Medellin’s second Women and the Arts Festival, which opens Thursday, aims to strengthen women’s role in art and culture through painting, sculpture and performance workshops. The Medellin mayor invites all…
The Cartagena Hay Festival released its program for the 2011 festival which includes Norwegian author Ketil Bjørnstadt, Canadian journalist Alanna Mitchel and a concert from Cuba’s Buenavista Social Club. “This…
The Colombian film “Retratos en un mar de mentiras” (Portraits in a Sea of Lies), directed by Carlos Gaviria, wins the Public Prize for the best fiction film at the…
Bogota is hosting the “Dancing in the City Festival” this week, with performances by more than 300 dancers from around the world. Bogota holds eight dance festivals every year, and…
The American Documentary Showcase brings at least 15 U.S. documentary films to Medellin in a festival beginning November 8. The Colombo Americano Centre is hosting the showcase as part of…
Hundreds of performing artists flock to Colombia for this year’s Bogota Theater Festival, running October 31 to November 15. Around 500 artists will perform in different forms of theater, ranging…
Cali’s second International Film Festival (FICC) starts Friday and will show more than 300 films from around the world, according to newspaper El Espectador. Cali aims to be the centre of…
The theme of Medellin’s Third International Music Festival is percussion instruments, hosting drummers from Australia, Scotland, France, Ukraine, and some top Colombian musicians from October 19-30. The festival will feature all…
Bogota will host the ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) conference October 14-16. The conference will feature digital animators that have worked on movies like Avatar,…