Festivals

Alimentarte

This festival is performed some saturdays and sundays and it slogan is "El mundo con boca". This festival is located in the "el parque el Virrey" and the last 20 of july was 122 intenational gourmet restaurants cooking food related to the "Bicentenario de la Independencia".

In that edition China was the special guest, and part of the food were also activities like: The dragon dance, The tiger dance, classes of origami, taichi, mandarin and others. Then there was another Alimentarte, in the days 24 and 25 of july with the slogan "Colombia si sabe"  and this version have 113 national restaurants to show how the Colombian food is so good.

This festival is held in some holidays of the year and all the citizens go to Alimentarte enjoy with their family and friends of a good and delicous food. The money that they gathered up is going to the widows of the police officers.

ROCK AL PARQUE

This is an international festival of just rock since 1995 in bogota,its the biggest festival from latin america and its free,This festival presents national and international bands of different kinds, the national artists from 1997 are selected by a juror chosen by summons opened after taking part in a process of several stages (preselection, hearings and live presentation). The chosen bands take an economic incentive established by decree as a prize, and the opportunity to share scene and experiences with international bands and doing part of the whole advertising and media deployment of the event, being a place of birth of big artists. The international artists and other some natives are invited by the organizing committe.

Rock al Parque is part of the series of the Festivals stimulated by the Secretariat Distrital of Culture, Recreation and Sport; it is the most ancient and the one that began the cycle of festivals, being emulated his scheme then by different topics and artistic kinds like Sauce, Jazz, Hip Hop, Opera, Operetta between others.

 Rock al Parque  does part of the program called Young Season"temporada joven", which includes the Cycle of Concerts Popular Urban Music. Inside the same program Hip Hop al parque.