Lima’s international poetry festival (FIPLIMA) is an event that has a huge sociocultural impact in Peru. It promotes, develops and channels the country’s cultural demands through poetry and the participation of world-renowned artists with a view to developing a multicultural and multilingual national identity. The third edition of FIPLIMA (13–16 April 2016) features 55 foreign poets of America, Africa, Asia and Europe and 36 Peruvian poets. Thirty-three recitals will be held all over the city and the event is expected to have a media impact on 1.5 million people as in previous years, and to attract 20 thousand visitors over the four days it runs.
The festival will be brought to a close by the Spanish singer-songwriter Paco Ibáñez, whose performance on 16 April at the auditorium of the Colegio de Médicos in Peru is being supported by AC/E through its Mobility programme. Paco Ibáñez has devoted practically his entire artistic career to setting to music poems by Spanish and Latin American authors, both classical and contemporary. The voice and music of Paco Ibáñez echo the words of Alfonsina Storni, Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Nicolás Guillén and Rubén Darío in songs of love, struggle and resistance, and pure existentialism, intertwined and enveloped in the power of poetry, rhythms and instruments.
The festival will be brought to a close by the Spanish singer-songwriter Paco Ibáñez, whose performance on 16 April at the auditorium of the Colegio de Médicos in Peru is being supported by AC/E through its Mobility programme. Paco Ibáñez has devoted practically his entire artistic career to setting to music poems by Spanish and Latin American authors, both classical and contemporary. The voice and music of Paco Ibáñez echo the words of Alfonsina Storni, Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Nicolás Guillén and Rubén Darío in songs of love, struggle and resistance, and pure existentialism, intertwined and enveloped in the power of poetry, rhythms and instruments.