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Event HC6
Frida Martínez in conversation with Kenya Acosta
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Biblioteca Juan de Dios Bátiz Paredes. Delegación Josefa Vergara
What do you have to do to win an Olympic medal or play at a football World Cup? In her book Súper-deportistas mexicanos, Frida Martínez portrays 24 high-achieving Mexican sportspeople. Her book reveals the hard work, discipline and dedication of her chosen protagonists, who train in karate, gymnastics, athletics, baseball and more, until they reach the top of their sport. In conversation with Kenya Acosta, Frida Martínez tells us these stories, which show how high we can fly as long as we have imagination, consistency and effort.
Frida Martínez in conversation with Tere Alcántara
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Museo de la Ciudad (Biblioteca)
What do you have to do to win an Olympic medal or play at a football World Cup? In her book Súper-deportistas mexicanos, Frida Martínezportrays 24 high-achieving Mexican sportspeople. Her book reveals the hard work, discipline and dedication of her chosen protagonists, who train in karate, gymnastics, athletics, baseball and more, until they reach the top of their sport. Frida Martínez shares these stories, which show how high we can fly as long as we have imagination, consistency and effort. In conversation with Tere Alcántara.
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Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in conversation with Yuriria Sierra
In the mountain’s embrace
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Jardín Guerrero
The guest at this event is a pioneer with great achievements. She was the first Peruvian woman to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Sagarmatha (Mount Everest), and to climb the six highest peaks on the other continents She is also the first openly LGTBI+ person to reach the seven summits. Silvia Vásquez-Lavado tells her story in the book In the Shadow of the Mountain, winner of the Stanford Travel Book of the Year. In it, the author tells of these milestones, as well as a past of trauma and excess, of alcoholism and promiscuous sex, and before this, childhood abuse. Vásquez-Lavado reveals how an ayahuasca ceremony helped her to connect to the mountains. It is part of her story that she undertakes her expeditions together with other victims of sexual abuse, as part of the Courageous Girls project, founded in 2014. Silvia Vásquez-Lavadowill talk to Yuriria Sierra about her activism, her memories and about the film that is currently being made.
