios Quispe, known as “Chacalón”. A musical idol, hero of the working class, saint and prophet of the dispossessed, his memory has attained legendary stature in a country constantly struggling against despair and injustice. Papá Huayco is a novel portraying the life of Chacalón through a range of voices that speak through a poetic register and the language of the street, telling a story which is also that of so many thousands of Peruvians, who came to Lima in the last half of the 20th century. Alfredo Villar is a curator, art historian, music researcher, writer and DJ, and he has recently published the widest-ranging study carried out into Peruvian Cumbia: Yawar chicha: los ríos profundos de la música tropical peruana. In conversation with Karen Bernedo.