The last week of the Book Fair is coming, with the delivery of the El Libro Foundation’s Story Book Award, author signing, book presentations, educational activities, theatrical shows, the Dialogue cycle of Writers of Latin America and the XIV Microfiction Fair Day. Also, for the first time, the Dialogue of Native Writers is held. In addition, entry will be free, starting at 8 p.m.
Today’s main activities
16:00 Alice in Wonderland, a literary selection by the magical María Elena Walsh and other expressions of children’s folklore are fused in this narrative proposal to then design the literary tea itself. By Valeria Rodriguez. From 5 to 12 years. Participates: Valeria Rodriguez. Pavilion Children’s Area: Yellow
16:00 Presentation of the book “Poliedro”, second prize in the Literary Contest Fundación El Libro 2023. Participating: The Paraguayan author Sebastian Ocampos and the jury of the María Rosa Lojo prize.
Room: Adolfo Bioy Casares. Pavilion: White Pavilion
17:30 Presentation of the book “It happened in your head” by Alejandro Rozitchner. Participates: Alejandro Rozitchner. Room: Adolfo Bioy Casares. Pavilion: White Pavilion
18:30 From books to screen: Time travel in pop culture: Almost 130 years after the publication of “HGWells’ Time Machine, 40 years since Back to the Future and five years since Avengers: Endgame, why does time travel continue to generate passion in audiences? What is the fascination that art has for time, its variants, its paradoxes and its contradictions. In this talk between Paul Noguerol (from the podcast “The Falopa Guide to Space-time”), Leticia Bellini (“For the Long
Camino”, podcasts about Doctor Who, and other podcasts from the production company Héroe) and José Argañaraz Editor of PopCon, and podcast “Soñandoawatos”, about The Sandman)
We talked about the different ways pop culture has had to deal with
fourth dimension. Participants: Paul Noguerol, Leticia Bellini and Jose Argañaraz. Room: Future Zone
Pavilion: Yellow Pavilion
19:00 Presentation of “Mundo”, the book of stories from the “Fragments of the Future” trilogy«. Participates: Juan Solá. Room: Julio Cortazar. Pavilion: Yellow Pavilion
19:00 Conception of the world: Copi’s imagination. The faggot war (originally La guerre des pédés) is a novel by Copi published in 1982. Over the course of four chapters, we follow the misadventures of a queer whose nonconformity and misery, at times, border on the height of isanthropy. The young researcher Lucía Cytryn (UNTREF) will try to get answers from two crazy Copi experts: Daniel Link and Germán Garrido. Participating: Lucía Cytryn, Daniel Link, Germán Garrido.
Presented by: Nicolás Colfer. Room: Pride and Prejudice: Space for Sexual Diversity and Culture. .Pavilion: Ocher Pavilion
Useful data
*Every day for children up to and including 12 years old, school visits and people with disabilities.
*Every day for teachers. They must present a salary receipt or proof of condition.
* Every day presenting CULTURAL PASS.
* Monday to Friday (except May 1) for students, retirees and pensioners. In all cases it is necessary to present proof of condition.
+ Monday, May 6 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday, May 7 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., Wednesday, May 8 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Thursday, May 9 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Benefits with the purchase of the ticket
Each visitor who purchases a ticket (for any day) or pass (for three visits) will receive a $4,000 checkbook to use at participating bookstores once the Fair ends. Each ticket will also be accompanied by discount vouchers that can be used to purchase books at the Fair stands. Tickets of $3,500 will have 3 $1,000 vouchers and one $500 voucher. Tickets of $5,000 and passes will have 5 $1,000 vouchers. Each voucher of $500 or $1,000 can be used to cover up to 10% of the payment on purchases of $10,000 or more. The vouchers are cumulative, for example: for the purchase of a $20,000 book, you can deduct $2,000 in two $1,000 vouchers.
IMPORTANT: If the ticket purchase is made online, the checkbook and discount vouchers are collected in person at the Fair, presenting the ticket purchased online at the counters in the Central Hall (Pavilion 9) or Blue Pavilion.
Income
Avda. Santa Fe 4201
Avda. Sarmiento 2704 and parking
Avda. Cerviño 4474 and parking
The entrance door of Av. Santa Fe has wheelchairs available for those visitors who need them.