Mos Def at Fete in Providence, Rhode Island

HipHop star Mos Def at Fete in Providence, Rhode Island on Dec. 10, 2011. 

You'll never know what your going to find when you google you name.

      So I google diego correal photo to see how high my website and blog were coming up in the google "rankings" and was shocked when my name came up with Flicker.  I have never made a flicker account and I'm not a big fan of it so that was kinda weird to see that.  After clicking on the link I seen it was associated with AS220, "Huge art space with different venues for different media", thats straight from their website.  Well in July of 20 I had my first gallery show and it was at AS220, they were prints from a few times I had been to Colombia.  So I guess they have a AS220 Flicker with images of the works they have displayed.  It was really cool randomly finding this link and been able to reminisce my first gallery show as well as being able to see how far I have come in my photography. So google you name, you'll just might be shocked with what you find.

     I also found a link the promoting the exhibitions.

Age old festival in El Salvador

    
      When I was in El Salvador with La Ruta Inka I had the chance to witness a magnificent festival.  This festival has been going on between two towns since El Salvador was a colony of Spain.  All the people of one town get the statue of thier saint, San Christobal and hike up a montant to a cave where they camp over night.  The next day the mayor or town leader  puts San Christobal on their back and the whole group hikes back down to the other town.

    At the other town the town's people are lined up waiting with a statue of their saint, San Lucas, for San Christobal to arrive with his people.  Once the two saints get closer a group of people from both towns are dressed up in costumes that represent their Indian and Spanish ancestors start to dance with machetea in the middle of the main street as San Christobal comes into town. 

      The saints are carried buy town leaders and are brought little by little toward each other.  This represents when both the saints met for the very first time to unite both towns.  As they are carried toward each other they stop three times and are tilted forward signifying the three times they greeted each other on their first meeting.

  

      At the last tilt or greeting the crowd that is made up of people from both towns cheer and trow confetti.  After all the cheering, all the people line up in two lines and greet each other, one at a time like two high school teams would do after a game here in the states.  This greet consists of both participants holding each others right hands like a hand shake and raising them up to their foreheads.

     Once every one has greeted each other they walk together to the center of the town and dance traditional dances, celebrate their union, and eat typical foods.

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