Events in August 2008 in Santo Domingo

Dr Steven Levenkron Talks, Casa San Pablo Auditorium, Santo Domingo

August 1st, 2008

Steven Levenkron is a recognized and experienced New-Yorker psychotherapist.

He will visit for the first time Dominican Republic in order to offer two great talks in which he’ll answer and give explanations about the causes of Anorexia, Bulimia and other Eating Disorders.

The Dr Levenkron, author of the first works about the anorexia and Famous for counting between his patients entertainment stars (models, singers…) will talk about the new treatments and give updated advices about how the families can help their loved ones that suffer from anorexia to recover health and self-esteem.

Prices Between 500 and 450 pesos.

ANFC 2 Gladiators Generation, Boxing Coliseum Carlos Teo Cruz, Santo Domingo

August 8th, 2008

A martial arts circuit in the Coliseum Carlos Teo Cruz in Santo Domingo, where the American MMA and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) stars Ira Guyer, Johnny Curtis and Todd Duffee and the Dominicans Omar de la Cruz, Oscar Sosa y Alexander Madi will measure their strentghs.

The program contains good other fights of Dominicans stars as : Emilio Martínez, Marcos Hernández, Miguel Mena y Juan Carlos Valido.

Prices between : RD $200.00 - RD $1,000.00

The summer event: Willie Gonzólez, El Torito & Los Potros in Agua Splash, Santo Domingo

Agua SplashSunday August 10th, 2008 at 10.00 am

It’s a concert that brings together three of the most important tropical pop music artists of our time:

The salsa singer Willie González from Puerto Rico and the Dominicans Merengue Singers Héctor Acosta El Torito and Jandy Ventura & Los Potros.

The event is settled for this Sunday August 10, in the Water Park Agua Splash, in a 100% beach atomosphere (artificially recreated), where the romantic salsa of Willie and the El Torito and Los Potros songs will make everybody dance.

Price: 600 pesos

Alejandro Fernández in the Sports Palace Santo Domingo

Alejandro FernándezOn Saturday August 30th, 2008

The Mexican star Alejandro Fernández comes to Dominican Republic with his spectacular show that is part of his world Tour Viento a favor.

After a 5 years without coming to the country, the singer arrives with the bags filled with hits, the old ones, and the new ones.

Alejandro, which met a great success with its Tour Viento a favor that fills the concert halls in Latin America, will offer a wonderful show to the public that will come to see him in the Palacio de los Deportes.

Prices from 1000 to 3500 pesos.

Pedro Guerra Tour Vida 2008 in the National Theatre, Eduardo Brito hall, Santo Domingo

Pedro GuerraSaturday August 23rd, 2008 at 08.30 pm

After more than three years since his last visit to Santo Domingo, Pedro Guerra, one of the most important contemporaneous songs writer of this time, comes back to the country for its Vida Tour.

During this 4th concert in the Dominican Capital, the writer of the songs Daniela, Pasa, Raiz et Debajo del Puente will present his new production Vida and will sing his old songs too.

As for his other concerts, the night will be magic, and the energy and sensibility will come together with the smooth and wonderful music.

Prices: From 900 to 1300 pesos.

Cristian Castro & Gilberto Santa Rosa in the Sports Palace, Santo Domingo

Cristian CastroSaturday August 23rd, 2008 at 08.30 pm

For the first time together: Two of the most talented latino singers.

The Puertorican singer, Gilberto Santa Rosa and the Mexican romantic pop artist Cristian Castro will be together for an unforgettable show, on Saturday august 23, in the Palacio de los Deportes of Santo Domingo.

Two different styles, but they will make people dance without stopping and will sing for a variated audience and good music lovers.

Prices between 600 and 2500 pesos.

Oxygen by Michel Bizet in Las Casas Reales Museum, Santo Domingo

Michel BizetFrom August 12th to August 30th, 2008

It is under the title of Oxígeno (Oxygen) or the Space of the Insipid that the Museum Las Casas Reales will welcome in its colonial space the first individual exhibition of the French artist Michel Bizet, from August 12 to august 30.

The exhibition shows a selection of the most recent pictorial work of the artist coming from France, who resides in Dominican Republic for more than 10 years.

The Bizet’s work is defined as a dialogue with the frame by Amable López Meléndez, a famous Art critic.
In the majority of works of Oxygen, the game of chromatic contrasts is soft and the harmonious fusions are an exceptional peculiarity.

According to Candido Gerón, a famous Dominican artist, Bizet needs only the magic of the colors to cook the matter to highest degrees until finding a released language or the fundamental matter impulse.

The Bizet’s exhibition benefits will be donated to the Center for the Agricultural and Forest Development (CEDAF), a non-profit institution that will reinforce the projects developed by the Scientific Reserve Las Neblinas.

Michel Bizet was born on September 26 in Jallieu, close to Lyon, in France where he draws and paints intensely until he is 17 year-old.
Then he travels to Paris where he learns the waiter profession in the prestigious hotels. Later, he becomes antique dealer and joins industry fashion, collaborating with great designers, models and famous artists.

He is the founder of the clothing chain named BASIC Jean.
After the Algeria War, in which he participated as a member of the French marines, he goes to Liverpool to learn English.
At the end of the Sixties he comes back to France and develops important tourist projects.

In Saint-Tropez, he shares good moments with his painter friends, Antoni Clave, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Jacquemon and the musician Jean-Michel Jarre.
In 1995 he visits the Dominican Republic and the next year he settles in Las Terrenas, Samaná, where he develops the real estate project Parques Las Terrenas and the shopping malls Casa Linda and Plaza Taina.

But the material achievements did not supplant the dreams that he creates through the paintbrush.
I am ready now because it is the first time that I am free. I have a spiritual life and I can say that painting is something very serious. I feel like if I was answering an uncontrollable need to draw and to paint the artist says.