Bogota hosts massive video game conference
The Latin American Video Game Conference will be held in Colombia’s capital Bogota from October 18 to 20, drawing thousands of “students, professionals and developers” from the video game industry. The...
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Colombia celebrates its cinema (video)
Colombian cinema from the past two years will be celebrated at the fourth edition of “The Week of Colombian Film.” From August 31 to September 9 the best Colombian movies commercially shown between August 2010 and...
See out the year with salsa at the Feria de Cali 2011
The 2011 Feria de Cali will bring the year to a close in a whirlwind of music, parades, dancing, parties, bull-fights, antique cars and concerts featuring world-renowned artists. The post-Christmas revelry in Colombia’s...
Bogota tribute concert to celebrate African heritage
Bogota will celebrate Afro-Colombian and traditional culture and African heritage with a grand tribute concert on the country’s Independence Day, July 20. Afro-Colombian artists and representatives of the country’s...
Alternative electronic trio Thieves Like Us to perform Bogota
Alternative synth pop and electronic music trio Thieves Like Us will perform in Bogota on July 22, before hitting Medellin the following night, events site Shock.com reported. Two years after their last trip to Colombia, the two...
Barranquilla releases promotional Carnaval calendar
Barranquilla released its first ever calendar to promote Carnaval, the Colombian Caribbean coastal city’s biggest annual celebration, newspaper El Heraldo reported Tuesday. The Barranquilla Carnaval Foundation created the...
Rock al Parque brings 80 bands to Bogota
Colombia’s largest music festival, Rock al Parque, has more than 80 bands slated to play in Bogota from July 1-4. The government-sponsored festival, which has attracted local and international bands to Colombia’s...
‘Gastronomical Museum’ exhibit has Cali citizens licking their chops
Cali’s first “Gastronomical Museum” exhibit, which opened Tuesday, will serve as a space for visitors to learn about the development of Colombian cuisine, from the pre-Columbian era to the present. The project,...
Medellin to present 124 bands in citywide music festival
Colombia’s Antioquian capital, Medellin, will present the “Fiesta de la Musica 2011” on Saturday, June 18, in which 124 bands will play in 14 different locations across the city, according to the event press...
Colombian artist Botero tops sales at NYC auction event
Colombian artist Fernando Botero’s art accounted for one third of sales at New York City art auction house Sotheby’s Latin American art sale on Wednesday, making it the most-sold art at the event. The high volume of...
Colombian director to premiere local film in Medellin neighborhood
Colombian director Juan David Restrepo has decided to premiere his new film “En coma” in the same Medellin neighborhood where the filming took place, rather than in a national theater, gossip site sweet.com reported....
Medellin’s botanical gardens to host 2 day culture festival
Medellin’s botanical gardens will host a two day festival of local culture, complete with live music, local food and craft beer, beginning Saturday, April 30 at 11AM. The Vibra Mi Tierra festival, which runs from 11AM...
