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| The Museum of the Dominican Man (MHD) issued Bulletin Number 42 with the results of its research, putting the institution at the service of professionals and students in the area as well as the general public. | Culture | 8/26/2008 |
| The Lyle O. Reitzel contemporary art gallery, fulfilling its inherent function of an open, new art space and its commitment to supporting young, emerging artists, is presenting its most recent discovery: Hulda Guzmán and Gustavo Peña. | Culture | 8/26/2008 |
| The Dominican Minister of Culture, through the Office of Books and Reading , will launch José Frank Rosario’s Complete Book of Poetry titled Between Dust and Ashes. The book presentation is part of its publishing commitment to Dominican writers. | Culture | 8/15/2008 |
| The book “The Generation Gap: Toward a Renovation of Hope” by Milton Morrison will be launched in New York City on August 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Caliope Bookstore on Dyckman Street in Washington Heights. The following Saturday, Mr. Morrison will give | Culture | 8/14/2008 |
| A huge gathering of dancers, choreographers, actors and artists will take place on August 1,2 and 3rd . Among other participating will be the Silver Brown Company (USA), Transit (Spain), Archodanse (Haiti), and for the Dominican Republic Tatiana Meji | Culture | 8/14/2008 |
| The Third International Children’s Film Festival in Santo Domingo is opening with fun workshops, interesting movies and a visit from an international film expert. The 2008 Festival is being organized for the third year in a row by the Office of the F | Culture | 8/14/2008 |
| The Dominican Merengue will once again fill some of the biggest dance halls in the world, represented by its best protagonists. Frank Cruz, Francis "Songo" Santana, Vinicio "Mambo" Franco and Joseíto "El Diablo" Mateo will reunite on the stage to si | Culture | 8/12/2008 |
| The simulcast show of the closing of the 41st Merengue Festival in Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico will undoubtedly result in a huge boost in international interest in this musical style as well as in Dominican tourism. | Culture | 8/12/2008 |
| Minister of Culture, José Rafael Lantigua, was inducted as a member of the Dominican Academy of Language during a solemn ceremony overseen by President Fernández. Upon being inducted into the Academy, Lantigua gave a speech on the topic “Literary Con | Culture | 7/30/2008 |
| The short film, "Pinchos & Rolos," made by US-based Dominican Freddy Vargas was selected to participate in the New York Latino International Film Festival. | Culture | 7/30/2008 |
| Young filmmaker, Camilo Then, announced that he is making his third documentary and it is called “Norman de Castro: Life with HIV.” | Culture | 7/18/2008 |
| The Ministry of Tourism sponsored the First Asian Food Festival held in conjunction with the Flower for Everyone Foundation and representatives from the People’s Republic of China in the Dominican Republic. | Culture | 7/16/2008 |
| The book, “Stellar Moments of the Rio Group Summit in Santo Domingo,” written by journalist Emilia Pereyra, was launched last Thursday at the National Palace in the presence of Dominican President Leonel Fernández. | Culture | 7/1/2008 |
| The Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR) congratulates the Broadway musical "In The Heights" for winning four Tony Awards during last | Culture | 6/28/2008 |
| The Ministry of Culture announced the opening of the “Dominican Workers Movement” photo exhibit on display at the Narcizo González of Villa Juana Cultural Center in the Silvano Lora Hall. | Culture | 6/23/2008 |
| President Leonel Fernández and First Lady Margarita Cedeño de Fernández oversaw the launching of Manuel Tapia Brea’s book of stories, “International Focus 1966-1970” a collection of the journalist’s stories from that period. | Culture | 6/23/2008 |
| The human universe of Wilfredo García is explored through the testimonies of those who shared intimacies with this artist. | Culture | 6/23/2008 |
| Juan A. Paulino (Santiago, Dominican Republic, 1931), revered activist of the Dominican Community in the United States, passed away on May 30, 2008. In response to your interest, we are publishing the following piece by Ramona Hernández, Professor of | Culture | 6/19/2008 |
| Almost 400 aerial images comprise this unprecedented work that offers a new perspective of the country highlighting all its facets. | Culture | 6/12/2008 |
| On June 7, the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Colombian Art will host an exhibition that will display a group of 55 works of Taino art, many of which were originally found in indigenous settlements on the Island of Hispaniola | Culture | 6/11/2008 |
| The Alfaguara Children’s Book Publishers and the Santillana Group are delighted to congratulate Dinorah Coronado’s “Rebecca Up At Bat” which has won the "Aurora Tavárez Belliard" National Children’s Literature Prize for 2008. Ms. Coronada, a Dominica | Culture | 6/10/2008 |
| A total of eight concerts will bring together musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean for the 9th Edition of the Theater House Jazz Festival that will begin on Friday June 6 and continue throughout June and July with concerts every Thursday. | Culture | 6/5/2008 |
| For the first time, Dominicans participated in the Carnival Parade in the North American city of San Francisco with a colorful float representing the Dominican Republic. | Culture | 6/5/2008 |
| It is a little piece of Asia in the Caribbean. It is a space where a 5,000-thousand-year-old culture mixes comfortably with the customs and practices of native Dominicans. Porticos, engravings, sculptures, fountains, gardens and Asian shops and busin | Culture | 6/4/2008 |
| The Consulate of the Dominican Republic in Barcelona, Spain organized a photography exposition and book debut to showcase the publication, New Perspectives: Dominican Republic | Culture | 6/4/2008 |
| The Photojournalist Group of the Communication Studies Center of the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) has organized a film cycle in which viewers will have the opportunity to contemplate the dangers faced on a daily basis by photoj | Culture | 6/4/2008 |
| Dominican artist and architect Limber Vilorio has won the famous Casa de Velázquez award from Madrid and has been invited to show his work next year at "La Grande Halle" of Parc de la Villette, Paris’s largest city park. | Culture | 6/2/2008 |
| Juan Luis Guerra will kick off his world tour with a series of concerts at important venues in the United States. The tour, being called "La Travesía" or The Crossing, will begin in July. | Culture | 6/2/2008 |
| The much respected master Guillo Pérez has returned to the Dominican Republic to present his new exhibition The Flamboyans of Guillo Pérez. This follows Mr. Pérez’s successful 2006 exhibition in New York City’s Rockefeller Center. The exhibition open | Culture | 5/27/2008 |
| The Spanish Cultural Center will present an exhibition and discussion on Wednesday May 21 at 7:30 p.m. The subject is “Culture: Alternatives, Diversity and Rights.” The exhibition will gather posters made by professionals in the field of visual commu | Culture | 5/27/2008 |
| The Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR) is pleased to announce its agenda for its 6th Annual Dominicans On The Hill Day in Washington, DC. Dominicans On The Hill Day is an opportunity for members of the community to interact face-to-face | Culture | 5/19/2008 |
| The Pedro Henríquez Ureña (BNPHU) National Library and the President’s Office of Information and Communication Technologies (OPTIC) have signed a collaboration agreement in which both institutions have committed to utilize new technology with the goa | Culture | 5/19/2008 |
| The Dominican Chamber of Deputies approved a Resolution delegating award-winning, US-based writer Junot Díaz the “Cultural Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the World.” The special appointment, initially brought before the Congress on April 22, | Culture | 5/19/2008 |
| The 11th International Book Fair of Santo Domingo 2008 will be extended for 11 more days in response to a request by schools, universities and book stores, Book Fair organizers announced. | Culture | 5/19/2008 |
| TThe Executive Branch of the Dominican government promulgated Law 154-08, approved by Congress, which officially declares May 19th as the “Day of the Democratic Soldier,” in remembrance of Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez, the constitutionalist colon | Culture | 5/13/2008 |
| Portal Dominicanaonline.org, an initiative of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), has launched a special section dedicated exclusively | Culture | 5/13/2008 |
| The recently remodeled Cathedral of Our Lady of Regla in the city of Baní, in the southern region of the country, opened its doors today. | Culture | 4/29/2008 |
| Dominican President, Doctor Leonel Fernández, presided over the World Earth Day activities, organized by the Progressive Environmental Movement (MAP). | Culture | 4/29/2008 |
| The Dominican American National Roundtable congratulates Junot Diaz for his selection as the recipient of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize in the Letters, Drama and Music Category for his fictional work "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." The Pulitzer Prize | Culture | 4/25/2008 |
| Novelist and playwright Haffe Serulle will present the theater piece Kali-Gula-Bach from April 19-30 at 8:00 p.m. in the Manuel Rueda Hall at the Fine Arts Building. This play was written in homage to Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre and composer Joha | Culture | 4/25/2008 |
| To celebrate the International Day of Monuments and Sites, the Ministry of Culture, represented by the Deputy Secretary of Cultural Heritage, along with the National Direction of Monument Heritage and the Franklin Center of the United States Embassy, | Culture | 4/25/2008 |
| In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frida Khalo and the 50th anniversary of the death of Diego Rivera, the Embassy of Mexico and the Casas Reales Museum of the Ministry of Culture inaugurated the exhibition, “Accomplices: Diego | Culture | 4/25/2008 |
| E Dominican Painter Enriquillo Amiama is showing his latest collection of work at the Gallery Bellarte in Seoul, South Korea throughout the month of April. The collection of 20 pieces of a variety of formats displays the main thematic structures of h | Culture | 4/17/2008 |
| The Spanish Cultural Center has the pleasure of inviting you to the inauguration of Space Zero for the exhibition of This is the Way of the Creole (Asi e a lo criollo) | Culture | 4/13/2008 |
| Residents of Mano Juan on the Saona Island now possess the priceless opportunity of communicating with the entire world through digital technology. | Culture | 4/3/2008 |
| More than thirty groups from around the country and from Puerto Rico and Venezuela participated in the VIII Emilio Aparicio Theater Festival organized with great success by the Ministry of Culture. This year the festival was dedicated to amateur thea | Culture | 4/2/2008 |
| Sociologist César Cuello Nieto released his novel “Saturn Devoured by Father Time,” which, according to Lucero Arboleda of the Emilio Rodriguez Demorizi Library, “submerges us into the labyrinth of time with the explicit intention of making the past | Culture | 3/31/2008 |
| The Office Tourism Promotion (OPT) of the Dominican Republic in Puerto Rico has begun preparations for what will doubtless be an event full of Caribbean heat, Creole music and cultural intensity: the first Merengue Festival of Puerto Rico. | Culture | 3/31/2008 |
| T he sociological and statistical study “Analysis of the Reality of Migration in Spain and the Dominican Republic: An Opportunity for Co-Development,” published on Monday, revealed that remittances sent home to the Dominican Republic from abroad ofte | Culture | 3/31/2008 |
| The Secretary of State for Culture inaugurated the painting show, “Friends in the Night” by Peruvian artist John Padovani in the Art Hall of Ramón Oviedo. Padovani is showing 24 paintings made up of medium and large size pictures on canvas based on t | Culture | 3/31/2008 |
| Dominican poets Mateo Morrison and José Mármol will represent the Dominican Republic at the First International Poetry Festival of Puerto Rico being held at the Inter-American University’s Metropolitan Campus between March 24-29 | Culture | 3/31/2008 |
| Saona Island will benefit from a generous investment to be used in construction and infrastructure works thanks to a sustainable tourism development project from the Italian city of Savona and the Secretary of State for Tourism (SECTUR), according | Culture | 3/28/2008 |
| The Dominican Office of Tourism Promotion in Puerto Rico has reopened its doors to the pubic with the first one-man show of well-known Dominican artist Henry Crisóstomo after having remodeled and enlarged their offices. | Culture | 3/28/2008 |
| The Secretary of State for Tourism along with representatives of the three main cruise companies of the Dominican Republic will participate in the 15th edition of the cruise fair “Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention” to be celebrated this week at the | Culture | 3/24/2008 |
| Carreras Avenue, in the center of town, was the site Sunday of the first Carnival parade to kick off “Santiago 2008.” As is the custom, the parade | Culture | 3/9/2008 |
| Santo Domingo will celebrate this Sunday, February 10, with its first Carnival Parade as it moves down Mexico Avenue marking the start of a program that includes a series | Culture | 3/9/2008 |
| With the idea of monitoring and following up on the efforts being made to place the Dominican Republic in a competitive position in comparison with its | Culture | 3/9/2008 |
| The newly remodeled Oscar Gobaira Sports Center of Santiago will be inaugurated this coming Friday February 29 in a ceremony to be attended by the country’s main sports authorities and athletes. | Culture | 3/4/2008 |
| María Antonieta Collins, Mexican journalist and US resident will present her latest book “You Said You Loved Me. How to Endure the Unthinkable,” a story of the love, infidelity and illness she experienced with her husband. | Culture | 3/2/2008 |
| A group of 21 artists, theatrical performers, poets, musicians, dancers and choreographers will unite for three days, kicked off by the show "Teatro por un tubo,” or Theater Bonanza, to celebrate the opening of the new Grupo Guloya theater and cultur | Culture | 3/2/2008 |
| The Miami Dade County Board of Commissioners will celebrate the Second Week of Dominican-American Cultural Heritage between February 22nd and 27th. | Culture | 2/28/2008 |
| To mark the activities being held to celebrate Dominican-American Cultural Heritage Week , on Thursday February 25, will be the first encounter of the | Culture | 2/26/2008 |
| The Museum of the Dominican Man, the Embassy of Japan and the Dominican Association of Former Scholars of Monbukagakusho (ADEMON) has inaugurated the Traditional Japanese | Culture | 2/21/2008 |
| The Secretary of State for Youth Affairs awarded the winners of the 12th annual National Youth Prizes for the year 2007. Those who received recognition included young Dominicans living here... | Culture | 2/14/2008 |
| The Dominican National Commission for UNESCO announced the opening call for the international contest to create the emblem for the Convention for the Safeguarding of the... | Culture | 2/8/2008 |
| Secretary of State for Culture, through the General Secretary of Books and Reading , announced the deadline for entering works that will participate in the... | Culture | 2/1/2008 |
| Alfaguara Publishers announced the release of its first novel this year: Candela by Rey Emmanuel Andújar, his new young adult fiction book. | Culture | 2/1/2008 |
| Anya Damirón’s new book “Lucia’s Stories” a collection of children’s stories in English and Spanish, is now on the book shelves. | Culture | 1/29/2008 |
| The National Dominican Commission for UNESCO has organized a seminar to discuss intercultural issues between Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean... | Culture | 1/29/2008 |
| The Dominican-Puerto Rican Foundation and the Doña Ruth Basallo Artistic and Environmental Movement is organizing a painting exhibition called “The Mural Routes” | Culture | 1/24/2008 |
| Dominican Artist José García Cordero, born in Santiago de los Caballeros in 1951 and a resident of Paris since 1977, is presenting his work in a one-man show in at... | Culture | 1/8/2008 |
| Around 4,500 volunteers who worked to save the lives of the victims of Tropical Storms Noel and Olga in the Dominican Republic enjoyed a tribute in their honor last Tuesday... | Culture | 12/31/2007 |
| The Cocola "Good Morning Guavaberry" Cultural Festival begins this Sunday, December 23 at 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The festival will open with... | Culture | 12/31/2007 |
| A Film, Video and Televisión Festival is currently underway in the city of Moca and will run until this Sunday December 16. The festival, now in its third year, is going on in the María Contín Technology and Cultural Center. | Culture | 12/18/2007 |
| On December 17th, the Virgilio Travieso Soto Sports Palace will host a huge concert with musicians from 30 countries who will join together to pay homage to volunteers who worked tirelessly... | Culture | 12/18/2007 |
| After becoming aware of the devastating effects of Tropical Storm Noel in the Dominican Republic,.. | Culture | 12/13/2007 |
| Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – Media World Dominicana, recently finished filming “Explosive Brigade, Pirate’s Mission” which is set along the spectacular beaches of Samaná. | Culture | 12/13/2007 |
| The children’s book, Margarita and the Cloud, will soon be on the shelves. This coming Wednesday, December 5th , a book launching will be held at the Quinta Dominica in the Colonial Zone at 6:30 p.m.. | Culture | 12/13/2007 |
| Members of the Association of Feature Writers and Art Critics, along with three professionals versed in this area, will analyze the various aspects of current and past trends in Dominican television. | Culture | 11/14/2007 |
| The Spanish Cultural Center (CCE) has inaugurated the exhibition “Santo Domingo 1939-1940,” displaying the work of famous Austrian photographer Kurt Schnitzer. | Culture | 11/14/2007 |
| San Pedro de Macorís, DR.- René Rodríguez Soriano, with his novel “El Mal de Tiempo” (Evil of the Time) won the UCE National Literary Award for 2007 as the Central University of the East (UCE) celebrates the 37th year anniversary of its founding in t | Culture | 11/14/2007 |
| The German Embassy and the Museum of Modern Art, with the support of the Secretary of State for Culture, will present the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) as part of the 24th National Biennale of Visual Arts. | Culture | 11/14/2007 |
| For the second time, the Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has chosen the Leon Center as the venue for the Third Inter-American Video Art Biennial. | Culture | 10/17/2007 |
| The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture and Alianza Dominicana will present ¡QUIJOMBO!, a celebration of Afro-Dominican Culture, from October 3—7 which will include five days of concerts, exhibitions, a crafts fair, workshops... | Culture | 10/17/2007 |
| The Union of Dominican Photojournalists (UFD) is presenting its first Expo-Projection of Press Photographs to mark the international month of photography. | Culture | 10/17/2007 |
| The Symphony Foundation, together with the Secretary of State for Culture, with the patronage of La Cadena Supermarkets, announces the presentation of the First and | Culture | 10/17/2007 |
| All are invited to a photographic exhibition “From Santiago to Santiago” where five members of GRUFOS will be participating. The photographers are: Anthony Grullón, Octavio Madera, Narciso Polanco, Máximo Tejada and Amaury Suárez. | Culture | 10/1/2007 |
| On September 20th, 2007 the Dominican Republic’s National Youth Symphonic Orchestra will give a concert in Aaron Davis Hall at the City College of New York. The concert is being held for New York’s Dominican community. | Culture | 10/1/2007 |
| The Latin Recording Academy has announced in a press release that it will honor the Dominican singer and songwriter Juan Luis Guerra as the “2007 Person of the year” in the context of a ceremony that precede the Latin Grammy Awards.. | Culture | 9/12/2007 |
| As part of an artistic tour in Latin America, the most glorious dancers of two of the most renowned classic dancing Russian theatre companies, the Bolshoi and Stanislavsky Ballets, will charm the Dominican public. | Culture | 9/12/2007 |
| “Red Bull Cockfight” is looking again for the best Dominican rapper to represent the country in the upcoming final which will take place in the month of October in Venezuela. | Culture | 9/12/2007 |
| A group of well-known Dominican actors who reside in New York City will present the play “The Internet is to Blame” in Santiago and Santo Domingo from August 15th to the 18th. | Culture | 9/12/2007 |
| Thirteen of the best new Christian singers will participate in the festival “Mi voz para Cristo” (My Voice for Christ). This event promotes the Christian music genre which has vastly grown throughout the... | Culture | 9/1/2007 |
| The State Secretariat of Tourism (Secretaria de Estado de Turismo) has organized the thirty-third Simon Romero Dominican Gastronomic Festival on August 23rd and 24th. | Culture | 8/12/2007 |
| Fania Records (Emusica Entertrainment Group, LLC) is proud to announce the official release of two musical collections of the legendary Héctor Lavoe: El Cantante – The Originals and A Man and His Music- La Voz. | Culture | 8/12/2007 |
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