A successful opening day took place yesterday at the Puerto de Ideas festival, where hundreds of participants attended a dazzling lecture by historian Rafael Sagredo, who recounted how Chile lived and was the day the promulgation of the constitution of 1828. Later, the eminent documentary filmmaker Maite Alberdi spoke about cinema and luck to an audience in love with the seventh art.
For this weekend the panoramas are not to be missed, from this Saturday, November 13 on the Paseo Yugoslavo with a tribute to the essential painter and national engraver Roser Bru by the essayist Adriana Valdés, the academic Alberto Madrid and the plastic artist Pablo Chiuminatto. The photographic tour “The road of Sergio Larraín through Valparaíso” will also start at this same time, by the photographer and researcher Jorge Villa Moreno, whose starting point will be Centex (Sotomayor 233), after registering on puertodeideas.cl .
Continuing the activities in the streets of Buenos Aires, at 12:30 pm, the musical tour through the streets of the port begins with “El Piano Clave de Valparaíso” whose starting point is Plaza Sotomayor to continue until Errázuriz and Calle Clave, ending with “Espacio Brasil”, one of the main stages of Puerto de Ideas. This activity has the participation of eminent artists under the direction of Gregorio Fontén, such as Kathy Lua, Gabriela Cáceres, Ricardo Luna, Lukax Santana, Pancho Sazo, Samuel Ibarra and Francisca Astorga.
At the same time, also at 12:30 pm, the Peruvian sociologist Kathya Araujo invites us to reflect in the Cultural Park of Valparaíso in the speech “We must speak of authority”, analyzing the research that people are developing to find new ways of exercise. In the afternoon, at 4.30 p.m. at Paseo Yugoslavo, literature invites us to discover “The Feminine of the Margin”, by the Argentine trans writer Camila Sosa, author of the bestselling book “Las Malas”, and the designer and author national Ariel Richards.
At 6.30 p.m., in the Valparaíso Cultural Park, Puerto de Ideas invites us to reflect on climate change, environmental conservation and gender in “(A) weaving of ideas” by biologists Olga Barbosa, Bárbara Saavedra and education expert Claudia Matus. To conclude this Saturday, at Espacio Brasil at 8:30 pm, the actors Antonia Zegers and Nicolás Poblete, directed by Francisco Krebs, invite us to take pleasure in reading the books “Loa a la Tierra” and “The Disappearance of Rituals” prominent Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han.
To see on Sunday
For the last day of Puerto de Ideas, stands out the virtual activity “The future has no future”, where the national writer and journalist Antonio Díaz Oliva will talk about utopias and dystopias, with the eminent Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, one of the most important voices in contemporary literature, author of the world hit “The Handmaid’s Tale”. This activity is online, free and will be broadcast on puertodeideas.cl at 10:30 am.
In the Valparaíso Cultural Park, also at 10:30 am, Sol Serrano, the first woman to receive the National History Prize, will participate in the conversation “Shades of History”, with journalist Daniel Hopenhayn, on the profession of historians and the attempt to give answers, dialogues and reflections in times of change and new discussions around society. On the same stage, at 4:30 pm, eminent psychologist Alex Behn will give the talk “A friendship a day keeps the doctor away” to address the relationship between health and social relationships.
At 6.30 pm, Chilean writers Diego Zúñiga, Daniel Hidalgo and Simón Soto will reflect on masculinities in creative writing, in a conversation titled “The Narrators of the Fourth Wave”, Sunday at 6.30pm. Finally, the closing activity of Puerto de Ideas revolves around the figure of Astor Piazzolla with the tribute concert “From the Pacific to the Atlantic” at Espacio Brasil at 8:30 pm.
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