{"id":11784,"date":"2025-07-15T08:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/?p=11784"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:51:51","slug":"new-york-capital-of-the-xvi-ja-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/new-york-capital-of-the-xvi-ja-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"New York, capital of the XVI Ja! Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will be holding the sixteenth edition <strong>between 9 and 20 October<\/strong>. Most of the <strong>2025 programme<\/strong> will take place in <strong>Sala BBK and Bizkaia Aretoa &#8211; EHU<\/strong>, our usual main venues, which this year will be joined by <strong>Sala Bilborock<\/strong>\u00a0and the <strong>Bidebarrieta Library<\/strong> as new venues for the festival.<\/p>\n<p>As in previous editions, the programme will host the most interesting authors, among which there will be an outstanding international presence. The full programme will be unveiled in mid-September, but here is a preview of the main theme and some of its protagonists.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>New York as the programme&#8217;s main theme and in Javier Ja\u00e9n&#8217;s poster<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In 2025 we will be traveling to <strong>New York, <\/strong>and not by chance. This year the city celebrates three anniversaries that are close to our spirit: fifty years of <strong>\u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019<\/strong> (the birthplace of comedy legends such as Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell), the centenary of <strong>\u2018The Great Gatsby\u2019<\/strong> &#8211; Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s satire that turned New York into the stage of the American Dream &#8211; and especially,one hundred years of <strong>\u2018The New Yorker\u2019<\/strong>, the magazine that turned irony into an art form and proved that the best stories are born from a mixture of humour, literature and quality journalism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11679 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cartel-Ja-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Cartel Ja! 2025\" width=\"800\" height=\"1131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cartel-Ja-2025.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jafestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cartel-Ja-2025-480x679.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/>Javier Ja\u00e9n for Ja! 2025<\/p>\n<p>The themes and protagonists of the next edition will be connected to the city of skyscrapers, and not only as a physical place. New York will be above all an emotional landscape at the festival: an imaginary made up of books, films, comics and other artistic works that are part of the universal heritage. All wrapped up in a unique combination of humour and melancholy that could be called <strong>\u2018New York State of Mind\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>poster<\/strong> for the 16th edition is once again a piece of art by graphic artist <strong>Javier Ja\u00e9n<\/strong>, who once again combines the essence of the festival with the topic that focuses on it this time. It does so through a New York yellow-taxi background on which emerges an amusingly ferocious King Kong, drawn with a dotted pattern reminiscent of both classic cinema and the newspapers of the golden age of New York journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a part of us? The history of the festival since 2010 is available on this website, where from now on fans of the event can become part of the <strong>\u2018Friends of Ja!\u2019 <\/strong>community and get some exclusive rewards in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be holding the sixteenth edition between 9 and 20 October. 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