Articles on Art
Artful Rebellion
14 March, 2013, Connor Larson
Connor Larson explores how art is helping El Alto’s youths find personal growth. A volunteer, an MC, and the Minister of Cultures Pablo Groux help her understand how their cultural expressions can also help society develop. El Alto is a city of contrasts. The seeming lack of consistency in the ...
Constellation Sacaba
30 January, 2013, Amaru Villanueva Rance
The Ch’askitas, named after the quechua word for star, are Sacaba’s latest girl-band export. Amaru Villanueva Rance went to meet these folk starlets to learn their story, and left with three goddaughters; three more than he had bargained for. Photo: Amaru Villanueva Rance I first met the Ch'askitas and ...
Grand Designs - Apocalyptic Architecture
30 January, 2013, Joel Balsam
At the End of Days ‘It’s been a historical dilemma for Andean cities’, said Bolivian architect Mijael Bumuller. ‘An increase in demographics causes thousands to move to, and build on, the side of mountains’. You see it in Rio de Janerio in the world famous favelas, you see it in ...
Marcos and Bellas
21 November, 2012, Theo Haynes
Las Bellas Durmientes (Alma Films, 90 minutes, Bolivia - 2012)The story unfolds in a lawless world which ignores both victims and perpetrators alike. Quispe, a humble member of the special investigations police unit, embarks on a pursuit of the truth and justice behind the murder of two beautiful and innocuous ...
Music money can´t buy
02 July, 2012, Eleanor Warnick
For many well-known Western musicians, success means profit and fame. A stereotypical Western pop star has a handful of number-one hits, with merchandise mounted on the walls of hormonal adolescents. But for Leonardo Egúsquiza (a regular hit at Sol y Luna as part of the Negringo duo), commerical Yani, or ...
Drumming for hate S.A.
02 July, 2012, Naomi Cohen, Eleanor Warnick
An interview with Christian Paredes BX: Who was the first musician that inspired you? C.P.: The first musician that inspired me was Igor Cavalera. He’s a heavy metal drummer. I liked his energy, what he expressed – it was more original, something you can’t explain, that was larger than life ...
The maestro departs
02 July, 2012, Helena Cavell
David Handel’s much-lauded tenure as the head of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Bolivia has come to an end. Helena Cavell has a conversation with him about his time here and the precarious state of the orchestra without David Handel has led the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Bolivia (OSN) for ...
Songs of freedom
02 July, 2012, Deshan Chetty
‘From Bolivia, heart of dark skinned America, we come: miners, Indian peasants, students, men, women and children. We form a circle of raised fists, we say to those who stomp on our flag and steal our resource, “Enough. It’s time for rebellion!”‘ So spoke Nilo Soruco, a famous protest singer ...
Los B
15 May, 2012, Helena Cavell
4 out of 5 stars Los B gathers some of Bolivia's most talented actors and throws them together in a script that gives a face to Bolivia's bourgeois of the 1980s. Based on Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks, the play tells a story familiar to modern Bolivia: a once wealthy family, ...
Matame por favor
15 May, 2012, Lauren Bell
4 out of 5 stars The FITAZ festival went off with a bang on its first weekend with performances of Mátame, Por Favor on the nights of Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 March in the Espacio el Desnivel theatre space. It was performed by Escena 163, an artistic collective created ...