Training as Oral Storytellers / Cultivating Talents, Creating Dreams
2024 | Municipalidad de Montes de Oca / Biblioteca Pública Faustino Montes de Oca At Fundación Festival Puro Cuento, we firmly believe in the transformative power of art and culture. Our mission is to foster artistic and social development in the cantons of Costa Rica through innovative and high-quality training programs. This year, we are […]
Yo soy de aquí – Embelleciendo Bajo Los Anonos
Times are tough in Costa Rica, but there’s still hope. Income inequality is on the rise, making it harder for people to afford basic necessities. This is where art and community action come in. “Yo soy de aquí – Embelleciendo Bajo Los Anonos” is a project that aims to improve the quality of life in […]
Literary Fantasy For An Empowered Youth
2022 | Iberbibliotecas / IAFA The project “Literary Fantasy For An Empowered Youth” seeks to offer safe environments and spaces to youngsters with psychoactive substance use problems who use the services provided by the Institute on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (IAFA). Through reading, art and culture, the main goal is to generate support in their recovery process. The […]
Afro-Costa Rican Cultural Tourism
2020 | “Puro Cuento Festival” Foundation Preserve and rescue through music, stories, theater and dance the Afro-Costa Rican traditions with the greatest social symbol and promote cultural tourism in the province of Limón. The Afro-Costa Rican population is 8% throughout the national territory and we want, through cultural tourism, to rescue the forms and customs […]
“Long Live ‘La Plaza’” Tales
It is an event to activate public space through art. Held since 2016 for all types of audiences, where families come to enjoy a night full of art in the Plaza de la Democracia where they hear stories and music, see magic acts, laugh at stand up comedy or are left stunned with short stories […]
Uncensored Love stories
Love stories are heard without censorship, it is an intimate event that combines the warmth of love. Regularly done in bars so that with the lights intoxicated with pleasure we can tell the stories you never tell.
Horror Stories’ Night
An Our Father and a Hail Mary for all the souls in purgatory.Story show that won’t let you sleep.Come enjoy spells, stories and die of fear.
Festival Puro Cuento 2021
2021 | Programa PICE / Municipalidad de Santa Ana Thanks to the AC/E Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE), which promotes and facilitates the participation of Spanish artists, we have the participation of spectacular artists. Together with the support of the Municipality of Santa Ana, the 2021 festival managed to heal the wounds opened by the […]
Children’s Megaphone 2021
2021 | Proyecto enlace UCR Children’s Megaphone started as a university project from the course Pedagogical Paradigms of the Preschool Education program at the University of Costa Rica with the purpose of creating spaces for reflection exclusively for children to contribute to the national and international educational community through raising awareness of boys and girls’ […]
Words that Connect Us
2021 | Spanish Cultural Center in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and El Salvador / Germen Nicaragua Exchanging a warm hug through our Central American history “Puro Cuento Festival” Foundation (FPC) presents the “Words that Connect Us” project to offer a virtual and scenic space among Central Americans youngsters and as a result create synergy for future face-to-face meetings. General objective […]
