Aspects of the 2024 Book Fair (FilBo) in Corferias with Brazil as a guest country.
Photo: El Espectador – Gustavo Torrijos
It is the first week since the start of the Bogotá International Book Fair. The programming of the eleventh day of the International Book Fair will be marked by activities that continue the theme around The Maelstromand also, to the presence of Brazil as a guest country, with the central theme of “Reading nature.”
The day will offer a varied cultural agenda for all tastes and ages. Filbo 2024 will be open from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, with tickets sold at the box office from 9:00 am The prices are $12,000 for adults, $9,500 for children from 6 to 12 years old and $10,000 for students with license.
For its part, the El Espectador stand, located in pavilion 16, at stand 1224, will continue with special programming, where different guests will meet for talks on literature, current communication challenges and others. issues of national and international reality.
The Spectator at FILBo 2024
Documentary “By heaven and earth: Search unit for missing persons
11:00 a.m. m
Elber Gutiérrez, general producer of El Espectador, will talk with Carlos Marín, deputy director general of the Missing Persons Search Unit, and Gloria Galindez, searcher for missing persons.
Finally, how many Afro-Colombians are there?
1:30 p.m. m
Talk with plaintiffs of the protection before the Constitutional Court that produced Sentence T-276 on the failures of the 2018 Census.
Z zone ft. Daniela Abisambra (LIVE)
3:30 p.m. m
Zona Z, El Espectador’s program for the new Espectador, will have as a guest Daniela Abisambra, content creator and host of Live without permissionone of the most listened to podcasts in Colombia by the new generations.
Manga District: a year of good stories
4:30 p.m. m
Presentation of some of the most interesting proposals of the Manga District for 2024.
Afro-Colombians in national history. Anniversaries 2024
6:30 p.m. m
An approach to the visions of history around the Afro-Colombian population. In the conversation will be the director of the General Archive of the Nation, Liliana Angulo, director of the National Museum of Colombia and Arnylkar Acosta, former Minister of State.
Champeta: history and musical show
7:30 p.m. m
Talk about the champeta genre with the band Tribu Baharú, who will perform songs from their production.
Some events on the April 27 schedule
Carranga and nature
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Cultural Tent
Talk in which the singer-songwriter Jorge Velosa will tell how nature has inspired some of his most loved and listened to songs and above all what the armadillo, one of his favorite animals, has taught him.
Afro Cycle – Reinventing the language to reinvent the world
10:00 a.m. m – 11:30 a.m. m
Brazil, guest of honor country
The table, focused specifically on poetry and composed of poets linked to Afro themes, is proposed as a space to explore the transformative impact of poetry in the reconfiguration of realities and in the articulation of new world visions. This dialogue will focus on how poetic expression, imbued with the experiences, stories, and aspirations of black communities, can be a vehicle of resistance, liberation, and identity.
Letras de Vanguardia – Afro-Colombian literature in the national catalog
10:00 a.m. m – 11:00 a. m
Great Hall A – Corferias
Conversation about the representation of Afro-Colombian authors and launch of a call for Afro writers from Bogotá.
The names we forget: a conversation about Colombia and its daily violence
11:30 a.m. m -12:30 p. m
Great Hall E
The gender editor, journalist and writer María F. Fitzgerald presents her book “The Names We Forget,” in a conversation with Mariángela Urbina about Colombia and the challenges and learnings of human rights journalism.
Flavors of Brazil
1:00 p.m. m – 2:00 p.m. m
Brazil, guest of honor country
Demonstration of Brazilian gastronomy organized by IBRACO – Instituto de Cultura Brasil Colombia.
Conversation: “Galeón San José Project: a scientific and cultural mission”
1:00 p.m. m – 2:00 p.m. m
José Asunción Silva Auditorium
A space for Colombians to learn about the 2024 Campaign: Roadmap that Colombia will follow to advance the deep-sea scientific research project that will allow us to identify everything that this ship, shipwrecked in 1708, has to tell us about social processes of the past. And the launch of the 2022 Verification Campaign website.
Presentation of the book Fragments of Life Florence Thomas
2:30 p.m. m – 3:30 pm
Great Room A
It is a journey in which she achieves a balance between her public life and her private life that has been an inspiration for several generations of women who have grown up with her writings, her activism and her fight for the rights of Colombian women.
The gastronomy of Cómbita, Boyacá. mountain food
4:30 p.m. m – 5:15 p.m. m
Colombia Carp to the table
Live cooking show by chef Leonel Jaramillo, who presents the gastronomic diversity of the department of Boyacá and its knowledge.
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