2018: Costa Rica

Highlights:

SAN JOSE:

• "Tiempo Suspenso" multimedia dance performance, Teatro de la Danza
• Tour of La Biblioteca Nacional "Miguel Obregón Lizano"
• Tour of Teatro Nacional Costa Rica
• Blues performance, Amon Solar Cultural Center
• Disucssion with lawyer/educator Javier Argudas concerning the social and historical context of Costa Rica
• Private viewing and discussion of short film“Abrázame como antes,” with the film's creator Jurgen Ureña
• Performance of the San Jose Symphony Orchestra (and chance meeting the current president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada!)
• Tour of the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
• Tour and library discussion in Teo/rética 
• "Semblanza...Secuela...Espectro...", two short plays by Samuel Beckett, in Spanish
• Lecture, walking tour with Iden-Tica
• Tour of MUSEO DE ARTE Y DISEÑO CONTEMPORÁNEO
• En Plein Air, watercolor painting history and instruction, artists Ana Elena Fernández and Doreen Bákit
• Private concert and lecture, Manuel Monestel

CARTAGO:

• Tour of Museo-Municipal de Cartago
• Tour of Santiago Apóstol Parish Ruins, Heritage Site
• Tour of local area, historical/cultural context of the former capitol city

PORT LIMÓN/CAHUITA:

• Tour of Casa de la Cultura of Port Limon, and city area with local politician Jorge Calvo
• Impromtu chat with local Port Limon artists Honorio Cabraca
• Discussion with Escuela Excelencia ceramic's instructor, Marcel Juan Guéguen
  
• Lecture and performance of Calypso music at Colegio Liceo Rural de Cahuita; impromptu meeting with famous Caypso musician Walter Ferguson
• Discussion with local Indigenous Leader Gloria, of the Keköldi people (BriBri).