Hay Festival Arequipa 2025 is here! The eleventh edition of the festival in Peru will take place from November 6th to 9th, 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.
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Event 35
Alberto Fuguet and Dany Salvatierra in conversation with Giancarlo Cappello
B movies and literature
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
B movies have always been a type of refuge of all kinds of anti-hero. These stories have been low in budget, but high in imagination, and have often been transgressive and have featured those who live on the margins of society, those who are ignored. They have also been an inexhaustible source of inspiration in literature, as Alberto Fuguet (Chile) and Dany Salvatierra (Peru) will tell us, in conversation with Giancarlo Cappello.
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With the support of the Chilean Embassy in Peru and the University of Lima
Sonia Cunliffe, Enrique Planas and Zoila Vega Salvatierra with Jorge Malpartida
A salve against forgetting
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
With its love of memory, literature can be a good remedy against forgetting. Zoila Vega Salvatierra reconstructs the history of Arequipa through the voice of six forgotten pianos in Cantan al hablar. Sonia Cunliffe traces a history of migrations, losses and grief in El tropiezo del sol, which tells the story of two women whose lives are brought together by two separate earthquakes. In El álbum de las cosas olvidadas, Enrique Planas explores the emotional links we have with the objects that time has left behind, and examines our own obsolescence. In convrsation with Jorge Malpartida.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Pascal Riviale in conversation with Mario Rommel Arce Espinosa
French ethnology in Peru
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Colegio de Arquitectos (auditorio)
The remains of the civilisations of ancient Peru were a great attraction for the French adventurers, dealers and explorers who crossed the Atlantic in search of its mysteries. Pascal Rivialerecreates the history of these ethnological journeys in Los viajeros franceses en busca del Perú antiguo (1821-1914). A unique view of French archaeology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Peru. In converation with Mario Rommel Arce Espinosa.
Learning to listen to the birds singing and the earth crying
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Teatro Arequepay
Listening to the Amazon to learn, and flying over it to make it heard. Both Nelly Luna and Iñigo Maneiro know the Amazon region well, and bring to us stories that illustrate the problems of natural resource extraction and not paying due attention to its inhabitants. In his article Sobrevuelo en la Amazonía: el rastro de los depredadores, Luna talks about how illegal mining has made part of the region into a tree cemetery. Maneiro has lived with the Awajún people and has learned about their relationship with birds, and has given us a view of their ancestral worldview in her book Saber escuchar el canto. Relaciones entre aves y humanos en el pueblo awajún.
Salma El Moumni and Diego Molina in conversation with Rosario Yori
First novels
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
Salma El Moumni(Morocco) and Diego Molina(Peru) present their debut novels: Adieu Tanger and La fascinación, respectively. The first, winner of a France Culture award for a student novel, and shortlisted for the Prix Médicis, is a story about the destructive power the male gaze can have over women. After publishing three poetry books —Homesick, No somos más sabios después del diluvio and Expreso transeuropeo—, the Arequipa lawyer and poet has written a novel, and has indicated that he will soon move into the territory of the short story. In conversation with Rosario Yori.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
Workshop on Afro-Peruvian zapateo with Karen Jara and Juan Felipe Miranda
Omelenkó
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Plaza San Francisco
Celebrating the centenary of the birth of Nicómedes Santa Cruz, the renowned Afro-Peruvian poet, ethnomusicologist and intellectual, we celebrate the culture with a lesson in Afro-Peruvian zapateo with Karen Jara and Juan Felipe Miranda, known as Juno Miranda. The perfect and most enjoyable way to learn Afro zapateo.
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Biblioteca Personal de Mario Vargas Llosa, Auditorio Amelia Diaz
Experimental poetry —especially electronic poetry— offers this author the chance to break free from the linearity of the book. José Aburto will offer non-linear techniques of poetry writing to workshop participants, so they can use them in different formats, which will also be looked at here. In this way, they will practice basic writing resources that can generate poetic expressions in dispersed media.
A fanzine is a homemade publication, one that usually combines different formats and resources (collage, photography, illustration and/or text) along with varied subject matter. Those attending this workshop will be able to explore the memories, interests and emotions that bind their families. A unique opportunity to reflect on family identity, as well as experiences both long past and recent. The workshop will be aimed at Hispanic Literature students of the PUCP, accompanied by two of the course lecturers, Ainaí Morales and María Gracia Ríos.
Darío Sztajnszrajber in conversation with Ana Pais
Love and philosophy
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Teatro Municipal
Darío Sztajnszrajber (Argentina) has brought philosophy to thousands of people, filling venues and appearing on television and radio. He has captivated non-specialist audiences by dealing with the big philosophical questions of history and contemporary ideas. In the eight theses of El amor es imposible, he dismantles the myth of normative romantic love. The philosopher questions ideas such as the perfect partner and invites us to rethink the notion of falling out of love as part of the desire for the impossible. In conversation with the BBC Mundo journalistAna País.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Laura G. de Rivera, Susan Neiman and Boima Tucker in conversation with Eduardo Dargent
Challenges: who is in charge here?
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Hidden hands pull the strings of the algorithms that make us slaves; a genocide in Gaza that the world watches without blinking; left-wing movements that are lost in tribal conflicts; and the diversity and complexity of the African continent. With the first quarter of our century past, we live in a time of challenges, when it is not always clear who holds the power. Laura G. de Rivera, Susan Neiman and Boima Tuckerwill put these topics, and other challenges, on the table in conversation with Eduardo Dargent.
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With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E and Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán
Carlos Granés in conversation with Patricia del Río
From 'Salvajes' to 'rugido'
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
With El rugido de nuestro tiempo, the Colombian essayist Carlos Granés continues his task of dissecting the present that he began in Salvajes de una nueva época. We live in a time of ideological and geopolitical disorder in which there are both decolonial debates and pan-Hispanic nostalgia; a time of messianic politicians and artists who sacrifice transgression to yield to the latest moral demands. To understand the noise of our times, there is nothing better than listening to Granés. In conversation with Patricia del Río.
Elise Ann Allen, Pablo Quintanilla and Paola Ugaz in conversation with Camila Osorio
South to North Conversations: Catholicism in the 21st century
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Colegio de Arquitectos (auditorio)
The election of a pope with Peruvian nationality, his role in the changes that are hoped for in the Church, Catholicism’s challenges in terms of maintaining and attracting the faithful in an ever more secular era, what still needs to be done in the dissolution of the Sodalitium… With a quarter of the century passed, it is a good time to ask about the place of religion and Catholicism in the 21st century. Talking about this will be Elise Ann Allen, a journalist who specialises in Catholic affairs, and author of the biography León XIV; Pablo Quintanilla, an essayist and philosopher who has recently published Autoconocimiento y libertad; and Paola Ugaz, one of the journalists who uncovered the systematic abuses of the Sodalitium, and who worked on the book Mitad monjes, mitad soldados; they will be in conversation with the El País journalist Camila Osorio.
The Archivo General de Indias, or Indies Archive, is one of the world’s most important documentary funds. Created in 1785 with the goal of keeping at a single site all the documents related to the Indies, it was the Spanish government’s main archive covering the New World. Its director, Esther Cruces, will talk about its history, its role in the construction of memory, and the challenges of rereading the bundles, maps, plans and documents held there. Presented by Santiago Rojas, Northern Regional Manager and Representative of CAF Peru.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Andres Barba and Pilar Quintana in conversation with Rosario Yori
Darkness in the everyday
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
Joseph Conrad immortalised it in the iconic words from Heart of Darkness: “The horror!, the horror!”, and it is true that darkness attracts writers the way light attracts moths. Horror, fantasy and the strange, of course, but also the darkness of the everyday. This is how Andrés Barba (Spain) and Pilar Quintana(Colombia) make readers’ hair really stand on end when the night falls on their pages.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
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With the support of the British Council and Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Guillermo Arriaga in conversation with Santiago Vanegas
The Man
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Teatro Municipal
Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico) is a master of building work through different voices. From 21 Grams, to El salvaje and Babel, his fiction is created through intertwined stories, revealing the many facets of the human identity. In El Hombre, his most recent novel, he brings this style to bear once again: six characters, speaking from different times, all related to Henry Lloyd. Human brutality, that other very Arriaga ingredient, is also present in its pages. He will talk to the BBC Mundo journalist Santiago Vanegas.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Héctor Abad Faciolince and Alonso Cueto in conversation with Camila Osorio
Private diaries
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
Although it is one of the most forgotten literary genres, the diary form is nonetheless a window onto the inner and personal world of its author. Héctor Abad Faciolince and Alonso Cueto are two examples of writers who share their privacy in this way: with Lo que fue presente. Diarios 1985-2006 in the case of the Colombian, and with the recent Los años. Diario personal, by the Peruvian author. They will talk to the El País journalist Camila Osorio.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Thomas Reinertsen Berg in conversation with Ignacio Medina
The special thing about spices
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Today it is possible to buy almost any kind of spice cheaply in supermarkets and markets around the world. Yet there was a time when cinnamon was worth more than gold, and with enough nutmeg you could buy an island. Thomas Reinertsen Berg (Norway) explores the history of humanity via society’s link with spices in To the Ends of the Earth. This book takes us on a fascinating journey along the trade routes that were the engines of empire, discoveries and conflicts. In conversation with Ignacio Medina.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Donat Blum, Germa Machuca, Gabs Gabriel Valdivia and Victoria Guerrero-Peirano
Post-patriarcal poetry
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
What would a post-patriarcal world look like? One in which we don’t compete against each other but instead support one another, regardless of who we are, where we come from, or how we were raised. How can we, when the signs point to division, create connections through art and literature that transcend the boundaries of identity and nation? With the participation of Donat Blum, Victoria Guerrero-Peirano, Germa Machuca and Gabs Gabriel Valdivia.
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With the support of Pro Helvetia and Goethe Institut Peru
Jorge Villacorta in conversation with José Carlos Mariátegui
The fight against algorithms
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Museums collect objects that can be often found separated from their vital networks. Moreover, algorithms fragment contemplative attention through the colonial gesture of isolating, classifying, extracting. In response to this, non-Western, interconnection epistemologies and cosmogonies operate in completely different forms of attention: multi-sensory, relational, where all is a live agent, never finished, always in a fluid and dynamic form. The challenge for the 21st century then consists of learning how to exhibit knowledge that resists the exhibition format, and how to create exhibitions-as-relationship-diagrams that do not reproduce neither the Western archival logic nor the smartphone’s “infinite scrolling”. Is an epistemic jump to the relational possible? In this session, Jorge Villacortaexplores those topics with José Carlos Mariátegui.
