The national Colombian company Circo Para Todos gives young people with few resources the opportunity to become professional artists. _ Miriam Valero When Jose Hugo goes out on stage, he transforms. He goes from being a timid boy to holding a daring and determined pose on the planks while everyone […]
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From Picasso to Vargas Llosa
The Instituto Cervantes has organised several events for the month of May, some of which include themes linked to these two artists. _ Considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, together with Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most important contemporary […]
Latino-British Marriages
Latin emigration is fundamentally due to political and economic reasons. But there is another cause which allows these two ethnic groups to share the same stage and exchange cultural differences. _ Mario López-Goicoechea The search for economic opportunities ranks among the main reasons why Latinos adopt the UK as their […]
Covent Garden’s seven lives
Originating as a small settlement on the outskirts of Londinium, later abandoned and turned into an orchard and vegetable garden, then it became the biggest market in the city and, centuries after that, was rebuilt and rose to be one of the most vibrant parts of the British capital. Its […]