FILBA continues until Sunday when it celebrates its 15th edition

From yesterday until Sunday the Buenos Aires International Literature Festival, Filba, which celebrates its 15th edition. This year the theme is “The poetry of silence”, which alludes to taking a pause in times of noise and shouting with the invitation to a reflective and creative pause. In the festival text it is argued that “poetry, fiction, thought, feelings find in words a way to filter the silence. In these four days, the invitation is to listen to the poetry of what silence expresses.”

Since yesterday, all kinds of free activities have been carried out such as interviews, dialogues, workshops, readings, poetry recitals, performances, music, conversations and an open library. In addition, there will be Filba Night to share a glass of wine at a poetry recital, readings, a performative reading and parties. Also cinema, through an alliance with MUI but on the big screen. An Open Library and Filba Neighborhood on Paternal Island.

Today at 7 p.m. tribute is paid to Manuel Antin at the CCK with the opening of the new theater and the screening of Circe at 7:30 p.m., and tomorrow “The Odd Figure” and “Intimacy of the Parks” follow.

The only paid activity is the master class Mariana Enriqueztomorrow at 11 at MALBA. Titled “New obsessions (and how to make a literary universe out of them)”, the question for its readers is: who are and have been the travel companions of this writer? Over there Enriquez She will refer to her world of influences and references, showing her side as an admirer of writers and artists.

Among the 15 international guests, the following stand out: Katya Adaui, Charlotte Aigner, Jesse Ball, Luis Carlos Barragán, Luis López Carrasco, Alejandra Costamagna, iga Jereb, Mar García Puig, Benjamín Labatut, Nell Leyshon, Makenzy Orcel, Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, Cynthia Rimsky, Ales Steger and Kim Thuy.

At the local level, the writers invited are Cristian Alarcón, Ezequiel Alemián, Leonora Balcarce, Martín Bauer, Ingrid Bejerman, Diana Bellesi, Jorge Boccanera, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Luciano Casamajor, Lucila Chiovoloni, Analía Couceyro, Mallory Craig-Kuhn, María Sonia Cristoff, Luciana De Luca, Tania Dick, Diosque, Maru Drozd, Mariana Enríquez, Magalí Etchebarne, Silvina Friera, Martín Gambarotta, Carlos Gamerro, Fernanda García Lao, Florencia Gavilán, Alicia Genovese, Vera Giaconi, Eduardo Abel Giménez, Juan González del Solar, Sebastián Hacher, Liliana Heker and Consuelo Iturraspe, among many others.

In addition, other areas of art will participate Kevin Johansen for music, Nora Lezano for photography, Lucrecia Martel for the cinemaMaría Marull, Laura Paredes, Cecilia Roth and Renata Schussheimfor the theater.

The featured panels are: today at 5:30 p.m. at Malba “All your dead”; at 8 p.m. it will be the turn of the talk with Lucrecia Martel; Tomorrow at 10pm there will be a tour of the Eterna Cadencia and Libros del Pasaje bookstores; at 4:30 p.m. the book tasting activity is presented; at 5:30 p.m. the interview arrives Alejandra Kamiya; at 6pm it is the turn of the freak interview: What planet did you come from, Barragán?; at 9 p.m. the reading of “Full of grace, Mary” is offered, while at 10 p.m. at the Malba the exquisite “In the spirit of loving” by Wong Kar-wai. On Sunday at 11 in the British Cemetery the reading of Epitaphs takes place and then the performance “Kafka Tanzt”. The closing comes at 8 p.m. at the 25 de Mayo Cultural Center with the reading by Enriquez in a “First person”.