Projects and partners

Hay Festival Arequipa works in collaboration with several organisations.

SURA

SURA, Latin American Partner of the Hay Festival continues to support the Festival. On this occasion, they will support two conversations: The Peruvian economy and its challenges. Roberto Chang and Zaraí Toledo in conversation with Carlos Paredes Lanatta and Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Philippe Sands. Additionally, SURA is the sponsor of the digital broadcasts of Hay Festival Arequipa 2024.

South to South Conversations

With the series of South to South meetings, Hay Festival Global aims to create a space for encounters between the most innovative voices of the Global South, sharing different ways of viewing the world and non-Western solutions to the problems we face. This series is supported by the Open Society Foundations. During Hay Festival Arequipa 2024, we will have two South to South conversations: Gabriela Wiener in conversation with Liliana Colanzi, featuring Renata Flores and Decolonizing to See the World. Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chinny Ukata, Astrid Madimba, and Natalia Sobrevilla in conversation with Farid Kahhat.

ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA (AC/E)

Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) is a public organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing Spain's culture and heritage, both within and outside its borders, through a broad range of activities including exhibitions, meetings, lecture series, film, theater, music, audiovisual productions, and initiatives that foster the mobility of professionals and creators. Within the initiatives that promote the internationalization and mobility of professionals in the Spanish literary sector, AC/E has launched a collaboration program with Hay Festivals held worldwide, co-organizing activities to promote and disseminate the work of our creators abroad. The Hay Festival Arequipa 2024 will feature a strong presence of Spanish talent: Ekaitz Cancela, María Larrea, Alessandro Maccarrone, and Karima Ziali.

BRITISH COUNCIL

The Hay Festival and the British Council launched a global partnership at the Hay-on-Wye Festival in 2010—deepening their collaboration since the birth of Hay Festival Cartagena—and have since worked together to bring UK writers and thinkers to global audiences. The British Council's literature team promotes British editors, poets, and writers to various communities and audiences worldwide, developing innovative and high-quality events that connect writers, editors, and cultural institutions. British authors at the Hay Festival Arequipa 2024 will be supported by the British Council to ensure that the UK’s literary expertise and knowledge are recognized and appreciated by different Peruvian audiences. These are the British authors who will participate in the festival: Hamja Ahsan, Hari Kunzru, Clare Pollard, Philippe Sands.

BBC MUNDO

To complement the programming of the Hispanic festivals and expand its reach through digital media, Hay Festival partners with BBC Mundo to create complementary programming where guests at Hay Festival Arequipa, and other significant cultural figures from the Americas and Europe, will discuss current issues, offer book recommendations and authors they admire, and share their insights on specific topics. Readers will also find interesting notes and test their knowledge of literature and the Spanish language. BBC Mundo journalists will moderate several talks at the festival and offer their traditional Journalism Workshop. Additionally, we will screen the documentary Los Tsiname. La comunidad de Bolivia donde las personas envejecen más lento.

This digital programming, featuring exclusive videos, texts, images, and conversations, will be published on the BBC Mundo and Hay Festival websites and social media platforms.

EL PAÍS AMÉRICA

Hay Festival and El País have established a media partnership for all festivals in Latin America, bringing festival content to the newspaper's readers and the paper’s interviews and research to festival attendees. The newspaper hosts a talk at each festival with a significant international figure, and both organizations share content to bring the Hay Festival closer to El País readers. This time, we have the following conversation: Diego Enrique Osorno in conversation with Camila Osorio.

HAY FESTIVAL FORUM MOQUEGUA

On November 6, the Hay Festival Forum Moquegua will take place, thanks to the invaluable support of Anglo American. The Forum will be free and will feature guests such as Elisa Guerra, Xabier Díaz de Cerio, Alejandro Millán, Javier Moro, Maritza Ramírez, Patricia Salas, and Nelson Vallejo-Gómez. Check the complete program here.

THE ECCLES INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES

The Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Global Writer’s Award is an annual literary prize awarding £20,000 to a writing project that explores a theme related to the Americas; the award is organized by the Eccles Institute for American Studies at the British Library, in association with Hay Festival Global. The prize is aimed at writers working on non-fiction or fiction books, in English or Spanish, that require the use of the Americas collection at the British Library. The Hay Festival is pleased to support this award and contribute to publicizing the call for entries and the work of the winners, inviting them to its festivals. At the Hay Festival Arequipa 2024, we will feature the conversation Archive Societies. Natalia Sobrevilla and Irene Vallejo in conversation with Magally Alegre Henderson.

HAY DIALOGUES WITH CUADERNOS HISPANOAMERICANOS

Hay Dialogues with Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos aims to foster knowledge and exchange between writers of different generations and nationalities, united by a shared language and literary tradition enriched by authors from diverse backgrounds. This proposal, which will be developed at each Hay Festival, will feature a renowned author who will, in turn, propose another younger one, either from Latin America or Spain (Spanish authors are invited to propose a Latin American writer and vice versa). It is thus a dialogue that builds bridges between generations and different countries, with Spanish literature as a bridge. On this occasion, Carlos Bardem from Spain and Hugo Coya from Peru will converse with Teresa Ruiz-Rosas.

FREUNDESKREIS AREQUIPA E.V.

This year we are strengthening the alliance with the German association Freundeskreis Arequipa e.V., whose main task is to support the integral development of vulnerable Arequipa children and youth. Freundeskreis Arequipa e.V. supports the Hogar de Cristo Association, which manages a home that provides comprehensive support to an average of 80 underprivileged children, for whom we reserve a percentage of the audience for our activities at the Hay Festival Comunitario. Thus, we integrate the children from Hogar de Cristo, giving them the opportunity to share with other children through a program full of important and fun content.

AREQUIPA MEN'S AND WOMEN'S PENITENTIARY ESTABLISHMENT

In line with our goal of identifying with the most vulnerable sectors of the community, since 2019 the Hay Festival Arequipa has been organizing sessions in the Socabaya men's and women's prisons. This year, in addition to the scheduled talks with program guests, we have designed a sensitization strategy through reading, together with the participants of the Bibliobici project. The plan will consist of four scheduled visits to the prison, aiming to collect the voices of the inmates around readings, texts, and other creative documents with which we will work at each stage. The visits will take place before the tenth edition of the Hay Festival Arequipa. Elisa Guerra and Giacommo Roncagliolo are the authors who will visit the men's and women's prisons, respectively.

Activities at the Colegio de Alto Rendimiento de Arequipa (COAR)

While the Colegio de Alto Rendimiento de Arequipa (COAR) welcomes high school juniors, seniors, and fifth-year students with proven capabilities for engaging in an educational process aimed at enhancing their remarkable skills in various fields of knowledge, the Hay Festival Arequipa wants these young people to interact with prominent guests to inspire them and encourage them to design their own careers with a broad, transversal vision that impacts their target groups: family, friends, neighborhood, school community, university community, and finally, as agents of transformation in the country. In this edition, Elisa Guerra will deliver a lecture.