“The Cartagena International Music Festival is a space in which we all can share our love for music and where we can grow musically, both as students and as human beings. As soon as you arrive at the Festival you feel that music is going through your veins in an inexplicable way, you feel like your inspiration is awakened and you know that music is the best cure for the soul!”

Julián Estiven CárdenasHarp student – 14 years old

“Cartagena is one of the most colorful music venues in the world. Everything in this beautiful 17th-century Spanish city has been meticulously restored, providing some wonderful perfor-mance spaces. … The Cartagena Festival is one of the newest on the international circuit, it is committed to showcasing new talent from around the world. The Festival has three purposes: to make great music, to inspire local youngsters to take up an instrument, and to show visitors what a beautiful and cultured place Cartagena is.”

“Wish you were here: the world’s 10 most magical music festivals” Adrian Mourby, Classic FM magazine (November, 2008)

Established in January 2007 by the Salvi Foundation - Colombia, the Cartagena International Music Festival takes place annually in the beautiful city of Cartagena, Colombia. It offers a week filled with wonderful concerts by world-renowned chamber artists, masterclasses by Festival artists and lectures by noted guest speakers. In addition, during the Festival, Colom-bian instrument craftsmen benefit from workshops taught by acclaimed violin makers. Since its inception, the Festival has grown to become one of the most important cultural events in Colombia and has attracted visitors from around the world.

Under the leadership of founding Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth and newly appointed Artistic Director Stephen Prutsman, the Cartagena International Music Festival will continue to purse its mission of providing educational opportunities for gifted and talented young Co-lombian musicians. In the coming years, the Foundation hopes to achieve its goal of reach-ing more young people in its music outreach program Formando Música.

Since its beginning, Salvi Foundation – Colombia has been dedicated to improving the quality of music education available in the schools and conservatories throughout the country. It has also created opportunities to further the professional careers of young Colombian artists.

As a result of its work over the past four years, the Foundation has achieved the following:

• Established the Salvi Masterclass Series in Harp with the support of several institu-tions featuring world-renowned visiting harpists.

• Facilitated the donation of musical instruments, scores and teaching materials for students and their teachers.

• Supported the participation of Colombian musicians in concerts and festivals throughout the United States and Canada.

• Trained Colombian harp teachers in the United States and Italy in basic instrument care and provided specialized technicians to maintain existing harps in Colombia.

• Provided scholarships to 50 students and professors to enable them to attend the rehearsals, masterclasses and concerts of the Cartagena International Music Festival.

City of London Sinfonia

Already, the Cartagena International Festival has taken its place as an important cultural resource in Colombia. In three short years it has also become recognized world-wide for its outstanding musical programs and for its unique educational component – Formando Música, which enriches the lives of young people through its multi-faceted music education programs.

However, in order to sustain these important programs we need your help, as income from ticket sales covers only a small portion of the costs associated with producing the Festival. It is only through the generosity of our friends in Colombia and abroad who understand and share our mission that we are able to continue this important effort. We invite you to play a leading role in ensuring its on-going success.

There are numerous ways you can play a vital role: your contributions can provide funds to endow the symphony orchestra or an individual artist, a concert at the Teatro Heredia or at one of the outdoor plazas, or in the neighborhoods of Cartagena. Perhaps you would like to further the career of an aspiring young musician by providing a series of masterclasses, and/or provide scholarships so students can participate in a wide range of Festival activities. We welcome your participation… we cannot exist without your support.

Please consider supporting the Festival and its mission by making a contribution at one of the following levels:

MAKE A GIFT: CONTRIBUTE

Emmanuel Ceysson

Salvi Foundation FriendsDonation of US$25 - US$900

• E-newsletter subscription• Recognition on the Cartagena Festival website

Getsemaní FriendsDonation of US$1,000 - US$2,400

• E-newsletter subscription• Recognition on the Cartagena Festival website and in publications

San Pedro FriendsDonation of US$2,500 - U$4,900

• E-newsletter subscription• Recognition on the Cartagena Festival website and in publications• Discounts at the Festival’s gift shop (restrictions may apply) • Copy of the Festival poster

INDIVIDUAL GIVING

Patron Of The Masterclasses Donation of U$5,000 - U$9,900

Masterclasses offer the primary teaching and training opportunity for conservatory students. These one-on-one sessions provide a chance to perfect technique, acquire professional skills and interact with a Festival artists who has achieved international recognition for his/her musical abilities.

• E-newsletter subscription• Recognition on the Cartagena Festival website and in publications• Copy of the Festival poster• Discounts at the Festival’s gift shop (restrictions may apply) • Book of Festival highlights

Patron Of The Young Talents Concert Donation of U$10,000 - U$14,900

The Young Talents Concert, sponsored by Salvi Foundation - Colombia features the next generation of outstanding Colombian musicians.

• E-newsletter subscription • Recognition on the Cartagena Festival website and in publications• Copy of the Festival poster • Discounts at the Festival’s gift shop (restrictions may apply) • Book of Festival highlights• 5% discount on a Visitor’s Package

“The Cartagena III Festival organizers expressed their respect to the people with this kind of concerts, trusting that they would enjoy these masterpieces with the same passion and devotion as the great connoisseurs. Congratulations to the Cartagena III International Music Festival for respecting the values and cultural wealth of the vulnerable communities, making them direct participants of a beautiful music agenda…”

El Universal, newspaper (Colombia), “Culture and Popular Neighborhoods” – Editorial

Patron Of The Community Outreach Concerts Donation of U$15,000 - U$20,000

Community Outreach Concerts bring Festival artists into the neighborhoods of Carta-gena and into the town squares for public performances. These popular concerts attract people of all ages who respond enthusiastically to the unique experience of hearing classical music performed.

• E-newsletter subscription• Recognition on the Cartagena Festival website and in publications• Copy of the Festival poster • Discounts at the Festival’s gift shop (restrictions may apply) • Book of Festival highlights• 10% discount on a Visitor’s Package

“Perhaps this is what deserves the highest praise: the great effort that the creation of such an event implies, with the participation of renowned artists and interesting exhibits, not only supported by audiences that have completely filled all concert halls, but by private entities complying with their social function of returning the profits obtained with their activities in the form of culture…”

El Espectador, newspaper (Colombia), “A feast of Music” – Editorial

“The ground was prepared so that the Festival reached its highest point with the Young Talents Concert, and this is the confirmation that musical education is working wonders in the country…”

Manuel Lino, El Economista Newspaper (Mexico)

Corporate Opportunities

Providing support for the Cartagena International Music Festival is a great way for your company to further its community outreach program and has the potential of high visible branding through the Festival’s prominent media coverage, at both domestic and interna-tional levels.

Your company can become a sponsor of the Cartagena International Music Festival at one of the following levels:

• Sponsor of Concerts in the Performance Halls • Sponsor of Outdoor Concerts in the Public Squares • Sponsor of Community Outreach Concerts in the Cartagena Neighborhoods • Sponsor of Invited Solo Artists • Sponsor of Conferences• Sponsor of the Young Talents Concert

or the Formando Música program at one of the following levels:

• Sponsor of Masterclasses• Sponsor of Luthier workshops • Sponsor of the Salvi Foundation – Colombia Scholarships

For more information about becoming a corporate sponsor, please contact the Salvi Foundation – Colombia by phone at (+57 1) 622-0252 or

e-mail to smeluk@cartagenamusicfestival.com. www.cartagenamusicfestival.com

Charleston Cartagena Hotel Santa Teresa

INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THE CARTAGENA FESTIVAL?

CARTAGENA, THE CITY TO DREAM AND LIVE THE FESTIVAL’S MAGIC

Proclaimed as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, Cartagena de Indias is proof of the colonial splendor in the New World. Most of its buildings, walls, fortresses and squares date from the XVII and XIX centuries. This Caribbean port, rich in pirate and colonial treasures and gold prospector stories, was con-sidered the most important bastion of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

This magical city that opens its eyes to the world is where culture and a gastro-nomic melting of local and international scents and flavors occur. This is the place where romanticism, legends and art come come alive.

We would like to invite you to attend the IV Cartagena International Music Festival

January 9TH to 16TH

“Magic realism realized in Cartagena, Colombia”

Bill Fink, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, March 1, 2009

If you’re going to Hawaii, someone might ask you to bring back macadamia nuts. Go to Bel-gium, they’ll ask for chocolates. Tell them you’re visiting Colom-bia, and people will just snicker and wink and pretend to snort something through their nos-trils.

As far as many Americans are concerned, Colombian cities are named after cocaine cartels, the streets are regularly crowded with shoot-outs, and the only regular visitor is the drug-addled Al Pacino from “Scarface,” com-muting down to throw someone out of a helicopter.

I pondered the threats around me while I sipped a mojito at the Café Del Mar perched on the old city wall in Cartagena, Colombia. There might be too much mint in my drink. I might not have the best angle to see the sunset over the Caribbean. If I attended the classical music per-formance in the plaza, I might miss the party at the sugar baron’s mansion.

Waves rolled onto the shore beneath the setting sun. A pickup game of soccer unfurled in the park below me. A guitarist strummed local vallenato tunes while couples

strolled the walls hand-in-hand, stopping to kiss in the old gun turrets. The smell of sizzling plantains wafted from the grill behind the bar. Truly, my life was fraught with danger. I ordered another mojito.

I began to think of the city as a version of the mythical Shangri-La, but this hidden paradise was separated from the world not by physical barriers, but psychologi-cal ones. Instead of vertical cliffs or raging rapids, the borders of Colombia are guarded by a jag-ged fence of fear, a scent of seediness and the dark cloud of recent history.I explored the city of Cartagena and its surrounding areas to see if a casual traveler could bridge these barriers and discover a sense of safety, culture and the beauty of a South American Shangri-La.

Epcot-safe

The national tourist board, showing they have a sense of humor, has come up with the slogan “Colombia: The only risk is wanting to stay.” The reality is, walking the streets of the historical center of Cartagena felt Epcot-safe. Tourists and locals walked at all hours without concern. Refurbished

Spanish colonial homes with balconies covered in latticework and hanging bougainvillea flowers gave a feeling of the streets of New Orleans, but without the sloppy drunks. Towering ca-thedral spires and bright pastel homes recalled the villages of southern Spain.As a reassurance, armed guards stood at nearly every corner, but they were so bored with the lack of action, they spent the bulk of their time text messaging, flirting with girls or practic-ing their salsa steps. Far outside of the walls of the historic district, the scene was much different, with impoverished barrios coating the hills like a grimy bathtub ring. But fault-ing Cartagena for its bad areas would be like skipping a visit to San Francisco to avoid the Tenderloin.

Even during the height of the Colombian drug wars and civil unrest of the ‘80s and ‘90s, Cartagena was an oasis of calm. Some joked that it was because both the crimi-nals and the police needed a peaceful place to vacation. But the end result is that now even a petite American violinist vis-iting for a music festival told me she thought the city was “fantastically safe.”Cartagena’s thick city walls were built as protection against pi-rates and privateers during the height of the Spanish colonial era in the 1600s, when anyone with a cannon wanted a piece of the gold reserves stored in town. The looming stone for-tress of Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas and undersea walls complete a historical sense of security.

Purely for research purposes, one night I had a few Aguila beers in the bars and stumbled alone across town to my hotel at 3:30 a.m. The streets were silent aside from the clop of my shoes on the cobblestone, and the faint sound of an accor-dion and singing coming from a hidden house party. The few people still out on the streets either nodded to me, or walked

past murmuring softly to each other. I saw a hammock swing-ing slowly on the balcony of an old colonial home, a lazy foot dangling in the cool evening breeze. I returned to sleep to the soothing sound of the surf echoing through my hotel window.

Highbrow culture and lowbrow fun

Once comfortable with the safety of the place, I ventured out to explore Cartagena’s culture. I was worried the city might have transformed into an antiseptic tourist bubble, far re-moved from its regional or national soul.

My visit coincided with the third annual Cartagena Inter-national Music Festival, a col-lection of local and foreign performers including the Lon-don Chamber Orchestra, and the Colombian folk ensemble Sinsonte. Performances were sold out months ahead of time, with the elite of Colombia and international visitors gathering for gala events in refurbished theaters, repurposed chapels and city plazas. Outreach con-certs took Mozart to the poor of the barrios, while master

classes provided a forum for fellowship through music.

Schubert and carriages

At an evening performance, the tones of Schubert resonated through five balconies filled with decked-out patrons sitting in the opulent box seats of the old Heredia Theater. I imagined I would walk outside to meet women in hoop dresses and parasols, waiting to board horse-drawn carriages. When I ex-ited, the parasols were just a dream, but the carriages stood ready, as real as the marble theater steps. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-winning novelist and part-time Cartagena resident, evokes this dreamy quality of

“None more so than Cartagena, continuing in its ideal of a

peaceful paradise hidden from the outside world. As Stephen

Prutsman, the artistic director of the Cartagena Music Festi-

val told me, “What we’re doing here is making magical realism

a reality.”

the city in his magic realism style of writing. In “Love in the Time of Cholera,” he writes that Cartagena’s “silence was di-aphanous in the four o’clock heat, and through the bedroom window one could see the outline of the old city with the af-ternoon sun at its back, its golden domes, its sea in flames all the way to Jamaica.”

Given the heat, it wasn’t until near midnight that the out-door concerts began. A huge crowd gathered in front of the church in Plaza San Pedro to hear both classical cellists and the llanera music of the high plains. Despite the timing, per-formers noted the crowd’s attentiveness. Scott St. John of the Stanford University-based St. Lawrence String Quartet joked; “If we set up in Golden Gate Park, maybe a dozen people might walk by. Here they were lined up two hours be-fore show time. Try doing an out-door concert in San Francisco at 11 p.m. and at best you’d have a circus atmosphere. Here it was like people were going to church, they were so reverent.”

Only blocks away from the cel-lists, the crowded Santo Domin-go square hosted a more raucous nightly scene. Tables of diners burst into choruses of “Guantanamera,” ac-companied by strolling guitarists and the odd accordion player. Vendors sold sliced fruit, shots of coffee and chopped coconuts. Waiters rushed to and fro with rice and bean platters topped with roasted red snapper and grilled chicken. Romantic couples took in the scene from their tables on balconies above the square.

Dance groups performed for tips, their swirling costumes and lithe bodies contrasting with the ponderous Botero statue be-hind them. The variety of performers highlighted the three-part foundation of Cartegena culture: the Spanish influence

with the flamenco dancers, the native traditions in bambuco music and the imported African rhythms in the frantic gyra-tions and drumming of Cumbia.

Passion on the dance floor

To complete my musical journey, I went to the Quiebra Can-to dance club, where speakers cranked out the latest salsa tunes. The Colombians spun to the music like national celebri-ty Shakira. A patient local tapped out time on her hand as she

tried to teach me some basic dance steps. Giving up, I leaned against the wall with the other

gringos, and toasted to a night of fun as couples swirled around the dance floor

in synchronized passion.

The next morning I hopped aboard a high-speed boat for a teeth-rat-tling 45-minute trip to the Rosa-rio Islands, so named because on sea maps the chain of 30 is-lets dangle like rosary beads. We bounced past fishing villages, up-

scale resorts on white sand beach-es, and private islands topped with

posh vacation villas.

Despite the serene beauty, I still envi-sioned the islands as the refuge of cocaine

lords, buzzing with secret seaplane landings, and maybe Harrison Ford on his way to battle the Colombian nar-co-terrorists like he did in “A Clear and Present Danger.” But then, the Swedish ladies started singing.

Pasty white, wearing a goofy ensemble of parrot-colored swim wear, the festive group of older Swedes was sharing my boat for a snorkeling trip. One woman was celebrating her 60th birthday with her sister and a dozen friends. After visit-ing the islands, the group was going to her vacation home

outside of the mountain city of Cali. “Safe as a holiday in the Swedish country-side,” she said, “but don’t tell anyone or it might get too crowded here.”

My dive into the reefs of Rosario was blissfully peaceful, with schools of bright fish darting between cathedrals of coral as I drifted through the warm waters. On shore, I reclined in a lounge chair on a white sand beach, sampling a fruit cup while I shaded my eyes against the bright blue waters.

Returning, we passed Cartagena’s upscale Bocagrande peninsula with its shin-ing white high-rise apartments and yacht-filled marinas, resembling Miami Beach more than a remote South American outpost. And as in Miami Beach, many of the locals have undergone their own restorations, with very promi-nent personal enhancements suggesting Colombia may be a new world leader in cosmetic surgery.

Like the mythical Shangri-La, the paradise embodied by Cartagena is a little bit of a dream. Nationally, poverty is endemic. The distribution of wealth creates a grossly affluent ruling class with the masses fighting for daily survival in poor neighborhoods. Battles with cocaine traffickers and various rebels continue in the distant Amazon jungles.

But around the city of Cartagena, and really for much of the nation of Colombia, the dreamy tales of Gabriel Garcia Marquez are becoming daily life. The fashion capital of Medellin, the cultural center of Bogota, and the mountain gateway of Cali all exemplify the pride of new Colombia. None more so than Cartagena, continuing in its ideal of a peaceful paradise hidden from the outside world. As Stephen Prutsman, the artistic director of the Cartagena Music Festival told me, “What we’re doing here is making magical realism a reality.”--

If you go

Going: Cartegena is on the Caribbean coast of northern Colombia. Continental and Delta airlines offer regular service that flies via Houston/Miami, and then through Bogota. The journey took me about 12 hours from San Francisco. Lat-est prices are around $1,000 round-trip.

Lodging: For luxury lodging in the heart of the historical district try the Sofitel ( www.hotelsantaclara.com) or the Hotel Charleston, ( www.hotelcharlestonsan-tateresa.com) both beautifully convert-ed convents. Prices begin at $250-$300 per night.

A variety of good quality three- and four-star hotels can be found a 10-minute drive away in the modern Bocagrande peninsula for about $150 a night. And backpackers can still find grungy hos-tels in Getsemani area for $20 a night in semi-sketchy areas.

Food: The historical district has a pleth-ora of fine local and international dining options, with entrees often starting at $20, or you can grab rice and chicken and beer at a corner shop outside the walls for maybe five bucks.

I enjoyed Cuban food at La Bodeguita del Medio, Italian at Santa Lucia over-looking Santo Domingo square and fine Colombian cuisine at El Santisimo.

“Perfecta para festivales” Manuel Lino, El Economista (Mexico) November 1, 2009

CARTAGENA, Col. La sentencia es unánime entre quienes no conocíamos la ciudad de Cartagena: Es perfecta para festivales.

“Es increíble, adonde quiera que volteas encuentras un pre-texto para sacar tomar una foto”, redondea Michael Crabb, de Toronto, durante un paseo por la zona amurallada, lla-mada Centro, donde entran muy pocos automóviles y por la que circulan calesas tiradas por caballos.

Pero hay mucha más ciudad que las bellas calles y construc-ciones coloniales del Centro, principal atractivo turístico de la ciudad y donde sólo los más acaudalados pueden vivir por los altos precios el terreno y los servicios.

“Hay dos ciudades –comenta la bella alcaldesa de Cartagena, Judit Pinedo-, el Centro y los barrios que lo rodean, y el pro-pósito es que el festival contri-buya a unirlas”.

De ahí que se hagan conciertos en los barrios (vea la nota “Clásico y popular” en eleconomista.com.mx), de que los músicos invitados, además de tocar, den clases a los jóvenes estudiantes cartageneros de música y de que se ofrezcan presentaciones en plazas públicas (si bien es cierto que esas plazas están en el Centro, también lo es que dicha zona, por la noche, se llena de “visitantes” de la propia ciudad).

“Unir las ciudades –prosigue Pinedo- es también el propó-sito del festival de cine y del Hay Festival, de literatura, que tiene también presentaciones fuera del Centro”.

Este año, el Hay Festival, que tendrá lugar a finales de ene-ro, tiene a los escritores en lengua inglesa Salman Rushdie y Martin Amis (nada menos) entre sus invitados (Juan Villoro y Carlos Monsiváis, vienen por parte de México).

Otra aportación del festival a la ciudad, prosigue la alcalde-sa, es que “pone a Cartagena en el eje cultural de la zona del Caribe”.

Y desde luego, se propone atraer turismo, y es parte de toda una estrategia de Pinedo, quien se propone convencer a diferentes tipos de turistas.

Por ejemplo: los interesados en la cultura tendrán los festivales de cine, música y literatura; los más bailarines encontrarán sin duda el paraíso en el festival de Son que se realizará a medias entre La Habana, Cuba, y Carta-gena (la primera edición será a finales de este año), y, como no

sólo para festivales es ideal esta ciudad, entre los planes de la alcaldesa, pensando en quie-nes se preocupan por la ecología y la sustentabilidad, está tener en cuenta la multitud de islas que forman también parte de Cartagena de Indias.

Pendiente, en esta serie de entregas pero no en los planes de Judit Pinedo, está el tema de la seguridad y la mala fama de Colombia en ese sentido. Hasta mañana.

“Sunny times ahead in South America”

Geoffrey Norris, Telegraph.co.uk (UK) January 16, 2007

Colombia’s first international classical music festival en-thrals Geoffrey Norris.

You really had to be there to believe the sheer joy that the week-long Cartagena Interna-tional Music Festival gener-ated. In the UK, we tend to be blasé about these things, be-cause music festivals abound; but this was the South Ameri-can republic of Colombia’s first such venture.

While the country’s cultural life does include a strand of classi-cal music – with two orchestras in the capital, Bogotá, and an active group of contemporary composers – the general con-sensus in the national press was that Colombia was ready and waiting for something like this to give music a focus. The fact that every single event was sold out provided incontro-vertible proof.Cartagena, the captivating walled city on Colombia’s tropi-cal north-west Caribbean coast, was the perfect venue: it has churches and chapels ideal for chamber music, and it boasts the exotically furnished Teatro Heredia for larger or-chestral programmes. Ignited by the initiative of Julia Salvi - the Colombian-born wife of leading harp manufacturer Vic-tor Salvi – the festival had the seasoned scheduler Charles

Wadsworth to thank for its stimulating mix of programmes and range of artists.

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the St Lawrence String Quartet and I Musici de Montréal, con-ducted by Yuli Turovsky, formed a backbone, but it was equally exhilarating to become ac-quainted with the artistry and bubbling personality of Ameri-can flautist Paula Robison, who could switch from the serene classic French repertoire of De-bussy and Saint-Saëns to the world of Brazilian choro, bossa and samba: her concerts were among the festival’s definite wows, along with the beguil-ing playing of violinist Chee-Yun and cellist Andrés Díaz.Then there was the young harpist Emmanuel Ceysson, whose performances here,

in the church of Santo Toribio, confirmed a remarkable musicality, as did the St Lawrence Quartet’s of Mozart, Ravel, Haydn and Shostakovich.Dire warnings from doomsayers about wandering alone at night, for fear of kidnappers and narcotics peddlers, proved groundless: I felt much safer in Cartagena than I do with the hoodies on my local London high street. Moreover, the city’s sizzling climate seemed to be an apt metaphor for the passion that the festival’s two dozen events triggered among audiences and performers alike.

Sofitel Cartagena Santa Clara

THE CARTAGENA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC

FESTIVAL VISITOR’S PACKAGESThe visitor’s packages are designed to ensure that our guests can make good use of their stay in Cartagena, while enjoying excellent concerts and experiencing the city’s exceptional char-acter, history and culture. Our objective is to make your visit to Colombia a relaxed, memo-rable and uncomplicated experience, as you thoroughly enjoy the events of the Cartagena International Music Festival.

The Gold PackagesInclude accommodation for 10 days/9 nights in a five-star hotel, with buffet breakfast served in the selected associate hotel and tickets for all the Festival’s events.

DOUBLE GOLD$6,400 per coupleLodging in a standard double roomArrival: January 8, Departure: January 17Includes a tax-deductible contribution of $1,700

SINGLE GOLD$5,500 per personLodging in a standard single roomArrival: January 8, Departure: January 17Includes a tax-deductible contribution of $1,300

Premium Gold PackageOptional upgrade to the Premium Gold Package, includes all lunches and dinners in the city’s best restaurants with a la carte menus on the days of your stay during the Festival.

DOUBLE PREMIUM GOLDAdditional $2,500 per couple

SINGLE PREMIUM GOLDAdditional $1,300 per person

The Silver PackagesInclude accommodation for 5 days/4 nights in a five-star hotel, with buffet breakfast served in the se-lected associate hotel and tickets for all the Festival’s events.

Option 1: Arrival on January 8, Departure on January 13. Includes tickets to concerts on January 9-12Option 2: Arrival on January 12, Departure on January 17. Includes tickets to concerts on January 13-16.

DOUBLE SILVER$4,000 per coupleChoice between Option 1 or 2.Includes a tax-deductible contribution of $1,000

SINGLE SILVER

$3,500 per personChoice between Option 1 or 2.Includes a tax-deductible contribution of $800

Premium Silver PackageOptional upgrade to the Premium Silver Package, includes all lunches and dinners in the city’s best res-taurants with a la carte menus on the days of your stay during the Festival.

Double PremiuM SilverAdditional $1,650 per couple

SINGLE PREMIUM SILVERAdditional $900 per person

Associate Hotels The two associate hotels, as well as the selected restaurants and stores, are located in Cartagena’s his-torical center, walking distance from the Festival’s venues.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Visitor’s Packages include:

• Transportation to and from the airport and transfers to the concert halls.• Tickets: According to the package, you will receive prime location tickets to all events of the

Festival.• Donor’s certificate: Each package includes a tax-deductible contribution to the Victor Salvi

Foundation / Fundacion Salvi Colombia. You will receive your respective certificate once final payment is made.

• Payments to the Victor Salvi Foundation USA are deductible in the United States and the payments to the Fundacion Salvi Colombia are deductible in Colombia.

Visitor’s Packages DO NOT include:

• Airline tickets• Cost of passport• Wine or spirits in selected restaurants• Other ítems not specifically mentioned as included• Tips• All personal items listed as not included (such as telephone calls, additional travels and per-

sonal service, room service and parking service, items such as wines, spirits, mineral water, “a la carte” menus and laundry expenses)

• All additional costs due to weather or unexpected circumstances associated to your travel, that requires to extend your stay shall be paid by you.

For more information on these packages, write to us at visitors@cartagenamusicfestival.com

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