Fabien Lemercier, CineEuropa [Video: use link below/use el link al final]: In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and his wife Sisa face a dilemma: resist, or be defeated by the environment and time itself. “If you knew how…
Category: Art
“The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” – “El sentido del humor boliviano puede ser tan fino como el inglés”
Ricardo David Herrera, El Deber; Pedro Albornoz: “The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” For the second consecutive year, the writer, translator and art critic from Cochabamba won the Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz novel award. He is one of the voices that gains strength in national literature Albornoz also won…
Charango
Los Tiempos: Bolivia celebrates the National Charango Day This Saturday, January 15, Bolivia celebrates the National Day of the Charango, in commemoration of the birth of the Chuquisaca master Mauro Núñez, in 1902. On July 21, 2006, Law No. 3451 was promulgated, declaring this date as the “National Day of the Charango”. On April 6,…
Alasitas: Bolivia’s festival of miniatures and dreams
EFE, La Prensa Latina: La Paz, Jan 16 (EFE).- Casa de Murillo museum in Bolivia’s capital is hosting a show about the origin of Alasitas, a curious heritage festival of miniatures and dreams which has been linked to the indigenous insurrection of 1781. The exhibition features a huge old painting of the uprising depicting Hispanic…
The traditional Potosi Christmas does not have colonial origins – La Navidad tradicional potosina no tiene orígenes coloniales
Juan Jose Toro, El Potosi: The abundant documentation of the time shows that this holiday did not have the importance of today. The Christmas party in Bolivia does not have a colonial origin. Although the commemoration came with the European invasion —and the first corresponded to Columbus, no less than in 1492—, it did not…
UTAMA: Estrena en el Sundance – Premieres at Sundance
Pagina Siete: Bolivian film Utama to premiere at Sundance Film Festival The film is the debut of Alejandro Loayza Grisi Bolivian cinema continues to give joy: the film Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi will premiere in January at the Sundance Festival, one of the most important in the world. It will compete in the World…
