II Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London

The II Edition of The Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London – FQSLL is a meeting point for readers, writers and people interested in LGBTI+ culture in Spanish and in any other language spoken in Spain and Latin America.

Event Venue

Various venues inc. Cervantes Institute, Embassy of Spain

Event Address

Various adrresses

Date

23/11/2022 18:30 PM -26/11/2022 20:00 PM

The II Edition of The Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London – FQSLL is a meeting point for
readers, writers and people interested in LGBTI+ culture in Spanish and in any other language
spoken in Spain and Latin America.

This edition will be a hybrid one with both online events and others happening at different venues
across London.
The opening of the festival is scheduled for Wednesday 23 November at the Spanish Ambassador’s
residence, Don José Pascual Marco Martínez.
Jorge Gárriz, FQSLL’s director will introduce the events programme to the audience and will
welcome the headliner of the festival, play-writer and Playwriting National Prize 2009 for the play
Dentro de la tierra, Paco Bezerra.
Paco Bezerra will discuss about his career, future theatre productions and the publication of his
latest book titled Velocidad mínima, a collection of plays with Isaías Fanlo, Professor of Iberian
Cultures, Gender Studies and Queer Theories at University of Cambridge.
On Thursday 24 November, curator and writer Joaquín García Martín will give a lecture titled
Madrid circa 1920: Diversity in literature and art at the Cervantes Institute in London about the
exhibition he curated for CentroCentro gallery in Madrid in 2021 titled CUESTIÓN DE
AMBIENTE. A Cartography of Diversity in the Literary and Artistic Madrid of the 1920s. Talk in
English.
During the 1920s, Madrid underwent great demographic and urbanistic growth that resulted in a
bustling and effervescent capital. The result of all this was a city that lived and grew to the beat of
modernity, scarcely different to Europe’s other great capitals. During those years it kept pace with the
times, it also did so in terms of the visibility of sexual diversity. The events that took place after the
1930s have stolen the memory of that Madrid from us, confusing us with a false image of
obscurantism and backwardness.
Through a series of biographies of people, most of whom are related to one other, this exhibition
reconstructs those years and remembers those who lived and walked on these same streets. It is the
Madrid of Alvaro Retana, Antonio de Hoyos and Tórtola Valencia, of José de Zamora and Edmond de
Bries, where Lorca, Cernuda, and Aleixandre met at the Residencia de Estudiantes hall, the city too
of Victorina Duran and Gregorio Prieto.