{"id":4320,"date":"2022-05-25T21:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2022-05-25T22:07:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T20:07:22","slug":"boquete-a-small-mountain-town-with-an-artistic-offer-of-international-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/2022\/05\/25\/boquete-a-small-mountain-town-with-an-artistic-offer-of-international-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Boquete, a Small Mountain Town with an Artistic Offer of International Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The cool weather and nature that surrounds Boquete are\nelements that attract thousands of visitors to this mountain town in Chiriqui every year.\nHowever, there is another element that also invites people to return again and\nagain. This element is observed, heard and felt in many places in the town as\nin no other place in the country. And it is that in Boquete, the arts are lived\nin every corner, restaurant and in the many events that they offer. It can be\nsaid that to have a population of approximately 20,000 people, the artistic\noffer is very wide, only comparable to Casco Antiguo in Panama City, which is\nthe historical center of the country and part of a city with more than 1\nmillion inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo:: Adam Rodr\u00edguez <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Walking the streets of Boquete, the visitor finds an\noffer of live music ranging from ballads, jazz, rock and even tropical music.\nLikewise, the culinary arts are present with internationally renowned chefs who\ndecided to stay in Boquete to make a career and offer their creative culinary\nproposals. The plastic arts have been gaining more and more strength with\nitinerant and permanent exhibitions inside restaurants as well as in public\nplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Juan Miguel Brenes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Cultural Exchange<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tourist character of this town brought with it\nthat many decided to stay and live. Juan Miguel Brenes, who is an event\npromoter in Chiriqui, thinks that the number of people who have come to live in\nthe town has made this cultural exchange richer, allowing the absorption of\ncultural influences from other countries where the offer of live music,\ngastronomy and arts are breathed and experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Rojas, a renowned International Chef who has\nhis restaurant in Boquete, believes that although he has only settled for a\nyear, he feels that apart from the cultural mix with foreigners, the local\nauthorities have been working to increase tourism and within it is the artistic offer. For\nAdam Rodriguez, a pioneer in musical shows in Boquete, he also believes that\nthis mixture between foreigners and locals is what gives the town a different feel\nso that it offers music, gastronomy and plastic arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Singer – Composer: Adam Rodr\u00edguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The number of musicians working professionally in\nBoquete during a weekend exceeds 30 people according to Juan Miguel Brenes and\nAdam Rodriguez. As\nfor high-end chefs, the number reaches 16, not counting many more who work in\nnot signature restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Musical and Artistic Seed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Many of the foreigners who have arrived are\namateur musicians and they have mixed with local musicians,” says Adhi Velasquez,\na singer and songwriter from Boquete. However, it reinforces the fact that\ndevelopment could take place in this direction thanks to the musical seed left\nin many people by two great music masters in Panama: Francisco Velasquez and\nGonzalo Brenes. Both settled in the town and taught music to many people,\ncreating musical groups that little by little became the artistic movement of\nthe town today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Singer-composer Adhi Bel Vel\u00e1squez <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tourism: Engine of Art in Boquete<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For there to be people who consume the artistic offer,\nthere must be tourism and local citizens who consume it. A vital premise for\nthe development of the arts independently, and especially the culinary where chefs\nsee business opportunities of great value in Boquete due to the type of\ntourists that arrive. Gastronomic offers that mix local culinary innovations\nand creativity from all over the world with musical presentations and even art exhibitions.\nChefs such as Charlie Collins, Jorge Diaz, Alexander Rojas, Roberto Velazquez\nand many others work every day to elevate the flavor and gastronomic creativity\nof the region. Many of them hire musicians to bring to life the concept they\nhave created for the restaurant. A collaborative work that is generating great\nresults in Boquete today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cool weather and nature that surrounds Boquete are elements that attract thousands of visitors to this mountain town in Chiriqui every year. However, there is another element that also invites people to return again and again. This element is observed, heard and felt in many places in the town as in no other place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}