Art, Music, Performance, Writing
Serving drinks but no music yet Bar Imagine
Azucena,tending bar, is the only person in the Bar Imagine when I walk in. She is polishing glasses, checking inventory, brings me a menu, works on the books while I decide on fish tacos and a Tona beer, a local favorite. " Que tiempo, la musica, "...
The world at your fingertips Books at the Cafe de Art, Granada, Nicaragua
A small bookcase in the Cafe de Arte, in Granada, has books for visitors who like to read. It is unknown whether these books come from the owner's library, were donated by friends and patrons, or are part of a take one, bring one system. Readers these...
Sandcastle Art Mermaid and Dolphin
Sand is the most common material on the beach. While we walk on it, draw initials or hearts with arrows through them, there are those who use sand to sculpt fantastic visions. Outside Pier 19 in South Padre Island there is a sand sculpture. There is sand...
Chalk Painting Support art and culture
Walking in the Cuenca Historical District wears your standards down. This is an old part of Cuenca and you gradually become accustomed to deteriorated appearances. After a few weeks you don't notice worn doorknobs, peeling paint, plaster coming off...
Ecuador Mural for the tourists
Down from the Moreno bridge, this wall mural gives a quick lesson on Ecuador. All the familiar Ecuador themes are presented in public here. There is a Panama hat that bobs its way through Cuenca. The making of Panama hats goes far back into Ecuadorian...
Artist words Andres Arizaga Cordero
This exhibit is in a Cuenca city government supported gallery, Salon del Pueblo, next to the Don Colon Restaurant, across from the New Cathedral. The artist is a teacher of art locally. He was born in Cuenca. His art is stark and grotesque but his...
Old People Can Dance too Even old people can dance
While parents like to see their children participating in this parade, it helps their children to see their parents next to them on the parade route. When the parade comes to a stop, waiting for something ahead to clear up, families hug each other,...
Kids in the Spotlight Dancing in the xmas parade
It warms adult's hearts to see children doing dances they did themselves when they were little. There is always concern by one generation that the following generation is going to hell,but traditions do get passed down and kept alive. These children are...
Skeletons on the wall Seems like Mexico again
There is a lively street art scene in Cuenca. One can google Cuenca Street Art and find examples I haven't met yet. At an intersection where traffic moves from the Rio Tomebamba into the Historical District there are two skeletons on an exterior wall of...
Jazz time Jazz Society of Ecuador, Cuenca, Ecuador
Gilberto is trying a new reed. Sue is playing clarinet instead of soprano sax. A different bass player is sitting in. It is Wednesday, the middle of the week. At showtime, it doesn't matter how many hours you practice, how much theory you know, how many...
Andean Music Winay - from Otavalo, Ecuador
This band is from Otavalo, Ecuador and is playing on a corner by the Cuenca New Cathedral. Dressed in costume, the musicians play, sing, dance,and pose with a European tourist who wants his wife to take a photo of him playing an Andean pipe. Managers and...
Soprano sax soloist Sue Terry
This evening we are treated by an American jazz musician who has a home in Cuenca. She slips into the Jazz Society club with her instrument in its case, takes a seat and listens to the band, puts her horn together, finds a reed, and joins the boys for...
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