![Second version of the Winter Reader Festival 2024: The Plaza de Maipú is filled with books and activities during the winter holidays](https://euro.eseuro.com/temp/resized/medium_2024-06-17-56f14d560b.jpg)
During these winter holidays, culture, books and authors will take over the Plaza de Maipú. There will be 3 days, from Thursday, June 27 to Saturday, June 29, in which residents will be able to take the opportunity to get closer to reading and learn about the offer that the new version of the Winter Reading Festival brings.
The event, which will operate every day from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., will consist of 15 stands selling books and literary accessories, with important publishers such as Planeta, Penguin Random House, Catalonia, Zig-Zag, Antártica, Caligrafix , Ediciones UC, Urano, Vicens Vives, in addition to bookstores and businesses in Maipú, such as Manga Sempai, Librería Los libros, Constelaciones literary, Booklovers and Ludi Juegos.
Also, there will be stands by Maipucino writers, the Library Network, a Children’s Zone with support from the Chilean Chamber of Construction, a cafeteria and a hydration point.
Among the book presentations are “Certain Boys” by the famous Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet, “Ordena tu finances” by Aurora Sepúlveda, “Don’t turn off the light” by Claudia Latorre, among others. In addition, activities such as the Illustration Workshop taught by Fabián Rivas, author of children’s books such as “Cavermanos”, “Can you help me, please?”, “Milo el Milodón”, among others, are added. Likewise, the storyteller “Pedro’s Adventures and His OCD” by Tomás Miño will be presented.
Get to know the programming of the Winter Reader Festival:
THURSDAY, JUNE 27
10:00 Opening
10:40 Conversation I Mabel Barnes, Jorge Fernández and Ramiro Oliveros
Primordial Chiloé – Horrones south of darkness
11:20 Reading Magic
12:00 Presentation I Paz Corral and Gary Ramos
The perfect neighbors/ /Beto and Bella look for King Condor
12:40 Reading Magic
13:40 Presentation I Florencia Alamos and Leonie Kausel
At 4,270 km. Diary of broken friendships, mental health and neuroscience
15:20 Presentation I Janet Lohse
A Table for One
16:00 Presentation I Vicente Villela
Discipline for the lazy
16:40 Presentation I Michael Rivera
Anima: gears of the sinister
17:20 Presentation I Alberto Fuguet
certain guys
18:00 Inauguration
18:40 ESAM Theater Intervention
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
19:00 Closing
FRIDAY, JUNE 28
10:00 Opening
12:00 Presentation I Sergio Vasquez
Let’s travel through the Milky Way
14:00 Presentation I Francisca Solar
The Mailbox of the Impure
15:20 Presentation I Carlos Serrano
Bielsa, the Chilean years (2007-2011)
16:00 Presentation I Aurora Sepulveda
Organize your finances
16:40 Presentation I Pepper Duck
Falco, offers himself as a stand-up comedian
17:20 Presentation I Andrea Villegas
Method 8:11
18:00 Conversation I Verónica Foxley, César Biernay and Amanda Astorga
The power of sects in confusing times
18:40 Presentation I Mauricio Fuentes
Maipú Popular Stamp
19:00 Closing
SATURDAY, JUNE 29
10:00 Opening
11:00 Storytelling I Tomas Miño
The adventures of Pedro and his OCD with Vilma Verdejo
12:00 Presentation I Francisco Ackermann
With pears and investments
13:40 Illustration Workshop I Fabian Rivas
14:00 Presentation I Carla Da Vico and Giovanni Longo
PhiloSophia, an illustrated book of Philosophy for boys and girls
14:40 Presentation I Claudia Latorre
Do not turn off the light
15:20 Presentation I Viviana González, Paula Olmedo and Nicoletta Pranzini
Less is more. For an informed and accompanied menopause
16:00 Presentation I Carolina Correa
Solar power. Healing nutrition for a full life
16:40 Presentation I Maria Paz Blanco
The power of loving you
17:20 Presentation I Pablo Illanes
From out of control to generation 98. The stories behind a TV series: Don’t look her in the eyes
18:00 Presentation I Cristóbal González, Johanna Watson and Julio Osses With the music of La Joya and Rodrigo Negrito Medel (Tomo como Rey)
Cumbia we are
19:00 Closing