Music, film, art and photography festivals in Peru

This week the cultural agenda for the anniversary of the White City comes with many surprises. Today, Monday the 5th, begins with the “Opening of the Exhibition of Typhlological Models and Presentation of Works of the Arequipa Workshop School.” This exhibition, organized by the Arequipa Workshop School, will take place at 9:00 a.m. on the second block of Mercaderes Street.

Meanwhile, at 6:00 p.m., the Seoul Korea Symphony Orchestra will offer a concert at the Metropolitan Fine Arts Theater.
On Tuesday, August 6th, the “XXI Sillar Carving Contest, IX Wrought Iron Contest, VII Copper Embossing Contest and VII Leather Embossing Contest” begins at 7:00 a.m. in front of the Portal de Flores in the Plaza de Armas. This contest will run until Thursday, August 8th.

In addition, the “XXXIV International Meeting of Tunas” will take place from Thursday, August 8 to Saturday, August 10. Also, from August 8 to August 30, the exhibition “Tribute to Arequipa by maestro Mauro Castillo Gamarra” will be presented at the Jorge Vinatea Reynoso art gallery, in Portal de la Municipalidad.

From August 9 to 12, the Alliance Française presents the Arequipa Music Festival & Academ, a classical music festival that features violinists Clara Cernat and Géraldine Zimmermann, piano player Aloïs Coste, and musicologist Javier Quintanilla.

The Arequipa Music Festival & Academ includes master classes by Clara Cernat, Thierry Huillet, Géraldine Zimmermann and Aloïs Coste, and workshops on composition, musical direction and vocals.

The Masters Concert will be on Friday 9th at 7:30 pm at the Santa Catalina Art Gallery and the Poetic Musical Encounter in homage to French poetry on Saturday 10th at 6:00 pm at the Alliance Française auditorium.

Film Festival

From August 9th to 11th, the Lima Film Festival of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) will be held in Arequipa with films and meetings, such as “Cinema builds memory”.

With the phrase “The ritual of cinema”, the 2024 edition will be celebrated, which includes more than 20 films, meetings and workshops in Arequipa and Chiclayo. This platform has been proposing for 28 years the dissemination of Peruvian and Latin American cinema, which on this occasion will be screened at the Cine Teatro Umbral (San Francisco Street) and in room 7 of Cineplanet Mall Plaza (Army Avenue).

Photographic exhibition

The San Camilo Cultural Center inaugurated the photographic exhibition “Arequipa eterna: Rostros y raíces” (Eternal Arequipa: Faces and roots), by the 4th and 5th year students of the UNSA Professional School of Communication Sciences.

The exhibition can be visited at the San Camilo Cultural Center, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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