“Readers and Readings” returns, an initiative of Fundalectura and Book to the Wind

The second edition of Readers and Readings: Five Conversations about Books, an initiative of the District Institute of Arts (Idartes) and Fundalectura, which brings together great authors, publishers and journalists, around five works that have marked them as readers.

On this new day, as Adriana Martínez-Villalba, Literature Manager at Idartes, explains, “ten notable readers will share with us their intimate experience with reading, the place it occupies in their craft and will, of course, recommend those essential books in their reading history”.

Authors, editors and journalists will be present in these spaces who will talk about these great books that have marked history. Guests include Pilar Quintana, Camilo Hoyos, Vito Apüshana, Adriana Campos, Andrea Salgado, Rodrigo Bastidas, Florence Thomas, Nicolas Morales, Alejandro Pino and Nicolás Samper.

The titles that will be read will be: Chronicle of an announced death of Gabriel García Márquez; The lover of Marguerite Duras; Fever in the stands of Nick Hornby; Argentine History of Rodrigo Fresán and Los Cantos de Nezahualcoyotl.

Pilar Quintana and Camilo Hoyos, who will talk about the novel of the Colombian Nobel Prize winner at Matorral Librería (Carrera 19 No. 36 - 55) on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m.

On Friday, April 1, the appointment is at the Library Specialized in Film and Audiovisual Media of the Bogotá Cinematheque, where Andrea Salgado and Rodrigo Bastidas will discuss Rodrigo Fresán's Argentine History, at 4:00 p.m.

On Saturday, April 2, Alejandro Pino and Nicolás Samper will be, at 11:00 a.m., at the Agroecological Library El Uval, in the homonymous village of Usme, talking about Fever in the stands of Nick Hornby.

For their part, Vito Apüshana and Adriana Campos have chosen Los Cantos de Nezahualcoyotl, for their talk at the Cultural Foundation El Contrabajo (Carrera 62 No. 62C - 28 Sur), on Saturday, April 2, at 7:00pm.

Finally, for the closing of Readers and Readings, the conversation will be between Florence Thomas and Nicolás Morales, about The Lover of Marguerite Duras, on Sunday, April 3, at 11:00am, at the Mexico Library of the Economic Culture Fund (Calle 11 No. 5 - 60).

All the talks will also be broadcast on the Facebook accounts of Libro al Viento and Fundalectura.

Idartes announced the reopening of its Nidos Program, with 17 artistic exploration laboratories for children between 0 and 5 years old, which can be accessed free of charge in spaces dedicated to art and located in different locations in the city of Bogotá.

In these spaces, children, accompanied by adults, will be able, in particularly suitable spaces, to meet their needs for their integral development, typical of their first years of life. “Physical laboratories are conceived as scenarios where early childhood children can share with their caregivers and interact with the languages of art, safely,” explained the Institute.

The exact location of each location and its opening hours can be found on the website www.nidos.gov.co/programacion. The entity expects that by 2023 early childhood in Bogotá will have 23 artistic laboratories throughout the city.

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