“Hay Festival”, cultural expressions in La Guajira
Bogotá D.C.
27 January 2010
On February 1, and for the third consecutive year, Cerrejón will carry out an extension of the HAY FESTIVAL to La Guajira. The event, to be held at the Anas Mai Convention Center of the city of Riohacha, starting at 8:45 a.m., is a universal encounter of literature and arts, a space for the Guajiran culture through its different expressions such as its literature, music and handicrafts.
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One of the scheduled activities is the award ceremony for children winners of the “Great Writers – Cerrejón” contest, which pursues to promote narrative activity in the Guajiran children of the Company employees, aging between 8 and 16.
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This year, Jordi Sierra I Fabra, a Spanish writer known by his child and juvenile literature, will talk to young people about his last publication, “La nueva tierra” (The New Land), where he explores the arrival of Spaniards to the New World. In turn, Yolanda Reyes, another specialist in child and juvenile literature, will review her works and narrative style.
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Other writers, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Héctor Abad Faciolince, will hold a “conversatorio” (public conversation) on “the pleasure and occupation of writing”. Another participating speaker is Víctor Alfredo Bravo Mendoza, a Guajiran writer and poet, author of the book “La Guajira in the works of Gabriel García Márquez”.
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The agenda will continue with the participation of Vladimir Daza, a Guajiran historian, María Cecilia Donado, Presidential Advisor for the Commemoration of Independence Bicentennial, and Weildler Guerra, Anthropologist, who will debate about the bicentennial in La Guajira and its diverse implications.
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For exalting the Guajiran culture and its different literary manifestations, a dialogue will be held on the Wiwa indigenous community, guided by members of their ethnicity and of the Wayuu ethnicity. This event will conclude with a performance of typical dances of the Wiwa indigenous, where they exalt their traditions and make their artistic ability explicit.
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Profiles of Jury Members – “Great Writers – Cerrejón”
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Betsy Yaneth Barros Núñez (BET BANÚ): She was born in 1964 at Riohacha, La Guajira. A business administrator specialized in Computer Systems Audit and with diploma in Literature, major in Creation. She is a poet, narrator, essayist, and cultural manager. Among her works, it is worth to highlight “Vivir de Ensueños” (popular poetry) and “La Guajira en Versos” (folklore). She has be co-author of the books “Los Hijos del Pez” (poems), “Palabra y Residencia” (poetry and narrative) and a compiler of poem books such as “Literando”, a 2009 socio-cultural project. She wan the fourth place in poetry at the Ediciones Embalaje del Museo Rayo, 2005 contest. Since 2005, she is the director of Fundación Atrapasueño. She has been a jury member in poetry and story contests in La Guajira and Cesar.
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Estercilia Simanca Pushaina: She was born in El Paraíso, a Wayuu indigenous community (South La Guajira). She is a culture researcher and lawyer, who writes about Wayuu culture own subjects. Among her works, it outstands “El Encierro de una Pequeña Doncella”, finalist of the Concurso Nacional de Cuento Infantil Comfamiliar del Atlántico (2003), included in the Honor List IBBY (Internacional Board For Young People), Zurich (Switzerland), Beijing Biennial (China, 2006); “Manifiesta no saber firmar”, sole honor mention at Concurso Nacional de Cuento Metropolitano, Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla (2004) and presented at the Bogotá’s International Book Fair (“XVIII Feria internacional del Libro de Bogotá”) (2005).
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Abel Medina Sierra: He was born in Maicao, La Guajira. Licentiate in Modern Tongues and specialized in Information Technology and diploma in Literary Creation. University professor for more than 15 years. A writer and researcher who has tried such genres as story-telling, essays, chronicle, article, profile and didactic texts. Has participated as librettist and researcher in several documentaries for Telecaribe. Has published the following books: “Asombros de la tierra de los yolujás”, “El vallenato: constante espiritual de un pueblo”, “Los procesos escriturales y de comprensión textual”, “Seis cantores vallenatos y una identidad”. Has recently wan his third departmental contest, in literary creation, with the book entitled “Destiempos”.
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