SANTIAGO — Once again, Chilean students have taken to the streets to protest the…
Museo Ralli: Experience South American Art
SANTIAGO – I have to admit, I know hardly anything about South American art. When it came to Art history, my own education always focused on European artists such as Gough, Rossetti and Picasso. We never ventured outside the Europe box to explore how other continents have expressed themselves. I wanted this to change. I [...]
Spanish Town Renames Pablo Neruda Street
CIUDAD REAL, SPAIN – The mayor of Villamayor de Calatrava, a small town located 188 kms south of Madrid in Spain’s Ciudad Real province in Castile de la Mancha, has decided to rename a street named after Pablo Neruda. According to the mayor, Juan Antonio Callejas Cano, this is because the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet “is [...]
A Taste of Chile on Sunday, April 15th
SANTIAGO- For the fourth consecutive year, the city will celebrate the culinary traditions of the country this weekend. Chilean Food Day, this year on Sunday, April 15, was established by presidential decree in recognition of the rich culinary heritage of Chile. The geographical size and diversity of the various climates in each region means that Chile [...]
Pepe’s Chile: Cultural Center Museum in Santiago, Chile
Buried underground near Chile’s presidential palace, La Moneda, is a cultural treasure you’ll want to visit. The Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda or Cultural Center Museum is an underground facility located under an open plaza just south of the presidential palace. This modern museum was finished and opened its doors in 2006. It is one [...]
A Portrait of Passion: Proyecto Bandera Chile
Proyecto Bandera Chile is a unification of two foreign professional photographers based in Chile. Gardner Hamilton (Scotland) & Philippe Blue (Quebec, Canada) have combined forces with the support of I Love Chile to produce a unique audio visual presentation set to go national on September 18, 2012. The objective is to portrait the passion Chilean people [...]
Santiago Hosts International Festival of Performing Arts
SANTIAGO – The International Festival of Performing Arts and Transdisciplinarity (FIDET) is an Arts festival taking place from April 11-22, 2012 in the heart of Santiago. Santiago prides itself on being the drama capital of the continent, with productions all year round. For 11 days this month, Santiago opens its doors to a cultural and [...]
Film Review: Enter The Void
Gaspar Noé has an unnerving ability to make a dreadfully fascinating, uncomfortable viewing. First with the notoriously ultra-violent dark rape-revenge film Irréversible, which received mixed reviews; and now with Enter the Void, which is just as shocking, but with a theme that is ironically easier to swallow: drugs, orphans, and the city of Tokyo. It [...]
Chile Celebrates ‘Book Month’ in April
Events across the country have been planned to celebrate April as ‘book month’, or ‘el mes del libro’. These events will lead up to UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day on April 23, a day particularly important in the literary calendar as the anniversaries of the deaths of William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca [...]
Santiago and the Chilean Museum of Fine Arts
SANTIAGO – Established in 1880 and inaugurated in 1910 after Architect Jorge Enrique Dubois was commissioned to build a museum in Parque Forestal, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes holds an extensive collection of Chileans art and some of the most remarkable works ever created in Latin America. The glass house-type building of the Chilean [...]
GAM Celebrates 40 Years of History
SANTIAGO – Constructed in 1972, the building now home to the Gabriela Mistral Center, namesake of the famous poet, will celebrate 40 years since its inauguration with free events during April. The building, located in Lastarria, was built originally as headquarters for the Third World Conference on Trade and Development United Nations, UNCTAD III, which [...]