Today began in the municipality of Marseille, Risaralda, the second version of the Festival of the Book and Coffee Biodiversity – Felbic 2025. A space dedicated to literature, stories, dialogue, music and the cafetero cultural landscape, which will be held until Saturday, May 10.
“It is not so much a fair, it is a festival. We want to meet in the conversation about books, culture and coffee. Risaralda deserved a cultural space like this,” said Carolina Lara, leader of the Risaralda Comfamiliar Education Ecosystem, highlighting that Felbic was born with the purpose of transcending the cultural and projecting as a space for social transformation and collective reconstruction.
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This second version has more than 30 cultural and training activities, between conferences, conversations, workshops, concerts, film functions, exhibitions, and a venture fair, all in emblematic scenarios such as the House of Culture, the Botanical Garden, the Public Library León de Greiff, the Park of the Tree, among others. “We want to continue drawing peace and culture through the word,” Lara concluded.
Outstanding guests
Among the outstanding guests of the 2025 edition are writers William Ospina (Colombia), Frank Báez (Dominican Republic) and Rai Soares (Brazil), which will be talking about various topics such as: Environment, Memories and Collective.
One of the most anticipated moments will be the musical tribute to Julio Jaramillo, in charge of the Mejía and Valencia Group, as part of the Mother’s Day celebration. The Colombian singer Marta Gómez will also be presented, who will delight the public with his new songs such as “Tiempo de Calypso”, theme that he recorded with the artist Elkin Robinson.
In this space, in addition to music, there will be comic workshops for young people, children’s storytelling, a dialogue on literature and suicide prevention, and photographic and literary shows that portray coffee daily life.
From Comfamiliar Risaralda, Wilson Flórez Valencia, Library Coordinator, stressed that the word will be Felbic’s central axis: “This festival is an unbeatable opportunity to find us around reading, writing, orality and libraries. The word must lead us to be better human beings.”
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