Independent bookstores and publishers will hold their literary meeting at the Library of the Arts

For four days the Arts Library will become the main stage of the seventh edition of the Meeting of Independent Publishers Free Book of the School of Literature of the University of the Arts, which this year will have as its main theme the future of independent publishing.

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The meeting, inaugurated this Tuesday, will run until Saturday, November 20 with the presence of 19 independent publishers and bookstores from various parts of the country and abroad, who will be presenting their literary novelties. Among the publishers that will be part of this party are Blanca, Insurgente, La Caída, Corpse Exquisite, El Fauno Verde, Manzana Bomb, Bookish, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Caleidoscopia, Candaya, Inlimbo, among others.

“We are going to see a diversity. In other words, we are not going to see the usual labels, but we are going to see other things that are being produced here and elsewhere. It is like opening ourselves towards the possibility of bibliodiversity“, mentions Maria Paulina Briones, teacher of the UArtes and organizer of the meeting.

Briones prefers to refer to publishers as self-managed, and invites you to think about the work they do independently. “It is here in the independent publishers where the first writers are made; It is the independent publishers who are actually betting on authors who are not well known … who are betting on quality and diverse literary content.”, he says.

The meeting will be filled with nine presentations and book launches by local authors. “I find book launches always like festive opportunities to celebrate reading. And in these moments of so much social upheaval, because of everything that we are seeing happening, it seems to me that we should think about instilling more in these activities that are really productive, but that also make us think about ourselves and ourselves as a society, as a community “, expresses the also writer.

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For this Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. the presentation of Forms of time, from Olga Lopez; the presentation will be in charge of Jose Miguel Cabrera. At 16:30 the book will be presented Mares and calves, from Julia Rendon; The presentation will be made by Solange Rodríguez. Meanwhile, at 5:30 p.m. the book will be presented 400 meters: art, street and community, from Maria Fernanda Lopez; the presentation will be made by Curatorial Emergencies.

The rest of the days they will also present their books Ángeles Martínez, Eduardo Varas, María del Pilar Gavilanes, Marinés Cardoso, José Luis Jácome and Solange Rodriguez.

In the same way, there will be talks and talks that will revolve around the editorial field; that is why there will be critical tables dedicated to showing digital publishing projects. And for this the organization has also thought about the workshop “Licensed to Create: Applying the Creativbe Commons licenses for creative products”, Which will be given on Saturday from 10:00 to 11:00 by Édgar Rosero and Sara Bolaños.

For this Wednesday, at 11:00, the discussion “The dilemma of the literary edition of the XXI century” will be held. While the day of the first day will close at 19:00 with the virtual conversation “It is a country for storytellers. Dialogue with the authors Paulina Soto, Diego Maneza, Livina Santos and Leonardo Valencia ”.

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The fair and talks will take place on the first floor of the Arts Library (Aguirre and Pichincha, corner) from 10:00 to 18:30. To see the full schedule of activities or see the virtual meetings, visit www.uartes.edu.ec/librelibro, or the Library of the Arts Facebook page. (I)