La Congregación Teatro is a theatre company which Johan Velandia established in 2007. Its purpose is to create a space of research for artists from different disciplines who dialogue in their respective languages on topical themes of social, political and cultural interest, constructing a scenic vocabulary which is dynamic, changing, agile and significant.

The company’s director and dramaturgy, Johan Velandia has combined in a prolific manner theatre and literary activity in the exercise of acting, theatre directing and dramaturgy.

Rojo is a history of a town which disappears from the map. It is a cartography of deceit and hatred which is planted in “Refuge” under the cover of progress and civilization. Red is a walking shoe which good people use to walk, it a registrar who baptizes at whim local people in a time without name. it is a gentleman in helicopter who cleans the forest in order to make roads, it is a promise, a desire to have more even if it reduces us as human beings, it is a track where planes loaded with white money land, it is a cult of death, it is witchcraft, it is a panther which bites the sunrise and buries old friends, it is a district, an invisible frontier, it is conduit through silence, the first communion with war, a childhood photo bathed in blood, it is a witch who visits a house of spirits, it is genealogy of evil. It is a history encrypted in narcotraffic and terrorism in Colombia.

Teófilo Mercado Carriazo created the company Danfroc on 20 January 2017 with the purpose to contribute towards training of children from the Olaya Herrera district in Cartagena and thus positively impact the community.

It consists of 11 children between 9 and 15 years old, who attend third to eighth grade in different educational institutions and are residents of Olaya Herrera district.

The work treats the sensitive subject of sexual exploitation of minors, which is evidenced by social mechanisms which lead towards automation and loss of dreams and innocence of children.

Mina, directed by Johanna Robledo, is close to Woyzeck of Georg Büchner, a classic of universal dramatgurgy, but in the context of contemporary Buenaventura.

Synopsis: The play tells the story of a low-income private from the city of Buenaventura who is surrounded by a hostile environment which tries to convince him that he has no value because of its fragile social position. In order to improve his economic situation which will guarantee the future of his family, he feels compelled to take part in a clandestine research of a doctor in the capital.

Johanna Robledo, a lecturer at the University of Valle, Pacific headquarters, is in charge of Turín Teatro which is made up of students of Scenic Arts of this University.

UMBRAL TEATRO, which was founded by Ignacio Rodríguez and Carolina Vivas, was created in Bogota in 1991 and is made up of theatre players and professional musicians. The founders believe that this represented the most viable option to act as a research and creative team asking pertinent questions of its profession and the country. Each era thinks of itself as a particularity and does so from different places; It is necessary to think about today from the theater and find the language to do it.

In 2008, just a few weeks before the scandal of the so called “Falsos Poitivos” came to light, dramaturg and director Carolina Vivas finished writing the text Where donkey’s tails decompose, a play which speaks precisely of extrajudicial killings. The story, in the words of Vivas, is focused on Pedro Cagrejo, a peasant who disappeared and who the army tries to pass for a criminal.