AREQUIPA 2020 REPORT HAY FESTIVAL Digital Arequipa 2020

ay Festival Digital Arequipa 2020, as (); neurologist Facundo Manes a 100% virtual and free edition, took (Argentina); award-winning journalist and writer place from 28 October to 8 November Naomi Klein (Canada); and philosopher Adela H2020. The programme included 79 pre-recorded Cordina () were part of the Paidós 75 and live events, with 139 participants from 19 repertoire. countries from around the world. The festival was broadcast via multiple platforms, including Zoom “Today the Hay Festival is reaching webinar, Facebook, YouTube, and Peruvian radio many more people than those who and television, and it was available online on the Hay Festival Arequipa website until 15 November. can fit in an auditorium. And we are During twelve days, events were presented in seeing what has happened in other the context of Hay Festival Digital Arequipa, Hay cities, and we have a much greater Forum Digital Ayacucho and Hay Forum Digital attendance than we expected.” Moquegua, apart from special events such as the Paidós Talks in the Hay Festival Classics series, and Claudia Vivanco nine performance events (concerts and shows). The Hay Classics were unforgettable talks from Paidós editorial celebrated its 75th anniversary past editions of the Hay Festival in Wales. Great hand in hand with Hay Festival Digital Arequipa, with guests such as the Nobel Prize for Literature 1993 a group of six talks, moderated by the renowned laureate Toni Morrison (), who spoke Iñaki Gabilondo Spanish journalist , with some at Hay Festival in 2014; author of groundbreaking of the most extraordinary thinkers of our time. books such as Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh), winner of the for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari (Israel); Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006; social psychologist and the award-winning cognitive psychologist, Shoshana Zuboff The (United States), author of linguist and writer Steven Pinker (Canada). Age of Surveillance Capitalism; the great writer and expert on world religions, Karen Armstrong

2 Hay Festival Digital Arequipa 2020 Report 3 Hay Forum Ayacucho, celebrated from 31 October To speak about current world affairs and to 1 November, included the participation of the thinking, we hosted journalist and writer Moisés screenplay writer of series La casa de Naím (Venezuela), Peruvian consultants Patricia papel Javier Gómez Santander (Spain); Peruvian Merino and Patricia Cánepa, co-authors of El photographers Marina García Burgos and Morgana futuro del trabajo; and Spanish philosopher Javier Vargas Llosa; Peruvian children’s writers Micaela Gomá. Gender was an issue for discussion with Chirif and Yesenia Montes; Quechua singer Renata philosophers Paul B. Preciado (Spain) and Svenja Flores; director of BBC Mundo Carolina Robino Flasspöhler (Germany), and anthropologist Rita (Chile); food journalist Ignacio Medina (Spain) and Segato (Argentina); Antoni Ballabriga Torreguitart Peruvian chef Miguel Schiaffino. (Spain), Iñigo Maneiro (Spain) and Andrea Ortiz de Zevallos On the digital Hay Forum Moquegua stage we (Perú) talked about sustainable Jacqueline Fowks hosted guests such as anthropologist and writer development; and journalists El País Liliet Heredero Wade Davis (Canada–Colombia), medical doctor ( correspondent in Peru), Farid Kahhat El eterno and mental health expert Gabor Maté (Hungary– (BBC Mundo), (author of retorno Gerardo Lissardy Canada); writers including Andrea Abreu (Spain), ) and (BBC Mundo), Inua Ellams (Nigeria–United Kingdom) and Rafael who analysed the results of the 2020 presidential Rumett (Peru); science writers such as Miguel elections of the United States. Pita (Spain) and Philip Ball (United Kingdom); and The Spanish priest and writer Pablo D’ors, who artists including singer Susana Baca, ex-minister of spoke about the importance of meditation and Culture in Perú, and Colombian dancer Fernando contemplation, as well as the Brazilian buddhist Montaño. nun Monja Coen were present. Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba The programme was embellished by great figures (winner of the Academy Award Belle of the contemporary literary scene including British for Best Foreign Language Film in 1993 for Époque José Maza authors Hanif Kureishi and Taiye Selasi; Laurent ) and Chilean astronomer also Binet (Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie took part in the festival. française); Emmanuel Carrère, cartoonist Riad The programme for children included sessions and Sattouf and Laetitia Colombani from ; Javier workshops with Peruvian children’s writers such as Cercas (Planeta Award 2019), Rosa Montero and Pepe Cabana Kojachi ‘Mukashi Mukashi’, Fiorella Manuel Vilas from Spain; Mexican novelist and Rusca, Erika Stockholm and Spanish writers screenplay writer Guillermo Arriaga (Alfaguara Susanna Isern, Alex Nogués, Jordi Sierra i Fabra Novel Prize 2020); Leonardo Padura (); Erri and the publishing house Wonder Ponder. de Luca Melania Mazzucco Leila and from Italy; Concerts and performances included acts with Guerriero Santiago Amigorena Camila Sosa , and Susana Baca, Ayacucho singer Renata Flores, La Lá, Villada (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize 2020) Arequipa musician Pedro Rodríguez, and rapper Katya Adaui from Argentina; and Peruvians such as , Jonzi D (United Kingdom), as well as the screening María Teresa Ruiz Rosas (Premio Nacional de of an episode of the documentary series Triciclo, Renato Cisneros Literatura Perú 2020) and . and the theatre production Febro. As well as Morrison and Yunus, the festival line-up This sixth edition of the celebration of ideas in the Juan Manuel Santos included Nobel Prize winners White City successfully migrated to digital format, (Peace), ex-president of Colombia and author of with a diverse repertoire for all audiences, to An Optimistic Message for a World in Crisis , and continue imagining the world as it is, and as it can Mario Vargas Llosa (Literature), who talked about be. his most recent book, Medio siglo con Borges.

4 Hay Festival Digital Arequipa 2020 Report 5 The Festival IN NUMBERS

participants total views for all 139 272,650 events 19 countries 635,139people reached on Facebook, Instagram, 79 events YouTube, Zoom and Vimeo Audience from 54 countries performances 9 67% Peru events for children 9 16% Colombia Paidós talks 6% 6 2.5% Spain Hay Classics 3 2.5% United States 6% from 49 other countries

6 Hay Festival Digital Arequipa 2020 Report 7 The Festival IN THE MEDIA

media outlets covered the festival cities’ media included mentions in addition to Lima: Áncash, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Huánuco, Ilo, 53 10Lambayeque, Loreto, Moquegua and Piura journalists

value 94 $5,000,961 free press international media mentions (Spain, Colombia, Mexico, 42 Argentina, Brazil, Canada and UK) “Arequipa is a city that has an intense cultural life. The fact that the historic

press releases centre has become a World Heritage site also attracted a series of activities 15 and Hay Festival Arequipa is an example of that. It’s been five years agreed interviews and the way it works is a clear example 120 of the good combination between the cultural life of Arequipa and the national, local and international media possibility of hosting a festival with mentions (radio, TV, press these dimensions and characteristics.” 608 and social media) María Teresa Ruiz Rosas

8 Hay Festival Digital Arequipa 2020 Report 9 ABOUT HAY FESTIVAL

Hay Festival brings readers and writers together In 2020, due to the situation arising from the Covid-19 to share stories and ideas in sustainable events pandemic, Hay Festival Wales and Hay Festival around the world. The festivals inspire, examine and Querétaro were the first to be delivered in a 100% entertain, inviting participants to imagine the world digital format, followed by Hay Festival Arequipa and as it is and as it might be. Hay Festival Europa28. Hay Festival Segovia took Hay Festival is an international celebration of arts place as a hybrid festival with both digital and in- and sciences that has been held for the past 33 person events. years in Hay-on-Wye, a small town in Wales that is Since then, Hay Festival has launched two editions of famous for its bookshops. The Festival lasts 11 days, ‘Imagina el Mundo’, a series of digital talks featuring hosts more than 700 events, debates, interviews and some of the most brilliant minds on the planet concerts. Its audience comes from the UK, Europe discussing the world in the wake of the coronavirus. and the Americas. Hay Festival has expanded to run Festivals around the “I have attended the Hay Festival on world since 2006 including Hay Festival Cartagena three occasions and I have always de Indias and Medellín (Colombia), Hay Festival been thrilled. Even though I long for Segovia (Spain), Hay Festival Querétaro (Mexico) and Hay Festival Arequipa (Peru). the atmosphere that we have when Hay Festival has selected and promoted, at live we participate in person, to have the Festivals and in print, emerging writers under the opportunity to attend long distance, age of 40, called Bogotá39, in Bogotá (2007), Beirut precisely in these difficult times, is (2010), Port Harcourt (Nigeria 2014), Mexico (2015), Aarhus, (2017) and Bogotá (2018). something to be grateful for. Once more, A Europa28 special edition in Rijeka, Croatia, took many thanks and congratulations to the place 6–9 October 2020. sponsors and to you for your dedication and professionalism when it comes to organizing events of this category and sharing them with the world.”

Rosa Galvan Baillet

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