Fulbright 2020 Chair. Creative and cultural industries

Academic day with 3 sessions and more than 15 national and international renowned guests, around the cultural and creative industries in Colombia from the perspective of education, social development and heritage. For more details of the program and registration, enter here.

Duration: 8 hours

Organized by: Fulbright Colombia and Jorge Tadeo Lozano University with the support of the United States Embassy, Ministry of Culture and Hay Festival

Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano.

Time: 08:00 - 16:00.

Masterclass by the Juan Perro sextet

Find out at first hand how the jazz musicians who accompany Juan Perro work and improvise. A masterclass for music students interested in jazz composition and improvisation, featuring the musician Joan Vinyals (guitarist, who has worked with legendary bands including Gato Pérez’s group, and given jazz classes at the Taller de Músics in Barcelona), Gabriel Amargant (renowned saxophone and clarinet player, a true star of Latin jazz), Isaac Coll (bass player and tireless explorer of Afro-Latin musical styles) and Pere Foved (drum player, session musician and Modern Music and Jazz graduate from the Liceo in Barcelona).

Duration: 1 hour

For music students and teachers (aged 14 and over)

With the support of Comfenalco

Escuela de Música de Comfenalco.

Time: 10:00 - 11:00.

María Paulina Baena in conversation with Mildre Cartagena

María Paulina Baena studied Social Communication and Politics at the Universidad Javeriana. She is the presenter and scriptwriter of La Pulla, an El Espectador newspaper video-column; with a sharp sense of humour and a satirical view of Colombia’s political machinery, she has attracted over 824 thousand subscribers on Youtube and Facebook. In conversation with Mildre Cartagena.

Universidad de Cartagena.

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

Margarita García Robayo in conversation with Ricardo Corredor

Margarita García Robayo is the author of nine works that lie somewhere between reality and fiction. The writer, who has been living in Buenos Aires for fifteen years, won the 2014 Casa de las Américas Prize for Cosas peores. In her book of autobiographical stories, Primera persona, the Cartagena writer examines her own private life, touching on experiences connected to themes such as love, sexuality, maternity, frustration and insanity.

Universidad Tadeo Lozano.

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

Vanessa Rosales in conversation with Ricardo Chica

Vanessa Rosales is the author of the podcast Mujer Vestida, where she talks about Fashion studies -a field that looks at the subject from the theoretical and historical view- with a feminist perspective, to deconstruct and understand how the masculine and the feminine have been constructed and how everything connects with the search for equity. She has also collaborated in numerous media and in various organizations. Her work is a hybrid that combines writing, theory, journalism and digital. She has also written Mujeres vestidas. She will talk to Ricardo Chica.

Universidad Tadeo Lozano.

Time: 14:30 - 15:30.

The Path of the Hero. Juan Andrés Granados and Lizet Zárrate in conversation with Ana María Londoño

The Path of the Hore is "the best kept secret of any writer" to acomplish a narrative stucture that allows him or her to tell a story that is both impactful and memorable for his audience. In this talk we will approach the step by step process of structuring a good story through practical tools. With screenplay writers Juan Andrés Granados and Lizet Zárrate.

With the support of RCN

Universidad de Cartagena.

Time: 14:30 - 15:30.

Alex Beard in conversation with Niurka Rignack

Alex Beard, a Master’s graduate in Education from London’s Institute of Education, is part of the Teach For All network of independent organizations dedicated to children’s education. He has visited 46 countries, observing and learning different educational systems and practices with teachers and education managers. In his most recent book, Natural Born Learners (2019), Beard transmits some of what he has learned, analysing the current state of education; how the new generations interact with information; how we continue to use schooling models set up at the time of the Industrial Revolution; educational systems in contexts as varied as South Korea, Silicon Valley and Finland; and what we can do to implement better forms of teaching and learning in the future. He will talk to Niurka Rignack.

Universidad Los Libertadores.

Time: 14:30 - 15:30.

Lecture by Bettany Hughes - Venus and Afrodita

The British historian Bettany Hughes examines why the immortal goddess Venus endures through the 21st century from ancient art, evocative myth, archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations, further explaining the relationship of Venus with the Greek goddess Aphrodite. On a journey of discovery to reveal the truth behind Venus, Hughes shows us how this mythological figure is much more than nudity, romance and sex. It is both the remarkable story of one of the most powerful forces of antiquity, and the story of human desire - how it transforms who we are and how we behave. Introduced by Diana de la Vega.

Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available

With the support of British Council

Universidad Libertadores.

Time: 16:00 - 17:00.

Clara Grima in conversation with Graciela Victoria Franco

Clara Grima, a Mathematics doctor from the University of Seville, lecturer and popular mathematician, is the author of ¡Que las matemáticas te acompañen!, a book that reveals the presence of maths in everyday life where, without us noticing it, numbers have great importance. Grima will be with a group of young people to talk to them about one of her firm convictions: everyone loves maths, only many people don’t know it yet.

Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Campus Tecnológico (Km 1 vía Turbaco).

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

Joseph Zárate in conversation with David Lara

The Peruvian writer, publisher and journalist Joseph Zárate talks about his first book, Guerras del interior, which presents, through individual stories, three of Latin America’s central problems: the search for gold, oil and wood. In it, Zárate denounces the social, economic, political and environmental conflicts that are tearing inland Peru apart, while also examining the personal, psychological and emotional struggles of the people who decide to defend and preserve their lands, customs and identities. In conversation with David Lara.

Universidad de Cartagena.

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

Creative writing workshop with Rodrigo Hasbún

Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian author and screenwriter who has written the novels El lugar del cuerpo (2007), winner of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra National Literature Award, and Los afectos (2015); and the books of shortstories Cinco (2006), Los días más felices (2011) and Cuatro (2014). His latest novel is entitled Los años invisibles (2019).

San Lázaro - Auditorio La Caja.

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

Let technology sound aloud!

Boris García, from the band Heroicos, José Vicente Figueroa and representatives of the Comfenalco Philharmonic Orchestra will talk to Niurka Rignack and the audience about new creative processes: music, entrepreneurship, technology and interactivity.

With the support of Comfenalco

San Lázaro - Auditorio La Caja.

Time: 14:00 - 15:00.

BBC workshop. Journalism: the BBC Mundo model. Liliet Heredero and Alejandro Millán

At this workshop, editors and journalists from the BBC’s Spanish-language service will talk about the experience of BBC Mundo: dissemination, scope, new media, working model, etc. The BBC is a standard for news quality, journalistic rigour and diversification, with various television channels and radio stations as well as a strong online presence.

Event for university students and communicators

Universidad de Cartagena.

Time: 14:30 - 15:30.

Ángela Becerra in conversation with José Luis Novoa

The writer Ángela Becerra (Colombia), published in over 50 countries and translated into 23 languages, is the winner of the 24^th Fernando Lara Prize for her novel Algún día, hoy (2019), based on the true story of Betsabé Espinal, a weaver who, in 1920, aged 23, led one of the first feminist industrial strikes in the history of Colombia and of Latin America, at the Fábrica de Tejidos factory in Bello, Antioquia. The book tells the story of one of the heroines of women’s rights in Colombia, her power for personal and social transformation, and the passionate love affair that changed her life.

Universidad Tadeo Lozano.

Time: 14:30 - 15:30.

Pictoline. Eduardo Salles

Eduardo Salles co-founder of Pictoline and the author of the books Cinismo Ilustrado and Descripción Gráfica, will talk about ideas, creativity and communication in the digital age and the challenges for the next generations of creatives.

San Lázaro - Auditorio La Caja.

Time: 15:30 - 16:30.

Marie Arana in conversation with Javier Ortiz Cassiani

Marie Arana is the author of Bolivar. The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America, a work about Simón Bolivar, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the Biography category. Bolivar was a dictator and a brilliant general whose story lives on in Latin America, the land where he has been Indian, black, mixed race and white; the place that has given him different faces: founding father, philosopher, voice of racial justice, hope of the people, model for young people and instrument of the revolution. Bolivar, 200 years after independence, is more alive than ever.

Universidad Tadeo Lozano.

Time: 15:30 - 16:30.

Interactive: the 21st-century has arrived. Comfenalco Philharmonic Orchestra in concert, featuring guest artists

The Comfenalco Symphony Orchestra will delight the audience with a select repertory, together with various guest artists who will join in the interpretation of various pieces.

With the support of Comfenalco

San Lázaro - Auditorio La Caja.

Time: 17:00 - 18:00.

Screening of Blancanieves followed by Maribel Verdú in conversation with Luis Alegre

A free version of Snow White, the popular tale of the Grimm brothers. The story is set in a romantic vision of Andalusia (Spain) in the 1920s. Blancanieves is a silent black and white theater film written and directed by Pablo Berger and winner of ten Goya Awards, including Best Film. It is starred by the Spanish actresses Maribel Verdú (Encarna, the stepmother) and Macarena García (Carmen, Snow White), who won ex aequo the Silver Shell of the 2012 San Sebastian International Film Festival for Best Actress. At the end of the screening, around 11:15am, Maribel Verdú will talk to Luis Alegre.

Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores.

Time: 09:30 - 12:15.

Walter Silva masterclass - llanera music

Born in La Plata (Casanare), Walter Silva is a singer, musician and composer of llanera music. This masterclass of the llanera style with Walter Silva and his musicians will cover the unmistakeable sounds of harp, four-stringed guitar, maracas and mandolin; it will delve into the particular feeling of llanera music and its development in recent years.

Duration: 1 hour

For music students and teachers (aged 14 and over)

With the support of Comfenalco

Escuela de Música de Comfenalco.

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

Guillermo Martínez in conversation with Cielo Puello Saravia

The Argentinean writer Guillermo Martínez has written a range of prize-winning works. Perhaps his most famous book is The Oxford Murders, translated into dozens of languages and made into a film by the director Álex de la Iglesia. His most recent novel, Los crímenes de Alicia, won the 2019 Nadal Novel Prize. Set in Oxford in 1994, the novel tells of a series of crimes that occur after the publication of Lewis Carroll’s diaries.

Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Campus Tecnológico (Km 1 vía Turbaco).

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

Dionne Brand in conversation with Nicholas F. Woodward

The Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentary-maker Dionne Brand won the Toronto Book Award for her novel Theory (2019). The book features a protagonist whose gender and name are not specified, who tells of amorous adventures while writing an ambitious doctoral thesis with the goal of transforming the way the world understands history, culture, gender, race and social class.

Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available

Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Campus Tecnológico (Km 1 vía Turbaco).

Time: 14:30 - 15:30.