(Courtesy: Colombian Book Chamber).
For this new edition of the Bogotá International Book Fair, which runs until May 2nd, the District Secretary for Education and the Mayor’s Office have issued a statement reminding teachers that they can access the Corferias website for free and the entire program can enjoy the FilBo. All they have to do is present their vaccination card and the one that certifies their affiliation with an institution.
Taking into account this year’s motto of the fair “FilBo returns so that you can come back”, the company invited its faculty members to attend the event to return face to face after two years without realizing and that they enjoy the program that the district has programmed in Pavilion 5A, where there will be a museographic and experiential engagement, offering a space where the participants will be the protagonists at all times.
“The Mayor’s Office of Bogotá, in coordination with the Ministers of Education and Culture, Leisure and Sports and the District Institute of Arts (Idartes), will be the main ally of the International Book Fair of Bogotá, with the aim of promoting and promoting the reading habits of the City, strengthening citizens’ ties to reading, writing and orality to make them practices of everyday life,” the statement said. “It’s the first time that the mayor’s office of Bogotá has a pavilion (…) Bogotá [podrá leerse y escribirse] in many ways and we can all tell it. This year, allied units of the participating district have developed a literary, artistic and cultural program for both the Reading for Life pavilion and other Corferias spaces, with more than 160 activities that will allow us to experience reading and writing . Similarly, FilBo will reach 10 district educational institutions through meetings with prominent national and international authors. In return, Book to the Wind visits your school will be featured in 3 public schools, with their library and Literary Picnic, where they will read the book The End Has Finally Begun. Korean Short Stories and Poems, an anthology by authors Eun Heekyung, Han Kang, Jung Young Su Kim Kyung-uk, and Lee Moon-jae. The Ministry of Education’s BiblioBús will also be present with a range of workshops and activities that will make it an indispensable reference in Corferias’ personal FILBo”.
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Admission is therefore free for teachers from the district education minister who meet the required requirements. For their part, the students of Bogotá can participate in the event by presenting their school card and paying the value of 8,000 pesos per ticket.
You can see the schedules and prices for this edition of FilBo here, and you can see the Ministry of Education program at this link: https://www.redacademica.edu.co/nuestra-programacion-en-la-filbus
This programming corresponds only to the educational activities promoted by the education secretary in three different scenarios:
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