Ja! Festival
Edition 2025
Exhibitions
Welcome to Ja!
International Festival of Literature and Art with Humour
EDITION 2025
9 – 20.10.2025 BILBAO
Welcome, New Yorkers by birth or by devotion, inhabitants of sophisticated Manhattan that breathes through the pages of The New Yorker and explodes in the hilarious sketches of Saturday Night Live. Detectives from Brooklyn, dancers from Studio 54, insects whispering stories in the New York Public Library: we are all part of a territory set in that capital of the world that vibrates between reality and dreams.
In a year of anniversaries of some of its greatest icons, we dedicate this edition to the City. Literature, humour, music, cinema and much more are part of a programme designed for you to enjoy and participate in. King Kong has already come down from the Empire State Building to join the party. We look forward to seeing you there.
PROGRAMME
The programme for the 16th edition of the festival will be held between 9 and 20 October at different venues.
For detailed information on all events, including participants, venues, schedules, access, etc., please click on the link.
PROTAGONISTS
Jonathan Lethem, Samanta Schweblin, Ray Loriga, Peter Kuper, Christina Rosenvinge, Nacho Vigalondo, Virginia Feito, Kirmen Uribe, Paula Ortiz, Antonio Castelo, Juan Soto Ivars, Alberto Olmos…
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New York, capital of the XVI Ja! Festival
We will be holding the sixteenth edition between 9 and 20 October. Most of the 2025 programme will take place in Sala BBK and Bizkaia Aretoa – EHU
The most international edition, with a tribute to ‘The New Yorker’ for its centenary
Jonathan Lethem, Peter Kuper and Samanta Schweblin will be some of the featured authors
‘Saul Steinberg, el signo errante’
An artist mostly known for his drawings published on the covers and interiors of The New Yorker, Saul Steinberg (Râmnicu Sărat, Rumania, 1914 – New York, 1999)
