{"id":116588,"date":"2018-09-18T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=116588"},"modified":"2018-09-18T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:30:43","slug":"spain-goes-all-out-in-cultural-exchange-in-october-and-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/09\/18\/spain-goes-all-out-in-cultural-exchange-in-october-and-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain goes all out in cultural exchange in October and November"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_116593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116593\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116593\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Spain-Weeks-Centro-Cultural-Espa\u00f1ol-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Centro Cultural Espa\u00f1ol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Embassy of Spain is backing local efforts to present the sixth edition of the \u201cSemanas de Espa\u00f1a en la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana,\u201d the cultural event spanning the months of October and November. The event is held to strengthen the permanent ties between Spain and the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda are cultural, academic and social activities in the cities of Greater Santo Domingo, Santiago, Ban\u00ed and Bonao. The calendar of events is featured on the Spanish Embassy website and that of the Centro Cultural de Espa\u00f1a, the main cultural center. On Instagram, it is listed as \u201cla Cultura Une\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The activities start on 9 October with the presentation of the Bohio Flamenco show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo. The show merges flamenco with tango, bolero and son, as choreographed by Adriana Lopez (La Pimienta).<\/p>\n<p>The art exhibition \u201cEl Entierro del Conde de Orgaz \/ La Flauta Doble by painter Pablo Picasso, will be shown at the Centro Cultural Perell\u00f3 in Ban\u00ed. Dominican students are then being encouraged to participate in the cubism painting contest sponsored by the Embassy of Spain in collaboration of the Universidad APEC (UNAPEC).<\/p>\n<p>Within the VII Semana Internacional de la Poes\u00eda, activities will be held to honor the 50 years of the death of Spanish poet Le\u00f3n Felipe.<\/p>\n<p>There will be also presentation of classics of Spanish cinema shown at the Cinemateca Dominicana in collaboration with Funglode during October. These include films by Luis Bu\u00f1uel.<\/p>\n<p>And this year, the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro Infantil y Juvenil (FITIJ) will include the performances of three Spanish companies.<\/p>\n<p>Spain is guest country for the Photoimagen, the largest photography festival in the country. There will be photography exhibitions in October and November with Juan Manuel D\u00edaz Burgos, Jorge Lens, Alberto Garc\u00eda Alix, and Dominican Belkiss Adrover de Cibr\u00e1n. The exhibitions are curated by Jes\u00fas Mic\u00f3.<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/ccesd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centro Cultural de Espa\u00f1a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18 September 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of Spain is backing local efforts to present the sixth edition of the \u201cSemanas de Espa\u00f1a en la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana,\u201d the cultural event spanning the months of October and November. The event is held to strengthen the permanent ties between Spain and the Dominican Republic. On the agenda are cultural, academic and social &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/09\/18\/spain-goes-all-out-in-cultural-exchange-in-october-and-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}