Bogotá Pride 2025: Inside the LGBTI Museum

With Bogotá Pride 2025 coming up fast, we took a trip to the country’s only museum of LGBTI culture. The entrance to the Museo LGBTI of...

Why Doesn’t Every Body Matter?

FILBo 2025: Panel discusses the way violence and conquest imprint themselves on people's bodies. Ángela Forero-Aponte If not every body...

The many lenses through which to read La Vorágine

Professor Carlos Guillermo Páramo celebrates 100 years since the publication of this classic at FILBo 2024. Prof. Carlos Guillermo Páramo, Dean...

Colombia’s 2023: A non-political take on the year

Compared to Colombia’s last year in politics, there was much to celebrate in wider society. That’s not to say it was all good news, of course –...

SOFA 2023: The geek shall inherit the earth

Every year, Corferías is given over to a swarm of all things geeky and nerd-adjacent, with the Salón de Ocio y FAntasia. SOFA 2023 is set to be no...

No single story can capture Adichie at FILBo 2023

Chimamanda Ngochie Adichie says, "Own what you like and own it without apologising" Photo: Ángela Forero-Aponte Books may have been replaced...

Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: Lalo Cortés is bringing jazz back

“We need to rethink jazz.” It can be a marmite genre, but soul singer Lalo Cortés is leading the charge to redefine rolo jazz for a new...

Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: Dawer X Damper = A Bright Future

We’re always most excited by the local talent at Festival Estéreo Picnic, and today we’re talking to AfroFuturist stars...

Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: Felipe Orjuela – “We need a Colombian invasion around the world playing cumbia”

Felipe recording with La Estudiantina Electrónica. Photo courtesy of Páramo Felipe Orjuela wants the world to put on dancin’ shoes and hit the...

Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: Ha$loPablito, local hip-hop for local people

Our series on local bands at Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023 continues with Ha$loPablito, a hip-hop project that thinks global and acts...