The XXIII edition of the International Book Fair in Guatemala (Filgua) is just hours away from ending, but it will say goodbye with various activities for the whole family, including workshops, conversations, musical presentations and activities for children.
The Majadas Forum, in zone 11 of the capital, will be the meeting point for readers, authors and publishers in a single space that celebrates reading every year and promotes this culture in the country.
This Saturday, July 18, will be one of the last days that visitors will be able to purchase their favorite books. In addition, they will have at their disposal 150 stands and a complete agenda of activities, such as Study and research in Germany, The Football Festival and a Los Bichos concert.
For children, Filgua offers storytellers, characters and special activities that seek to promote reading among new generations. For its part, Germany offers a pavilion where attendees can discover its culture, learn about study opportunities and learn about its literature.
Saturday July 18
eyes in the dark
- Hour: 09 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponents: Wilson Sánchez, Dialma Fuentes and Jessica Pérez
Voice seeds: vocabulary development from early childhood
- Hour: 09 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponents: Yara Tobar and Irene Piedrasanta
It was raining
- Hour: 09 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Denise Phé-Funchal and Nicté Serra
United in Art Academy Book Collection
- Hour: 10 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Lilia Mendoza, Araminta Gálvez and Enrique Godoy Durán
I dance with the whistle of the wind
- Hour: 11 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponents: Lucrecia Culum and Hanna Orellana Beitze
Study and research in Germany
- Hour: 11 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponent: Malgorzata Liszt
Theater: Art for social harmony and with the Earth
- Hour: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Place: Marilena Lopez
- Exponent: Sotz’il Jay Group
Reading without borders: how a book club connects cultures, transforms lives and weaves bonds of friendship
- Hour: 11 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponent: Sandra Milena Arrieta
Summit Legacy
- Hour: 12 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponents: Jaime Viñals and Hanna Orellana
The Prince of Blood and The Mystery of Barrio Bajo
- Hour: 12 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Javier Martínez and Mario Cardona
The Divine Patoja, You Are No Good…, The Sick Life (three centenary novels), by César Brañas
- Hour: 14 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponents: Gloria Juárez, Juan Pablo González and José Luis Perdomo
Rights today for a tomorrow of opportunities. For the prevention of pregnancies in girls and adolescents
- Hour: 2 to 4 p.m.
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponents: Mirna Montenegro, Danessa Luna, Gladis Pérez, Nancy Bac and Olivia Cáceres
Pen and Stone Theater
- Hour: 2 to 2:30 p.m.
- Place: Marilena Lopez
- Exponents: Laboratory of Dreams, of the Apostolic Vicariate of Petén/AGIAMONDO
Fallacies of the good chapín
- Hour: 14 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Jaine Cabrera and Miguel Say
Open microphone with the Mexican writer Flor M. Salvador
- Hour: 15 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponent: Flor M. Salvador
How to defend freedom and not commit suicide in the attempt: A manual to overcome cyberbullying in the 21st century
- Hour: 15 hours
- Place: Marilena Lopez
- Exponents: Gloria Álvarez, José Fernando Orellana, Marta Díaz, Jorge Jacobs and María Dolores Arias
Feline Habits and Husband Robbery
- Hour: 15 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: María de los Ángeles Linares and Zayda Noriega
The Football Festival
- Hour: 3 to 5 p.m.
- Place: Germany stand
Hispanic American Notebooks Festival. Writing from the periphery
- Hour: 16 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponents: Andrés Barba, Ángela Segovia, Claudia Apablaza and Raxche’ Rodríguez Guaján
- Moderator: Luis Mendez Salinas
My way to Germany
- Hour: 16 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponent: Denise Koller
Existing and resisting: identity and rights in Central America
- Hour: 16 hours
- Place: Marilena Lopez
- Exponents: Noé Vásquez Reyna, Fernando Us, Alex Rodrigo Castillo and Ingrid Hausinger
The Quetzalí orchid
- Hour: 16 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Claudia D. Hernández-Warwas, Yazmín Villagrán Miguel and Laura Ordóñez
Panel-forum: The challenges of political participation of indigenous women
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
Panel-forum: The challenges of political participation of indigenous women
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponents: Atty. Marta López (MOLOJ); PMI; Atty. Horalia Tomás (WINAQ) and Saqb’ichim Andrea Saquil Bin, Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation
Climate change, disability and poverty in times of uncertainty: Towards truly inclusive social protection and risk management
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponents: Dr. Shaun Grech, Zilpa Arriola, Iván Girón and Juliana Turqui
Sorry for forgetting
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Marilena Lopez
The revolution in the word: Subjectivity and history in the literary work of Luis Cardoza y Aragón
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: José Francisco Bonilla Navarro (author) and Gustavo Camacho Guzmán (commentator)
125 years of the German School of Guatemala. The book of our history
- Hour: 17 hours
- Place: Germany stand
- Exponents: Alejandro von Humboldt Education and Culture Association
Keynote lecture: Safekeeping of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize in the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City
- Hour: 18 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponents: Dr. Eduardo Matos, Mexican archaeologist; Architect Laura Cotí, former vice minister of Cultural Heritage; Anaisabel Prera, Esquipulas Foundation, and Aury Cux, Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation
Result of the second Court of Conscience against Racism
- Hour: 18 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponents: Ofelia Carrillo, Shanis Martínez and Eva Tecún León
Between legends and streets of mystery
- Hour: 18 hours
- Place: Marilena Lopez
- Exponents: Mario Villar and Heidy de León
Editorial news: Voluta Collection
- Hour: 18 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Javier Martínez, Gabriela Baños and Jorge García
Haircut and reading aloud: Double the fun!
- Hour: 6 to 9 p.m.
- Place: Germany stand
- Participant: Danny Beuerbach
Hispanic American Notebooks Festival. The impossible canon
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Exponents: Mauro Libertella, Cynthia Rimsky, Eduardo Halfon and María Sonia Cristoff
- Moderator: Javier Serena
The moon that walks, The solitude of Páelo
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Humberto Ak’abal Room
- Exponents: Claudia Gamarro, Rodolfo Arévalo and José Luis Perdomo
Towards an epistemology from the Raxalaj k’aslemalil. Thoughts from Dr. Rigoberta Menchú Tum
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Marilena Lopez
- Exponents: Mr. Óscar Saquil and Lcda. Glenda Gasparico, Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation
Editorial Cultura: a pillar for Guatemalan literature
- Hour: 19 hours
- Place: Cultural Tent, Embassy of Mexico
- Exponents: Enrique Noriega, Delia Quiñónez, Giovany Coxolcá, Gustavo Berganza and Hanna Orellana
Los Bichos concert
- Hour: 20 hours
- Place: Musical Square