The penultimate day of the Coahuila International Book Fair 2024 opened its doors to “other ways of telling stories”, as well as pop culture and sport as a comprehensive way of promoting people’s well-being, with a day that was enjoyed by children and adults alike.
This Saturday, September 21, from the University Cultural Center (CCU, in collaboration with the Coahuilense Institute of Youth and the State Institute of Sports During the afternoon, several urban sports exhibitions such as BMX, skateboarding and breaking were held,
In addition to this, a tournament was held freestyle y the presentation of the rapper Azufre in the gardens in front of the Faculty of Fine Arts, where poetry took on another form and improvisation took center stage in the voices of young people who gave it their all on the stage.
The competition did not stop there, but continued in parallel in the virtual world, thanks to the tournament of Super Smash Bros Ultimate, organized by Carolina University and the Capsule Corporation. The qualifying rounds took place during the morning at the university stand and after midday the final was held in the Aula Magna, demonstrating the players’ ability to execute seemingly impossible moves and put their opponents in a difficult position.
There was also a Pokémon tournament, and cosplayers Janne Artemis, Alejandra Sugar and Maiferyli They had the opportunity to show their work dressed as their favorite characters, and they talked about this art.
Literature was involved with pop culture thanks to the participation of the writer from Guadalajara, Paola Llamas Dinero, who presented her poetry collection “Poems for otakus”. She, on the other hand, gave a writing workshop based on autofiction in the morning. And joining in this same offering, Lorena Velázquez and Carlos Mata spoke about the influence of mythology and pop culture on the Pokémon franchise.
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And at dusk, also in the central corridor of the CCU, the team of Dragon Alchemy held five simultaneous sessions of Dungeons and Dragons, with role-playing games that created stories for young people and adults in fantastic, medieval, apocalyptic worlds and even very close to Mexico, but always with imagination and the luck of the dice on their side.
