by the El Reportero’s news services
The tenth edition of the Grand Auction of Books will gather from today until March 29, in Mexico City, 200 exhibitors and more than 500 publishing houses.
According to the organizers, the objective of this event is to give a second chance to books that were not sold during their exhibition in bookstores this city.
They added that publications of fiction, poetry, essays, biography, science, children’s literature, photography, design, architecture and specialized topics, will be exhibited in an area of 2,300 square meters.
Other activities involving various writers, among them Benito Taibo will take place in parallel to the bookselling.
Tributes to William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes for the fourth centennial of their deaths, and the Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario (1867-1916) a century after his death will be part of the program.
This is an event that benefits readers and publishers, while for the latter it is a way to sell copies which by law cannot donate or give away.
Therefore they offer them to book lovers at prices thought for this event.
The organizers expect to surpass attendance of previous years at the National Auditorium and receive in this editorial exhibition more than 60,000 visitors.
Mexico to be present at the Moscow Festival
Mexico will be present at the 13th Festival Moscow Meet Friends to be held from May 24 to 29 in Moscow, where the country will show the cultural richness of the so-called Huasteca region.
The trios La Nueva Herencia, from Tamaulipas; Alondras Huastecas, from San Luis Potosi, and Tradición Serrana, from Puebla, were selected to participate in the meeting, according to a statement from the Ministry of Culture.
Libertad Garcia, general director of Tamaulipas Institute for Culture and the Arts, said that ‘the Huasteca music for us represents identity, represents a region of the bravest natural and cultural representations for Tamaulipas’.
Moscow Meet Friends Festival is organized by the International Foundation Vladimir Spivakov, with the direct participation of the Moscow government and the Department of Culture of the Russian city, and organizations like Unesco, she said.
All this representation will show the great cultural richness of the Huasteca region through songs and dance from this important region of the country, with a brief participation in the inaugural event of the festival and two concerts of approximately 40 minutes each.
The Huasteca includes the northern state of Veracruz, southern Tamaulipas, the Sierra Gorda of Queretaro and San Luis Potosi and Hidalgo areas and to a lesser extent some areas of Puebla.
A sample of the culture of this area of the country is the sones and huastecos huapangos to be heard in that festival.
The Rolling Stones closed their performances in Mexico with a concert during which their leader Mick Jagger made fun of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
Jagger made some comments in Spanish to their fans’ delight at a packed Foro Sol yesterday night in their second and last concert, including vowing that the US tycoon would go on that Mexican stage.
This was the penultimate leg of his Latin American tour Ole, which have also included Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Lima, Bogota, and is scheduled to end in Havana, Cuba, on March 25, at the fields of Ciudad Deportiva (Sports City).
