Bogotá Plans to Promote Reading, Writing, and Orality in the 2023 International Book Fair

The District Secretary of Education (SED) plans the participation of 5,510 students from public schools in the city, in the Bogotá International Book Fair from April 18 to May 2, that they will be able to enter for free and live an experience of Reading, Writing, and Orality – LEO.

The secretariat will promote 16 visits by Mexican authors to urban and rural educational institutions to bring FILBo to the City and share works with the educational community ranging from science, literature and illustration.

“These activities contribute to the goals of the Public Policy on Reading, Writing and Orality of the Education Sector, especially in the strengthening of School Libraries and the Plan for Strengthening Reading and Writing, which seek to transform the practices of reading and writing to guarantee that all boys and girls in Bogotá read before they are 8 years old, an adequate time for this learning”, indicated the Secretary of Education, teacher Edna Bonilla Sebá.

The ‘LEOBogá’ pavilion, as well as the strip of cityrepresent the great commitment of the city in the event, within the framework of the implementation of the public policy LEO, which establishes the guidelines and actions of the public sector to expand the opportunities for citizen access to the spaces and practices of written culture. in Bogota.

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In this four-year period, as a contribution to this search, 135,500 copies of 1,600 bibliographic titles have been delivered to 155 educational institutions and, additionally, within the framework of the FILBo ciudad programming, the material will be delivered Let’s All Learn to Read – ATAL, which will benefit more than 139,000 boys and girls in the city.

We share a trill from the Bogotá Education Secretariat in which there are more details of the pavilion #LEOBogato:

Arrives the pavilion’#LEOBogatoa city that I read, is a city that I take care of @FILBogota@Educationbogota will promote 16 visits by Mexican authors to urban and rural educational institutions to bring #FilBoALaCity to share your works: https://t.co/lgodcv16Jnpic.twitter.com/6UWndGSIwQ

– Secretary of Education of Bogotá (@Educacionbogota) April 2, 2023

The International Book Fair of Bogotá FILBo, is the most important event of the publishing and cultural industry in the country, and one of the most relevant in Latin America, which brings together all the actors of the book chain for 15 days in Bogotá.

In this 2023, Mexico will be the guest of honor country and with the theme Roots, which will go through the cultural and academic programming.

Reading, writing and orality come together in the #LEOBogá pavilion

The pavilion ‘#LEOBogá, a city that LEO, is a city that I take care of’, will concentrate the cultural offer of the District integrated by the Secretary of Education of the District, the Secretary of Culture, Recreation and Sport, Citizen Culture: Calm Line; IDARTES, Book to the wind; FUGA, Bronx Creative District; IDPC; The Planetarium, among others, as well as a setting to enjoy an experience of care and access to written culture so that attendees get closer to the multiple and diverse ways of living reading, writing and orality in the city.

In the same way, the pavilion will have a map of the city built jointly with the community, where visitors will have the opportunity to mark the spaces where they read, write and practice oral practices.

During all the days of the Fair, visitors will be able to join BibloRed online, in just 5 minutes, and have free access to a universe of possibilities and experiences, in addition to browsing the Digital Library of Bogotá and learning about the new digital exhibition ‘So Many Tomorrows as possible’.