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Pocos de Caldas Literary Festival in Pocos de Caldas
NON EVENT: Flipocos brings a literary festival format to Pocos de Caldas, a spa town in southern Minas Gerais known for thermal springs and Art Deco architecture near the Sao Paulo border. Organized with backing from the municipal government, the event runs across roughly nine days each spring and mirrors the reading, talk and book-fair format popularized by larger festivals such as FLIP, though at a distinctly regional scale with a thin public documentation trail.
NON EVENT: Flipocos is Pocos de Caldas' own entry in Brazil's now-common tradition of city-branded literary festivals that borrow FLIP's basic template, readings, author panels, book tables and workshops, and adapt it to a local setting.