Power outage is recorded on the last day of the Bahia Book Biennial; event had record attendance | Bahia

Power outage occurs at the Bahia Book Biennial

A power outage was recorded on the last day of the Bahia Book Biennial, this Wednesday (1st), at the Salvador Convention Center, on the edge of Boca do Rio. This year, the event broke an attendance record and surpassed the record for 100 thousand visitors.

Last day of the Bahia Book Biennial

According to the event organizers, the outage occurred due to an internal failure in partial power distribution. The situation affected Arena Jovem, a space dedicated to author chats.

Still according to the organization, the problem was corrected by the maintenance team at the Salvador Convention Center and the schedule continued normally.

In a statement, the Electricity Company of the State of Bahia (Coelba) confirmed that the power outage was an internal defect and that the “electrical network and energy supply in the region remain normal”.

The situation delayed the chat “The unsustainable lightness of being”, with the participation of journalist Rita Batista, poet, writer and composer Allan Dias Castro and mediated by Gabriela Almeida. Scheduled to start at 11 am, the lecture was announced due to a rapid return of power supply, but was postponed again after a new outage. The table was then transferred to the “Café Literário” space, where supply was not affected.

“The challenge of maintaining children’s literature in digital times” was one of the main panels on the last day of the Biennale. The event brought together the writer and journalist from TV Bahia, Ricardo Ishmael, the children’s writers Emília Nuñes and Renata Fernandes and the pedagogue Marcos Cajé.

At the center of the debate, the challenges faced by authors in keeping children’s interest in the book alive. According to data from the Regional Center for Studies for the Development of the Information Society (Cetic), 9 out of 10 Brazilian children are on the internet.

There were six days of event, more than 170 authors, personalities and artists in more than 100 hours of content that explored children’s literature, brought the indigenous way of telling stories, revered ancestry and feminine strength, African culture and popular wisdom .

On the last day of the event, more than 20 thousand people passed through the Salvador Convention Center. The organization believes that around 800,000 books will be sold by closing time at 10pm.

*Reporter Iamany Santos collaborated

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