These are the activities that will take place in Bogotá within the framework of the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victims

Next Saturday, April 9, the country commemorates the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victims and, as part of this date, Bogotá will offer a programme of various activities throughout this month, in order to contribute to the construction of memory and recognition of the victims of the armed conflict. Here are some of the scheduled activities.

This Friday, April 8, the first activity will be held by the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra (OFB), which will recognize the victims by performing a concert of Colombian music in the central square of the National University.

The event, which will take place at 3:00 in the afternoon, will be led by the principal music director of the OFB, Maestro Joachim Gustafsson, and by the assistant music director, Rubián Zuluaga, who will take a tour of all the characteristic sounds of Colombia: they will pass through the corridors, bambucos, cumbias, among others.

To attend the OFB concert, do not forget to register in advance at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWf712cneO4FQi24pQnWUfIreJWdHKgTJ0TW8Lsxt345ARmg/viewform.

On the same day, the program of the District Institute of Arts (Idartes), Nidos - Early Childhood Art, in conjunction with the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition, will carry out the activity “Mumo-The Museum of Objects” in the locality Rafael Uribe Uribe, an artistic and multimedia initiative to through which we talk about how to build peace, individual and collective memory from the first years of life.

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According to Idartes, the activity will be held at Rafael Uribe Uribe's Meeting Center for Peace and Local Integration of Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict.

For its part, the Bogotá Cinematheque announced that on Saturday, April 9, it will present two special functions in partnership with the Truth Commission and Forensic Architecture. The first, which will be screened throughout the month, is entitled 'Traces of Disappearance', an audiovisual project in which “a rigorous, artistic and enlightening approach to acts of violence in the Colombian armed conflict” is made.

At 6:00 in the afternoon of the same day, in the Capital Hall of the Cinematheque will be screened 'Dispossession and Memory of the Earth', an audiovisual work that narrates “the violence involved in land grabbing in Antioquia's Urabá”. The function will be with free admission until full capacity is reached.

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On the same day, the María Mercedes Carranza Mobile Stage will be in Plaza de Bolivar to pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the armed conflict through contemporary dance, theater and music activities.

Bogotá will close the month of commemoration of the victims of the armed conflict with the event 'Memories of Resistance', an initiative through which the 'Line Art and Memory Without Borders' will publicize the artistic actions that have been launched within the framework of social mobilization in the country. Those interested in attending must appear at El Castillo de las Artes on April 30th from 2:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon.

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