By Visión 360: From the plato paceño to api with pastel: the flavors that never miss at Alasita Each dish, both sweet and savory, is a hope that nothing will be missing from the table in the coming year. The foods eaten at Alasita. Photos: Red Uno, Opinión, and social media. Alasita, declared Intangible Cultural…
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Ekeko, the fourth Wise King | El Ekeko, el cuarto Rey Mago
By Francesco Zaratti for Alasitas: From the little moon, its satellite After a bombing, a fragment of papyrus has come to light in a tomb near the Gaza–Egypt border, and it was promptly analyzed, deciphered, and interpreted by a joint Israeli–Arab–Christian commission. Chemical analysis made it possible to date the manuscript to the end of…
Iconic ceramic miniatures | Icónicas miniaturas de cerámica
By Gina Baldivieso, EFE, Brujula Digital: An ode to the father of the “t’ilinchos,” the iconic ceramic miniatures “Walter Melendres Quiso. The great master ceramist” is the name of the exhibit inaugurated at the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore. The Aymara ceramist Walter Melendres poses in his workshop in El Alto. Photo: EFE The…
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…
What Is Alasitas And Why Do Bolivians Celebrate It?
Apeksha Bagchi reports for Latin Times: Do you know what everyone’s life long dream is, beyond the shackles of rationalism and logic? It is to just wish for things and voila! You get it- be it a new house, that promotion you have been eyeing for quite some time now, or that coveted designer black…
Miniature Fair in Bolivia: Alasitas 2019 – Jan 24 to Feb 24
El Diario reports: Alasita 2019 Tradition invites to dream today The Ekeko will be the central character in the inauguration of the Alasita 2019. Today [01/24/2019] the traditional fair of Alasita 2019 is inaugurated, a celebration of the miniature that will be attended by the citizenship, the municipal, departmental and national authorities, leaving “to fly…
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