Aspects of the 2024 Book Fair (FilBo) in Corferias with Brazil as a guest country
Photo: El Espectador – Gustavo Torrijos
The programming for the second Sunday of the International Book Fair will be marked by activities that continue the theme around The Voragine, and also 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
Do you want to start a business?
10:30 a.m.
Hermán Ceballos, general manager of iNNpulsa Colombia, will talk with Edwin Bohórquez, digital manager of El Espectador, about the ways in which entrepreneurs can achieve their goal and the resources that the State has at their disposal.
Millennial families changing the parenting landscape
11:30 a.m.
Carolina Molina and Juanita Boada will talk about how this generation has been the first to question the mistreatment of boys and girls in education and upbringing and how the paradigm is changing.
The labyrinth of total peace: Where is Petro’s bet going to reach agreements with illegal groups?
12:30 am
Julián Ríos, journalist from Colombia +20 of El Espectador, moderates this conversation with Jorge Mantilla, investigator of crime and organized violence, and Laura Bonilla, deputy director of the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation.
Tribute to José Eustacio Rivera – “100 years of La vorágine”
1:30 p.m.
Andrea Salgado, Federico Díaz-Granados, Martín Von Hildebreand, Alberto Medina and Lisandro Duque talk with Élber Gutiérrez, general producer of El Espectador.
Stereotypes about women and drugs: a call to detoxify narratives
3:30 pm
Silvia Corredor, journalist for Impacto Mujer from El Espectador, moderates this space in which we will talk about the challenges of government entities, social organizations and citizens to talk about women and drugs without stigmatization or gender violence.
New audiences and the transformation of the media
4:30 pm
Élber Gutiérrez, general producer of El Espectador, will talk with José Antonio Sánchez, director of audiences and digital distribution of Caracol Televisión, and Juanita Kremer, digital manager of Blu Radio, about the challenges of the media in the digital era.
Crossed books: The Hand that Heals, In the Skin of the Jaguar and The Readers of Don Quixote
5:30 pm
Lina Parra, Sara Jaramillo and Alejandra Jaramillo will talk with Matías Godoy.
Why do women in Colombia retire less than men?
6:30 pm
Óscar Becerra, pension expert, Laura Porras, director of the social area of the Faculty of Law of the University of Los Andes, and Juliana Morad, director of the Labor Law Observatory of the Javeriana University, will talk with Karen Quintero, economics and The Igualadas of El Espectador.
Some events on the April 27 schedule
We’re all crazy
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
José Asunción Silva Auditorium
Rosa Montero and Amalia Andrade will talk about their experiences as a source of inspiration for their works and the way in which their experiences have opened up topics for them to investigate and write about.
The cycles of what is alive
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
María Mercedes Carranza Room
Tania Ganitsky will talk with María Tabares (This is how I clean the world) and Santiago Espinosa (California Notebook) about the cycles of what is alive, the essential carrion, the company of death, the passage of time on earth and in the poem .
Popular feminism and disobedient motherhoods: Latin America and Spain today
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Great Hall B
Esther Vivas, from Spain, Ingrid Bejerman, from Brazil, and Luciana Cadahia, from Argentina, will talk about the right to abortion, non-imposed motherhood, female pleasure, menstruation, as words that accompany in the streets those of social injustice, civil disobedience, politics public, community joints. A conversation about current feminism from both shores.
The comic, the graphic novel and their importance in contemporary Colombian literature in “La vorágine”, graphic novel
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Great Hall E
The writer Óscar Pantoja and the illustrator José Luis Jiménez will speak to the public about the importance of comics, of making graphic novels in Colombia, their various works with this format, taking as a fundamental basis what they did with La vorágine, a graphic novel.
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