Editions

For the Puro Cuento Festival in its (14th) edition, which is already a miracle of artistic persistence, becoming the First Festival with bare Carbon Neutral

A planet that is warming without control, that has lost half of its biodiversity in less than 80 years, due to the “intelligent” human activity,

The “Palabra de Mujer” Festival (Word of Woman Festival) emerged a year ago from the need to give voice and recognition to women through different

Diego Lasso talks in this edition of Festival Puro Cuento about Costa Rican women (Yolanda Oreamuno and Chavela Vargas) in the past and how they

This is an edition dedicated to public spaces, which are the heart of our community. Because public spaces are yours!   Humankind in the last 50

The 2017 edition had the purpose to raise awareness about the negative impact that human beings are causing to the environment and extensively compared our

This edition of Festival Puro Cuento is oriented to the works of Eduardo Galeano. To read Eduardo Galeano is to be influenced with his criticism,

Diego Lasso narrates that reading a story is a solitary act that throws you to the couch, to the street platform, to the bed. And

Diego Lasso describes in this edition of Festival Puro Cuento that gossiping is better when someone tells you a gossip in real life, without using

Diego Lasso explains in the summary of this edition how storytelling could make the audience believe what the storyteller is trying to communicate to them.

There are paths in life that go through stories and others that go through comedy. The luckiest ones intertwine. In this edition, a total of

Filling San José with stories! In this edition, our storytellers went to the University of Costa Rica’s plaza (also called “Pretil”), to tell stories to

The summary of this edition emphasized the challenges society faces in the 21st century regarding the relationship of storytelling VS. living in a technological era.

We began our journey in 2002, led by Edgar Ortiz. Like all good living memories we don’t have photos of this edition. Perhaps we could