Festivals

festival iberoamericano de teatro

The Ibero-American festival is a major cultural event in Colombia and one of the largest performing arts festivals in the world.

It takes place every  year in Bogota and brings together the most important theater companies from all around the world. For seventeen days, the city becomes the setting for colorful parades; Bogotá dresses up for the party and becomes a living Theater. The festival offers the most complete panorama of performing arts :classical works, it is a showcase of dance, circus, music, puppetry, pantomime, performance art, and even concerts, many of which take place simultaneously in Bogota’s halls and streets.

Origins of the Festival

The festival was created in 1988 by actress Fanny Mickey who was from argentina but recided in colombia and playwright Ramiro Osorio, and launched as part of the 450th anniversary celebration of the founding of Bogotá.

The purpose of the event is to display the diversity and plurality of the various genres and trends of scenic arts in the world.

This novel purpose has had a direct influence on the growth of understanding and tolerance between peoples. The festival has also fostered a boom in artistic development in Colombia.


During this days you and your family can hang out and have lots of fun with the actors who are walking all over the city. This is a great plan for people who love arts and enterteinment. You can not die before you come to bogota and before you get to now its culture and people.