After the first version in the town of Suba, which was carried out in the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Public Library In May, which had 35 exhibitors, about 50 face-to-face events and the attendance of more than 1,500 people over five days, the Local Arts Fairs are now coming to the town of Teusaquillo.
This time the Virgilio Barco Public Library it will be the setting for a new opportunity to feel the joy of the reunion, through different expressions of the arts, with a cultural and family program, and the participation of 40 exhibitors from the visual arts, literature and theater.
Admission is free. The Fair runs from Tuesday, August 3 to Sunday, August 8, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm On Saturday, August 7, the Library will not open its doors, but the program continues outside.
Know all the programming in this link.
Here you can find the registration form to activities.
“The Local Arts Fairs, for their version in Teusaquillo, are an alliance with the District Network of Public Libraries of Bogotá, BibloRed, and it is an initiative of District Institute of the Arts – Idartes that points to the cultural reactivation for the times. This not only implies promoting the circulation of artistic projects, but also the reconfiguration and opening of safe spaces of encounter between artists, their audiences and peers for the exchange of knowledge. It is in this dialogic exercise that communities are built ”, explains Catalina Valencia Tobón, director of Idartes.
“From BibloRed, within the framework of our 20th birthday, we linked ourselves to the Local Arts Fairs with guests of the stature of Pilar Quintana and a range of workshops for the boys and girls of the capital; all with the necessary protocols to guarantee a safe experience for visitors. Likewise, for those who cannot get close to the Virgilio Barco Public Library, we will have virtual programming to connect from anywhere in the world “, says Consuelo Gaitán, director of BibloRed.
The next Fairs will take place in La Candelaria, in the Santa Fe Gallery, and they go from August 13 to 22, and in Ciudad Bolívar, at the El Ensueño Theater, in November of this year.
A look at local talent
The 40 exhibitors from the Local Arts Fairs – Teusaquillo were selected from public invitations and through the District Stimulus Program – PDE.
For this version, the exhibitors are agents that make up the value chain of the plastic and visual arts, literature and dramatic art. The participation of 15 visual artists from the streets of the city is highlighted, within the framework of the project Art to the KY, a management model to strengthen actions aimed at artists in public space.
Six community publishing groups also participate – in agreement with the Colombian Book Chamber-: initiatives that through self-managed work develop proposals for the alternative and experimental production of an independent offer of publications related to various literary expressions.
The sample is complemented with a table of distribution of Book to the Wind and agents of the dramatic art such as theater companies – who intervene with, for example, open classes on stilts and puppet creation workshops -, stage costumes and Doctor Clown, a foundation dedicated to promoting emotional health through the clown technique.
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On the other hand, as part of the Contemporary Latin American Writers reading club, among the activities stands out a meeting between users of the Virgilio Barco Public Library with Pilar Quintana, author of The dog Y The abysses. The event is on Friday, August 6 at 6:00 pm In addition, the winner of the Alfaguara 2021 Prize will also participate in a virtual chat on Thursday, August 12, at 6:00 pm, through BibloRed’s social networks.
As a complement, BibloRed will offer two face-to-face workshops for children, youth and adults, through which the Tormenta ediciones group will carry out activities focused on the creation of editorial processes and, for the youngest, an experience of discovering the cosmos through the literature. The appointment is Sunday, August 8, at 11:00 am and 3:00 pm
What’s more, Book to the Wind will roll its library on Saturday and Sunday, August 7 and 8, as part of a new Literary Picnic, in which visitors will be able to access the collection of the largest reading promotion program in Latin America.
For the closing day, August 8, starting at 1:00 pm, an outdoor meeting is scheduled where a screen located outside the Library will project audiovisual content, so that the public can meet around your own images. The program will be promoted by works from film festivals, content for families, Colombian cinema and various artistic practices.
The rest of the activities include the concerts of Peaceful Identity, which interprets rhythms from the Atlantic region, Afro-South American sounds from countries such as Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay and African rhythms, and The parents, a group that promotes Carranguera music. The dates are Saturday, August 7 at 4:00 pm and Sunday 8 at 10:00 am, respectively.
The programming also presents the staging Shelling out the time in which the Virgilio Public Library Barco will be filled with color, music, stories and some fun characters who will be welcoming boys, girls and their families with open arms to spend quality time. There are four functions between August 7 and 8. In addition, the children’s programming is complemented by the puppet show Juanita’s Adventures August 4 and 6 at 3:00 pm
Thats not all. Other events are the audiovisual knowledge exchanges, a District Creative Writing Meeting with Mery Yolanda Sánchez, fanzine workshops, wire sculpture, notebook construction, puppet creation, wood carving, embroidery, artisan stickers, comics and much more.
Local Arts Fairs join the Artistic corridors, a program of the Idartes Artistic Ecosystem Sustainability Line to be held in different locations from September.
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