“This festival is a space for building peace in one of the most violent cities in the country. It is a beacon of social innovation, a platform where opportunities converge and the local business fabric prospers,” says Maria López, co-founder of the Detonante Festival.
Nine years ago, this initiative began to strengthen the social fabric of Quibdó, nurturing its social and environmental leaders, visionary entrepreneurs, cultural managers and artistic talents. It focuses on being a music festival open to the general public that annually attracts more than 5 thousand people to celebrate the talent, life and creativity of the department.
This year the festival will have several activities: a cultural laboratory, in which the artists selected for the festival will culminate their artistic residency with the great concert on the boardwalk, an entrepreneurship roundtable that seeks to generate commercial alliances, and the first collective construction meeting of Progresa Chocó.
For two days, culture, diversity and life will be celebrated. The appointment is next May 23 and 24 in Quibdó, Chocó.
In the Popular Economies Entrepreneurship Round, 25 ventures led by women will be exhibited with the support of UN Women and SENA. Those selected will have the opportunity to interact with businessmen and strategic allies in the region, and together with them, we will have an exchange of practices and local knowledge.
He cultural academic component, will take shape in a Cultural Laboratoryan initiative in which artists and experts in dance, music, design and cultural management will share their knowledge to enhance the creative processes of local projects that seek to share their proposals with the world.
We will have the first round table of dialogue and collective construction to develop an initiative. This is ‘Progresa Chocó’, a civil society organization that arises from Chocó leadership and a generation that envisions Chocó in the year 2050 as a transformed landscape.an epicenter of opportunity and prosperity, and a beacon of sustainability and equity.
For this edition, The Closing Concert will be the culmination of a strengthening process in which 165 artists who have carried out a process with the festival organizers will participate.with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Knowledge, the British Council and Llorona Records.
Dawer x Damper will head the list of this year’s guest artists. He will join the English Karen Nyame KG and Hagan along with the local artists who won the call, such as Las Prietas, Axl Evans V’s, Robbie Vida, among others.
Before finishing the festival, there will be a day of care and cleaning as part of “Quibdó I Want You Clean”, reaffirming our commitment to the municipality and its inhabitants.
Find out the complete program here.
