Hay Festival Arequipa 2025 is here! The eleventh edition of the festival in Peru will take place from 6 – 9 November, featuring 99 events and over 130 local, national, and international participants. The form to request free tickets for university students and seniors will be available soon.
Event 62
Ros Postigo and Raúl Chuquimia in conversation with Carlos Caamaño
Arequipa–Lima: photography as a meeting place
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
In the first half of the 20th century, Arequipa helped shape some of Peru's most memorable images. Today, new generations of photographers, curators and thinkers are once again asking what it means to look at a country in transformation. Photographer Ros Postigo and visual artist Raúl Chuquimia will speak to curator Carlos Caamaño about photography as a tool for creating memory and understanding territory, identity and diversity, and something more essential: photography can teach us to see the country better, and Arequipa, with its history and artistic vitality, can become a space for reflecting on contemporary photography in Peru.
La Carpa Librera book tent is a welcoming space for reading and listening to stories, where children, young people and adults can explore books and discover all that they have to offer. This is a place where the pages come to life. For this experience, we will be joined by the reading facilitatorElena de Yta.
Álvaro Bisama in conversation with Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
Every novel shows us a story and Oráculo, Álvaro Bisama (Chile) unfolds a whirlwind of interwoven stories, filtering through diverse realities: the historical, the horrific and the fantastic. A kind of labyrinthine book through whose plots his characters wander. Bisama will talk to Arequipa journalist Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi.
Book presentation with Carlos Garayar, Marco García Falcón and Jessica Rodríguez
Una noche un sueño y otros cuentos
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Biblioteca Personal de Mario Vargas Llosa (San Francisco 306) - Auditorio Amelia Díaz
Una noche un sueño y otros cuentos, by Carlos Garayar, brings together fifteen tales that move between the frenetic city and the enigmatic Amazon, featuring characters who suffer from loneliness, chance and heartbreak. The author and the book's publisher, Jessica Rodríguez, speak with writer Marco García Falcón about these texts that offer a respite from the noise of the world and invite contemplation of the intimate and the uncertain.
¿Dónde están los cuentos? is a play that invites children and adults alike to embark on a magical adventure to rescue beloved storybook characters, because every time a book is opened, magic springs from its pages. Behind every page, behind every scene, an adventure full of humour, music, imagination and audience participation awaits. Children and adults alike will become storytellers to bring the magic back to books.
Recital accompanied by music, by J.M. Coetzee and Valerie Miles
Closing event: readings of Mariano Melgar
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Teatro Municipal
A festival closing event to commemorate Arequipa's most representative poet. An evening that will fuse tradition with modernity, featuring both the poems of Mariano Melgar and contemporary Yaraví composers. J. M. Coetzee and Valerie Miles will recite some of the poems they have translated for the bilingual Spanish-English edition, Mariano Melgar: poesía de amor y rebelión, accompanied by traditional melodies, featuring the voice of María Antonieta Dávalos, representative of the musical legacy of Los Dávalos, and music by Pedro Rodríguez.
Price: S/20.00 (PEN)
Sponsored by Credicorp and the support of the Open Society Foundations
Mauricio Ambrossio, Claudia Delgado and Andrés Garay in conversation
How Arequipa adopted photography
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
The evolution of photography over its two-hundred-year history has transformed our relationship with images. Since 1875, Arequipa has been a major hub of photographic activity, radiating influence across the entire region. Mauricio Ambrossio, Claudia Delgado and Andrés Garay will discuss how shifts in usage and technology have shaped the work and creative output of photographers from Arequipa.
In a system that glorifies individualism and the cult of the self, it is hardly surprising that bad manners and rudeness are gaining ground across the social spectrum. One need only observe the outbursts of those who govern us or read the thousands of messages flooding social media. The sociologist and philosopher Renata Salecl (Slovenia) observes how neoliberalism has colonised our emotions, our decisions, and even our forms of empathy. She sets this out in Maleducados, where she also offers an alternative: kindness. Not as naive behaviour, but as a form of resistance. If the system wants competition, let us respond with coexistence.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
