The Ansible Popular Library is part of the Café Artigas Cultural Cooperative. It is a Library specialized in science fiction, fantasy and terror, unique throughout the country. With 2800 volumes and more than 550 associates, it was established as a point of consultation and reading meeting of these genres in the city of Buenos Aires. In December 2024 he was recognized as Place of cultural interest by the Legislature of the CABA.
To this contributed the more than 30 activities organized since its foundation in 2020: talks about writers, presentations of books and magazines, projection of films and documentaries, stories readings, scientific dissemination activities, workshops and science fiction training. The house of science fiction, terror and fantasy in Argentina such as Martín Felipe Castagnet, Michel Nieva, Flor Canosa, Claudia Aboaf, Laura Ponce, María Eugenia Alcatena, José María Marcos, Luís Pestarini, Christian Vallini Lawson, Claudia Cortalezzi or Juan Simran.
They can consult the activities carried out in these 5 years in the Instagram account: @Bibliotecapularasible, where there is the link to the catalog. This year they organize The Second National Science Fiction Convention (near meeting), for April 3, 4, 5 and 6. It will take place in the Artigas Café Theatrical Hall (Artigas 1850, CABA) with free and free access, which will include:
–Editorial Fair and Science Fiction cartoonists With the confirmed presence of Ayarmanot editions, Books of the Cosmonauta, Ediciones Unknown, Lyrics Sudaca Editora, Cuásar, Chirimbolito, Fourth ondish and Flavio Greco Paglia, among others.
–Talks and presentations about genderwhich will take from a review of the history of Argentine science fiction or the work of Angélica Gorodischer, to a talk about zombies in our literature through a editorial table.
–Contest of stories Karel Capek, a science fiction tales contest whose prize will consist of becoming a theatrical piece by the Artigas coffee team, to be released during the convention.
–Other activities, like the projection of scenes of Metropolis Musicalized live, the dance show Move the tongueTesting science fiction board games or drawing and live reading of a story by Quique and Eugenia Alcatena.
Below the days and schedules of the activities:
-Jueves April 3. 18-22 hs. Pre-Encounter meetings: We tried the games of the future.
-Lead April 4. 18-19: 30 hours. Pre-Encounter meetings: That robot is me. Reading workshop, masks and philosophy. / 20:30 hs. Informative canapé before the function: Karel Capek theater. By Darío Lavia and Steve Joyce. / 21 hours. Inauguration of the near meeting. Premiere of the theatrical piece “The sunset of the gods.”
-They April 5. 14 hours. Satellite triangle, Chapter 5: History and science fiction. With Roque Larraquy, Mallory Craig-Kuhn and Juan Moretti. / 15:15 hs. Other eyes, other universes. Alternative worldviews in science fiction. With TP Mira-Echeverría. / 16:30 hs. One hand narrates the other. Reading and drawing live as wheels as cages as weasels. With Eugenia and Quique Alcatena. / 17:45 hs. Argentine science fiction: a literature on the margin. With Luís Pestarini. / 7:00 p.m. Brains and chinchulines. The living dead in national literature. With Lucía Vazquez. / 20:15 hs. Make tribute. Award for a lifetime dedicated to science fiction and fantastic.
-Domingo April 5. 14 hours. Machines and ghosts: Map of the new Latin American strange fiction. With Juan Mattio. / 15:15 hs. Angélica Gorodischer’s first books. Science fiction, utopia and dystopia. With Michelle Arturi. / 16:30 hs. Metropolis – 5 acts. Live musicalization of iconic scenes of the 1927 film. With Pablo Bronzini (piano). / 17:45 hs. Unique and unrepeatable. Robots, Cyborgs and Androids in recent Argentine literature. With Gonzalo Santos. / 7:00 p.m. Editors del Porvenir: How to publish speculative worlds without dying in the attempt. With Federico Reggiani, Mariano Buscaglia and Marcelo Acevedo. / 20:15 hs. Move the tongue in the near encounter. You can dance anything (even science fiction)
During Saturday and Sunday, from 14 to 8 pm, the Fair of Editorials and Science Fiction authors will take place.
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