“Love and Live. Love and Laugh” is the theme running across the ISLA festival this year. The events taking place over the two days in October have been designed to explore a number of fascinating aspects around this theme, such as the truth within the language of love, the importance of passion and the power of love and humor as narrative forces in literature as well as in life.

The ISLA festival will feature 12 creators and professionals across a range of panel discussions, performances and talks, all of which will be free of charge. The exciting guest-list of speakers come from a number of Hispanic countries including Spain Peru, Cuba and Mexico as well as Ireland, and are drawn from a diverse range of fields including education, screenwriting, philosophy, literature and journalism.  Author of Notes to Self Emilie Pine, Sunday Times journalist Eithne Shortall, poet-improviser Alexis Díaz-Pimienta and El País columnist Luz Sánchez-Mellado will be some of the highlights holding talks and discussions across the two days.

The ISLA Festival will take place over the 18th and 19th October at the Instituto Cervantes Dublin.