Alasitas in Bolivia started yesterday, today January 25, 2014, in Corona, Queens!!

Miranda Shafer reports: Bolivian Immigrants Celebrate ‘Alasitas’ Festival By Making Big Dreams Small Blanca Morales pulls out bins of miniature statues of cars and houses and bags of money at her home in Corona, Queens for the upcoming Bolivian festival known as Alasitas. During Alasitas participants buy miniature representations of the things they want in the New Year with…

The history of Bolivian art

Anahi Cazas writes for Pagina Siete: THE COLLECTION IS MANAGED BY THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART Six paperback books cover the history of Bolivian art The books, put together the history of the national paintings since the 18th century to the present day. A collection of paperback books on the history of Bolivian art will…

More valuable archaeological findings, this time in Cochabamba!

Karen Carrillo reports for Los Tiempos: COCHABAMBA, A RICH AND INEXHAUSTIBLE SPACE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE FOR BOLIVIA More valuable archaeological findings The Department of Cochabamba is surprising more and more by the rich archaeological heritage that was discovered. This time it’s several gold-plated blades that account for cultures that inhabited from 1500 B.C. in the…

Our Carvalho is the Bolivian guest at the Kenya Poetry Festival

Anahi Cazas reports for Pagina Siete: THE WRITER WILL READ VERSES FROM TWO OF HIS POEMS Carvalho is the Bolivian guest at the Festival of poetry in Kenya Poets from five continents will participate in the event. Among the invited are Laus Strandby and Patricia Jabbeh Wesley. The Beni writer and poet, Homero Carvalho is the…