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Hay Festival Cartagena 2025

The twentieth edition of Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias will be held from 30 January to 2 February. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Festival Joven activities for university audiences, Hay Festival Comunitario sessions which took place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.

For any inquirie, please contact tickets@hayfestival.org and contacto@hayfestival.org. Consulta el programa en PDF.

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Event 1

Carlos Vives in conversation with Andrés Mompotes

Inaugural El Tiempo event

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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Carlos Vives is a living legend. Named Person of the Year in 2024 by the Latin Recording Academy, Vives is one of the most prolific recording artists and most loved musicians in the Spanish-speaking world. He has been in music for over three decades, winning two Grammys and 18 Latin Grammys. He has worked with artists of all kinds, from Rubén Blades to Shakira, and he has become an ambassador of Colombian culture to the world. He will talk to Andrés Mompotes about his extensive musical career.

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Carlos Vives in conversation with Andrés Mompotes

Event 16A

Juan Carlos Coronel in concert (General)

 Centro de Convenciones (Explanada)
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The Cartagena singer, composer, and producer Juan Carlos Coronel presents a very special concert in his city—an event that is also a tribute to the Black people who turned a cry of pain and protest into art as a form of resistance. On these indelible traces and scars, which exist as a legacy, this artistic proposal rises, filled with many rhythms and nuances, rooted in the ancestral sounds of the traditional cumbia from the mangroves and salty shores of Cartagena. Here, in the veneration of joy and the reclaiming of stolen humanity through rhythm, it was born.
Price: $70,000.00 (COP)
Juan Carlos Coronel in concert (General)

Event 16B

Juan Carlos Coronel in concert (Platea)

 Centro de Convenciones (Explanada)
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The Cartagena singer, composer, and producer Juan Carlos Coronel presents a very special concert in his city—an event that is also a tribute to the Black people who turned a cry of pain and protest into art as a form of resistance. On these indelible traces and scars, which exist as a legacy, this artistic proposal rises, filled with many rhythms and nuances, rooted in the ancestral sounds of the traditional cumbia from the mangroves and salty shores of Cartagena. Here, in the veneration of joy and the reclaiming of stolen humanity through rhythm, it was born.
Price: $140,000.00 (COP)
Juan Carlos Coronel in concert (Platea)

Event HFJ16

Bocafloja in concert

 Universidad de Cartagena, Claustro de la Merced
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Bocafloja offers an immersive experience in which experiments with words come together with the urban rhythms of rap. This Mexican poet and rapper is known for his use of hip hop as a tool for raising social awareness in Latin America, tackling themes such as systemic racism, colonialism and oppression. We will hear from this artist, now in his third decade making music, and who has been a member of groups such as Lifestyle and Microphonk. He has also made influential albums as a soloist, and has been included on Rolling Stone and Billboard lists of the 50 most important artists in the history of Spanish-language hip hop.
Free event for the university community
Bocafloja in concert

Event 39

Carlos Vives and Ricardo Silva Romero in conversation

The art of writing songs

 Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)
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A singer who composes and a music-loving writer talk about the art of creating songs. The tune gives life to the words, and the words give meaning to the music. The participants at this event explore the magic of these complementary forms. With Carlos Vives (Colombia), one of our greatest musicians, and Ricardo Silva Romero (Colombia), a prize-winning fiction writer and journalist.
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Carlos Vives and Ricardo Silva Romero in conversation

Event 72

Carlos López Puccio in conversation with Álex Grijelmo and Daniel Samper Pizano

A Luthier remembers Les Luthiers

 Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
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Les Luthiers, the famous Argentinian music and comedy group, decided to hang up their instruments in 2023 after 56 years playing on stages around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people applauded them live, and millions more enjoyed their albums, videos and appearances on social media. Carlos López Puccio, one of the original members who was in the group from beginning to end, has accepted Hay Festival’s invitation to recall some of their history and anecdotes. It will be the job of two Luthiers-loving journalists to squeeze information from the musician and comedian: the Spaniard Álex Grijelmo and the Colombian Daniel Samper Pizano, authors of the new and extended edition of the group’s biography: Les Luthiers de la L a la S.

All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
Price: $55,000.00 (COP)
Carlos López Puccio in conversation with Álex Grijelmo and Daniel Samper Pizano

Event 87

José Ricardo Bautista Pamplona in conversation with Daniel Samper Pizano

From the plains

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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This conversation is a tribute to Jorge Velosa (Colombia) is a poet, minstrel, researcher, actor and popular artist, whose songs have become a unique musical genre, rooted in the stories of the farmers of Boyacá. The master José Ricardo Bautista Pamplona, winner of the Festival Mono Núñez Prize for best Musical Duet. In conversation with Daniel Samper Pizano, the event will include a short concert.

All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.

Price: $70,000.00 (COP)
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José Ricardo Bautista Pamplona in conversation with Daniel Samper Pizano

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