On the third day of the Guatemala International Book Fair (Filgua) 2026the agenda offers a wide variety of activities for the whole family in the more than 150 stands set up in Forum Majadas, zone 11 of Guatemala City.
This space, which celebrates its XXIII edition in the country, is dedicated to the meeting between readers, writers and publishing houses, with the purpose of promoting reading.
For this Thursday there will be activities for all audiences, including the broadcast of the match between Morocco and France in the pavilion of the Filgua 2026 guest country, Germany.
In addition, the first screening of German cinema will be offered, with the presentation of the acclaimed film Hannah Arendtwith which we seek to share part of the cinematographic culture of that country.
During the day, a tribute will also be held to the person to whom Filgua 2026 is dedicated, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum. Likewise, there will be interactive workshops, such as Tak’alik Ab’aj Archeology, and the presentation El Popol Wuj in the words of the Mayans.
The day will end with a concert by Fernando López. This is the agenda
Activities agenda
International Library Conference
- Hour: 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias Room
Launch of Science Clubs
- Hour: 9 to 11 hours
- Place: Marilena López Room
- Exponents: Senacyt and Vice Presidency Team
The first grain of corn
- Hour: 9 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Speakers: Diana López (editor) and Levi de la Rosa (illustrator)
Affection and learning in the classroom
- Hour: 9 hours
- Place: Children’s Room
- Speaker: Marta Irene Rodas Anleu
Welcome to the second day of the Professional Program: The audiobook in Latin America in the international context
- Hour: 10:05 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Speaker: Carlos Rojas
Metadata to improve sales
- Hour: 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Speakers: Ricardo Costa and Philippe Hunziker
By playing I also learn
- Hour: 10 hours
- Place: Children’s Room
- Exponent: Marta Irene Rodas Anleu
Professional Program: Challenges of distribution (traditional and digital)
- Hour: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Speakers: Orith Btesh, Lucas Fernández, César Medina and Carlos Rojas
German reading aloud contest – The final
- Hour: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Place: Marilena López Room
- Exponents: PASCH schools finalists
Workshop: Guate has sharks
- Hour: 11 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Karen Sapón Morán and Alejandra Vásquez Ventura
Using data as business intelligence
- Hour: 12 to 12:30 p.m.
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Speakers: Ricardo Costa and MVB Latin America
New marketing ideas for booksellers
- Hour: 12:20 to 1 p.m.
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponent: Lutz Kliche
Meeting of Reading-Friendly Municipalities: Exchange of Experiences
- Hour: 12 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Gabriela Castro de Burbano, Rousse Vásquez and Adolfo España
Conversation: Word, Memory and Writing. The literary production of Rigoberta Menchú Tum
- Hour: 14 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias Room
- Exponents: Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Dante Liano and Maya Rigoberta Pérez Menchú
How a novel is born
- Hour: 2 to 4 p.m.
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Speaker: Helene Bukowski
Workshop Part II: Artificial Intelligence in editorial work and literary translation
- Hour: 2 to 6 p.m.
- Place: Marilena López Room
- Exponents: Claudia Cabrera and Lutz Kliche
Creativity and education: can we teach to imagine?
- Hour: 14 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Nora Gabriela Paz, Diana Flores, Eriverto Ajpop, Paola Andrade and Andrea Ávila
The football festival
- Hour: 2 to 4 p.m.
- Place: Germany stand
Stories to unite people, Chinese People and Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala
- Hour: 15 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias Room
- Exponents: Marco Antonio Sagastume Gemmell, Philippe Hunziker and Vitalino Similox
- Moderator: Raxche’ Rodríguez Guaján
Interactive Tak’alik Ab’aj Archeology Workshop
- Hour: 15 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Tak’alik Ab’aj Archaeologists
Affection and learning in the classroom
- Hour: 15 hours
- Place: Children’s Room
- Exponent: Marta Irene Rodas Anleu
The Popol Wuj in the words of the Mayans
- Hour: 16 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias Room
- Exponents: Raquel Xochiquetzal Rivera Almaguer, Lina Barrios and Julio Serrano
- Moderator: Raxche’ Rodríguez Guaján
I want to cook you before it rains
- Hour: 16 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponents: Silvina, Jessica Pérez and Dialma Fuentes
Land and racism: The modern dispossession of lands in Q’eqchi’ territory
- Hour: 16 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Edgar Balsells, Alfonso Huet and Laura Hurtado
Poetic anthologies of National Awards: Enrique Juárez Toledo, Otto Raúl González and Luis Alfredo Arango
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias Room
- Exponents: Enrique Noriega and Hanna Orellana Beitze
Is the story as they told it to us?
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponents: Carlos Sabino, Roberto Ardón, Rodrigo Fernández and Lorena Castellanos
Interactive Tak’alik Ab’aj Archeology Workshop
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Tak’alik Ab’aj Archaeologists
Tribute act to Dr. Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Nobel Peace Prize 1992
- Hour: 18 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias Room
- Figure: Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Ultra and gangsters
- Hour: 18 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Speakers: Briseida Millián Lemus, Juan Alberto Fuentes Knight, Julie López and Enrique Naveda
Conversation about literature and football
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias Room
- Exponents: Jessie Álvarez and Julio Prado
Lumbre Collection
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponents: Vilma Sánchez and Marvin García Citalán
And a clock as a compass
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Marilena López Room
- Speakers: Ana Cofiño and Vania Vargas
Between hills and ixcanales: a history of Jutiapa, 16th-19th centuries
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent Embassy of Mexico
- Speakers: José Cal Montoya and Diego Vásquez Monterroso
Movie: Hannah Arendt (2012)
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Cinemark Majadas Once
Fernando López concert
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Musical Square