The Canal Museum joins Centroamérica Cuenta (Central America Tells) to celebrate the literature
22/05/2024
Nota de Prensa
The Panama Canal Museum is proud to announce its participation as sponsor and venue of the prestigious literary event Centroamérica Cuenta in its first version in Panama. This collaboration highlights the Museum's commitment to promoting literature and culture as fundamental elements of Central America's heritage. During May 23 and 24, the Canal Museum will be the space for dialogues of this iconic literary festival.
The Centroamérica Cuenta Festival, organized by the Ministry of Culture, arrives for the first time in Panama City to share and reflect on the great issues of the region, with the participation of the most representative voices of Ibero-America. From May 23 to 24, 2024, the Canal Museum will also become the space of the capital of letters as one of the venues for the 11th edition of the festival, which in turn projects the country as a cultural destination of international relevance.
«El Museo del Canal se enorgullece en ser parte de Centroamérica Cuenta, un evento que celebra la riqueza literaria de nuestra región. Este espacio cultural y literario es fundamental para la reflexión y el intercambio de ideas, valores que son centrales para nuestra institución. Estamos emocionados de abrir nuestras puertas para acoger este importante festival y continuar promoviendo el diálogo cultural en nuestra comunidad». – Ana Elizabeth González, Directora Ejecutiva y Curadora en Jefe del Museo del Canal.
This edition is dedicated to the memory of Claribel Alegría, the outstanding Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, narrator, essayist and translator, Queen Sofía Prize for poetry in 2017, in commemoration of the centenary of her birth.
The Panama Canal Museum reaffirms its commitment to the promotion of cultural heritage and the exchange of knowledge in all its forms of expression.
For more information about Centroamérica Cuenta and the program of activities, visit the festival's official website: www.centroamericacuenta.com. www.centroamericacuenta.com.
Events at the Canal Museum:
Thursday May 23
Novel and history: Lies that reveal the truth
5:00 – 5:50 p.m.
This dialogue reveals how the novel can offer unique perspectives on history and truth, and questions how fictions can aid our understanding of the past.
Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), Juan David Morgan (Panama), Dorelia Barahona (Costa Rica) and Leonardo Padura (Cuba) talk with Isabel Burgos (Panama).
Literature to understand other realities
6:00 – 6:50 p.m.
In this discussion, participants discuss how literature provides unique perspectives, challenging preconceptions and enriching the understanding of different worlds.
Nadal Suau (Spain), Enrique Díaz Álvarez (Mexico) and Alejandra Costamagna (Chile) talk with Antonio Sáez Delgado (Spain).
Of one's own and that of others: two rivers that overlook the sea of literature
7:00 – 7:50 p.m.
Dialogue around the various ways in which writers fuse their personal experiences with collective experiences to weave fictional stories.
José Luis Peixoto (Portugal), Brenda Navarro (Mexico) and Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador) talk with Daniel Centeno Maldonado (Venezuela).
Literature and cinema: a round trip
8:00 – 8:50 p.m.
In this dialogue, participants reflect on how stories and characters transform when they go from page to screen, and vice versa, highlighting both the creative process of authors and directors who move between both worlds when addressing real and fictional characters in the cinema and literature.
Abner Benaim (Panama), Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) and Fernando León de Aranoa (Spain) talk with Guillermo Altares (Spain).
Friday, May 24
Screening of the film 'The good boss' (2021)
11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Screening of the film The Good Patron (2021), by renowned Spanish filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa, followed by a brief dialogue between the director and Karla Quintero (Panama).
Fernando León de Aranoa (Spain) talks with Karla Quintero (Panama).
The Accounts of Central America: Justice without impunity?
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
In this dialogue from The Accounts of Central America, participants will delve into justice and impunity. The background that has driven the search for justice without impunity in Latin America will be explored and its repercussions in Central America will be reflected on.
Ricardo Gil Lavedra (Argentina), Olga de Obaldía (Panama), and Eliezer Budasoff (Argentina) talk with Luis Guillermo Solís (Costa Rica).
Literature and consciousness in the era of Artificial Intelligence
4:10 – 5:00 p.m.
From artificial intelligence to narratives and essays on consciousness, in this dialogue, participating authors talk about how writing reflects on the nature of mind and identity in the technological age.
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Argentina), Enrique Díaz Álvarez (Mexico), Aroa Moreno Durán (Spain) and Emiliano Monge (Mexico) talk with Chatgpt.
The Accounts of Central America: water, development and future
5:10 – 6:00 p.m.
In this dialogue, experts will share visions and lessons learned about the management of drinking water and hydrographic basins in Central America, one of the most urgent issues in the region. Likewise, they will reflect on the challenges faced by the Central American Isthmus in a strategic area for its human, economic and commercial development.
Gloria Arrocha Paz (Panama), Alexander López (Costa Rica) and Helena Castañeda Ramírez (Colombia) talk with Lorena Arroyo (Spain).
From darkness to light: imagination as a mirror of reality
6:10 – 7:00 p.m.
From reality to imagination and from imagination to literature. In this dialogue, the participating authors will share their experiences and reflections on how imagination shapes and transforms reality in literary creation to dismantle a different version of events.
Dorelia Barahona (Costa Rica), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) and Alejandro Zambra (Chile) talk with Nadal Suau (Spain).
From personal vision to the crowd. The look of Fernando León de Aranoa
7:10 – 8:00 p.m.
In this intimate and personal dialogue, Fernando León de Aranoa, one of the most recognized Spanish filmmakers today, will discuss his vision of cinema, his creative process and his commitment to memory and social reality.
Fernando León Aranoa (Spain) talks with Karla Quintero (Panama).
Changing the world through words and images
8:10 – 9:00 p.m.
Reflection and dialogue on how art can address the commitment to its time, giving life to stories that challenge and inspire a story different from reality.
Fernando León de Aranoa (Spain), Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua) and Luis García Montero (Spain) talk with Guillermo Altares (Spain).
