{"id":1052732,"date":"2026-09-09T09:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1052732\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:47:35","slug":"hay-festival-forum-returns-oct-16-18-featuring-pulitzer-prize-winning-novelist-and-a-co-founder-of-ted-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1052732\/","title":{"rendered":"Hay Festival Forum returns Oct. 16-18, featuring Pulitzer Prize winning-novelist and a co-founder of TED Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo courtesy of Austin Dupree.<\/p>\n

The Hay Festival Forum <\/a>will return to Oak Cliff for its ninth iteration in our neighborhood Oct. 16-18.<\/p>\n

Hay Festival<\/a> is a charity that provides global festivals to bring different perspectives and representation together for conversation through conversations, workshops and book clubs. Venues for this year\u2019s Dallas festival include the Texas Theatre, Dallas Public Library, Whose Books, Oak Cliff Assembly and The Wild Detectives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s Hay Festival Forum will bring together the very best writers and thinkers locally and internationally for a global conversation of ideas, curated especially for you,\u201d said Cristina Fuentes La Roche, Hay Festival International Director, in a press release. \u201cDallas is a city full of fresh perspectives and bilingual storytelling to inspire \u2013 the perfect home for our next Hay Festival event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of this year\u2019s confirmed guests include Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford; journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones, Jan Mart\u00ednez Ahrens and Nilo Tabrizy; philosopher Mariana Alessandri; filmmaker Anna Pazos and Sama\u2019an Ashrawi; novelists Brenda Navarro, Claudia Pi\u00f1eiro, Austyn Wohlers, Chris Kraus, Jorge Comensal; musicians Lee Ranaldo, Benjam\u00edn Kumantuk Xuxp\u00eb and rapper Bun B; historians Kelly Lytle Hern\u00e1ndez and Petro Rivera-Rideau; and co-founder of TED Talks June Cohen. Additionally, there will be a live performance of Symffoni\u2019r M\u00f4r Mawr \u2013 A Transatlantic Symphony by Welsh composer Katie Jenkins.<\/p>\n

Tickets are available now. For more information, visit hayfestival.com\/forum\/dallas\/programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVictoria Hernandez is the Oak Cliff editor for Advocate Media. Prior to joining the Advocate, she wrote for Walton Insights, KUAF 91.3 and UARK Student Media. Victoria studied at the University of Arkansas, earning a B.A. in English\/Journalism with minors in history and gender studies and a M.A. in Journalism with a Graduate Certificate in African and African American Studies. She can be reached by email at vhernandez@advocatemag.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of Austin Dupree. The Hay Festival Forum will return to Oak Cliff for its ninth iteration…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1052733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,421594,1596,94508,421595,421596,421597,421598,421599,358,421600,395974,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,421601],"class_list":["post-1052732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-cristina-fuentes-la-roche","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-public-library","tag-hay-festival","tag-june-cohen","tag-nikole-hannah-jones","tag-oak-cliff-assembly","tag-richard-ford","tag-texas","tag-texas-theatre","tag-the-wild-detectives","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-whose-books"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117240456220584711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}