The Altos de Chavón Culture Center Foundation invites you to view the Art Chavón 2017 exhibition like never before. Digitally optimized, the complete exhibition is now available in an online catalog, viewable by clicking here. If you missed the opportunity to see it while on display at The Gallery throughout the month of April, now’s your chance!
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Abraham Lincoln School Celebrates their Centenary Fair 2017
This was a heart-warming event which brought together not only current students, teachers and parents, but also previous generations of ALS alumni returning to celebrate their own memories of this well respected school. Once a popular annual event, the school has not organized a school fair in many years, making it a key occasion in […]
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An Open Evening to see what’s going on at Abraham Lincoln School!
Abraham Lincoln School is celebrating its centennial! What better way to learn more about the school and what they do than by visiting and seeing everything first hand? This Thursday you’ll have the chance to do just that at their Open Evening 2017.
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Fashion Revolution DR: ask yourself ‘Who Made My Clothes?’
In the spirit of ethical production and fashion consciousness, today we honor the start of Fashion Revolution Week, the first of its kind in the Dominican Republic. What began in London in 2014 in response to the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh is now a worldwide movement to bring awareness to how our clothes […]
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Celebrate 100 years with the Abraham Lincoln School at Sports Day this Saturday!
Some of my best years were in school; it’s where you spent time with friends, learned new subjects, played sports, participated in plays and went on trips… all around it was great! I graduated from Abraham Lincoln School in 2002, after 14 years of making my way from kindergarten through the 12th grade. The school prepares its students in such […]
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Jennifer Lopez follows up her Altos de Chavón concert with a visit to the Fundación MIR
Following Jennifer Lopez’s impressive performance in Altos de Chavón just two days ago, the superstar arrived to the Fundación MIR schools earlier today with a bright smile on her face to meet and greet La Romana’s esteemed charity. She was ecstatic to see students and first said hello to a team of young baseball players […]
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Art Chavón 2017 springs to life in The Gallery Altos de Chavón
The Gallery in Altos de Chavón opened Wednesday evening with Art Chavón 2017, an exhibition composed of student, graduate, and faculty work as well as pieces by artists-in-residence over the years. Many new works were on display, but a good few were treasures yet to be picked up and some even dated back to the 1950s […]
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Fashion Revolution’s Clothing Swap doubles as a Clothing Drive for the Hogar del Niño!
What is Fashion Revolution? You might first be wondering what exactly is Fashion Revolution? Well, it’s a global movement that operates in 90 countries around the world with the purpose of raising the ethical and environmental production standards of the fashion industry. With greater transparency in how our clothes are made and by whom, we can foster the sustainable development […]
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Stephen Kaplan invites us to go “Back to the Future” with Art Chavón 2017
For the seventh consecutive year, the Altos de Chavón Cultural Center Foundation presents ”Art Chavón 2017”: a charitable event whose main objective is to raise financial resources for the scholarship fund of the Altos de Chavón School of Design, offering the public the opportunity to acquire the artistic work developed by students and other local and […]
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Gabriella Roncari invites you to the next Café de la Leche this Friday!
In Casa de Campo, Café de la Leche doesn’t stop – nor do we want it to! We’re making it a mission to be more charitable in 2017, and hope you join the cause. After celebrating a splendid start to 2017 with Annie Paniagua, the monthly gatherings for the children of the Hogar del Niño continue this Friday, […]
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Naeem Khan visits the Fundación MIR schools in La Romana
In the lead up to the Fundación MIR’s Magical Splendor Gala wherein guest of honor for the evening, Naeem Khan presented his latest ready-to-wear collection, the revered fashion designer first visited the Fundación MIR’s schools. Located in La Romana, the non-profit organization which was founded in 1988 has helped improve the lives of a growing number of […]