Events 2024
The Latin American Carnival 2024 is being held in the capital on 1-2 March at 3pm on Friday at the Foreign Service Academy, Bailey Road, Dhaka.
The event is being organised by the Bangladesh Travel Writers Association, reads a press release.
With the theme “Life is a Carnival”, this festival will have an exhibition of various famous films from Latin America and Bengali and English books on Latin America, along with the cultural performances of Latin American countries.
There is no entry fee for visitors to the festival. The books will include books written about different countries in Latin America and travel literature, there will be a collection of books by Bengali and Bangladeshi writers about travelling to Latin America.
It will showcase some notable films from several Latin American countries such as Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay, Peru, and Argentina.
Among them, the Brazilian movie ‘Carandiru’ will be screened at 7pm on the first day of the festival. The second day of the festival (2 March) will show Chile’s movie Machucha, Colombia’s El Beat, Cuba’s Marti-da I of the Canary, and Uruguay’s Society of the Snow.
In addition, the Peruvian movie Margarita and the Argentine movie The Secret in Their Eyes will be shown.
The opening ceremony will be held at the Foreign Service Academy at Bailey Roads on 1 March at 3:30pm. The event will be attended by dignitaries. Besides, various Latin American diplomats staying in Bangladesh will be present as guests. They will participate in the discussion meeting.
Ashrafuzzaman Ujjal, president of the Bangladesh Travel Writers Association, said “We organize carnival and photography events related to Bangladesh and travel throughout the year. Also every year we highlight the culture of different countries and continents. This time we have Latin America down. Hopefully, visitors will be entertained and learn a lot about Latin American countries, people and their culture.”
Brazil Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce, Embassy of Cuba, Honorary Consuls of Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Colombia in Dhaka and American International University Bangladesh (AIUB) are organizing the carnival.
Travel Carnival June 2021
Dhaka : Country’s Travel Writers Association organised a reunion called Travel Carnival June 2021 on June 25. At the reunion, four renowned travel writers of Bangladesh discussed about their published travel books.
The discussion included sharing of personal experiences of the writers, related information about their travel books and Q&A with readers.
The programme was presided by Ashrafuzzaman Ujjol, President of Bangladesh Travel Writers Association.
Every month such sessions will be organised and will highlight travel features of a country. This session portrayed Nepal as the country of choice for travel.
Travel writer and photographer Homayed Ishak Moon spoke about adventure travelling. He shared his adventures and experiences at Everest Base Camp.
There was another session based on Bangladesh’s famous photographer Abdullah and his work.
Utsho Publication’s Publisher Mosrofa Selim also talked about country’s current travel literature’s state.
A view exchange between writers and publishers also took place.
The carnival ended with book sales, autograph and photo session.