Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

of what? the big festejos in my country were always for the May´s Revolution (1810) not the formal Independence Day (1816), curious...!. And we are in the middle and at the beggining of a saga of festejos, acts, revisionist readings, manifestations and various debates around this anniversary. I´ll begin to post in the following days some links about it.

We are getting ready to celebrate Memorial Day. Which started out as a day to honor our civil war dead. Now it is a generic one size fits all day to honor dead soldiers from all our wars. I think each war should have its own Memorial Day. That way when we have 365 wars we won't have any room left on our calenders for any more wars. Except for leap years.

Happy Revolution day.

mmm... I was sleeply already last night or the typos are crazy! tanathos and the beggining of the Irigoyen government... interesting! . Gracias, s-t! (links later!)

Pueblos originarios´s marcha from different points of the country towards Buenos Aires:

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultim ... 05-20.html

more about pueblos originarios´s plaza:

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-21.html

Buenos Aires, a big, diverse and complex feria! (or at least is what it seems to me from distance!):

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-21.html

gossip-like declarations, intolerance, ideology & political show bussiness (or not?):

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-21.html

my festejos tonight: a reunion with 7 friends in a music-bar-restaurant in Pichincha, where I´ll try not to talk too much...!

(more later!)

no idea if the local Catholic Church has an stand in the Paseo del Bicentenario but it always has a Te Deum...!

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-23.html

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-23.html

beautiful concert yesterday night: I only saw a part of it on tv while being in an asado!

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/contenidos/ ... _0016.html

may rain, river mists and 100% humidity, a classic! (last year was unusual!)

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultim ... 05-23.html

the civic formal festejos will begin in Rosario tomorrow night in Flag Memorial zone if the weather allows it. Today plus of the half of the city was sad and angry because Rosario Central will play on "B" next campeonato. Links:

http://www.bicentenariorosario.gov.ar/p ... e-celebrar...

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/contenidos/ ... _0066.html

shiny blue sky day!

this morning acto in Rosario included humor & emotion, that is great!. I saw part of it on tv while cooking empanadas for midday familiar asado in some minutes!. See:

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/contenidos/ ... _0011.html

the Tv was reporting also this morning last night Teatro Colón re-inauguration with Ópera in the chart (no, it wasn´t the Cavalleria Rusticana... ) and now the two Te Deums...

more festejos an inaugurations in Buenos Aires:

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-25.html

the first Bicentenario, the second and... (I´ll read this links later)

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-25.html

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-25.html

(Also later more about this night show at 8 pm where I will go with some friends)

Festejos en Rosario: I´ve never seen that ammount of people near the river in such density and at the same time smell 40 minutes of pólvora! .

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/contenidos/ ... _0010.html

more about the festejos in Buenos Aires, I didn´t see this chapter on tv I´ll search them on youtube:

Latinamerican presidents in the festejos. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-26.html

History and proyection on the Cabildo:

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-26.html

What a desfile!

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-26.html

Te Deum result:

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-26.html

one of them was ecumenic (this time? mmm... first time I saw an ecumenic Te Deum, but I´m not sure!):

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-26.html

The four days ended...:"Era para desarmar... era para desarmar.." I like the title of this brief note (stealing a saying from a TV margarina publicity from the seventies...! )

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultim ... 05-26.html

post-festejos thoughts...

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 05-27.html

"La patria dibujada"... in the Palais de Glace

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suple ... 05-20.html

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/contr ... 05-31.html