Hay Festival is the world's largest music and philosophy festival. For this 2023 edition, the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye celebrates the festival again over a bank holiday weekend. This year it brings together an exciting group of speakers including Slavoj Žižek, Esther Freud and Brian Greene to discuss error and rebirth at the heart of society. This year's music lineup includes Welsh Music Prize-winning composer and producer Gruff Rhys, experimental composer Anna Meredith and BRIT Award-winning indie legends Belle and Sebastian.
Within the programming AC/E supports the participation of Spanish authors:
Virginia Feito talks to Xiaolu Guo
Tuesday 30 May 2023, 4pm Hwyl Stage
George March’s dutiful wife relishes the lifestyle his latest smash hit novel brings, until a shopkeeper assumes that the protagonist in his new book – a sex worker who is more a figure of derision than desire – is based on Mrs March. The casual remark robs Mrs March of the belief that she knew everything about her husband, and sends her on an increasingly paranoid journey…one that starts within the pages of a book but may very well uncover both a killer and the long-buried secrets of Mrs March’s past. In conversation with Xiaolu Guo (author of Radical: A Life of my own), Virginia Feito discusses her razor-sharp exploration of the fragility of identity and the smothering weight of expectations.
SUPPORTED BY HAWTHORNDEN FOUNDATION AND ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA AC/E
https://www.hayfestival.com/p-20455-virginia-feito-talks-to-xiaolu-guo.aspx
The Colour Monster Workshop with Anna Llenas
Thursday 1 June 2023, 10am–11am Venue: Hwyl Stage
Enjoy exploring your feelings through colour in this creative workshop with Anna Llenas, author of the Colour Monster books and I Love You (Nearly Always). The Colour Monster is all confused! He is happy, sad, angry, calm and scared all at the same time. How can he sort the emotions out and learn to live with them? You’ll create your own Colour Monster with Anna and see how colours can be mood busters for all ages. Family, 3+ years
SUPPORTED BY ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA AC/E
https://www.hayfestival.com/p-20101-the-colour-monster-workshop-with-anna-llenas.aspx
Irene Vallejo in conversation with Charlotte Higgins
Sunday 4 June 2023, 11.30am Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage
Irene Vallejo presents an immersive journey through the history of books and libraries in the ancient world which has captivated millions of readers around the world. From the banks of the Nile and the battlefields of Alexander the Great, to the censorship of the humorists and the empowerment of women writers like Sappho, Vallejo enlivens the origins of the book. Its invention was as disruptive as the internet, and through these journeys into the past, Vallejo reflects on the dilemmas of our modern world and the challenges of the future. In conversation with Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer.
SUPPORTED BY ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA AC/E
https://www.hayfestival.com/p-19931-irene-vallejo-in-conversation-with-charlotte-higgins.aspx