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 69

Weildler Guerra, Álex Quessep and Ruby Rumié in conversation with Toni Celia

The Caribbean, 172 years after

Sunday 1 February 2026, 12pm – 1pm COT Palacio de la Proclamación (Auditorio Juan José Nieto)

A conversation about the memory, identity and representation of a region absent from Colombia’s founding narratives: the Caribbean. In “Nosotros, 172 años después”, Ruby Rumié offered a digital intervention to the Comisión Corográfica (1850-1859), replacing the original figures with 100 inhabitants of the Caribbean of today, each of them crowned by their favourite food. The artist, together with the anthropologist Weildler Guerra and the chef Álex Quessep, explores how art and food reveal identities, question stigmas and create spaces for memory and collective pride. Images of the project accompany the dialogue, showing how photography, archive and words can link up to offer new views of the Caribbean.

Colombian Sign Language interpretation available

All events on Sunday, February 1st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.

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