Hay Forum Dallas 2022 - DAY 1

Sat Sep 03 2022 at 05:00 pm

The Wild Detectives | Dallas

The Wild Detectives
Publisher/HostThe Wild Detectives
Hay Forum Dallas 2022 - DAY 1
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With its most ambitious line up to date, The Wild Detectives and Hay Festival are excited to combine forces again to bring together Latin and North American culture to stimulate, educate, and foster engaging global conversations on literature.
This year’s Hay Forum Festival will include nine authors from six different countries, three days of panels and book presentations, and will conclude with live music and DJ sets each night of the festival.
All the events will be free, you can RSVP for day 1 here.
The Musicality of Language: Using the Lyrical to Create Propulsive Storytelling (5p)
A discussion surrounding the use of different imaginative and lyrical literary forms to drive narratives forward. This panel will feature NY Times Writer to Watch, Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive (Grove, 2022), and Rona Jaffe award-winner Fowzia Karimi, author of Above Us the Milky Way (Deep Vellum, 2020). Moderated by Sebastián H. Páramo, Editor-in-Chief of The Boiler and Poetry Editor of Deep Vellum.
Daring to Live in Democracy: Free Speech in Cuba –Carlos Manuel Alvarez in conversation with Maria Ramos Pacheco
Join Cuban journalist and writer Carlos Manuel Alvarez for a book presentation for his recent essay collection The Tribe (Graywolf Press, 2022). Blending reportage, narrative nonfiction, and novelistic techniques, this collection chronicles a vibrant portrait of Cuba during a particularly turbulent period of history, including the author’s own account of the San Isidro Movement and his experience of being detained and uncommunicated during the 2021 Cuban protest. Carlos Manuel will be in conversation with María Ramos Pacheco, a reporter for The Dallas Morning News and Al Día Dallas
Raise of Latin Music in the US
Mexican cumbia singer songwriter Amandititia, will be in conversation with music chronicler Carlos Velazquez about the raise and influence of latin American sounds like cumbia in the US, and how they are establishing the new international musical canon. Amanditia, considered La Reina de la Anarcumbia has been a seminal figure in the cumbia boom within the us over the past decade.
Live Show Amanditita
DJ Set Nick Van House (Boom Boom Pum)
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Hay Forum Dallas is made possible with the help of The Mexican Consulate in Dallas, UTD (Center for Translation Studies), UTA (Center for Mexican American Studies), SMU (World Languages and Literature), UNT WGST (Women's and Gender Studies), UNT (Latina/o and Mexican Studies) and PEN America
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Wild Detectives, 314 W 8th St, Dallas, United States

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