132 cultural activities to further boost the pride of the people of La Paz

Peace/Clear Things.- On Apolinar street Jaén, a few steps from Pedro Domingo Murillo's house, Claudia Ormachea lives, of 26 years. It's Tuesday 3 July at noon and she, with Coco, your dog, He goes out for a walk while listening to the new song “Yo soy paceño” by Gran Matador with red headphones.. “This song reflects everything I feel about La Paz”, he says while petting his pet.

“I like to see the Colorados of Bolivia, the authorities and institutions parade with the torches, you feel a special air, distinct. We all went out that day and felt the La Paz pride and what makes me most curious is that the people of La Paz celebrate the most 16 of July that the 6 of August, it feels like being collita, everyone is happy, I really like the festival too”, points out the young neighbor.

Claudia's words illustrate a general feeling, especially this month, the most important for the people of La Paz and that commemorates the revolution of 16 July 1809. to celebrate, The Mayor's Office has prepared an agenda of 300 activities, between delivery of works, protocol civic acts, social activities, cultural and other.

Precisely on Monday 2, Mayor Luis Revilla presented the July agenda to the population. Civic activities include, on sunday 15, the reading of the proclamation of the Tuitive Board in Murillo's house, the torch parade and the traditional La Paz festival; on Monday 16 Floral offerings will be given and the honor session of the Municipal Council will be held at the Alberto Saavedra Pérez theater. The program started on Sunday 1 July with the raising of the La Paz flag in the Plaza Mayor of San Francisco.

“We have already inaugurated important cultural activities, such as the Bajo Següencoma Open Air Art Gallery with an exhibition of paintings by La Paz and Bolivian artists, we will have the comics festival Viñetas con Altura, unveiling of commemorative plaques, contemporary music and dance concerts, among others”, Revilla reports.

This way, the people of La Paz will celebrate big. This civic effervescence is highlighted by the singer-songwriter Manuel Monroy Chazarreta El Papirri, who adds that although there are a variety of festivities throughout the year at the seat of government, July is special for all those who live in La Hoyada..

“All regions of Bolivia have their celebrations, only in La Paz it is celebrated and celebrated all year round. We start in Alasita, then Carnival, the month of the Bolivian sea, the Great Power, Aymara New Year and this is how we continue celebrating life, ending with the chuntunkis to the Little Boy. Of course, July is special, for America's first libertarian cry, Although now I feel that the first rebellion in La Paz against the colony was that of Tupak Katari.”, he claims.

Coincidentally, the master charanguist Ernesto Cavour highlights the festivities and fervor of La Paz.

“The city of La Paz is the only place where I want to live. I have traveled everywhere for music, to Europe especially and I don't like it, There is nothing like my La Paz; their celebrations are so emotional, such transcendental songs sound in the homes of the people of La Paz, the cuecas, the tangos, “You feel the air of celebration throughout the month”, says Cavour.

And the plastic artist Álvaro Álvarez also praises this feeling that runs through the streets of the government headquarters..

“I have been able to travel to several cities and in each of them there is a traditional celebration, but the difference is that in La Paz there is a sense of identity, “The affection and civility is stronger here in this city”.

Some activities

A total of 132 activities are part of the July cultural program, that seeks to highlight the title of La Paz Ibero-American Capital of Cultures 2018.

“The municipality of La Paz has been working to generate a broad agenda with a component that has a strong tone this month due to the Ibero-American Capital of Cultures 2018”, says the Municipal Secretary of Cultures, Andrés Zaratti.

The cultural authority highlighted meetings such as the Festiblues on 5 y 6 July, the Patunka Suxtani Brief Theater and Dramaturgy Meeting and the Viñetas con Altura International Festival on 12 and the first International Meeting of Museums, at the end of the month.

Discussion spaces will also be promoted, reflection and other training processes such as the Project Incubator, which is a previous activity of the Cultural and Creative Industries Market.

In the folkloric field, the XXXI University Entrance will be held on 28 and the anniversaries of the Pipiripi Memory and Future Interactive Space will be celebrated on 14 and from the Bolivian Cinematheque two days before, he 12.

Besides, he 17 there will be an act of commemoration of the victims of the dictatorship of Luis García Meza, around the figure of Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, but also honoring other victims. At the end of the month a civic event will be held for Paceña Flag Day.

The festival: a party that makes the people of La Paz proud

Oh dear..., oh dear…, popular metaphysics, if your team is the queue leader, tomorrow there is a mobilized strike. why do you eat the second first?, your little wawa is very big. I'm warm with this cold, Yesterday they left their line, one day I spent three days, let's see lady, start at the end…”, says the first part of the song 'Popular Metaphysics' by Manuel Monroy Chazarreta, The Papirri, musician and composer from La Paz with a long career who will be present at this festival 15 July in San Francisco.

The celebration will begin at 18.00 and will also feature the participation of the Argentine cumbia group Jambao and the young Bolivian Bonny Lovy; The music of the '70s will be present with Loving Darks and Luz de América, there will be folklore with Huayna Wila and Ozono and the sound of the drum, Gran Matador will present a unique show and the song 'Yo soy paceño', composed by the Mayor's Office to highlight local pride.

Monroy finds it impressive to participate in the festival and says he is anxious. Last year he sang two songs as a guest by the group Octavia. “I almost peed myself when I went on stage.”, there were some 80 thousand people. I never played in front of such a crowd. This year I will play for the first time with my band and I am a little scared.”, points out.

It highlights that the festival is the favorite festival of the people of La Paz.. “The heart of La Paz is the Plaza de los Héroes (now Major) and will continue to be so even if the years go by, “It is the ‘taypi’ of La Paz”, Monroy says.. In this year, The stage will be in the middle of Mariscal Santa Cruz Avenue in order to have more people around and reach more people who come to the place..

The singer-songwriter adds that being from La Paz is an increasingly solid feeling and the Aymara pulsation “generates true history.”, “millennial identity and modernity”. Besides, to be from La Paz is to be integrative, “because we have the people of La Paz, the people of Tupiza, the Catalans of La Paz, the gauchitos of La Paz and everyone feel protected in this hole, in this infinite Andean skirt”, emphasize.

In addition to performing their classic songs, The singer-songwriter will give a new piece to the people of La Paz and his chorus says: “I have a window that is a blessing, faces the east slope, al t’ata Illimani, that window made me say: I love you my Peace, for your moon, for your sun, for your sky, for your essence of truth, for my people and their kindness, I love you.

“This chorus haunted me for a couple of months.”, until I had to complete the song with a poem that I dedicated to La Paz ago. 20 years, I like it a lot. I also have other songs like 'Chenko total', 'Zepita's head', 'Today is Sunday', 'Aerial sea' or 'Alasita', For example", explains El Papirri.

Civic-cultural activities for the month of July

Domingo 8

Wizard of Oz Symphonic Concert, by El Alto Philharmonic Orchestra – Municipal Theater Cinema 6 August

Monday 9

Civic event by Friends of the City – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Thursday 12

Bolivian Cinematheque Anniversary

Inauguration of the 16 Viñetas con Altura International Festival – Modesta Sanjinés Theater

The inauguration of Patunka Suxtani encounter of theater of theater and playwright – Chamber Theater

Serenade to La Paz Gladys Moreno – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Friday 13

Nomination plaque unveiling ceremony, commemorative plaques and bust in the “Juan Francisco Bedregal” roundabout – The type

world rock day – Municipal Theater Cinema 6 August

Saturday 14

Anniversary of the Interactive Space Memory and Future Pipiripi

Domingo 15

Reading of the proclamation of the Tuitive Board – Murillo's House

Tea Parade. Murillo House – Center

Traditional Verbena Paceña – Plaza Mayor San Francisco

Monday 16

Floral offerings – Murillo Square

Council Honor Session – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Mars 17

Inauguration of the “Illimani” exhibition – Tambo Quirquincho Museum

Tribute to Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz and those who fell in the Coup d'état of 1985 – Plaza Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz

Wednesday 18

Delivery of restoration and heritage valorization works – General Cemetery

Vallenato with Éibar Gutiérrez and his band (Colombian Embassy) – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Thursday 19

Inauguration of the exhibition “Dictatorships Never Again” – House of Culture

43 years of Savia Andina – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

symphonic concert (Embassy of Peru) – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Saturday 21

Gala Bafopaz – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Mars 24

Peruvian film series (Embassy of Peru) – Municipal Theater Cinema 6 August

Wednesday 25

Inauguration of the 1st International Meeting of Museums – Musef

Revealing of the nomination plaque in the Plaza Apóstol Santiago – Alto Pampahasi

Inauguration of international exhibition “Visions from the wind” – Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas Hall

Premiere of work “Pornography”, by Diego Aramburo – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Thursday 26

Piano by José Navarro Silberstein (Bolivian living in Austria) – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Saturday 28

University Folklore Ticket. Of. Montes – Hernando Siles stadium

Festival of sexual diversities – Municipal Theater Cinema 6 August

Monday 30

The song of Sylvia Falcón (Embassy of Peru) – Alberto Saavedra Pérez Municipal Theater

Mars 31

Paceña Flag Day – Plaza Mayor San Francisco

Cinema for everyone – Municipal Theater Cinema 6 August

Fuente: AMN