Showing posts with label Expo Zaragosa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Expo Zaragosa. Show all posts

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Expo Zaragoza 2008

The Zaragoza 2008 story returns! I'd hoped to get more information on the event before now (3 months later!) but fortunately this article popped up in the Times recently to refresh my memory. Unfortunately, even though the event opened yesterday, there are quite a few holes still on the Expo site—most notably, the Agenda/Schedule section (the image at the right accompanies the text in English and Spanish, "The requested resource does not exist"). However, after a little digging, I found that this declaration is only true in English and Spanish: there are a couple of PDF schedules available on the French site. Not only that, but when I download the PDFs, I find that they are in Spanish, not French. I'm not sure what any of that means...

I also spent some time looking through the site for information on the participants—in particular, the theater companies performing in the Expo. Sadly, I was only able to find anything at all by searching the Spanish site, which gave me descriptions of the performances/companies in Spanish (naturally). I tried switching then to English (and even French, useless though that information would be), but that only brought me back to our little pink blobby friend and the denial quoted above. While annoying, this surprises me less than the schedule being only accessible on the French site...

If I don't forget about it entirely again, I'll keep you all updated on my progress.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Interesting Headlines I Can't Really Read: Arts Edition

Las mil y una caras del teatro se darán cita este verano en Expo Zaragoza 2008

I was looking through elmundo.es this morning, expecting to find some schlocky stories that I could post today—J-Lo's twins or Robert Downey, Jr.'s latest drug arrest. Instead, I found this story that made me realize how badly I need to get back to my Spanish classes so I can read the details in articles like this. It's about the free arts performances associated with Expo Zaragosa 2008. I guess it goes to show you how uncurious I can be about the world: I had no idea there was an international expo at all this year, let alone that it was in Zaragosa or that it's theme was water. 

Now my curiousity is piqued, so I'm going to keep searching for articles in English about the theater productions associated with the event. More on this story as it develops...