4th Hay Festival Arequipa kicks-off with 15 guests from the UK
The event took place from 7 to 11 November in Arequipa and Ayacucho. Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa were among the over 100 guests who participated.
4th Hay Festival Arequipa kicks-off with 15 guests from the UK
For the fourth edition of the Hay Festival Arequipa, and a symbol of the growing cultural ties, 15 prominent guests from the United Kingdom will participate in the notorious cultural festival. The Festival took place from 7 to 11 November 2018 in the cities of Arequipa and, for the first time, in Ayacucho. The British Ambassador in Peru, Kate Harrisson, kicked off the Festival’s launch in Arequipa, which will feature for the very first time the presence of the Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie.
This year, thanks to the support of the British Council - the UK’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities - and the British Peruvian Cultural Association (better known as BRITANICO), the Hay Festival will feature the participation of renowned artists, writers, documentary filmmakers, historians, poets, botanists, and journalists and researchers: Helen Fielding, Joanna Walsh, Julianne Pachico, Sir Salman Rushdie, Luke Harding, John Paul Rathbone, Misha Glenny, Kate Horne, Andrea Wulf, Carlos Magdalena, William Sieghart, Kirsty Lang, Rosie Boycott, Dylan Moore and Caroline Michel, CEO of the Hay Festival.
The Hay Festival, often described as “the festival of ideas”, first began in Hay-on-Wye (Wales) thirty years ago. It celebrates the arts and sciences through open, inclusive and fun events around the world.
At the press conference for the opening of the Festival, Kate Harrisson, the British Ambassador to Peru said:
We have been inviting here to this wonderful city prestigious writers, artists, and thinkers for four years now, sharing our dreams and ideas together despite the distances–linguistic, cultural and geographic–that separate us. And I want to thank our cultural partners, the British Council and Britanico for their efforts and commitment over these years. I am pleased to add that Britanico will open its first English teaching centre in Arequipa next year. Their arrival to this wonderful city is excellent news for everyone in Arequipa, both young and old”.
Hay Festival 2018 full programme and more information available at: https://arequipa.hayfestival.com/cgi-bin/main