‘Making and doing’ is a vital part of enjoying culture, so we have a varied programme of workshops for children and teenagers. With so much going on, you have free rein to be adventurous and express your creativity by trying something new at Hay Festival. Workshops range from circus skills to animation, music, illustration and creative writing.
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Workshop: The Minimal Autobiography, by Beltrán Gambier
A Life in Just One Thousand Words
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Biblioteca Pública Municipal Eugenio Trías (Madrid)
Intramuros magazine, a pioneer in the autobiographical genre in Spanish, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, continuing to explore the form known as the "minimal autobiography." Its director, Beltrán Gambier, will lead a workshop guiding participants in writing their life stories in just 1,000 words.
Through theoretical guidelines and the reading of selected excerpts from autobiographies, Gambier will motivate attendees—no academic background required—to write four or five initial paragraphs (or a complete minimal autobiography) in the first person. These texts will be shared and discussed among participants in the second session of the workshop.
With the collaboration of Laura Ventura, literature professor and journalist. Assistant: Yago Cabrera Pérez
Minimal Autobiography Workshop with Beltrán Gambier and Pedro Zuazua
A Life in Few Words
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Centro Penitenciario de Segovia
Hay Festival Segovia returns once again to the Segovia Penitentiary Centre, driven by the success of previous years, with the Minimal Autobiography Workshop led by Beltrán Gambier, founder and director of Intramuros magazine, which is dedicated to this literary genre. With over three decades of history, Intramuros has featured contributions from prestigious authors, including Nobel Prize winners Günter Grass, Herta Müller, and Mo Yan. Gambier is also a lawyer and author of several legal texts, including one focused on Penitentiary Administrative Law.
The workshop once again includes the participation of Pedro Zuazua, a trained philologist and practicing journalist. Author of En mi casa no entra un gato and Días para ser gato, autobiographical works centered on his life with his cats, Mia and Atún.
This is a valuable opportunity for inmates to take part in a high-level literary activity, where they will be invited to write a short autobiographical fragment.
Event in Spanish
This event is aimed to the Penitentiary Centre inmates
Workshop in Burgos: The Minimal Autobiography, by Beltrán Gambier
A Life in Just One Thousand Words
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Fundación Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua (Burgos)
Intramuros magazine, a pioneer in the autobiographical genre in Spanish, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, continuing to explore the form known as the "minimal autobiography." Its director, Beltrán Gambier, will give a 120-minute workshop that will guide the audience in writing their life story in 1,000 words (minimal autobiography). In the first part (60 minutes), Gambier will provide some theoretical guidelines and read excerpts from minimal autobiographies with the aim of motivating participants—who do not need any academic training—to write (in the following 30 minutes) three or four first paragraphs in the first person, which will be read and discussed (in the last 30 minutes) among the participants.
Event in Spanish
Registration at the Fundación Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua (tel. 947 25 60 90)
Co-organised with the Fundación Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua and the Junta de Castilla y León
