The FILQ (formerly known as the Quito International Book Fair) will be held from December 15 to 19, from 10:00 to 20:00.
For five days Metropolitan Cultural Center (CCM) will become the main stage for the Intercultural Book Festival Quito (FILQ) 2021, formerly known as the Quito International Book Fair.
This year, the cultural meeting is organized entirely by the Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito; after thirteen years of being developed by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage.
The FILQ 2021, which comes under a face-to-face and virtual format, It is proposed as a cultural and artistic meeting that brings together local and national cultural and literary groups, enterprises, industries and collectives.
“The main objective is to encourage the reactivation of a sector (literary and publishing) that has been severely hit by the pandemic, as well as the entire cultural sector”, the organization states in a statement.
According to the statement, this edition will have as The main axis is the work of independent writers, artists, publishers and booksellers who have kept the country’s cultural production alive in times of crisis.
National authors
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This edition will feature the exclusive presence of Ecuadorian authors, such as Mónica Ojeda, Eduardo Varas C., Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Roy Sigüenza, Sonia Manzano Vela, Solange Rodríguez Pappe, Natalia García, María Paulina Briones Layama, Roxana Landívar, Santiago Roldós, Siomara España Muñoz, Ángela Arboleda Jiménez, Cecilia Ansaldo Briones, Gabriela Alemán, Javier Vásconez, among others.
In addition, a special tribute will be offered to Juan Valdano, Jorge Velasco Mackenzie and Eliécer Cárdenas, deceased this year.
The FILQ will be held from December 15 to 19, from 10:00 to 20:00. The entrance is free, reserving it by ellibrodelagente.com, since there will be a capacity of 50%. The use of a mask is mandatory.
General agenda for this Wednesday
15:00 to 16:00 | Public reading of a selection of the chronicles of the decriminalization of homosexuality. Living room: FIL Patio.
From 16:00 to 17:00 | Thinking poetry. The work of the poet in a viralized world. Participates: Sara Montaño, Rocío Soria, Andrés Villalba. Place: Auditorium 2 Jorge Velasco Mackenzie.
16:00 to 17:00 | Presentation of Beyond the simple recipe (Medical report). Place: Gilda Holst Protocol Room.
From 17:00 to 18:00 | Edit in times of crisis. Why keep publishing in times of pandemic and how to survive the monopoly of the big publishers. Participate: Juan Pablo Crespo, María Paulina Briones, Fausto Rivera, Sandra Araya. Place: Auditorium 2 Jorge Velasco Mackenzie.
17:00 to 18:00 | Presentation of the book: ¿Until when with this Chiriboga? Participate: Paúl Narváez Sevilla and Javier Izquierso. Place: Gilda Holst Protocol Room.
19:00 to 20:00 | Poetry reading. It presents: Valería Guzmán. Participate: Rocío Soria, Amanda Pazmiño, María Clara Sharupi, Juan José Rodinás. Place: Auditorium 2 Jorge Velasco Mackenzie.
Children’s Agenda for this Wednesday
09:00 to 13:00 | Transmission (Facebook and YouTube) of stories read aloud. Participants: Authors from Girándula.
09:00 to 10:00 | Permanent programming of children’s storytelling, dynamic games and creative challenges. Place: Llano Grande Municipal Library.
10:00 to 11:00 | Promotion of reading with children and young people, integration dynamics, selected reading and forum. Place: Calderón Municipal Library at Casa Somos.
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. | Permanent programming of children’s storytelling, dynamic games and creative challenges. Place: Parque de Mayo Municipal Library and at the same time in the Tumbaco Library.
From 11:00 to 12:00 | Puppet show and storytelling I love to read. Place: Parque de Mayo Municipal Library.
From 11:00 to 12:00 | How do we read the world? To read with the gustp, Picnic of words. Place: José Riofrío Municipal Library.
From 11:00 to 12:00 | Dramatized reading for the blind ‘The Star Brothers’ by Leonor Bravo. Place: San Marcos Municipal Library.
14:00 to 15:00 | Play: ‘Out there’ Place: San Marcos Municipal Library at Casa Somos.
15:00 to 16:00 | Write your Christmas story. Speaker: Lucrecia Maldonado. Place: Benjamín Carrión Cultural Center Bellavista Headquarters.
15:00 to 16:00 | Bibliococina Eating the story: a space to read and savor stories. Place: San Marcos Municipal Library at Casa Somos.
15:00 to 16:00 | Bookmark workshop. Place: José Riofrío Municipal Library.
15:00 to 16:00 | Write your Christmas story. Speaker: Lucrecia Maldonado. Place: Benjamín Carrión Cultural Center Bellavista Headquarters.
15:00 to 16:00 | Narration in colors. Workshop of mandalas with stories. Exhibitor: Leonor Bravo. For: Facebook y YouTube.
19:00 to 20:00 | Strategies to encourage reading at home. Exhibitor: Eugenia Betty. For: Facebool y YouTube. (I)
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