Preparations have started for the last and very best fashion event of the year, which is set to take place on Saturday December the 26th, at Carmen Sol NEW YORK luxury fashion boutique in the Marina Casa de Campo.
Category: Art and Culture
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1st ‘Colectiva de Artes Plásticas’ on display at the Casa de la Cultura
The Fundación Casa de la Cultura has teamed up with the Escuela de Bellas Artes de La Romana to create the 1st ‘Colectiva de Artes Plásticas’ a plastic-art exhibit inspired by the Prof. Juan Bosh.
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Rehearsing for “Recorriendo el Mundo” – presented by the Academia de Ballet Elizabeth Zeller
This Saturday the 5th of December, the Academia de Ballet Elizabeth de Zeller will be presenting “Recorriendo el Mundo” their annual ballet show being held at the Altos de Chavon amphitheater – and all the girls have been very busy rehearsing at the Amphitheater all week!
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Dominican-English dictionary: cambumbo
‘Dominican’ isn’t exactly a real language, but it has enough dialects and unique words and phrases to confuse even the most fluent Spanish (or rather non-Dominican) speaker, and even some Dominicans! As with dialects in any other country, ‘Dominican’ can be colorful and at times a tad confusing, so each week we will introduce common […]
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A Dominican Delegation meets with the Mayor Bailon Abad in Loja, Ecuador
The ‘IX Encuentro Iberoamericano de Mujeres Ingenieros, Arquitectos y Agrimensores’ or the 9th Ibero-American Meeting of Women Engineers, Architects and Land-surveyors took place last week from the 23rd to the 26th of November and was held in Loja, Equador.
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CARMEN SOL NEW YORK to open a second store in the Marina Casa de Campo
Carmen Sol New York, the luxury multi-brand retailer chain, is opening a second store at the Marina Casa de Campo. The 700 Square foot store is located a few steps away from the original Carmen Sol New York store opened in December 2008 at the Calle Barlovento.
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Suns of Beaches: Casa de Campo’s first home-grown band
“Either you control your future or you become the victim of the future someone else created for you. With an eerie feeling in my gut I continue to meditate, to try and find some kind of balance, a middle ground, a little correlation between this ever growing driving force that continuously exposes my true feelings […]
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This Weekend In Casa – Nov 27th to 29th
This weekend in Casa is going to be very exciting – there are many special activities going on for us to enjoy! Activities on offer include an awesome poker tournament, dancing and spending a peaceful afternoon at the art exhibit.
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Only in the DR: these glasses are NOT cool!
This week’s photo was contributed by Rebecca Hughes, otherwise known as me – your friendly Casa de Campo Living Editor!
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A new volunteer project begins at the Hogar del Niño – the first volunteers tell all!
Hello, we are Keri and Kristen recent college graduates from the United States. We are also two of the first volunteers sent from Stonehill College in Massachusetts to work at the Hogar del Nino. As the first volunteers we wanted to introduce ourselves, the program and our current projects.
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Memories of Casa de Campo – Art Exhibits in the Altos de Chavon Art Gallery
This week Carol Burke has provided us with a fantastic collection of photos from the Altos de Chavon Art Gallery, taken in 1991. If you look very carefully at the photos you may spot someone you know – looking very different to how they look now of course!!