Spanish Panama students visited the Museum of Contemporary Art on January 14, 2023. We shared a taxi as it is quite a distance from the school. The featured artist at that time was Julio Zachrisson who was born in Panama, studied in Mexico, traveled in Italy and lived many years in Spain. His paintings, sculptures…
On Ancon Hill is a bronze statue of a woman whose poetry endeared her to the Panamanian people. Her poem “To Ancon Hill,’ mourns the loss of this strip of land, the Canal Zone, that cut the country into two sections and inspired the demand for its return to Panama. Amelia Denis de Icaza was…
Several of us went to see the new exhibit at Summit Park called the World of the Sloth. It features a glass barrier so people can see the sloths but protect them from their visitors. Perezozo is the word for sloth in Spanish. The animals were sleeping in their specially made hammocks, curled up looking…
October 30 2021 Students and teachers from Spanish Panama visited the new Museum of Liberty. It is a beautiful building with a serious message. It is the first of several planned buildings so we plan on returning when each new section is built and opened. This is an initiative of the non-profit Democracy and…
