Summer Arts Festival in San Jose is This Weekend
The annual Summer Arts Festival starts on Friday morning, and this year the Transitarte festival promises not to disappoint. While the temperature in San Jose topped 75 degrees today the weather report for the weekend calls for some rain. Hopefully that won’t be enough to spoil the festival, which continues through Sunday evening.
The agenda for this year’s festival is similar to the previous two years and will close with a performance by the French dance company, Compagnie des Quidams. Last year this was a laser light show projected onto the Escuala Buenaventura Corrales.
The show is produced by the municipality of San Jose, and is considered a broad showcase of the arts.
This summer the art is on the street, 2010 brings you the best activities and shows for all the family, concerts, sports, artisan crafts, games, theatre, dance, and much more.
Festival activities are centered in San Jose, and include Parque Morazan, Espana, Nacional, and Jardin de Paz (Garden of Peace). The parks are located on several blocks of the west side of downtown, and are within easy walking distance of each other.
Morazan Park will be the scene of the official opening ceremony on Friday evening, however some events will take place during the morning and afternoon among the other parks. The centerpiece of Morazan Park is the Templeo de Musica (Temple of Music), and events here will showcase music or dance.
The Garden of Peace or “Jardin de Paz” is the green space in front of Escuela Beunaventura Corrales or Escuela Metalica. The first official events here will start on Saturday morning, and activities will have a sports related theme.The park will also be home to a boxing ring, tent with spinning cycles, and weight lifting area.
Parque Espana will play host to a diverse range of events, most of which will have a literary theme. The central event is a book swap meet, which will occur from 10am to 6pm every day of the event. Activities will include book signings, poetry reading, and several small science fiction events. Fans of Tolkien and Harry Potter should not be disapointed.
Parque Nacional is the largest setting of the event and is located on the east side of the Civil Registry. A stage will host performing arts while the park will be the scene of a visual arts fair and workshops related to the creative arts. The steps of the registry itself will serve as an additional stage for vocal performers on Sunday.
The Plaza de Democracia will host the final event at 7pm on Sunday, which will close the festival. Last year the finale was a laser light show on the Garden of Peace, however it’s possible that this year the event was moved to the plaza in order to accommodate a larger crowd.
We hope to report more with plenty of video and photos for this weekend.
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Why do Ticos call the current season Summer? They are still in the northern hemisphere. And it seems that the last time I checked their average temps what they call “Summer” were the lowest. I’ve asked Ticos and their response usually is something along the lines of, “It’s not colder just more wind.”
Costa Rica’s climate is only divided into two major seasons: rainy and dry. The dry season runs from January through May and the rainy season (aka Green Season) from May to November, sometimes December. The seasons were named by the early Spanish colonizers, who compared them to their own Mediterranean climate, calling the dry months “verano” (summer), and the rainy months “invierno” (winter). Ironically, the coldest temperatures are registered during the early dry season or “summer”.
It feels like summer here now. Yesterday it was 85 degrees and its been so sunny that I got sun burned twice this week. We have also need to turn on the fan at night to sleep in San Jose. At night there is almost no breeze. This is as summer as it gets.