The 12th Gabo Festival and BibloRed announce a free agenda with 40 activities for all audiences
BibloRed offers a series of free workshops, talks and clubs as part of the Gabo 2024 Festival.
- The 12th Gabo Festival will hold a series of free events at BibloRed libraries located in Fontibón, Bosa, the District Prison and other locations between the north and south of the city, thanks to the support of the Mayor’s Office, through the Secretariat of Culture, Recreation and Sports.
- In a public programme, national and international journalists and writers will participate in meetings on disinformation, memory, peace and the legacy and work of García Márquez.
- Topics such as public speaking, creative writing of fiction and non-fiction, fanzines, and a special section dedicated to podcasts will also be discussed.
Download the complete agenda of the Gabo Festival on BibloRed here
The Gabo Festival, organized by the Gabo Foundation, in alliance with the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá, through BibloRed and the Secretariat of Culture, Recreation and Sportsoffers an agenda of free events in multiple places and cultural spaces in the city, where it is being held for the third consecutive year and where in 2023 it was recognized by the Council as an event of cultural interest.
In its 12th edition, the largest meeting of stories in Latin America has scheduled activities in ten points of the District Network of Public Libraries of Bogotá, thus contributing to the Public Policy on Reading, Writing and Orality – The LEOthrough the organization of reading clubs with authors or experts for several weeks, narrative workshops for journalists and non-journalists and the general public, oral communication workshops, as well as a day dedicated to podcast storytelling.
In a commitment to democratize access to cultural offerings from the understanding of locality and diversities, BibloRed opens the doors to the Gabo Festival, to develop programming in venues such as the Virgilio Barco Public Library, the Gabriel García Márquez Public Library – El Tunal, the Bosa Public Library, the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Public Library, the District Prison Library and the Carlos E. Restrepo Libraryamong other.
The agenda in these spaces includes seven workshops, eleven talks and seven reading clubs with prominent guests from the program, which also includes events in the Modern Gymthe District Cinematheque, Compensar headquarters and the National Museum.
In addition, in The El Tunal Library The Gabo Tree will be on display for a month – starting on June 24 – an experience created from a conceptual matrix that classifies the various facets that make up the life, work and legacy of Gabriel García Márquez, in which visitors will be able to interact with the content and participate with their opinions and impressions.
Reading clubs: ‘The Other War’, ‘Story of a Castaway’ and other unmissable non-fiction works
The library programming began on June 19 with reading clubs, which have a special importance in the Gabo Festival and the libraries, since they foster connections in various parts of the city between readers, authors and their works.
In this framework, books by some notable names of the Festival will be read and discussed., who during the last session will attend a meeting with the readers. Among the authors are: Leila Guerriero (‘The Other War’), Maribel Abello Banfi and Catalina Gallo (‘The Beauty of Madness’), María Teresa Ronderos (‘Smoke in the Street’), Bernardo Pajares and Juanra Sánz (‘Creative Passions’), Abraham Jiménez Enoa (‘Landing in the World’) and Jon Lee Anderson (‘The Dictator, the Demons and Other Chronicles’).
For its part, reading ‘Story of a castaway’by Gabriel García Márquez, will feature the participation of Orlando Oliveros, writer and editor of the Gabo Center of the Gabo Foundation.
Workshops: From Public Speaking Strategies to Independent Narratives
Workshops are an essential component of the annual Gabo Festival agenda. In this section, the activities begin with a workshop on the art of public speaking (taught by Vanessa Gómez, a communication skills trainer), a creative fiction writing workshop to rethink magical realism as an aesthetic and political gesture (led by writer and teacher Giuseppe Caputo) and a non-fiction workshop for journalists and non-journalists to approach journalistic and literary chronicles (taught by journalist and editor Elizabeth Otálvaro).
Additionally, there will be workshops on media education (César Paredes), fanzines and independent narratives (Alma Ríos) and one for educators, reading promoters and readers interested in promoting reading and writing (Fanuel Hanan Diaz).
‘Gabo Podcast Meeting’ and other talks
In libraries, as part of the Gabo Podcast Meeting segment, there will be a master class on writing for podcasts (led by Eliézer Budasoff), a talk on gender perspectives in the podcasting universe (with Nayelli Reyes, Filipe Santa Bárbara, Angélica Rodríguez and Laia Mataix in conversation with Paula Cubillos) and another on emerging trends and the future of this sound format. In addition, there will be a listening club for the ‘Brave Women’ podcast.
Biblored and the Gabo Festival will also host meetings on disinformation and local journalism, screen the documentary on disinformation ‘Se metieron a los juntas’ and present reflections on artificial intelligence.
In relation to the work of García Márquezthe Arab presence in the universe of Macondo will be discussed in a dialogue led by Federico Díaz Granados and Ahmad Mohsen, and there will be a recital talk, ‘The Symphony of García Márquez: readings of music in his work’, with the presence of journalists Roberto Herrscher, Laura Galindo and accordionist José Caraballo.
– About the Gabo Festival
The Gabo 2024 Festival will bring together more than 170 guests from Latin America and the world in 140 meetings organized by the Gabo Foundation, which was founded 30 years ago in Cartagena by García Márquez himself with the purpose of promoting ethical, rigorous, innovative and public service.
– About BibloRed
The District Network of Public Libraries, BibloRed, is a system that seeks to bring citizens closer to books, writing, culture and other manifestations of knowledge. Its branches are open to the community to promote the construction of the public and the common from the appropriation of reading, writing and oral expression in its multiple forms.
Download the complete agenda of the Gabo Festival on BibloRed here
