Bogotá Summer Festival 2022: these are the concerts and events for this weekend

Here we bring you the programming of this important event in the country! This month of August will be very important for because after so many months of waiting the one of the most iconic of and that always brings together many people looking for spaces for fun, art and entertainment. Colombian families will enjoy various theater, music, sports and recreation proposals. Know every detail.

Everything will start this Friday the 5th and, with the announcement of the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá, Colombians will meet the artists who will perform at the opening concert of the Bogotá Festival. To begin with, Venezuela and Mexico will have their representatives: Nacho and Edén Muñoz, respectively.

This will be the twenty-fifth edition of the Summer Festival in the Colombian capital and will feature the Plaza de Eventos del Parque Simón Bolívar, a musical poster with a wide repertoire of artists of various genres, so that all families can have fun to no more power.

The sky of Bogotá will light up

The drone show in Bogotá will be one of the most anticipated activities of the night, which consists of a sky illuminated by drones that will provide a show never seen before in the country’s capital, which citizens will be able to attend at night.

This initiative was born in order to show new proposals in the Summer Festival, as well as the activity of hot air balloons, in the Tunal park, which is one of the attractions that had never been seen in Bogotá.”, said Hernán Ayala, manager of the festival.

Those attending the last concert of the festival will have the opportunity to enjoy a drone show, which will project some of the most emblematic places in the city”, assured the manager of the Summer Festival.

What time does the Bogotá Festival start?

Everything will start at 4:00 pm and will go until 10:00 pm in the Parque Metropolitano Simón Bolívar, Plaza de Eventos, where music lovers who accompany citizens in love and heartbreak will meet.

There will be from popular music, vallenato to reggaeton. Also, this event will be held with the support of the popular music station ‘La Kalle’, who will have the participation of Yeison Jiménez, Jessi Uribe, Arelys Henao, Karen Lizarazo and Jean Carlos Centeno.

Summer Festival 2022 in Bogotá: programming, artists and staging of the XXV edition. (Photo: Bogota Mayor's Office)
Summer Festival 2022 in Bogotá: programming, artists and staging of the XXV edition. (Photo: Bogota Mayor’s Office)

Full program of the Summer Festival

25. Bogota Ninja

A circuit of physical tests with 12 stations that will take our warriors to the limit.

Day: Saturday August 13

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

sporting event

24. Old time fitness

Fly to this series of activities to show that sports and recreation have no age.

Day: Friday, August 12

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

physical activity event

23. IDRD Classic – Esteban Chaves

Bogotá becomes the ideal circuit for this competition on two wheels for the benefit of the Esteban Chaves Foundation.

Day: Sunday, August 14

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Scenario: National park

sporting event

22.Iron Kids

In this Festival, designed for everyone, it is the turn of the little ones with motor skills and coordination activities that will become an adventure.

Day: Saturday August 6

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

Recreational/Sports Event

21. 3×3 Challenge Tour Basketball Championship

The figures of this format in the country, one of the most colorful in the discipline, will fly to be the best in this open circuit of the FIBA.

Days: Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Scenario: El Salitre Sports Unit

sporting event

20. Inflatable Citadel

Here you can slide, climb, dodge obstacles or keep your balance, all the fun that fits on these 25 meter wide platforms.

Days: Saturday, August 13 to Monday, August 15

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: El Tunal Park

recreational event

19. Gastronomic Festival

If so much physical activity left you hungry, come back to discover the offer that the restaurants and gastronomic enterprises of Bogotá bring.

Days: Saturday 6, Sunday 7, Saturday 13, Sunday 14 and Monday 15 August

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

Economy Event

18. Camp Parceros

For 24 hours, the best patch for the youth of Bogotá will be in this camping activity focused on teamwork, solidarity and trust.

Days: Tuesday, August 9 to Wednesday, August 10

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

recreational event

17. Summer Night Bike Path

A self-respecting Summer Festival would not be complete without the authorization of 98.4 kilometers to travel around the city on two wheels.

Day: Thursday, August 11

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Scenario: city streets

recreational event

16.II Capital Games

A true challenge for the best exponents of functional fitness and calisthenics, and an inspiration for the spectators who will see them leave everything in the arena.

Days: Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

sporting event

15. Summer Ocelots

The Complementary School Day, that great hotbed of talents of the Bogotá Team –hence the tigrillo–, will be present at this festival of competitions, skills and sports exchanges.

Days: Wednesday, August 10 and Thursday, August 11

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Scenarios: CEFE San Cristóbal and CEFE Fontanar del Río

recreational event

14. Activate Feverfew

Get ready to see this square like never before: it has become the ideal setting for beach handball, beach volleyball and beach wrestling… Did we already say that La Santamaría has become a great beach?

Days: Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August, and open championship on Monday 8 August

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Scenario: La Santamaría

sporting event

13. Sports meetings

For 15 days, an endless number of sports disciplines will take over 22 city stages in sports championships and festivals: there is one for each competitor and fan.

Scenarios: various, throughout the city

12. Kite Festival

Can we say that it is really August without the famous kites in the Bogota sky? An exciting show full of color and pirouettes.

Day: Monday, August 15

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: El Tunal Park

recreational event

11. Footprints 5K

A race like no other: five kilometers accompanied by your pet, which will become an unforgettable route outdoors.

Day: Saturday August 6

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Setting: Timiza Park

physical activity event

10. Bogota City BMX Cup and BMX Freestyle Grand Prix

Bogotá is consolidating itself more and more as a capital for this discipline full of extreme emotions. An adrenaline date with the best of the national talent that will kill the nails of all the spectators.

Day: Sunday, August 7

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Stage: PRD, Carlos Ramírez BMX track

sporting event

9. 10K Athletic Race

A street circuit, familiar in various categories and with a different route, that is what professionals and amateurs will find throughout these ten kilometers of urban test.

Day: Monday, August 15

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Scenario: from the monument to the Catholic Monarchs to El Renacimiento Park

physical activity event

8. Expoactive

Fly to this fair of services and products with the latest trends in recreation and sports. The place of the fittest entrepreneurs.

Days: Saturday, August 13 to Sunday, August 15

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: El Country Park

Economy Event

7. Bicicine and Food Truck Festival

As in the drive-ins of the time of parents and grandparents, but this time by bike. A unique experience, accompanied by all types of food you can imagine on behalf of the Food Trucks.

Day: Thursday, August 11

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

recreational event

6. Summer Beach in Simón

Bogotá does not have a sea, but it does have a beach, whether to play in the sand or to cross the lake hanging from a zip line, this summer looks very good for all Bogota citizens.

Days: Saturday, August 13 to Monday, August 15

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

recreational event

5. Fly to Tunal! – Englobe yourself

A height plan to carry your favorite patch. The best view of the city from a hot air balloon.

Days: Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: El Tunal Park

recreational event

4. Opening concert of the Summer Festival – La Kalle

What starts well… Join us to celebrate the start of the Summer Festival with music that will resound in every corner of the city. This is an event organized with the Street and will feature the participation of Nacho, Edén Muñoz, Yeison Jiménez, Jessi Uribe, Arelys Henao, Karen Lizarazo and Jean Carlos Centeno.

Day: Friday, August 5

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

Big events

3. Magic Show with Jason Latimer

The magic of one of the world’s great illusionists takes over Bogotá in a show that will leave the whole family speechless.

Days: Saturday, August 13 and Sunday, August 14

Stage: Sports Palace

Big events

2. Vuelate al Festival concert and drone show

The closure that the 25 years of the Summer Festival deserve: a concert and a drone show that will light up the Bogota sky like never before.

Day: Sunday, August 14

Time: 3:00 p.m.

Setting: Simón Bolívar Park

Big events

1. GamesFest

Fly to the event for lovers of video games and geek culture. Contests, cosplay, trade shows, role-playing games and the launch of E-sports: not to be missed!

Days: Saturday 6 to Sunday 7, and Friday 12 to Monday 15 August

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Setting: El Lago Park

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Bogotá Summer Festival 2022: these are the concerts and events for this weekend