The Bogotá International Book Fair (FiLBO 2022) is perhaps the most important cultural event in the city. After two years of forced silence due to the covid-19 pandemic, the fair returns in person to the Corferias facilities, in the city of Bogotá.
The FilBo, which will take place between April 19 and May 2, will also have a rich program that the District Institute of Arts (Idartes) prepared for the entire capital public.
According to a statement from Idartes, during the FILBo there will be presentations of books on dance, film, hiphop, astronomy and comics.
For her part, Adriana Martínez-Villalba, Director of Literature at Idartes, pointed out that this year there will be a pavilion of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá dedicated exclusively to reading and its relationship with the city, as one more of the commitments of the District Plan for Reading, Writing and Orality: Reading for Life.
The Cinematheque at the Fair
The Bogotá Cinematheque arrives in Corferias to present two publications: the Colombian Film Notebook No. 31 Cinematic Experiences, on April 21 at 5:00 p.m. in the Jorge Isaacs Room, with a discussion that will be invited by Ana Teresa Arciniegas, Mauricio Vásquez and Felipe César Londoño.
Likewise, on April 28, at 5:00 p.m. in Room C, the publication, The Audiovisual Youth as a Marginal Experience by Andrés Pedraza, winner of the 2019 research grant on moving image, will be presented. The author will talk to Marta Cabrera.
Presentation of the publications of Festivals al Parque
The Music Management announced that they will also be part of the literature festival in the city with three talks. The first will be on April 21, when special guests, yet to be confirmed, will talk about the 25 years of HipHop al Parque. On April 22, the turn will be for jazzy with the discussion: 25 years of a Mutant Festival, which will bring together memories and anecdotes during the more than two decades of the Jazz al Parque festival. Finally, on April 27, the results of the Music Laboratory Grant for Women Creators will be socialized.
Memories of dance in the city
The Dance Management of Idartes will also have its place at the next Book Fair. On Friday, April 22, there will be the launch of Memorias Orbitante Plataforma Danza Bogotá 2020, a publication on the adaptation of spaces for creation, training and dialogue in the context of the isolation caused by the pandemic.
A discussion on the results of the winning proposals of the 2019 — 2020 dance research grants of the Idartes 2019-2020 dance research grants is scheduled for Friday, April 29 in Corferias. From 11:00 a.m., citizens will be able to learn about projects such as Museum of bodies for empathy, by Diana Teresa Gutiérrez; Tango as a source of sensitive knowledge. Between Sensitivity and Rationality of the Body, by Edis Aleida Villa Martínez; and Ejes Experiences, by Haike Irina Amelia Stollbrock.
Science and astronomy
The Bogotá Planetarium will also be present at FILBo with a series of interactive talks on astronauts, stardust and the Let's Navigate the Sky program, as well as workshops to learn more about the celestial chart, the solar system and the Moon.
The second edition of Cometa magazine will also be socialized in Room C, a joint project with the fixed planetariums and observatories of Colombia, led by the Bogotá Planetarium, on April 23 at 2:00 p.m. that same day, scientific disseminator Camilo Delgado will give the talk We are Universe.
The Bebeteca for boys and girls between 0 and 5 years old
The little ones also have their space at FIlBo 2022, which is why the Bebeteca in Corferias opens its doors, from Tuesday, April 19, to receive the Nests Program with magic, play and art for families, boys and girls between 0 and 5 years old.
Among the most outstanding activities in the Bebeteca, from Idartes they point out that audiovisual content, activities such as CyberJuana and Technomechanics, stage works such as Expatriates and the releases of Matryoshka wants to be, Children with Long Hair and Why, Little Riding Hood? , three stories on gender stereotypes produced with the support of the Central University, UNICEF and the District Secretariat for Women, will be the protagonists of this space.
Artists from the public space
Finally, Idartes also announced that 20 artists from the public space, including cartoonists, cartoonists and human statues, will be present in the FIlBo Design and Caricature Pavilion, an initiative of the Idartes Art a la KY program, which seeks to make visible and dignify the work of plastic, visual and performative artists who they practice in the streets of Bogotá.
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