Santo Domingo, October 18, 2018 \u2013 A significant number of artisans from the Cibao region \u2013 the country\u2019s heartland – will exhibit their arts and crafts this weekend during \u201cExpo Cultura 2018,\u201d to be held in Santo Domingo\u2019s Colonial Zone. The fair will open on Friday, October 19, and close Sunday evening with a concert that will feature top musicians and music groups from the region.<\/p>\n
Artisans from the 10 provinces that make up the Cibao region \u2013 including the north coast provinces of Puerto Plata and Saman\u00e1, and Santiago, the country\u2019s second largest city -will sell their beautiful and unique Dominican products at true fair prices.<\/p>\n
\u201cExpo Cultura 2018\u201d is organized by the Ministry of Culture to promote the country\u2019s arts and crafts, encourage cultural projects, and help the artisans channel their products to the overall population, explained Dominican Minister of Culture Eduardo Selman.<\/p>\n
The fair opens on Friday, October 19, at 10 a.m., at \u201cPlaza de Espa\u00f1a,\u201d the beautiful town square that symbolizes Santo Domingo\u2019s Colonial Zone. The fair will also include other activities, including Dominican food stands, musical presentations, conferences, folk dancing and a special exhibition of documentaries, all related to the Cibao region.<\/p>\n
Artisans will exhibit their beautiful products with wood, metals, recycled materials, textiles, jewelry and paper-based products. Also, articles made with tiles, petrified stone, and clay.<\/p>\n
The fair will remain open until 10:00 p.m. It will close on Sunday with a gala musical concert featuring popular musicians Fefita la Grande, Francisco Ulloa and Jos\u00e9 Pe\u00f1a Suazo. <\/p>\n
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Santo Domingo, October 18, 2018 \u2013 A significant number of artisans from the Cibao region \u2013 the country\u2019s heartland – will exhibit their arts and crafts this weekend during \u201cExpo Cultura 2018,\u201d to be held in Santo Domingo\u2019s Colonial Zone. The fair will open on Friday, October 19, and close Sunday evening with a concert … Continue reading “\u201cExpo Cultura 2018\u201d Arts and Crafts Fair Will Feature Products from the Country\u2019s Beautiful Central Region”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}