Literature – «X Artebirgua Literary Festival»

Literature — X Artebirgua Literary Festival in Juncalillo, Gáldar, Gran Canaria.

Poetry and literature come to life and resist in the mountains of Gran Canaria at the hand of the Artebirgua Literary festival, which is now in its tenth uninterrupted edition. This new installment is celebrated from June 20 to 28 in the town of Juncalillo, Gáldar, under the motto "Artes en la Cumbre" (Arts on the Summit) and brings together 70 personalities from the cultural, academic, social, and political spheres of the Canary Islands and the rest of Spain.

The festival decentralizes culture and brings together the seven islands in Juncalillo de Gáldar for the first time, achieving the historic milestone of uniting the rectors of the two Canary Islands universities. What began a decade ago as a humble project financed by the personal funds of Manuel Díaz, one of its founders, has today become an unmissable event and a bastion of resistance against the so-called "emptied Canary Islands.".

SATURDAY, JUNE 20 · JUNCALILLO

6:30 PM Inauguration of the sculpture exhibition by Román del Pino and the photographic exhibition of past editions of Artebirgua Literario.

7:00 PM Inaugural toast.

8:00 PM Performance by Son de la Isla.

10:00 PM Interpretation of the celestial phenomena in the World Heritage Site Risco Caído. By the Henrietta Swan Leavitt Astronomical Association.

THURSDAY, JUNE 25 · OFFICIAL INAUGURATION · GÁLDAR THEATER

5:00 PM Inauguration and welcome to all participants.

5:15 PM Intervention by guest writer Javier Lostalé. Presentation of the National Honor Andamana.

Speaker: Fermín Higuera

6:30 PM Performance by Alba Serrano and Cristóbal Montesdeoca

FRIDAY, JUNE 26 · CAIDEROS

9:00 AM Visit to Caideros.

9:30 AM Presentation of the internal festival: Versos, Volcanes y Viento (Lanzarote).

Speaker: Mercedes Minguela, festival director

10:30 AM Presentation of the Artebirgua of Honor for Plastic Arts to Néstor Damaso del Pino.

Biography: Iván Bethencourt · Award presented by: Pepe Torres

11:00 AM Presentation of the Artebirgua for Social and Cultural Activism to Eduardo Gil Jiménez.

Biography: Paco López.

11:30 AM Presentation and exhibition of the photography and haiku, and photography and micro-story contest awards.

12:00 PM Island recital.

Noel Olivares (Gran Canaria) · Rosario Valcárcel (Gran Canaria) · Fermín Higuera (Tenerife) · Ernesto Rodríguez Abad (Tenerife) · Cecilia Domínguez Luis (Tenerife) · Lucía Rosa González (La Palma) · Isabel Expósito (El Hierro) · Puri Gutiérrez (Tenerife) · Rubén Mettini (Gran Canaria)

FRIDAY, JUNE 26 · JUNCALILLO

4:00 PM Panel on cultural supplements in the Canary Islands.

Speakers: Eduardo García Rojas and Fermín Higuera

5:00 PM Presentation of the external festival: «Miguel Hernández» International Poetry Week – Jaén.

Speaker: Juan Carlos Abril, festival director, with a poetry recital

6:00 PM Panel on the Generation of Silence.

Moderator: Juan Ramón Tramunt · Speakers: Berbel, Emilio González Denis, Marcos Hormiga

7:00 PM Artebirgua of Honor for Music tribute to Domingo Rodríguez “El Colorao”.

Biography: Esteban Rodríguez García

7:30 PM Talk: Juncalillo Literature.

Speaker: Manuel Rivero García

7:30 PM First Conversa’ (Capacity 10 people).

Domingo Acosta Felipe, interviewed by Rosario Valcárcel

8:30 PM Presentation of the Artebirgua of Honor for Cultural Journalism to Eulalia Marina Pérez Acosta.

Biography: Mirna Velázquez

SATURDAY, JUNE 27 · JUNCALILLO

9:00 AM Presentation of the Artebirgua of Honor for Museum Work to the José Saramago Museum (Lanzarote).

Biography: Ina Molina

9:30 AM Presentation of the Andamana of Canarian Culture to the Luján Pérez Art School.

Biography: Ina Molina

10:00 AM Demonstration of potato bread dough making.

10:00 AM Panel on works published during the year.

For Las Palmas: Fabio Carreiro Lago and Zháradat Domínguez · For Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Antonio Martín Piñero and Katya Vázquez Schröder

11:00 AM Author's panel: Fernando Senante.

Moderator: Eduardo García Rojas · Speakers: Cecilia Domínguez, Fermín Higuera, Antonio Arroyo Silva and Caco Senante

12:00 PM Bibliotherapy Workshop, led by Carolina Pérez (maximum 10 people).

12:00 PM Presentation of the Artebirgua of Honor for Cinema to Ruth Armas.

Biography: Ina Molina

12:30 PM Recital «Young Values of Poetry».

Antonio Martín Piñero (Tenerife) · Guillermo Oliva Casanova (Tenerife) · Lorenzo Martín Hernández (Tenerife) · Adriana Medina (Gran Canaria) · Paula Suárez (Gran Canaria)

SATURDAY, JUNE 27 · JUNCALILLO

5:00 PM Panel on young literature from the Canary Islands.

Moderator: Natacha G. Mendoza · Speakers: Alba Tavío, Ainara Oleaga Gutiérrez, Melania Domínguez

5:00 PM Workshop «Writing with the body». Teca Barreiro (maximum 10 people).

6:00 PM Second Conversa’ (Capacity 10 people).

Roberto Toledo Palliser interviewed by Andrés Novoa

6:00 PM Panel on Doctoral Theses: “The island is described.”.

Moderator: Luis León Barreto · Speaker: Virginia Martín Dávila

7:00 PM Presentation of the Artebirgua of Honor for Literature to José Miguel Junco Ezquerra.

Biography: Antonio Arroyo Silva

7:30 PM Third Conversa’ (Capacity 10 people).

José Luis Correa interviewed by Elizabeth López Caballero

7:30 PM Audiovisual archaeology: Imagining memory. Screening of the short film “Archipiélago fantasma (2017)” by director Dailo Barco.

8:30 PM Island recital.

Elizabeth López Caballero (Gran Canaria) · Rubén A. Cubas Castilla (La Gomera) · Fabio Carreiro Lago (Lanzarote) · Sonia Betancort (La Palma) · Pablo Alemán (Gran Canaria) · Alba Tavío (Tenerife) · Ylenia Quintero Campos (El Hierro) · Ainara Oleaga Gutiérrez (Tenerife) · Amaya Blanco García (Gran Canaria) · Melania Domínguez

SUNDAY, JUNE 28 · JUNCALILLO DE GÁLDAR

9:00 AM Panel on literature in education.

Moderator: Carolina Pérez García · Speakers: José Miguel Perera (Secondary Education), Alicia Díaz Jiménez (University)

10:00 AM Presentation of the Artebirgua for Social and Cultural Activism to Mari Carmen Sánchez Velázquez.

Biography: Herminia Pimentel Tejera

11:00 AM Panel on Universities in the Canary Islands.

Moderator: Andrés Novoa · Speakers: Francisco Javier García Rodríguez (Rector of ULL) and Lluís Serra Majem (Rector of ULPGC)

12:00 h Literary research panel: Canarian women's poetry. (Canarian Academy of Language).

Intervenors: Cecilia Domínguez, José Miguel Perera, Sandra González

13:00 h Performance by La Matiné.

14:00 h Closing.