Projects

SURA

SURA, Hay Festival Ally for Latin America continues to support the Festival. On this occasion, they sponsor the talks with Javier Moro, in conversación with Gabriela Warkentin, who will focus on his mot recents books and the lecture by the scientist Julieta Fierro.

South to south conversations

With the South to South series of encounters, the Hay Festival aims to create a space for dialogue among the most innovative voices of the Global South to share different perspectives on the world and non-Western solutions to pressing issues. This series is supported by the Open Society Foundations. During the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias 2024, we will have five South to South conversations. Two talks will be around the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista movement, with Guiomar Rovira and Rosaluz Pérez Espinosa; Nimmi Gowrinathan, with Valentina Oropeza; a conversation about narratives in plural with Petina Gappah, Garry Gottfriedson and Josefa Sánchez Contreras with Mikel Ruiz; and a last one about Presidenta with Brenda Lozano, Mariana H, Gina Jaramillo and Jumko Ogata in conversation with Yuriria Sierra

Dow, sustainability sponsor

Dow consolidates its supprt to Hay Festival Querétaro, helping us to make it more sustainable by measuring and neutralising our carbon footprint and thereby promoting a Festival that is all about protecting the planet. Thanks to Dow, spectators will be able to recycle waste and access to drinkable water in between talks. In addition, Dow and its allies will restore public cycle routes in the city, facilitating the safe use of this valuable means of transport

Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)

Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) is a Spanish public body dedicated to promoting Spain’s culture and heritage, inside and outside the country, through an extensive programme of activities. This includes exhibitions, meetings, conferences, film, theatre, music, audio-visual productions, and initiatives that boost the mobility of professionals and artists. As part of the promotion of the internationalization and mobility of Spanish literary professionals, AC/E collaborates with the Hay Festivals held around the world, co-organizing activities for the promotion and dissemination abroad of the work of Spanish writers. Hay Festival Querétaro 2024 will gather a number of talented Spanish artists: Montse Bizarro, Mohamed El Morabet, Nuria Pérez y Guiomar Rovira.

British Council

Hay Festival and British Council launched a global partnership at the 2010 Hay-on-Wye Festival - deepening their joint work 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 publishers, poets and writers in different communities and audiences around the world, developing innovative and high-quality events that weave connections between writers, publishers and cultural institutions. British authors of Hay Festival Querétaro 2023 had the support of the British Council, in order to ensure that the knowledge and experience of the United Kingdom in the field of literature are recognized and appreciated by different Mexican audiences. These are the British authors who will be at the festival: IColin Greenwood, Hind Hassan and Angela Saini. Besides, British Council will support this event: Literary pairs: Hind Hassan and Marcela Turati in conversation with Héctor Guerrero.

BBC Mundo

To accompany the programmes of the Hispanic festivals, expanding their scope through the use of digital tools, Hay Festival has teamed up with BBC Mundo for the preparation of a supplementary online programme in which Hay Festival Querétaro guests and other major figures in the world of European and American culture talk about current affairs, offer suggestions for books to read and authors they admire, and share their views on specific subjects. Readers can also find notes of interest and test their knowledge of literature and the Spanish language. BBC Mundo journalist will be part of the Hay Festival Queretaro programme, and a Journalist Workshop will be organised with Communications students from the University. Besides, there will be a screening of the docummentary film Los buscadores de migrantes perdidos en el desierto de Sonora.

This digital programme, with exclusive online videos, texts, images and conversations, were be broadcasted on the website and social media of BBC Mundo and Hay Festival.

El País América

Hay Festival and El País have established a media alliance for all the festivals in Latin America, bringing the festival to the readers of the newspaper, and the interviews and investigations of the newspaper to the spectators of the festival. The newspaper features a talk at each festival with a great international personality, and both organizations shared content to bring the Hay Festival closer to the readers of El País. This time Lthe writer and journalist Leila Guerriero will be interviewed by Jan Martínez Ahrens.

The Eccles Institute for American Studies

The Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Writer's Award is an annual award of £20,000 for a current writing project exploring the Americas. Sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, the Writer’s Award is run in partnership with Hay Festival. The award is open to writers working on full-length non-fiction or fiction books, in English or Spanish that require research use of the British Library’s Americas collections. This year’s call is now open. Hay Festival, the not-for-profit event series with editions across the Americas, is pleased to support the award in reaching the widest possible audiences, profiling winners at its festivals around the world. In this edition they support the talk Archives in Náhuatl. Baruc Martínez Díaz and Javier Eduardo Ramírez López in conversation with Josefa Sánchez Contreras.

Learn more about The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award here

HAY DIÁLOGOS CON CUADERNOS HISPANOAMERICANOS

Hay Diálogos con Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos aims to favour the knowledge and exchange between authors of different generations and nationalities who are united by the same language and a shared literary tradition which is enriched by authors of different origins. This proposal which will be developed in each and every one of the existing Hay Festivals consists of the participation of an acclaimed author, who nominates a younger author from Latin America or Spain (the Spanish authors must pick a Latin American author and vice versa). This is, thus, a dialogue that builds bridges between different generations and countries, with one branch of literature, that is, Spanish literature, acting as a link. In this edition, the  Spanish Sara Barquinero and the Mexican Myriam Moscona García will talk to Guillermo Núñez.

Talento Editorial

Talento Editorial meetings are professional and international events open to the public, with the aim to know new and successful experiences in the publishing industry. Spaces in which booksellers, publishers and people from the sector exchange ideas and reflect together. This sector has suffered -or enjoyed- an extraordinary revolution, which has affected its economic and creative foundations. The XIX edition of Talento Editorial invites you to analyse irreversible cultural change.

Learn more about Talento Editorial here.

Zorro Rojo, LEO, En El Semáforo Se Aprende and La Otra Banda

Hay Festivalito's programme, aimed at children and young adults, and Hay Delegaciones programme, both for children and adults, that brings the Festival to the seven delegaciones of the city, are carried out in collaboration with the Querétaro civil associations LEO, Zorro Rojo, En el semáforo se aprende and La Otra Banda. Bringing a cultural and educational richness of the program and to its participants from the most vulnerable areas of the city.

Sign Languages and Relaxed Performances

With the aim of creating an increasingly inclusive festival where everyone can feel welcome, several conversations at the Hay Festival Querétaro 2024 will feature sign language interpretation. These include the talks by Amalia Andrade, César Rendueles, and the one on museums and colonialism. Additionally, we will have a relaxed performance, an adapted representation to be more accessible to people with sensory, cognitive, or autism spectrum disabilities. This performance will have moderated lights and sounds, a more tolerant environment to audience movements and noises, allowing greater freedom to enter and exit the theater. Claro Armonía e Inclusión AC is a civil organization from San Juan del Río, whose objective is to create cultural opportunities for people with disabilities, both in accessing events and festivals and in generating their own cultural proposals led by them. It was founded in 2019 and has since collaborated with organizations such as the British Council, the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico, UNESCO, the UN, Ambulante, Paragon Music (Scotland), the Federal Secretariat of Culture, and the Secretariat of Culture of the State of Querétaro, among others.