Category: Art

Solidaridad con Artistas – Solidarity w Artists

Pagina Siete: They organize a solidarity festival to support artists with Covid-19 The online meeting will take place this Saturday, January 30, and will include concerts and a virtual auction. In order to raise funds to support artists affected by Covid-19, next Saturday, January 30, the solidarity version of the Quarantine Song Festival and an…

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MBtv: Bolivia festival cancellation hits artisans’ livelihood

MBeditor, Macau Business: [To watch the video, click the photo] Master embroiderer Felix Quisbert Gutierrez, an artisan who creates folkloric dance costumes, laments the economic and cultural effects of the shuttering of his 50-year-old business as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and worries what the cancelling of celebrations and parties will mean long-term for…

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Navidad – 2020 – Christmas

Luis Escobar, Página Siete: Jesus children with a doctor’s suit and chinstrap to ask for 0 infections Craftswomen make biosecurity accessories to dress the images. Some lost family members to the pandemic or caught the virus. “The Covid-19 pandemic took our family, brothers and friends. I lost my son and it hurts a lot, “said…

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Confusión – Disarray

Lupe Cajias, El Deber: Cultures between two discourses What can Bolivians expect from the new Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and Depatriarchalization? The act of possession counted on the presence of the deep multicultural and multilingual nation; beautiful fabrics, beautiful music, lots of hugs. The second look is more worrisome: why was Sabina Orellana Cruz named…

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Repartijas – Distributions

Claudia Eid, Los Tiempos: Of expenses and “absurd” distributions The one that was the Ministry of Cultures never worked quite well and that is because it is not understood what is the profile of who should lead that portfolio or, in reality, because the Government of the day is not really interested in culture. It…

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