| Buletin board: September 1, 2007 |
Painting Competition for the XVIII Salon de ArteThe Embassy of Ecuador in Washington, D.C., announces a painting competition to select two works of art that will represent each member country at the XVIII Salon de Arte organized by the Ibero-American Cultural Attaches Association (AACIA) formed by 18 Latin American countries, Portugal and Spain (www.iaculturalattahces.org). This event will take place in the Cultural Institute of Mexico in Washington, D.C., from December 6, 2007, to January 31, 2008. The theme will be "The Diaspora" by which is understood massive migration of people from one country to another, for social, political, economic and religious reasons, etc. These people are affected by their new environment at the same time, they themselves influence their new environment. The AACIA wants to portray these cultural changes at the Salon de Arte. |