Contemporary dance at Casa de la Cultura; Kite festival and guided tours Sunday; Ecuador agrees to accept U.S. deportees; Cancer benefit for children

Festival de la Cometa 2025 – Parque de las Luz, norte de Cuenca, Sunday, 24/8 – 10:00 — prizes for the highest flying kite, the smallest, the biggest, and the most creative.

Rutas de Casas Patrimoniales — The Rutas de Casas Patrimoniales continues domingo, 24/8, with guided tours to the Casa de las Posadas and the Casa del Alfarero. The meeting place is in the Parque Calderón with departures a las 10:00 y 14:00. The transport is free.

Festival del Cuy en Nulti — The 4th Festival del Cuy and a 7K race, “Corre y Vive en Senderismo” will be este domingo, 24/8 a las 8:00 in the community of El Tablón. The festival will offer gastronomy with traditional dishes such as roast guinea pig with potatoes and aji as well as bread baked in wood fired ovens from local bakeries. <Do you think any gringos will show up? Maybe they would if I served my Peking style cuy.> The program will include artistic presentations, dance, and traditional games involving guinea pigs such as the best dressed cuy, the fastest cuy <which will be the one that gets away>, and the biggest cuy. Santiago Illescas, “El Hombre Voz,” will also perform a las 14:00 as well as musical groups.

The Lirón Lirón Festival for children continues through September 16.

Proyección de filmes — The Dirección de Cultura is inviting cinophiles to enjoy Ecuadorian productions at the Bibliocine cycle at the Biblioteca Daniel Córdova. ‘Sacachún’ showed last Wednesday, and the next film will be ‘El Rezador,’ a 96 minute film by Tito Jara on Wed., 27/8. Free.

Exposiciones y Festival — The exhibit, “Ternura en acción: 10 años de memoria lironera” will open el sábado, 30/8 a las 16:00 in the Centro Cultural Casa de las Posadas (Gran Colombia 17-44 y Baltazara de Calderón) and run until el 16/9. The show is part of the Festival Lirón Lirón which is an art project focused on childhood. The program will continue on el 12/9 a las 18:00 with “La Travesía de Wuup” which will be presented in the Sala Alfonso Carrasco. On el 14/9, the festival will end in CIDAP with Lirock, featuring the musical group Yucatán a Gogo.

Alistan IV Festival de Danza — The Casa de la Cultura Núcleo del Azuay will be the location for the IV Festival de Danza Contemporánea y Experimental, ‘Cuerpos Elementales.’ The 5-day event from el 2-6/9 will unite creators and collectives that explore the body through dance. There will be shows, workshops, meetings and live presentations in the Sala Alfonso Carrasco” and the “Catalina Sojos” auditorium. In the workshops, contemporary dance professors will teach content intended to promote creativity and interaction among the participants. The festival seeks to bring the public closer to distinct expressions of contemporary and experimental dance <Exploring random movements conforming to no known beat?>

Concierto solidario para entregar listas de útiles — The Fundación JuanFran SOS Cáncer is organizing a benefit concert to raise funds for 100 back to school kits for children receiving oncological treatments as well as their siblings, and for children of cancer patients. The event will be el 5/9 in the Teatro Pumapungo starting at 16:00 with the delivery of the supplies to guarantee the transparency of the process. <Sounds like the organizers have heard stories from people complaining about fundraisers who never fulfilled their promises to the beneficiaries.> The show will start at 19:30 with the program including Pablo Noboa, singer and songwriter, and original vocalist for the “La Pandilla” band; Mishelle, known from her appearance in “Yo me llamo Paola Jara”; the Rock Sur band; and Fercho Bravo y Jorge Emilio who will open the show. Tickets are available at Capriato in the Mall del Río, Batan Shopping, Monay Shopping, and in El Surtido on calle Borrero. Cost: $15 for upper level, $20 for main level.

EE.UU.habría solicitado a Ecuador recibir migrantes — Internal documents from the Trump administration, published on CBS, affirm that the administration asked Ecuador to take irregular migrants from other countries. Ecuador would be one of about a dozen countries with which the US has signed agreements to accept deportees who entered the US in an irregular manner. <Note El Periodico never uses “illegal” when writing about either the immigrants or their manner of entry.” The Ecuadorian Cancillería has not issued any statements about the agreement. <Does that mean Ecuador will get El Salvadorians and El Salvadorians will get Ecuadorians? Or will it be worse with El Salvadorians deported to Ecuador, Ecuadorians to Eswatini and Africans to El Salvador?> <The deal was probably that Ecuador takes deportees and gets a lower tariff in exchange. It would be nice if Ecuador then forwarded the deportees to their home countries, unless the deportees like Ecuador better than, say, Gaza or Sudan.>