Programme and tickets

Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias 2026: January 29 - Febrary 1.

Online Box office

-Tickets for Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias here.

-Hay Festival Medellin does not requiere any tickets, as they are free entry events, Browse the programme.

-Tickets for Hay Festival Jericó, here.

Box office at Cartagena de Indias:

Centro de Convenciones

January 26, Monday to February 1, Sunday

Teatro Adolfo Mejía

Janury 28, Wednesday to February 1, Sunday

University community

All events at the Hay Festival are free for the university community. Each student is entitled to 10 free tickets for the conversations. These requests are subject to availability, and students must attach an identification document to verify their status when making the request. Ypu can request your tickets here.

POLITICS ON RETURNS

**POLICY ON RETURNS****CANCELLATION POLICY AND PURCHASE TERMS AND CONDITIONS**
If you are unable to attend the event, you must notify us by January 12, 2026. Cancellation requests should be sent to the email address tickets@hayfestival.org. Gema Tours S.A.S and the Hay Festival Foundation of Colombia are not obligated to print tickets, reprint lost, damaged, broken, or stolen tickets; these are entirely the responsibility of the CLIENT. Gema Tours S.A.S is not responsible for choosing the talks for the CLIENT, so the CLIENT accepts that the talks will be chosen directly by them and understands that it is their obligation to present the tickets for entry to each event. Entry to the talks will not be allowed without the presentation of the ticket, either in physical or electronic form.
Regarding the exercise of the right of withdrawal by Users, in what is not specified in these conditions, it will be carried out in accordance with the terms and conditions of Article 47 of Law 1480 of 2011 (Consumer Statute).
**NO CHANGES WILL BE ACCEPTED** for reserved talks, so when choosing them in the system, it is recommended to verify the dates and times beforehand to avoid conflicts. Reassignment to Another Event: In any of the above cases, you may request, at the ticket office or by email at tickets@hayfestival.org, the change of the purchased tickets for the canceled, modified, or postponed talk immediately. In the change request, you can choose another talk from the different Events that are published and available for sale in the Festival's program..

VENUES

• Casa Benkos Biohó
• Casa Hay Festival SURA / Bancolombia (Centro de Convenciones)
• Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
• Centro de Convenciones (Explanada)
• Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona)
• Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)
• Palacio de la Proclamación (Auditorio Juan José Nieto)
• Teatro Adolfo Mejía
• Bayunca (Bolívar)
• ​Biblioteca Popular de Playa Blanca
• Centro de Vida de La Esperanza
• Clemencia
• Corporación Ruleli
• Institución Educativa Politécnico del Pozón
• La Canoa Literaria
• Membrillal
• Nelson Mandela
• Pontezuela
• Santa Rosa
• Tierra Baja
• Turbana (Bolívar)
• Vereda Membrillal
• Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de la Merced (salón Eréndira)
• Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de San Agustín (Biblioteca)
• Universidad del Norte, Auditorio Marvel Moreno
• Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (sede Manga)

HAY FESTIVAL CARTAGENA STAFF:

Aitana Bellido, Camila Macedo Belón, Olatz Silva Rodrigo

Coordinator assitants

Nicolás Cuellar, Sara Araujo and Carlos Castro

Press & Communication

Constanza Escobar de Nogales

Development Director

Cristina Fuentes La Roche

Hay Festival Internacional Director

Izara García Rodríguez

Hay Festival International Head of Operations

Diana Gedeón & Gema Tours team, Carolina Agamez, Natalia Cantillo, Carmen Hernández Betzabeth Martínez Sherly Pitalua, Sugey Pájaro Alberto Torres, Ana Matty Trujillo

Logistics & Production

Verónica Gil Álvarez

Brand design, Jericó & Medellín

Sheila Hall Peña

Education programme

Catalina Gómez Ángel

Digital Content Production

Gustavo Gordillo & OJO POR OJO team

Video production

Junkie Media team: Alejandra Ramírez, Gisell González, Itzel Aguilar, Ignacio Hipólito, Carlos Millet, Luis Pérez

Social Media

Iñaki Lasa Etura

Hay Festival International Content and Digital Officer

Carmen López, Tatiana Herrera

Logistics & Production

Flor Martínez

Hosts & volunteers Coordination

Daniel Mordzinski

Photography

Manuela García

Design and Layout

Paul Richardson

Web page

Zoe Romero Miranda

Hay Festival International Artist & Grants Manager

Guido Tamayo

Consultant

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Consejo Directivo Fundación Hay Festival Colombia

Victoria Bejarano

Rosie Boycott

Patricia Escallón de Ardila

Adolfo Meisel

Caroline Michel

Comité Ejecutivo Fundación Hay Festival Colombia

Cristina Fuentes La Roche

Diana Gedeón

Constanza Escobar

Vicepresidentes Honorarios del Hay Festival Cartagena

Jaime Abello Banfi

Raimundo Angulo Pizarro

Ana María Aponte

Cecilia Balcázar de Bucher

Victoria Bejarano

Paula Jaramillo

Alfonso López Caballero

Mauricio Rodríguez

León Teicher

Iván Onatra

Hay Festival Foundation Ltd Trustees

Jay Hunt (Chair)

Corisande Albert

Victoria Bejarano

Nick Butler

Elan Closs Stephens

Tony Followell

Suhair Khan

David Olusoga

Ed Shedd

Shakia Stewart

Hay Festival Foundation Ltd CEO

Julie Finch

Hay Festival Foundation Ltd President

Stephen Fry

Thank you very much to all the volunteers

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Venues

• Teatro Adolfo Mejía
• Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española
• Centro de Convenciones Julio César Turbay Ayala
• Hotel Sofitel Santa Clara
• Universidad de Cartagena
• Institución Educativa Jesús Maestro, Nelson Mandela
• Institución Educativa La Boquilla
• Institución Educativa 14 de Febrero, El Pozón
• Institución Educativa Luis Carlos Galán, El Pozón
• Institución Educativa San Francisco de Asís, Membrillal
• Arjona
• Puerto Rey