Cultural Events in Bogota

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Bogota is a city influenced by a bunch of different cultural aspects and different countries. With the cultures it comes the different events that represents the cultures and customs of an area, country, etc. In Bogota, as its Colombia's capital city is the center of many cultural events, there are events of all types, theater events, music events, dance events, sports, games, museums, festivals, fairs, for children and adults.

We invite you to go to the different festivals and events you can find in Bogota, Obviously depends on the season you are coming or you are interested in, but normally every month and almost every week there is a different event, festival or activity that you should try.

For example, there is one important festival called:

FESTIVAL IBEROAMERICANO DE TEATRO

Is an amazing event that was founded by Fanny Mickey in  1988, this woman is known as the mother of theater because she came from Argentina at a very young age and brought with her some amazing cultural aspects, one of them was the theater, and with her ideas and help from some professional people this event was founded thanks to her. Nowadays she is dead, she died some years ago but she led to our country an amazing tradition that every year takes place in Bogota and make us very happy and full of joy. There is a variety of activities for kids, adults, etc. And an amazing atmosphere and environment that you should try going to, you will see that you will have lots of fun and will learn a lot.

Here is a video that unfortunally was in spanish but basically is telling you that the festival which takes place in Bogota, is one of the biggest theater festivals around the world, most of it's presentations are free, there are more than 800 shows in each season of this fabulous theater festival. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSY7lUn7URo

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In this article we will mention the Opera Festival that takes place in Bogota. It is a very beautiful event that starts October 25 and ends on November 6. In this year the festival will take place in 10 different places such as theaters, libraries, universities, etc.

This festival brings together a bunch of amazing Opera artist that will show our city what this genre is about. There will be an starting concert in the Virgilio Barco Library, it will be on October 25 at 6 pm. Some of the artists are: Carlos Daza, Maribel Ortega, Pedro Calavia and playing the piano will be Jose Alejandro Rocca. One important guest will be La Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota, directed by Lior Shambadal, this is a representative Orchesta from Colombia that represents how we play this music and how capable we are to play a variety of genres that are recognized worldwide.

This is a link in which you will find a bunch of festivals and events and will give you some information about the different festivals and evets that you can visit in Bogota.

 http://www.culturarecreacionydeporte.gov.co/portal/

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International Book Fair http://www.bogotatravelguide.com/august-events-bogota.php

This is a very important and interesting fair that takes place in CORFERIAS,Bogota. It is one of the largest Latin America event, it is an amazing event which brings together many important writers from all the world.

There are meny types of books, the last two years I've been there and I realy enjoy it, I brought some amazing books that I liked a lot and the people that I went with really like it. In my opinion you better spend your whole day there because there are many options, activities and things you could do there.

We hope you enjoy alot this article, this section and in general the blog because it gives you some important tips when you come to Colombia or mainly Bogota you will be bussy spending your time enjoying the bunch of activities that you will find here.