We are off on another multi-month, multi-country adventure. We started this trip by visiting two friends, JT and Betty, who moved from Cuenca, Ecuador earlier this year. We met them in Buenos Aires, and spent a couple nights in this cosmopolitan city of 15 million, before driving the 6 hours to their home in Los […]
ShakaCon Backstage
We were asked to photograph another charity photo event last Wednesday night at the Polynesian Cultural Center. There were five different categories we were asked to document. This was the second event we helped on the Shaka Project, which is making a documentary on the origin and history of the shaka, a Hawaiian gesture of […]
Living in Ecuador as an Expat (video)
We have begun to get settled into Honolulu, and establishing our routines here. One of my personal routines is membership into the Eyes of Hawaii camera club here. At the request of members, I have created a couple of narrated slide shows. The most recent slide show, that will be shown in August, when we […]
Cuenca – Music and Theater 2021
Cuenca is filled with music and theater year round. With the pandemic, Azuay Community Theater (ACT) endeavored to remain active by creating a series of Radio Talk Shows. For this time of year, they chose to perform Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, adapted by Anthony E. Palermo. Directed by Paula Bailey, the show opens up […]
Cuenca – Jazz Jam Session
Some consider Cuenca as the cultural capital of Ecuador, which is filled with art of all types. There are visual arts galleries, weavers, quality crafts, ceramics studios, and there are also a variety of music and theater venues available every week, all year long. You can hear blues, country, pop, classical, trova, jazz, traditional Latin […]
The Magic Flute – Opera in Cuenca
We attended an opera tonight, Mozart’s classic fairy tale (Spanish version), The Magic Flute, where Evelyn’s Spanish teacher’s daughter, Estefani Ortiz, performed both in the youth chorale and aerial dancing. This is only the second opera performed in Cuenca, and was easily on the same level as we’ve seen at the New York metropolitan with strong […]
Expats Musical Comedy at Fishbon
Tonight’s show was a repeat of the sold out performances from 10/30-11/2/2016, which was produced by Laura Inks-Bodine and directed by Clay Bodine of Fishbon del Sur. Clay Bodine introduced the show by talking about how some ambitious expats got together 6 months earlier and wanted to produce a musical comedy. The result was a […]
The Russian Circus is in Town
The Russian Circus (Circo de Rusia) is in town this week for the Cuenca Independence Day celebration. We went to the Sunday matinee show yesterday, and had a grand afternoon. There were no animals (other than a small dog masquerading as a lion), however there was cotton candy, candied apples, popcorn, hot dogs and chili […]
Music in Cuenca
There is an amazing variety of music talent in Cuenca, most of which you can listen to free. It is often hard to choose between competing performances, and there are more performances than we can realistically attend each week. It has been awhile since I have mentioned that fact in this blog, so I thought […]
ACT Does It Again – “Talking With…”
Last night we attended another expat community theater performance with A.C.T. Theater here in Cuenca. The show was “Talking With…” and consisted of monologues by 11 women, each with a completely independent story. Each woman was in crisis in her life, and — to be honest — I expected a bit of a dark downer […]