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IE University will be one of the main venues for the Hay Festival Segovia 2016

Among the guests at this year’s event will be Adam Foulds, Irish novelist John Banville, playwright and novelist Deborah Levy, sports commentator Michael Robinson, filmmaker Péter Gárdos, philosopher Fernando Savater, economic Guillermo de la Dehesa, along with writers such as Santiago Posteguillo, Andrés Trapiello, Antonio Muñoz Molina and Lorenzo Silva.

Hay Festival Segovia has announced the first international and Spanish guests from the worlds of literature, the visual arts, philosophy, and journalism that will be attending the 11th edition of the event, held in Segovia between September 22 and September 25. This year’s programme focuses on the ritual of public reading, conversation as a space for transformation, as well as commemorating the fourth centenary of the deaths of Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Garcilaso de la Vega.

Once again, IE University is the main partner in this prestigious festival of the arts and ideas. The university will be one of the main venues for this major cultural event: it will host the inauguration on Saturday September 17, as well as the closing, where Juan José Millás will talk to writer and journalist Juan Cruz about his latest novel, Desde la sombra (From the shadow) in IE University’s Aula Magna. The organizers say that tickets for 31 of the 80 or so activities are on sale at www.hayfestival.org/segovia.

A host of internationally renowned writers will attend the events at IE University: young British writer Adam Foulds, dramatist and novelist Deborah Levy, sports commentator Michael Robinson, journalists Javier del Pino and Íñigo Domínguez of radio station Cadena SER and newspaper El País respectively, Hungarian filmmaker Péter Gárdos, historic novel writer Santiago Posteguillo, philosopher Fernando Savater, economist and entrepreneur Guillermo de la Dehesa, authors Andrés Trapiello and Antonio Muñoz Molina, acclaimed novelist John Banville, former Spanish culture ministers Ángeles González Sinde, César Antonio Molina and Luis Alberto de Cuenca, along with paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, and writers Lorenzo Silva and Duncan Campbell, among others.

As with each year, the Friday of the festival will see communication students and staff from IE University’s Medialab retransmit on ABC.es, the ABC-IE Workshop on cultural journalism Talking Points: the new voices in Spanish narrative, featuring a conversation between journalists Jesús Calero, Inés Martín Rodrigo, and Marta del Riego and writers Rubén Martín Giráldez, Marina Sanmartín, and Matías Candeira in the Santa Cruz la Real former convent.

The workshop of dreams

This year will see a new project, The workshop of dreams, led by the dean of the IE School of Architecture and Design, Martha Thorne. The initiative is the work of the Hay Festival Segovia, the American Hardwood Export Council, and IE School of Architecture and Design, which have invited well-known figures from the worlds of literature, gastronomy, architecture and science to create a series of sculptures carved from American hardwoods. Four teams led by creators will interact with Spanish architects and designers to create four sculptures (four dreams) by hand with wood from the United States.

The four groups are made up of IE University lecturer and architect Izaskun Chinchilla and chefs Juan Mari and Elena Arzak; Spanish writer Javier Cercas and RCR Aquitectes; the dean of IE School of Architecture and Design and Pritzker Prize executive director Martha Thorne and Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue; and  Jacob Benbunan, the co-founder of and CEO of Saffron Brand, and Juan Luis Arzuaga, a paleontologist and scientific director at the Museum of Human Evolution, in Burgos. The final pieces, created by Carpintería La Navarra, one of Spain’s most prestigious woodworking companies, will be exhibited in a special exhibition during the festival.

Photograph: Singer-songwriter Marwan will close the Hay Festival Segovia with a concert in the Aula Magna of IE University/R.Arribas.

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