The International Short Story Festival will convert to The Silos in the national epicenter of the word from December 2 to 7 with a program that will go beyond literature with multidisciplinary proposals and with a diverse program for all audiences.
The president of the Council of TenerifePedro Martín, indicated at the press conference to present the twenty-seventh edition that the “commitment” with a necessary project is renewed and that “it has helped many to rediscover Los Silos”.
In addition, he added, “it gives us an option to be able to leave the house and share a common space, which is not a shopping center, which is also creative and imaginative and which makes anyone of any age enjoy themselves, because the proposal of the A short story is a proposal that covers any age and the festival has made that clear for many years”.
Pedro Martín also affirmed that “it is a joy” for the people of Tenerife “To have the possibility of presenting this new edition and to know that the municipality of Los Silos continues to claim the value of culture through this element so universal and so typical of the human being as it is that of the story.”
The mayoress, Macarena Fuentes, highlighted that “it seems like yesterday when Ernesto Rodríguez Abad sowed the seed of a tree that, over the years, has grown and sprouted branches that have woven bridges between different countries and cultures in around oral narration, training and reading”.
The festival director highlighted that “it offers a different proposal, there will be more than 200 shows, fusion with music, with gastronomy and with the primary sector with which the festival has wanted to have a very strong commitment” and to which the Canaries they owe a lot.
In addition, he added that “to get to know the festival you have to delve deeply into the network of events and training, not only is it a festival from December 2 to 7, but there is work with schools since the month of September”.
The territorial director of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Federico Delgado, recognized that the Silense festival is “a marked reference in the cultural agenda of the Canary Islands and in educational programming” and more than fifty educational centers participate in school visits.
START WITH THE WORD
For his part, Mariano León, educational manager of the Cajacanarias Foundation, assured that “the story is a perfect formula in which boys and girls are introduced to the word”, and Miguel Chinea, director of Caixabank institutions, praised that “few festivals can say that they go so far and also that they go so far with the quality that this one has, the program is extraordinary”.
The twenty-seventh edition will be dedicated to migrants, giving a special look at this social phenomenon in all its aspects.
The international character will be reflected in the origin of the storytellers who will attend the festival, since nine countries will be represented at Los Silos.
Benita Prieto and Cadu Cinelli (Brazil); Clara Guenoun (France), Andante Artistic Association (Portugal), Gabriel Pacheco (Mexico), Adriano Reis (Cape Verde), Jesús ‘Pingüino’ González (Venezuela), Evelyn Poveda (Costa Rica) and Youssef Taky (Morocco) are the names own that will represent these territories within the event.
The inauguration of this twenty-seventh edition will be on Friday, December 2 at 6:00 p.m. in the courtyard of the old convent of San Sebastián by the Catalan writer Care Santos.
Although the bulk of the programming will start from December 2 to 7, the festival kicked off last Monday, November 14 with school visits that will last until December 2 – a total of 4,500 students will pass through the festival –.
The Los Silos International Story Festival also invokes its innovative spirit and this 2022 you will be able to enjoy stories on a bicycle, evenings of children’s fear, stories for babies, erotic stories or stories in places that the viewer does not expect.
Likewise, the union of various artistic disciplines will be the main endorsement of this encounter with the word, but also with music, theatre, photography, illustration and everything that surrounds the world of stories. For this reason, the program includes five different exhibitions or the usual book fair.
CLOSE TIES WITH THE CANARIAN LANGUAGE ACADEMY
For yet another year, the Los Silos International Short Story Festival strengthens ties with the Canarian Language Academy and in this edition, the ‘Letras Canarias’ space will be dedicated to Félix Casanova de Ayala.
To this are added more activities in which the academy will be a fundamental axis with the presence of its president, Humberto Hernández; and his secretary, Cecilia Domínguez.
