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The culture of the Polígono Sur starring young people
Opening ceremony of Hay Festival Forum Seville
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Biblioteca Pública Infanta Elena - Hemeroteca
The Polígono Sur district of Seville is one of the neighborhoods with the lowest per capita income in Europe. However, many people work to promote the talent of the youngest. Hay Festival Forum Sevilla organizes two events along these lines.
Part One: Flamenco show with young people from the neighborhood. Sponsored by the Alalá Foundation, this is a small flamenco show, where a group of students can express the knowledge acquired in the Foundation's workshops. Dance, singing and percussion will be the main threads of this show. The Alalá Foundation has been working for more than 10 years for the social integration of minors, young people and their families in the neighborhood of Tres Mil Viviendas in Seville and in Estancia Barrera in Jerez. It supports culture, art and sports through free workshops held every week, benefiting 400 direct users.
Part Two: theatrical performance. Encouraging reading among young people and vulnerable groups has an undoubted power of social transformation. In this event, the José Manuel Lara Foundation is carrying out a project -together with the Entreamigos Association- with students from the CEIP Paz y Amistad School, in the Polígono Sur area of Seville. The young people will carry out a dramatization of the book Doiz travels to Earth, a collective work of the students themselves, which talks about respect for the differences of the people around us. The José Manuel Lara Foundation's mission is to contribute to the promotion of reading and support for education. It believes that a child who reads will be a child with more knowledge, more critical, with greater possibilities for the future and, therefore, happier.
Event in Spanish
Free entry, up to capacity
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Co-organized with the José Manuel Lara Foundation, the Alalá Foundation, the Infanta Elena Public Library and the Junta de Andalucía and the collaboration of the MAPFRE Foundation
Eric Loontjens in conversation with Nuria Canivell, presented by Hannah Schildt
Culture transforms cities
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Fundación Cajasol - Sala Machado
Cities are undergoing unprecedented transformations that are transforming them, with greater or lesser success, into friendlier and more livable spaces. Better use of natural and energy resources, attention to sustainability and digitalization are elements that seek to meet the needs and demands of citizens; to this is added culture as a dynamic element. The question is whether the efforts are bearing fruit or need to be redoubled.
Eric Loontjens is a member of the Oostkerk Foundation, a cultural organization located in Middelburg, the Netherlands, that is in charge of managing the cultural use of the Oostkerk, an impressive monumental building that is listed among the 100 most important monuments in the Netherlands. This historic church has become a vibrant center for cultural and artistic events in the city. Loontjens will speak about culture and heritage as drivers of social and economic development, focusing on how cultural projects can transform a region by connecting local culture with the international sphere. Besides, he will share his experience in organizing cultural events at historical monuments and the logistical and financial challenges associated with creating large festivals.
The event will be presented by Hannah Schildt, Cultural and Press Attaché at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Spain, and Nuria Canivell, Dean of the College of Architects of Seville.
Schildt has led the Communication and Culture team at the Embassy of the Netherlands since 2020, aiming to foster collaboration between Spanish cultural institutions and Dutch artists. Canivell represents 50% of the Román & Canivell studio and has been the Dean of the College of Architects of Seville for just over a year. A registered architect since 1994, she brings more than 30 years of professional experience, with significant projects such as the Abba Hotel in La Encarnación, the restoration of the Cádiz Station, the Galia Nervión building, and the Ballena Housing development.
Event in English with consecutive interpretation into Spanish
Price: €8.00 (EUR)
Co-organized with the Embassy of the Netherlands in Spain
Ángel Cárdenas and Ricard Frigola in conversation with Miquel Molina
Water and culture transform cities
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Fundación Valentín de Madariaga
The positive transformation of cities has developed over time thanks to culture and, more recently, to renaturalization projects. The aim is to improve the quality of life of citizens, but also to deal efficiently with the ever-increasing climatic emergencies. And in this transformation framework, water plays an essential role. As was the case with the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, which led to the development of its sewerage system and water network under the cover of a cultural event. Almost 100 years later, answers are still being sought to make cities environmentally sustainable spaces, to solve supply and sanitation deficiencies and to include a cultural story that explains the past and argues for the future.
Ángel Cárdenas, manager of Urban Development, Water and Creative Economies at the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), will speak at the event. In this unit, he leads a portfolio of more than $8 billion in urban operations focused on the sectors of mobility, water and sanitation, citizen security and creative economies. And Ricard Frigola, economist, associate professor of Economics and Regulation of Public Services at the University of Barcelona and between 2010-2019 was professor of Urban Management at the School of Architecture and Design at IE University. He was financial director of the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Organizing Committee (COOB'92), and is currently director of Institutional Relations at Agbar.
The event will be moderated by Miquel Molina, deputy director of La Vanguardia and writer. He is the author of two novels and several essays; the last one, Cinco horas en Venecia. Award for non-sexist journalism.
Event in Spanish. Welcome at 18:50h.
Price: €8.00 (EUR)
Co-organized with the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF)
Thomas Schlesser in conversation with Elena Garrigues
From art to comfort
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Fundación Cajasol - Sala Machado
Thomas Schlesser teaches us that there are certain human wounds that cannot be healed. However, drawing on personal experiences, this French art historian and writer teaches us that art can bring us comfort in extreme situations, in such a way that it might help us take the first step towards the stages of overcoming them. Since 2014, Schlesser has been the director of the Hartun-Bergman Foundation (Antibes, France), whose main mission is to preserve the archives and objects of artists. He has just published his first novel, Lex Yeux de Mona (Mona's Eyes), after a string of essays on the history of art and aesthetics. He is also a lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. First through realism and now through fiction, He attests that an attentive look at any artistic expression is an apprenticeship to life, to its beauty, to know oneself, "to how big the small can be, to believe in miracles, to put the world on pause, that there is no weaker sex, to live the throes of death, to listen to your inner voice, to fight and persevere, that love is desire and desire is deprivation...’".
Schlesser will talk to Elena Garrigues, who works as a professor of Ethics at IE University. With deep cultural concerns, she began her career as a correspondent for several media outlets. She is a trustee in three foundations, inclusive entrepreneurship (Nantik Lum), human rights (Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Spain) and aid to children and adolescents (ANAR). Isabelle Berneron, book attaché at the French Institute, will present the event.
Event in French with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish
Price: €8.00 (EUR)
With the collaboration of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and the Institut Français