Events for Children and Young People

La Carpa Librera

Saturday 8 November 2025, 10am – 6pm GMT-5 –  Plaza San Francisco

The Carpa Librera is a space for reading and listening, where the reading mediators Estefani Bengoa and Sandra Linares Reategui will read children’s books. In a place designed for both young and old —including those who cannot read—, they can enjoy the stories hidden in books, and so perhaps the reading bug will bite them. The Carpa Librera will also have a small mobile library for children, young readers and adults.

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG

Workshop with Anaisa Cornejo

Object books

Saturday 8 November 2025, 10am GMT-5 –  Plaza San Francisco

What is a book? Starting with this question, the participants in this workshop, given by Anaisa Cornejo, will create new items based on the object-books they have at hand. At first, the pages will be completely blank, but will be given stories by means of collage, and so leave behind their status as objects and become books.

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG

Book club: 'The Bitch'

Lead by Ainaí Morales, María Gracia Ríos and Rosario Yori

Saturday 8 November 2025, 10.30am GMT-5 –  Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán (Aula 5)

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG

Baila reading

Followed by dacing activities

Saturday 8 November 2025, 11.30am GMT-5 –  Plaza San Francisco

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG

Workshop with Rodrigo Laguna

Create your own game

Saturday 8 November 2025, 12pm GMT-5 –  Biblioteca Regional Mario Vargas Llosa, Auditorio 2 (2do piso)

Playing with games that already exist is fun, but it isn’t every day that we can experience designing our own, with the excitement of seeing how ideas take shape and sharing them with others. Participants at this workshop with Rodrigo Laguna will design and build a boardgame inspired by an idea that motivates them. An activity that awakens creativity and encourages working together.

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG

Workshop on Afro-Peruvian zapateo with Karen Jara and Juan Felipe Miranda

Omelenkó

Saturday 8 November 2025, 4pm GMT-5 –  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.

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG

La Carpa Librera

Sunday 9 November 2025, 10am – 6pm GMT-5 –  Plaza San Francisco

The Carpa Librera is a space for reading and listening, where the reading mediators Estefani Bengoa and Sandra Linares Reategui will take turns reading children’s books. In a place designed for both young and old —including those who cannot read—, they can enjoy the stories hidden in books, and so perhaps the reading bug will bite them. The Carpa Librera will also have a small mobile library for children, young readers and adults.

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG

Melissa Siles, Yesenia Silva and Patricia Villanueva in conversation

Colonial Peru

Sunday 9 November 2025, 10am GMT-5 –  Plaza San Francisco

A journey into the past to discover what happened when the Spanish reached the Incas. How did life, beliefs and habits change in the Inca Empire with the new government? Melissa Siles, Yesenia Silva and Patricia Villanueva present Perú virreinal, a way of understanding this cultural encounter, and of cultivating a critical look at a past that marks the Peruvian identity of the present day.

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG

Workshop with Melissa Siles and Yesenia Silva

Colonial characters

Sunday 9 November 2025, 11.30am GMT-5 –  Plaza San Francisco

The children that take part in this workshop will receive sheets to colour in, with printed characters from the colonial period —leaders, intellectuals, clergy…—. They will also be able to paint the frames with motifs taken from the Cusco School. An activity for getting to know one’s past, boosting creativity and relating it to respect and national identity. With Melissa Siles and Yesenia Silva.

Hay Festival Comunitario is sponsored by LXG