In the late 1990s, analyzed the requirements that had the Gold Museum of the Bank of the Republic and its collection into the future. Were identified as the renewal of scripts needs scientists with the most recent information archaeological excavations, and to provide the exhibition of a contemporary museology, the level of the leading museums around the world.

The museum building design and renovation and expansion of the museum was conceived in 1998 in two stages: the first stage involved the construction of a new building designed by architect Germain Samper Gnecco, who was also the architect of the traditional building of the Museum opened in 1968 in the Parque de Santander. The new museum building and its galleries opened to the public in December 2004. The second stage consisted of remodeling the building in 1968 and splice the new construction. To carry it out, the museum had a team of architects, curators and designers under one coordination, which made possible a fully harmonious project between architecture and museology.

In this new space, spacious, modern and comprehensive, is told the history of gold and other metals were present pre-Hispanic societies of Colombia. The new script scientific and museum of the exhibition was drawn from the metaphor of metal processing in pre-Hispanic societies, who extracted it from the earth, it worked, used it, it symbolized and finally return to earth as an offering. The curators gave shape to this concept on four main topics that are large permanent exhibition: The metal-working, people and gold in prehispanic Colombia, cosmology and symbolism and the offering.

To complement the permanent exhibition services allowing deeper by visitors themed tours, educational activities, audio guide in Spanish, English and French, a multimedia room and a study room for reading and researching on issues of exhibit, among others. Scheduling of the Auditorium and the extensive permanent exhibits will see that the museum is also a research and academic interaction, extension, cooperation and national and international strategic alliances.

The Gold Museum is a place that makes visible the unique way the pre-Hispanic past and memories of Colombia. Also proposed and sponsored the current cultural diversity. Thus, the Exploratorium room, designed to promote curiosity and questioning, is the privileged stage for children, youth and adults acquire knowledge rather than questions asked about who we are, what it means and how we study our archaeological heritage, among many other topics.

Links: Museum.

Videos: Museum.

Iberoamerican Theater Festival of Bogotá was created in 1988 by Fanny Mikey and Ramiro Osorio, on the occasion of the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of Bogotá.

Since the first edition, held under the motto "An act of faith in Colombia", the festival became a cultural adventure and had as one of its main objectives the integration of Latin American art to the world.

Today it is one of the festivals of performing arts world's largest by its convening power, its wealth of functions and diversity of genres: The world's largest companies have participated, as well as teachers who have renewed theatrical languages , the number of functions is unsurpassed by other festivals in just 17 days, working alongside street theater and living room, making it one of the most complete specimens of the performing arts scene in the XXI century.

One of the key commitments of the festival was the diversity, plurality and the representation of different genres and trends in the performing arts, promoting theater through understanding and tolerance among peoples. Since its inception on FITB has become the most significant cultural event in Colombia and one of the most important theater festivals in the world with the presence of theater groups from five continents.
The figures were strong and public response exceeded expectations more positive, with room occupancy of 90%. New spaces, new galleries, new proposals and new artists took the Festival. A Youth Theater, another exclusive for puppets, a cinema, a Wrestling Ring, the traffic lights (where 12 groups claimed the job of a street performer) and the World Storytellers meeting joined other schedules. Russia was the guest of honor and presented us with the puppets of "Nevsky Prospekt" Potudan Theater, "War and Peace" Pietr Fomenko and "The Three Sisters" by Declan Donnellan, and special events paid homage to the motto "

The Russian theater in the world. Teachers and creators. " And no one will forget the performances of the Circus The 7 fingers from Canada, "Villa Villa" De La Guarda, in Argentina, the National Ballet of Belgrade in "Who's singing over there?" "The leaves that resist the wind "by Koffi Koko of Benin," Ivanov "in the Katona József, Hungary;" Babel "Nicholas Stemann, Eva Mint of Spain, the Deutsches Theater in Germany, and the magnificent" Malaya "in the Netherlands.

Not to mention the 154 Colombian groups who made up the largest national sample and complete the entire history of the Festival, with works by room, street children, troupes, music groups, circuses and storytellers.

Videos: Festival theater in Bogota.

Links: www. festivaldeteatro.com.com

SOCIALS

Yoga workshops, book clubs, exhibitions, conferences, puppets, theater, rock music and magic, are some of the activities organized BibloRed and the Ministry of Education.
The library network of the city (18 in total) is celebrating the season without classes and offers children and large a range of events for this day. Even the babies fall out of this offer, because for them there is also a fitness studio and massage.
To highlight an exhibition of Rock Park, which in this 2009 is 15 years.
We present an overview of everything, so choose what suits you best.
On the other libraries:

* Upload. Magic workshop. 20 June, 3 p.m. Carrera 92 No. 146C-24.

* Carlos Restrepo. 'Came the Martians'. Magical Threads Theater Company. 20 June, 3 p.m. Diagonal 19 sur No. 19-33, second floor.

* Timiza. 'The treasure of El Dorado', legend montage of the search for native gold. June 27, 3 p.m. Carrera 74 No. 42G-52 south.

* Workshops dough. For children 4 to 6 years to learn to make dinosaurs. 23 and 30 June. 2 PM Virgilio Barco Library, The Tunal and The Tintal.

* To know the Virgilio Barco. On June 23 at 12:30 pm, children are collected from the districts Bosa, Marichuela, Restrepo, Suba, Usaquén and La Victoria to know this megabiblioteca, the first of the city.
'15 Years of extreme living
This exhibition draws on the library will Virgilio Barco June 8 to July 8.

Through photographs of the 14 versions that have been made of Rock Park may know its history, the band and also how the city has changed over the years.

To support the workshop will be delivered 'Rock and roll around the clock: 60 years of history', every Tuesday in June and July (except July 28), at 5 pm, and the literary workshop 'Café, rock and video ', on Wednesdays in June and July (less than 22 to July 29) and Saturday two months (except July 25), at 3 pm Reports,www.biblored.org.co.In the library's Tintal


Among other activities for children will be 'story time' on Thursdays and Fridays at 4 pm
Also, dance performances and studio artists and small crafts.

Older adults will have their space on Wednesday, with a collage of fabrics, at 2 pm Mondays in June and July comes the film, for all ages. In The Tunal
Roberto Lombana An exhibition opening today at the public library.
It is a selection of museums, building facades, art exhibitions, showcases of stores and architecture in general.
For children, a good choice is the animated Animal Workshop to be held June 25 at 2 pm
And besides, a great holiday party, June 20, at 2 pm at the nursery.
For the family, the activity of reading as a group. Parents and children will join through the literature. 6 and 13 June, 11 a.m. Calle 48B sur No. 21-13.
Yoga, from the East to be better

This activity is called "Family Yoga" and is one of the innovations that bring the vacation of public libraries.

On Saturday 27 June there will be a workshop at the Virgilio Barco Library, which you can enter at no cost. Importantly, you get there early, comfortable clothes and with all the willingness to learn.

Links:

http://www.carlosvicentederoux.org/apuestaporbogota.shtml?apc=a-d1;06;-;04;&x=2489

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-xzNZKQ8zU

local news

A signed agreement yesterday passed the 5 of the evening among the Mayoralty of Bogota and Apetrans's union, which groups the owners of the buses in the city, allowed to raise the historical and violent unemployment of public transport that confronted the capital of the country during the last four days. (TO SEE INFOGRAFÍA: WHAT DOES MEAN THE REVOLCÓN OF THE SITP THAT WILL START NEXT YEAR? - THE EXPENSES THAT THE OWNER OF A BUS HAS IN AVERAGE IN BOGOTA)

Last night, thousands of buses returned to roll about the streets and in several points of access to the north of the city, as the career 30 and the Autonorte, big trancones appeared.
On the unemployment having got up, the official colleges will return today to classes and will return the restriction of the"pico y placa" for the particular cars (9, 0, 1 and 2).

What was what one resolved? The document signed between the parts establishes that the owners of the buses will have a minimal monthly profit of 18 per cent per year in the Integrated System of Public Transport, which starts next year and which 13 zones will be awarded next July 2.
Before the unemployment beginning, the financial model created by the District was establishing earnings of 10 per cent per year, which indicates that there was a grant of 8 per cent to the carriers in the middle of the unemployment, almost the double.

Who will assume this rise? Will move the user in the tariff that will pay for using, with an alone tiquete, the network of buses and TransMilenio? Though the mayor Samuel Moreno denied incisively last night that the user should turn out to be harmed with an unplayable tariff in the Sitp, experts consulted already speak about 125 billion weight to the year that - after the modifications given in the unemployment - someone will have to manage to put in order that the system is sustainable.

On the topic, the secretary of Mobility, Fernando Alvarez, answered last night that " this cost will be moved to the earnings or to the so called rate of return that there will have the businessmen who gain the managing themselves of each one of 13 zones of the transport ".

Yesterday several interested businessmen proved to be "worried" by this decision.

The second point resolved between Apetrans and the District has to see with the value that will be paid for the buses that will go out of the system.
The Mayoralty arranged a rise of 5 per cent in the table of values, but only for buses models 2001 2010.

Si el pasajero sólo necesita utilizar TransMilenio seguirá pagando 1.600 pesos, según el esquema que tiene ya en sus manos la Administración.

In spite of that in the agreement Apetrans promised not to do any more unemployment’s, it is necessary to see if they fulfill their word in moments in which the Sitp advances without reverse for the Mayoralty and when the District enlists a new licitation in which the collection of the money the drivers would not do it, but a signature recaudadora, foreign to the carriers.

How much they will cost the passages a person pays 1.600 “pesos” for TransMilenio's tiquet and 1.300 “pesos” for moving in a traditional bus in Bogota. It is to say that if this citizen uses both manners of transport to be able to come up to their work or up to their housing, they spends in whole 2.900 “pesos”.

But it is supposed that from next year the things are going to change with the new Integrated System of Public Transport (Sitp), which will start the Major Mayoralty.

Links: Transport stopped.

Videos: Problem Continues in Bogotá.

ART

In the end of Bogota Stencil Art Festival observed different expressions of urban art that brings together young people currently in the capital.

Under the harsh midday sun of a capital, dressed unusually young began to congregate around an abandoned building, located on Calle 80 with Carrera 28D, northwest of the city. On Sunday 28 February, while others had recovered at home from the rumba last night, these guys with piercings, tattoos and stained overalls prepared to do what they do best: brighten up the cold streets of this city with his art.

this was the closure Bogota Stencil Art Festival an event that, for a whole month, explored the various techniques of street art. Despite being devoted to stencil technique that evolved from graffiti, there was room for different expressions, ranging from airbrush to paint the posters.

For the size and visibility that have these art forms in the city, surprised by the low participation of people outside the community of young artists. Public usually those who 'pass by' and who, seeing the boys in action, decide to stay to see the final product. "You see that is a difficult technique, is an effortlessness that put you," said Rafael Gomez focused on the painstaking work of the young.

However, these artists seem to need no audience because the crowd that gathers makes the time pass quickly. Neither the desire to finish, or the hot sun, nor affect competition, however devoted to admire the work of others as observers.
The camaraderie also breathed in the atmosphere, "we are waiting to evacuate the stairs," he acknowledges Pipe, a young man who is just engaging in this art.

Links:

http://www.unisabanaradio.tv/noticias_detalle.php?id=39

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZaxP3w2Qx4

Entertainment in Bogota 2!

After credit led last year one of you them fight more sounded in the world of the rock, last week Steven Tyler and his group Aerosmith announced that again they are united and that this year they will go out of tour.

Well then, though the only dates confirmed of ' Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour! ‘They go from June 10 to July 3 (presentations in Europe), there are strong rumors of which the band will appear in Bogota on May 20. The organizers will announce officially the information next Friday in the Hard Rock Restaurant of the Colombian capital.

Tyler said that he returns to be the vocalist of the group because he realized " a hearing and they have contracted me. There we go again ". According to the guitarist, Joe Perry (who Aerosmith announced in November Tyler's march), composed also by Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer, has turned " bigger, stronger and better that never ".

With ' Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour! ' Aerosmith will celebrate its forty years of history. This one will start in the Rock Festival of Sweden on June 10, then to go to the United Kingdom, Romania, Greece, Holland and Belgium, among other cities.

Who are the ' Bad boys of Boston '?

The first album that they launched onto the market took the same name, but was with the discs Toys in the Attic and Rocks that managed to be consolidated in the world of the music. It's higher moment in the industry they reached it with the publication of the discs Permanent Vacation and Pump, of which the songs are outlined Doubt (Looks Like to Lady), Angel, Rag Doll and Janie's Got to Gun.

Aerosmith is to band of hard rock formed in the 70s in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States, and since then they ploughs known ace the ' Bad boys of Boston '. Nevertheless, the addiction to the drugs and the internal conflicts that have made feel throughout these years, leaving externally some members that then returned to form a part of the group.

In 2001 Aerosmith it was included in the Lounge of the Reputation of the Rock in 2001, and in 2005 they were classified n. º 57 in the list of 100 better artists of all the times of the magazine Rolling Stone.

A couple of years ago the video game went out to the sale Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, which allows to touch more than 25 topics of the band.

Links: Aerosmith official site.

Videos: I don't want to miss a thing, Lovely song

History in Bogota!

The name of Colombia was conceived by the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda to denote the union of the republics of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, in tribute to who discovered America, Christopher Columbus (Italian Cristoforo Colombo). Name of Columbus (Colombo) comes in turn from Latin columbus, meaning dove, pigeon male (Latin columba), an animal that symbolizes peace.

On 15 February 1819, during the Congress of Angostura was proclaimed the state to adopt the name Republic of Colombia, known today as Great Colombia to avoid confusion with the current Colombia, with sovereignty over the territories of the hitherto Viceroyalty of New Granada, Quito and Captaincy General of Venezuela.

The name was proposed by Simón Bolívar in the Jamaica Letter. The name is also mentioned in one verse of the anthem, which reads as follows: "...
It bathes in the blood of heroes land Columbus ... In 1830, emerged as a republic under the name Republic of New Granada, and soon after became a federal state under the title of Grenadine Confederation, which adopted the constitution of 1858.

It adopted the name United States of Colombia in 1863, which in 1886 was definitively established until the present day, in Colombia, a move that was protested at that time by the Congress of Ecuador and Venezuela for considering
it an encroachment unilateral common historical heritage.

However this discrepancy has already been superseded for some time.

The Bullring Plans Santamaria Opened in 1931 and completed in its entirety in the 40s. Opened in 1931 and completed in its entirety in the 40s by the Spanish architect Santiago Mora who designed the current facade. La Plaza de Toros de Santamaria is the bullring in the city.

It has a capacity for 14,500 spectators, is currently administered by the Corporation Bullfighting in Bogota. Every year it takes place in the bullfighting season during the months of January and February, which traditionally have recognized figures of the bullfighting world.

Videos: First.
Second.

Links: History of Bogota.