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More Book Fairs Bloom in September: Felipe in Pergamino and Dramática in Chacarita

From La Nación · () Spanish

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  • The fourth Pergamino Book Fair and the inaugural Dramática fair in Buenos Aires’ Chacarita neighborhood are taking place with free admission.
  • Pergamino’s event brings together 62 publishers and bookstores, along with talks, workshops, children’s activities and a Borges tribute.
  • Dramática focuses on contemporary theatre and theatrical essays, featuring catalogs from independent publishers during the Llegás Festival.

Book fairs are multiplying as September arrives, with free events in Pergamino and Buenos Aires’ Chacarita neighborhood. The fourth Pergamino Book Fair, known as Felipe, runs over Saturday and Sunday, while the first Dramática fair takes place Sunday. Other literary events this weekend include the Fiesta del Libro Usado at the Centro Cultural Recoleta and the Argentine Comics Festival at the Centro Cultural Rojas.

Felipe is being held at the Centro Cultural Bellas Artes in Pergamino, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday. Milena Pergamino, the municipal library, the National University of the Northwest of Buenos Aires Province and several cultural and educational organizations are behind the event.

The fair brings together 62 publishers and bookstores. Guests include Selva Almada, Anahí Flores, Sebastián Pandolfelli, Alberto Giordano, Julieta Yelin, Virginia Higa and Pablo Katchadjian. The program includes workshops on chronicle writing, antiracism and independent publishing, as well as children’s activities and discussions on memory and human rights.

They are among the medium-sized fairs in the interior of Buenos Aires Province that have become hubs of cultural resistance, reader development and intergenerational and interdisciplinary exchange.

· María José Di PasqualeA Pergamino fair organizer described the role of regional book fairs.

A major feature pays tribute to Jorge Luis Borges on the 40th anniversary of his death. The immersive installation “The Garden of Forking Paths,” coordinated by Natalia Tealdi and Pablo Vidal, accompanies a literary herbarium exploring botanical metaphors in the works of Borges and Gabriel García Márquez.

Dramática debuts during the final day of the Llegás Festival at Galpón de Guevara. The fair will showcase theater and contemporary theater-essay catalogs from publishers including Vinilo, Entropía, Blatt & Ríos, Rara Avis, Libretto, Paripé Books, Documenta, Entre Ríos and Libros Drama. Titles by Romina Paula, Rafael Spregelburd, Lorena Vega, Alejandro Tantanian and other authors will be available. Organizer and editor Joana D’Alessio said Vinilo has also launched the Programa de Mano collection with Teatro Futuro, distributing it independently at theaters and fairs while the small initial print run is tested.

This year at Vinilo we launched our new collection, Programa de Mano, in partnership with Teatro Futuro.

· Joana D’AlessioThe Dramática organizer discussed a new independent theater-publishing collection.
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