Providencia Penguin Festival
- Providencia Cultural Foundation, Av. Nueva Providencia 1995, Providencia.
- Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21.
- Entry released.
On April 20 and 21, the Providencia Cultural Foundation will be the epicenter of the country’s literary activity thanks to the third version of the Providencia Penguin Festival, with which both institutions will celebrate International Book Day and which will bring together more than fifty authors national and international, marking the reunion of the Chilean writer Marcela Serrano with her readers, after more than a decade away from public activities.
Two days of a festival, with free admission, in which names such as the most recent National Literature Prize winner Hernán Rivera Letelier, the popular and prominent journalist and writer Carlos Pinto, and the renowned authors Roberto Ampuero and Guillermo Parvex will coincide to present their most recent novels or preview part of his upcoming works.
An event that will also feature the participation of three important Argentine authors from that country’s new literary generation: Agustina Bazterrica, Dolores Reyes and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, who will come to the festival not only to present their novels published in 2023 but also to talk. on the trans-Andean narrative.
Programming
Saturday
As is tradition, the Penguin Providencia festival will open its activities on Saturday, April 20 in the morning with a block for the little ones and their families: Take a photo with the Chocolo Dog at 11 am in the Garden of Arts and half an hour later The laboratory of strange questions with Gabriel León in the Auditorium and a children’s illustration workshop with Fabián Rivas in the Main Hall. Then it will be Nerea de Ugarte’s turn and the presentation of her book Manifesto for Super Powerful Girls, and the morning will culminate with the writer Marcos Alvo, guiding entrepreneurs and innovators in the Animals of Entrepreneurship workshop.
In the afternoon there will be the debut of literature with the presentations of the Argentine writers Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Dolores Reyes and Agustina Bazterrica, in addition to Guillermo Parvex, Roberto Ampuero, Carlos Basso who will exclusively present the novel The Secret Keys of Shakespeare that will reach bookstores in May and Marcela Serrano who reunites with her readers after more than a decade away from public presentations to launch A flight of the bird.
During the afternoon, When Your Eyes Look at Me, the new novel by the youth writer Javiera Paz will also be presented, who will also be at the conversation table Amor a slow fire with the authors Karla Martínez and Lily del Pilar, in addition to conferences such as the one by Chile Narco between the journalist and author Jorge Molina and the former prosecutor Juan Pablo Buono-Core, along with the launch of the book Derecho al tiempo by the psychologist Vinka Jackson and a Culinary Clinic by Connie Achurra.
In the signing sector, in addition to all the authors who will present during Saturday’s event, the writers Hernán Rivera Letelier, Pablo Simonetti, Ariel Richards, Dalal Halabi, Alberto Rojas and Nona Fernández will be waiting for the public.
Domingo
On Sunday, meanwhile, it also opens with family activities from 11:00 am with a Qi Jong class by the writer Lucas Estrella, author of The Warrior’s Oracle and The Warrior’s Movement, and the storyteller The Power of My Voice by the psychologist Andrea Cardemil. At noon the activities for the little ones continue with the storyteller Celeste’s Red Suitcase by Daniela Besa and a bingo for Bluey lovers, while the authors Nicolás Fernández, Dr. Nico Soto and María Ignacia Oteíza will be at the conversation table Try to be better and later the illustrators María José Arce, Rodrigo Elgueta and Francisco Javier Olea will talk about the contribution of their work to Chilean narrative.
Sunday morning will close with the presentations of the books Manifest your life by Nicol Sepúlveda and Juntas by María Ignacia Oteíza, giving way to the Pokémon block, a space created to bring together all the fans of the franchise.
In the afternoon the conversation tables return: The women bill with Barbarita Lara, Vesta Lugg, Christell Rodríguez and Kari Valle; On the Edge of Reality with Carlos Pinto, Jorge Baradit, César Parra and Hugo Riquelme and Narrar from Argentina with Dolores Reyes, Agustina Bazterrica and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara.
Barbarita Lara will take advantage of the festival to launch her publishing debut Hack Yourself, which will hit bookstores in May, and Carlos Pinto will exclusively read the first pages of his new novel that will be published this year.
Other authors who will take advantage of exclusively presenting new releases that will arrive in bookstores next month are Andrés Valenzuela with Fragata Cochrane, Rafael Gumucio with Los parientes poor and the National Literature Prize winner Hernán Rivera Letelier with From the Diary I Never Wrote. Along with them will also be the Valdivian author and poet Antonia Torres presenting Marked Books.
Authors Nerea de Ugarte, Carlos Tromben, Guillermo Parvex, Pablo Simonetti and Pablo Illanes will also join in the signing area on Sunday.
