Buenos Aires will celebrate the 15th edition of 'La Noche de las Librerías' (The Night of the Bookstores) this Saturday, November 22, from 6:00 PM to 1:00 AM. This event will bring together over 70 bookstores with special activities, discounts, and cultural proposals in various neighborhoods. The initiative aims to promote encounters with reading and strengthen the bond between writers, readers, and booksellers, while also expanding its territorial reach with new neighborhood circuits.
All participating bookstores will open their doors with a program that will include presentations, readings, signings, thematic tables, and activities for diverse audiences: families, students, young people, publishing industry professionals, and culture lovers. The central hub will be located on Avenida Corrientes and the pedestrian-only Calle Lavalle, where six stages, platforms, and themed spaces will be set up for talks, debates, presentations, and musical shows.
Among the highlights are the Main Stage, with the Obelisk as a backdrop; the Urgent Stage, dedicated to journalism and non-fiction; the Romance Novel stage; the Poetry in the City stage; the Graphic Arts stage with participatory proposals; the Writings stage; and a Children and Families space with workshops and activities for kids.
'The city transforms and readers take over the streets in a celebration that grows alongside festivals like LITERAL, Urgente, and Semana Negra BA,' said the Minister of Culture of Buenos Aires, Gabriela Ricardes. 'La Noche de las Librerías' once again shows the vigor of a Buenos Aires that lives reading as part of its identity.'
The Director General for the Promotion of Books, Libraries, and Culture, Javier Martínez, highlighted that the proposal 'celebrates one of the events that most defines us as porteños: the love for books and booksellers.'
There will also be a Digital Bibliospace and an Audiorama to listen to readings and literary previews. More than 20 bookstores on the Corrientes corridor will set up tables on the street and offer promotions all night, while Lavalle will add musical interventions and gastronomic options.
Just as in 2024, the event will expand to different neighborhoods, which this year will include Palermo, Villa Crespo, San Telmo, Villa Ortúzar, Almagro, Chacarita, Belgrano, Coghlan, Caballito, and Liniers. Each circuit will feature bookstores that will organize nighttime activities and their own proposals to welcome the public.
For the event's development, from 6:00 PM on Saturday the 22nd until 3:00 AM on Sunday the 23rd, Avenida Corrientes will be closed between Callao and Cerrito, while the cross-streets will remain open. This year we are expanding the neighborhood circuits because we want that spirit, whose epicenter is Corrientes Street, to circulate on all the sidewalks of the City.'
The neighborhood circuits will not imply traffic cuts. There will also be benefits in nearby gastronomic businesses and new payment methods.
