The 13th Bahía Blanca Latin American Poetry Festival is coming from October 2 to 6, with the participation of 16 poets from Argentina, Chile and Ecuador.
The event returns with readings, music, cinema, workshops, poetry at school, dance, party and a great outdoor closing.
In this edition there will be the poet Fabián Casas (Boedo, 1965), Argentine writer, essayist and journalist.
His work is made up of three novels, three books of short stories, eleven collections of poems and books of essays and plays. In 2007, he received the Anna Seghers Prize in Germany.
Chilean Rafael Cuevas and Colombian/Ecuadorian illustrator, cartoonist and plastic artist Powerpaola will also arrive in Bahia.
Like every year, the festival proposes an expanded idea of poetry with crossovers between music, art and verse.
Other notable visits this year will be that of the singer and poet Paula Trama, who will be in charge of closing the festival with an open-air recital in the Plaza del Algarrobo, on Sunday the 6th.
Additionally, the list of national guests completes: VV Fisher, Carlos Ríos, Ana Porrúa, Santiago Pontoni, Gustavo Sánchez and Eloisa Oliva. Joining the locals: Emilia Bianco, Felicitas Eileicegui, Macelo Díaz, Julieta Rosso, Ziva and Juani Guerrero.
In the last 30 years, poetry has also grown from the edges, small, artisanal, medium-sized, self-managed publishing houses are protagonists of this artistic movement and also of our festival.
All activities will be accompanied by the Poetry Publishers Fair that brings independent labels from all over the country.
The classic poetry reading tables will take place: on Thursday the 3rd at the UNS House of Culture, on Friday the 4th at the City Historical Museum, on Saturday the 5th at Factor C and on Sunday the 9th at the Plaza del Algarrobo.
There will also be self-publishing and cameo-making workshops, open talks by Powerpaola at ESAV, and poetry and genres at UNS; a poetic walk along the banks of the Napostá stream and visits by local poets to secondary schools in the city.
As the opening of the festival, the closing of the film series WAS MOVIDA! with the screening of the documentary IDA VITALE by María Arrillaga (Uruguay), on Wednesday the 2nd at the Coope Obrera Cultural Center, Zelarrayán 560.
Invitadxs:
Emilia Bianco (Punta Alta); Fabián Casas (CABA); Rafael Cuevas (Chile); Marcelo Díaz (Bahía Blanca); Felicitas Eleicegui (Salliqueló); VV Fisher (CABA); Juani Guerrero (Bahía Blanca); Eloísa Oliva (Córdoba); Santiago Pontoni (Santa Fe); Ana Porrúa (Mar del Plata); Powerpaola (Ecuador/Colombia); Carlos Ríos (Santa Teresita); Julieta Rosso (Bahía Blanca); Gustavo Sánchez (San Juan); Paula Trama (CABA) and Ziva (Punta Alta)-
PROGRAMMING 2024
WEDNESDAY 2
7:00 p.m. IT CAME OUT MOVING! The film series closes and the festival opens with the screening of the documentary IDA VITALE by María Arrillaga (Uruguay). We accompany with readings and presentation of the programming / Cultural Center of the Cooperativa Obrera, Zelarrayán 560.
Synopsis: Young woman of 99 years: Vitale. He loses his great love, returns home after forty years of exile, receives the most important literary award in the Spanish language and goes on tour. The Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale travels without moving away from herself, attentive to what no one sees. From A to Z, it moves within a slow parenthesis: a tour full of unprecedented stops.
THURSDAY 3
* 2 p.m. POWERPAOLA VISITS THE ESAV / The Colombian-Ecuadorian plastic artist and illustrator gives an open talk at the School of Visual Arts / Zapiola 247, Room 8.
READINGS + PUBLISHERS FAIR / House of Culture, Av. Alem 950.
4 p.m. PUBLISHERS FAIR / Fair of independent poetry publishers.
4:30 p.m. POETRY READINGS
* Julieta Rosso (Bahía Blanca) – Gustavo Sánchez (San Juan) – Rafael Cuevas (Chile)
* Felicitas Eleicegui (Salliqueló) – Carlos Ríos (Santa Teresita) – Santiago Pontoni (Santa Fe)
* Fabián Casas (CABA), presents: Marcelo Díaz.
FRIDAY 4
10:30 a.m. POETIC WALK THROUGH THE NAPOSTÁ STREAM / Tour through the Napostá Stream accompanied by poets, poems, birds and special guests. Meeting place: Paseo de las Esculturas (bow and arrow).
2 p.m. WRITINGS, FEMINISM AND DISSIDENCES. 10 YEARS FOR HERE Open talk on poetry and gender / Arturo Marasso Humanities Library, UNS, October 12, 1048
READINGS + PUBLISHERS FAIR / Museum and Historical Archive, Saavedra 951
4 p.m. PUBLISHERS FAIR + tour of the Museum
4:30 p.m. THE FESTI READINGS
* Juani Guerrero (Bahía Blanca) – Carlos Ríos (Santa Teresita) – Powerpaola (Ecuador)
* Rafael Cuevas (Chile) – Marcelo Díaz (Bahía Blanca) – Eloísa Oliva (Córdoba)
* Paula Trama (CABA) – VV Fisher (CABA)
SATURDAY 5
During the morning, Eloisa Oliva visits the Taller Prende de Ferrowhite Museo Taller and then we have a macaroni lunch at the Museo del Puerto, together with the guest poets and residents of White.
10 a.m. POETRY AND SELF-PUBLICATION / Workshop* by Carlos Ríos. Is there a possible relationship between the forms of a poem and its publication? Bring ideas to write poems, editing tools and enthusiasm are never lacking. No previous experience is required, of course! / La Masmédula Books, Alsina 155
17 HS. CAMEO FACTORY. Collage workshop* coordinated by Ana Porrúa. Make cameos by cutting and gluing paper like someone dancing a quartet or minuet on a tile: from those carved, jeweled, framed medals to the collage of scenes, portraits or small still lifes, imagination and images will allow us to put together a gallery of contemporary objects and memories . (With prior registration by email [email protected]) / Jorge Luis Borges Library, Pellegrini 638.
20 HS. GALA OF POETS OF THE FESTI
Installation and paintings by Gustavo López / Inaugural dance: Ale Saguí, Guillermina Larrea, Rosina Gúngolo / Read: Paula Trama, Ana Porrúa, Emilia Bianco, Ziva, Santiago Pontoni, VV Fisher, Felicitas Eleicegui / Hosted by: Milton del Monte / Dress Code: champagne football!
23 hrs. ¡FIESTA Lisboa!
DOMINGO 6
4 p.m. POETRY IN THE SQUARE / Plaza del Algarrobo, Av. Parchappe 1000.
PUBLISHING FAIR / CAMAFEO Exhibition / ESAV intervention.
READINGS ON THE CHAIR
Emilia Bianco, Marcelo Díaz / Julieta Rosso, Juani Guerrero / Gustavo Sánchez, Fabián Casas / Eloísa Oliva, Powerpaola.
6 p.m. CLOSING OF THE FESTIVAL: Paula Trama live!
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