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SPAIN CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022
Este proyecto ha sido posible con el apoyo de Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
• ONLINE •
SPAIN-CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022 – 1. CHARLA CRUZANDO EL CHARCO: DE ESPAÑA A CANADÁ
As Canada passes the torch of Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse to Spain this year, we prepared a series of talks between some of our finest writers, editors, and translators in our countries, opening a conversation between our languages, our cultures, and our ways of working with the written word.
Mientras Canadá le pasa la antorcha de País Invitado de Honor en la Frankfurter Buchmesse a España este año, en Blue Met armamos una serie de charlas entre nuestros destacados escritores, editores, y traductores, buscando un acercamiento entre nuestros idiomas, nuestras culturas, y nuestra forma de trabajar la palabra escrita.
DUO _ 45 minutes
Participants: Jorge Carrión, Stephen Henignan
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
FREE / SPANISH
• ONLINE •
SPAIN-CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022 – 2. INSCRIBING A LIFE: FACT, FICTION AND THE ART OF THE BIOGRAPHY
As Canada passes the torch of Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse to Spain this year, we prepared a series of talks between some of our finest writers, editors, and translators in our countries, opening a conversation between our languages, our cultures, and our ways of working with the written word.
Mientras Canadá le pasa la antorcha de País Invitado de Honor en la Frankfurter Buchmesse a España este año, en Blue Met armamos una serie de charlas entre nuestros destacados escritores, editores, y traductores, buscando un acercamiento entre nuestros idiomas, nuestras culturas, y nuestra forma de trabajar la palabra escrita.
DUO _ 45 minutes
Participants: Rosemary Sullivan, Raquel Martínez-Gómez
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH
• EN LIGNE •
SPAIN-CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022 – 3. NUESTRAS NUEVAS NARRATIVAS
Alors que le Canada passe à l’Espagne le flambeau du statut de pays à l’honneur à la Foire du livre de Francfort, nous avons préparé une série d’échanges entre écrivains, éditeurs et traducteurs choisis parmi les plus réputés de nos pays respectifs, engageant ainsi une conversation entre les langues, les cultures et notre manière d’interargir avec l’écrit.
Mientras Canadá le pasa la antorcha de País Invitado de Honor en la Frankfurter Buchmesse a España este año, en Blue Met armamos una serie de charlas entre nuestros destacados escritores, editores, y traductores, buscando un acercamiento entre nuestros idiomas, nuestras culturas, y nuestra forma de trabajar la palabra escrita.
DUO _ 45 minutes
Participants : Katixa Agirre, Kevin Lambert
Animatrice : Ingrid Bejerman
GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS, ESPAGNOL
• ONLINE •
SPAIN-CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022 – 4. TRANSLATING IN TRANSIT
As Canada passes the torch of Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse to Spain this year, we prepared a series of talks between some of our finest writers, editors, and translators in our countries, opening a conversation between our languages, our cultures, and our ways of working with the written word.
Mientras Canadá le pasa la antorcha de País Invitado de Honor en la Frankfurter Buchmesse a España este año, en Blue Met armamos una serie de charlas entre nuestros destacados escritores, editores, y traductores, buscando un acercamiento entre nuestros idiomas, nuestras culturas, y nuestra forma de trabajar la palabra escrita.
DUO _ 45 minutes
Participants: Katia Grubisic, Lawrence Schimel
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH
2022 AZUL PROGRAM
• McGILL UNIVERSITY, ARTS BUILDING (room 1041)•
BICENTENÁRIO DAS NOSSAS LETRAS / 200 YEARS OF BRAZILIAN LITERATURE
An invitation to hear the great contemporary Brazilian writer Julián Fuks and Latin American literary expert Cecily Raynor in conversation with journalist Ingrid Bejerman revisiting 200 years of Brazilian literature and talking about the hottest titles and trends of today, followed by a Q&A in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish.
PANEL _ 70 minutes
Participants: Cecily Raynor, Julián Fuks
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH PORTUGUESE
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
LOOKING FOR ALICIA : THE UNFINISHED LIFE OF AN ARGENTINIAN REBEL
A conversation about Marc Raboy’s brand-new biography of a radical young idealist, her determination to make a difference in the world, and her disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into right-wing madness.
BOOK LAUNCH _ 60 minutes
Participant: Marc Raboy
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
THE WIDE RANGE OF LATIN AMERICAN CREATIVE NONFICTION: A CONVERSATION WITH CARMEN RODRIGUEZ AND JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ
While Magical Realism used the tone of everyday anecdote to tell incredible things, creative nonfiction takes reality as it is to describe with power and beauty. Chilean-Canadian poet, novelist and journalist Carmen Rodríguez and Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez look into the masterworks of journalism as literature and its search of memory, justice, and aesthetic ambition. Followed by Q&A in Spanish.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants: Carmen Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Host: Rafael Osío Cabrices
$7 / ENGLISH, SPANISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
MUJER EN PAPEL. MEMORIAS INCONCLUSAS DE RITA MACEDO
Cecilia muestra aspectos íntimos sobre su padre, Carlos Fuentes, al publicar las memorias truncas de su mamá, la actriz Rita Macedo, primera esposa del autor de Aura. (Followed by Q&A also in English and French)
INTERVIEW _ 75 minutes
Participant: Cecilia Fuentes Macedo
Host: Martha Bátiz
$7 / ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH
• HOTEL 10 (Terrasse) •
TOPO PECOSO/MOLEY MOLEI
PANEL _ 60 minutes
Milagros es una niña que vive en la Ciudad de México y de repente ve su vida sacudida por el terremoto del 2017. Pero el Topo Pecoso, su peluche y mejor amigo, ¡viene a salvarla!
Milagros is a little girl living in Mexico City whose life is suddenly shaken by the earthquake in 2017. But Moley Mole, her stuffed animal and best friend, will come to her rescue!
Participant: David Unger
Host: Cynthia Rodríguez
FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •
FROM RESISTANCE TO OCCUPATION: A CONVERSATION WITH JULIÁN FUKS
Named in The Guardian’s “Best fiction for 2018”, Resistance by Brazil’s Julián Fuks, unfolds as an intimate portrayal of a family in extraordinary circumstances, told from the point of view of the youngest child, offering an examination of identity, family bonds, and the various forms that exile can take. In Occupation (Charco Press, 2021), the author returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer’s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father’s sickness, and his wife’s pregnancy.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participant: Julián Fuks
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
$7 / ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE, SPANISH
• HOTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
HOMENAJE A CARLOS FUENTES
Un homenaje al gran escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes, autor de las monumentales novelas Aura, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Terra Nostra, entre tantas, recordando momentos de su vida y su paso por nuestro festival, en conmemoración de su décimo aniversario luctuoso.
TRIBUTE _ 75 minutes
Participants: Silvia Lemus de Fuentes, Linda Leith, Alejandro Estivill, Martha Bátiz, Claudio Palomares-Salas
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
$7 / ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •
THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING/EL RUIDO DE LAS COSAS AL CAER: JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ, PREMIO METROPOLIS AZUL 2022 PATROCINADO POR GINNY STIKEMAN
Writer, translator, and journalist Juan Gabriel Vásquez is hailed “among the most inventive and erudite” of Colombian novelists of his generation by The Guardian. He receives the Metropolis Azul Prize 2022 for his body of work.
El escritor, traductor y periodista Juan Gabriel Vásquez es aclamado “entre los novelistas colombianos más ingeniosos y eruditos” de su generación por The Guardian. Recibe el Premio Metropolis Azul 2022 por el conjunto de su obra.
CEREMONY AWARD _ 75 minutes
Participant: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Host: Ingrid Bejerman (with remarks from Gregory McCormick)
$10 / ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH
• HOTEL 10 (Terrasse) •
NO STARS IN THE SKY
No Stars in the Sky (House of Anansi) is new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz, shining a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival.
BOOK LAUNCH _ 75 minutes
Participant: Martha Bátiz
Host: Gina Beltrán
FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
DEFLECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: ON FAMILY AND SEEKING A SENSE OF HOME
Three writers — from United States, from Brazil, from Canada — share a deep connection to Argentina including a family history of finding refuge in another country and questions that remain unanswered. Julián Fuks, Marc Raboy and Pablo Boczkowski discuss the impact of this sense of displacement on their writing, and their quest to fill in the blanks.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants: Julián Fuks, Marc Raboy, Pablo Boczkowski
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
$7 / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •
THE JOURNALISM MANIFESTO
Focusing on the relevance of elites, norms and audiences, media scholars Zelizer, Boczkowski and Anderson reveal how these previously integral components of journalism have become outdated in this authoritative manifesto, which outlines that journalism has become decoupled from the dynamics of everyday life in contemporary society and outlines pathways for fixing this essential institution of democracy.
BOOK LAUNCH _ 90 minutes
Participants: Pablo Boczkowski (Northwestern University), Carrie Rentschler (McGill University)
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
FREE / ENGLISH
THANKS TO THE BLUE METROPOLIS FOUNDATION’S MAJOR PARTNERS WHO SUPPORT THE 2022 FESTIVAL AND OUR 2021-2022 EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS
MERCI AUX PARTENAIRES MAJEURS DE LA FONDATION METROPOLIS BLEU QUI SOUTIENNENT LE FESTIVAL 2022 ET NOS PROGRAMMES ÉDUCATIFS ET SOCIAUX 2021-2022
