Low-cost public transportation never fails to strike new visitors to Guatemala. While chicken buses aren’t a novelty in developing countries… the kind found in Guatemala most certainly draw attention. And those in La Antigua are no exception. Old, toss-away yellow school buses make their way from the U.S. and, once in Guate, each seem to ...
The Bagel Barn will be offering a free showing of a Guatemalan film today at 7:00pm. When the Mountains Tremble (Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates 1983) is “a documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with firsthand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.” During the showing, viewers can ...
As ArteAntigua stays connected with the projects of friends in Copenhagen, Denmark, we become more convinced that La Antigua needs to start exploring with it’s own interactive design projects. Presenting Ishac Bertran’s ±pole An interactive installation presenting a tangible interface which allows multiple users to play with groups of particles and polarized elements. By placing ...
This week’s feature film at El Sitio Proyecto Cultural is the 1965 classic Doctor Zhivago (David Lean): Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother’s lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can’t compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who also ...
This week’s free film showing at the Centro de Formación de la Cooperación de Española is a Spanish work from Ventura Pons. Amor Idiota will begin at 6:00 pm: Revolves around a young man named Pere-Lluc, how is determined not to take himself too seriously. Pere-Lluc is prone to commenting on his life in a ...
The U.S. Embassy of Guatemala announces a call to participate in the Democracy Video Challenge Competition 2009. Guatemalan nationals are encouraged to submit their entries: The U.S. Department of State and YouTube.com recently launched the second Democracy Video Challenge, a competition that asks eligible contestants to submit three-minute videos to YouTube.com that complete the sentence, ...
The documentary was 11 years in the making. Breaking the Maya Code (2008) from Nightfire Films is based on the book by Michael Coe “Breaking the Maya Code” and tells the story behind the centuries-long decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs. The Maya writing system was used in what is now Mexico and Central America for ...
Bagel Barn is showing Julie Taymor’s film Frida (2002) this evening. Frida was a Mexican artist whose influence and talent is highly celebrated throughout the world today. “Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring ...
The Bagel Barn will be offering a free showing of a Guatemalan film today at 7:00pm. When the Mountains Tremble (Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates 1983) is “a documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with firsthand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.” During the showing, viewers can ...
Every Thursday El Sitío Proyecto Cultural hosts “movie night.” This week the cultural center is showing the Columbian documentary Camilo el Cura Guerrillero (Franscisco Norden 1974). Camilo Torres was a Catholic priest belonging to the Colombian bourgeoisie who died in 1966 during a military confrontation between guerrillas the national army. The movie begins at 6:00 ...
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Art enthusiasts in search of the exotic have the opportunity to indulge in an art that hails from the Middle East. El Sitío is hosting a belly dancing performance today, Friday, October 2 at 8:00pm. Visiones y Velos features dancer Zaina Zahesha and percussionist Susu Pampanin and is presented with the support of Artecentro Graciela ...
El Sitio Proyecto Cultural has announced its musical lineup for the month of October. The cultural center will be presenting two jazz groups including Caffeine Jazz Quartet with Caffeina Jazz and Fernando Pérez and his Latin Jazz Band performing Latin Jazz Blues. Some of Guatemala’s most renowned voices in opera will present Una Tarde Lírica. ...
Guatemala celebrates Children’s Day (Día del Niño) on October 1st. To celebrate, El Sitio Proyecto Cultural will be hosting a theatrical presentation of “La Bella del Bosque Durmiente” (Sleeping Beauty). El Sitio will also be offering a workshop: Recrearte, live the ARTE – a project that invites you to get to know the work of ...
The sounds that resonate from Guatemala’s national instrument are exotic. But, enthusiasts can stumble upon music from the marimba each and every day in the streets of La Antigua Guatemala. Revue Magazine featured one such group of marimbistas in its August issue: The Magic of the Marimba By Laura McNamara The national instrument and the ...