The first weekend of the thirty-fifth edition of the Bogotá International Book Fair has arrived, which is held at Corferias with more than 500 national and international guests, from 25 countries participating in more than 1,800 activities.
infobae prepared a selection of eight events worth keeping track of on the fifth day of the fair:
Colombia and Mexico: Between blood and words
(4:00 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.)
Colombia and Mexico: between blood and words is an essay that is the product of an exhaustive investigation between trips, readings and interviews that take the reader with extraordinary fluidity through the meeting of characters from the intellectual world between Colombia and Mexico during the 20th century until today. Juan Camilo Rinconits author, recreates a set of episodes of enormous cultural and historical wealth with interviews and anecdotes and life stories, weaving together the era and the brotherhood between both countries.
Camino Largo Concert: Pasatono Orchestra – cultural tent
(6:00 p.m. to 6:50 p.m.)
The Pasatono Orchestra is an instrumental ensemble of eight ethnomusicologist members dedicated to rescuing and interpreting traditional music from Oaxaca, mainly from the Mixteca region, and promoting it by adding more modern arrangements and influences. Founded by three Oaxacan students from the National School of Music in Mexico City, pasatono he found that his traditional music was not taught in school. have been sponsored by lilac downshave released four studio albums, and have toured the United States, playing venues such as the lincoln center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC In Mexico, they have performed at venues in Mexico City and Oaxaca, as well as at the International Cervantino Festival.
The Venezuelan diaspora, seen from within and from without – Great Hall Roots A
(2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.)
The Venezuelan writer and chronicler Hector Torresco-founder and editor of the portal the life of us, has dedicated the last few years to compiling, from Caracas, testimonies from his compatriots who had to migrate because of the dictatorship. Some of that work is present in the recent book flourish away from homeedited by the Conrad Adenauer. the sociologist Tulio Hernandezauthor of A nation adrift, left Venezuela in 2018, as politically persecuted, and since then he has lived between Madrid and Bogotá. He is a workshop Gabo Foundation on journalism and migration.
Chronicles from No Man’s Land – Great Hall Roots A
(3:31 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
the chroniclers Christian Valencia and Tatiana Escarraga Throughout this century, they have traveled through very remote areas of the national territory and the urban labyrinths to recount the daily struggle and the marks of existing in a country of exclusions, violence, social hierarchies, underworlds, survival, aspirations and of eternal borders between the legal and the illegal, the formal and the informal.
Chronicles from No Man’s Land – Great Hall Roots A
(5:01 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.)
Juan Villorothe great chronicler of Mexican and Latin American identity, the man who User Services Reported and narrated the uprisings in Chiapas, speaks with Guido Tamayo and Sergio Ocampo Madrid about a continent marked by roots and uprooting.
For the first time in its 35 editions, the Bogotá International Book Fair will have a guest city of honor. To inaugurate this strip, Cali was chosen, which will house more than 1,500 publications by 50 authors from Cali in a pavilion of nearly square meters, which both the stand and the pavilion will carry out. talks, workshops and book presentations, to which are added presentations by artists from Cali.
Cali, city of libraries – Colombia Pavilion Auditorium
(3:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m.)
This conversation seeks to be a space for the exchange of experiences and opinions of the guests on the achievements, challenges and projection of successful models of the Cali Public Library Network, in the visualization of the past, present and future as a benchmark in libraries. nationally or internationally. Luis Ignacio Cerón, Sandra Suescún and Gustavo Gutiérrez participate.
launch of Ecuador, salsa stories, rumba and caleña nostalgia and of The legacy: chronicles of a real life – Great Hall Raíces B
(6:00 p.m. to 6:50 p.m.)
As winners of the call Cali, a whole town in memory, gerardo quintero and Carlos Molina they built important books for the history of salsa in Cali. ecuajey It is built with 12 stories, between chronicles and reports, which review the arrival of various artists linked to the most salsa era in the city. The legacy is the photographic history of one of the most important salsa museums in the world and its relationship with the life of its author.
See and understand the world in a different way – Great E Estate Hall
(11:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.)
Giacomo Mazzariol (Italy) is a young writer who found in his brother with Down syndrome, a poet and a life teacher. It was then essential to write a book with him as co-writer and protagonist. In this conversation with the director of the National Institute for the Deaf (INSOR), Geovani Andrés Melendres Guerreroreflect on how the so-called “disability” is nothing if not another way of being in the world, as well as the need to change the representations and imaginaries in educational policies around disability.
Misery: The Cometierra Legacy of Dolores Reyes – Great Hall Roots C
(4:00 p.m. to 5:50 p.m.)
Regarding the publication in Colombia of Miserythe new novel by Dolores Reyesthe Argentine writer talks with Pilar Quintana (Colombia) about his narrative, which transgresses and mixes genres –from police to magical realism–, from neoboom starred above all by women, and the feminine impetus that is claimed in his books. Colombia, world power of biodiversity.
History is also written by women Workshops 3
(8:00 p.m. to 8:50 p.m.)
with his novels Frahona and This is how our oblivion beganColombian writers claudette grandson —Bogota educational psychologist, who divides her life between music, reading and writing children’s stories and novels— and Trudy Jordan —architect and teacher in restoration of historical monuments, this Bogota woman is the author of stories such as underground actors, in the anthology Tales of Love and Desire (2016); They are stories but they existin the anthology Tales in the Cemetery (2017) and the best dialoguein the anthology friends tales (2019)—will talk about how they have gone back in time to build unforgettable female characters, study gender roles, and see how the story is told under their rules.
