The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) will host the 37th Feria Internacional del Libro de Antropología e Historia (FILAH) from August 13 to 23 at the National Museum of Anthropology, featuring more than 350 free activities, according to an announcement published on August 5 by El Universal.
The 37th edition will honor France and Veracruz as guests of honor, anchored by a heritage exchange between two countries: the Bibliothèque nationale de France will lend the Codex Azcatitlan while the Mexican institution will loan the Codex Boturini. According to Aristegui Noticias, the program includes 150 book presentations, 87 workshops, 22 conferences, 14 academic forums, and more than 35 artistic performances. For the Latin community in North America, the fair offers eleven free days to reconnect with Mexican history and anthropology, with an international dimension through the French collaboration and a focus on inclusion in cultural heritage preservation, according to the Secretaría de Cultura.
On August 13, tenor Javier Camarena will perform with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa under the direction of Martin Lebel, and the exhibition Threads of Veracruz: From the Pretty to the Truly Valuable will open that same day. The previous edition drew 187,000 visitors, and INAH Director Omar Vázquez Herrera has stated that organizers expect to surpass that figure this year. On August 22, the Centro INAH Veracruz will present the Jornada Veracruz: Rubber and the Ball Game, with talks on the finds at El Manatí, the ceremonial spaces of El Tajín, and the challenges of preserving pre-Hispanic rubber balls more than 3,000 years old. The Anthropological Cinema program will screen short films made by children, and the fair will also pay tribute to researchers María del Consuelo Maquívar and Odile Hoffmann.
Admission is free from August 13 to 23, and the full program is already available through INAH's official channels. With France as guest of honor, the fair becomes a window for the Latin community in North America to follow a cultural dialogue that crosses the Atlantic.
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