Music for quena [Bolivian flute] wins composition prize

El Diario reports: Music for quena [Bolivian flute] wins composition prize “Four Pieces for flute and chamber orchestra” by Rodrigo Miguel Llanque Montaño, is the winning National Composition Prize ‘Orlando Alandia Pantoja’ for this year, as declared by the Jury, composed by Alberto Villalpando, Javier Parrado and Edgar Alandia. The event, organized by the Oruro…

ART EXHIBIT ON DISCRIMINATION

La Prensa reports: COLLECTIVE SHOWS ART EXHIBIT ON DISCRIMINATION In order to show discriminatory attitudes that are also a form of passive exercise violence, the group of muralists called Patunka Octubre will express these behaviors through their artwork. [picture was obtained when searching for “Bolivia discrimination pics”] The exhibition will be inaugurated today at the…

Bolivian Chiquitania: The first archaeologist at technical level, graduate!

El Dia reports: Chiquitania The first technical archaeologists graduated The Chiquitania already has its first professional archaeologists at the technical level, who were trained in the school, thanks to the Ministry of Education, supported by six municipalities of the Chiquitania and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Embassy of Spain (AECID). The…

Bolivian Valeria Escalera was chosen as student of Michel Strauss

Pagina Siete reports: VALERIA ESCALERA WILL STUDY IN PARIS (FRANCE) Bolivian was chosen as student of Michel Strauss The Bolivian cellist Valeria Escalera, participant of the Bolivia Classical training program, was selected to spend the master classes with Michel Strauss, the most famous cellist in Europe, at the Conservatory of Boulogne-Billlancourt in Paris (France). “Escalera…