Colombia’s capital is preparing to host the Quil Bogota 2025 Festival, a free event that will offer an interdisciplinary program focused on diversity, memory and queer artwork from November 15th to 22nd.
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The event, supported by the District Institute of the Arts (Idartes), brings together spaces for exhibitions, laboratories, conversations, dance, music, performance presentations, and entrepreneurship, with the aim of offering a broad panorama of the cultural and political expressions of the Lgbtq+ community in Colombia and Latin America.
The 2025 edition was curated by Olga Robayo and Manu Mojito, prominent figures in the national art world, who created an agenda focused on the world of ballrooms and their connections with resistance, memory and archives.
This approach aims not only to celebrate the history of the movement, but also to foster new stories and encounters between artists, activists and citizens, especially in important spaces such as El Parche Artist Residency, considered one of the original centers of ballrooms in this country.
“Festivals have established themselves as safe gathering spaces for all people, regardless of gender, where the artistic expression of queer creators has a place. This year, thanks to the Red Galleria Santa Fe 2025 Plastics and Visual Arts Programming Scholarship, we expanded our proposals and participation scenarios,” said Olga Robayo.. One of our central aims is to articulate visibility, reflection, and interaction around current events and social legacies, as well as other queer aesthetics and resistances.
This program focuses on the exhibition “Archivo Ballroom Bogotá”, curated by Manuel Alejandro Parra Sepulveda (Manu Mojito), scheduled for the opening night of the El Parche Artist Residency. There will also be a discussion titled “Decolonization of the Body and Territorial Wounds” with international guests such as Habibich (Algeria/Paris) and Rebekah Zar (Brazil/Egypt), followed by the “Vogue Laboratory,” which will explore forms of physical and performance expression from voguing.
The week concludes with a Performance Marathon Gala and Entrepreneurship Fair at Terraza Pasteur Shopping Center. This event will continue until the early hours of November 23rd. All activities aim to maintain the safe space character that has distinguished the festival since its creation in 2015, and are designed for a non-discriminatory audience and the development of integrated creative processes such as plastic arts, performance, film, dance, music and academic training, all under the prism of Cuir aesthetics and activism.
The Quill Bogota Festival is an important stage that unites artistic proposals, research and co-creative processes, reaffirming the legitimacy and expansion of ballroom and queer culture in Bogotá and the region. We welcome you to join us and strengthen the network through collective reflection on art, resistance, and diverse identities and realms.
- Curatorship: Manu Mojito (Manuel Alejandro Para Sepulveda)
- day: November 15th
- schedule: From 7pm to 10pm
- position: El Parche Artist Residency (Carrera 9 #22-87)
- participate: Habivic (Algeria/Paris) and Rebecca Zar (Brazil/Egypt)
- day: November 18th
- schedule: From 4pm to 5pm
- position: National Library (Calle 24 #5-60)
- date: November 19th and 20th
- schedule: From 6pm to 8pm
- position: El Parche Artist Residency (Carrera 9 #22-87)
- day: November 22nd
- schedule: From 5pm to 3am
- position: Pasteur Terrace (corner of Carrera 7 and Carrera 24)
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