Thursday, December 28

Day of the Holy Innocents

MUSIC/DANCE

La Casona: Luna López

Sahara: Los 33

The Gallery: Mabi

Siete Mares: Caribbean music with Marea Alta

Pizza Piola: Tango Night

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

THEATER

Teatro ABA: El Verdadero Significado de la Navidad

Friday, December 29

MUSIC/DANCE

Lums (Diablo): Shorty & Slim

Bar Rock & Blues (Calle 50): Punk night with UpShock, Propiedad Privada, Out-Reazon, Densidad.

La Casona: Jazz night

Scena: Salsa night

Las Bovedas: Jazz night

Buzz: DJ Leo

Pizza Piola: Gaucho Night

Siete Mares: Caribbean music with Marea Alta

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

THEATER

Teatro ABA: El Verdadero Significado de la Navidad

Saturday, December 30

MUSIC/DANCE

La Casona: Jazz night

Scena: Jazz night

Las Bovedas: Jazz night

Unplugged: Luna Lopez

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

THEATER

Teatro ABA: El Verdadero Significado de la Navidad

Sunday, December 31

New Year’s Day

Hogmanay in Scotland

Festival Day in Montserrat

Asara B'Tevet

MUSIC/DANCE

Brisas de Amador: Los Rabanes

Monday, January 1

New Year’s Day

Independence Day in Haiti

Liberation Day in Cuba

Tuesday, January 2

Forefathers’ Day in Haiti

Cassé Gateau

MUSIC/DANCE

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

Wednesday, January 3

Thursday, January 4

MUSIC/DANCE

La Casona: Luna Lopez, Alfredo Gasnell, Kalavera, DJ Angel --- benefit for needy kids in Darien, admission one new toy per person

Siete Mares: Caribbean music with Marea Alta

Pizza Piola: Tango Night

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

ETC.

Barro Colorado Island: BAMBI dinner & science lecture series. You must make reservations and get on the list for the launch ride in advance at the office in the Tupper Center in Ancon. Check the STRI website --- http://www.stri.org --- for details

Friday, January 5

MUSIC/DANCE

La Casona: Jazz night

Buzz: DJ Leo

Scena: Salsa night

Las Bovedas: Jazz night

Pizza Piola: Gaucho Night

Siete Mares: Caribbean music with Marea Alta

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

Saturday, January 6

Three Kings Day

Maroon Day in Jamaica

MUSIC/DANCE

La Casona: Jazz night

Scena: Jazz night

Las Bovedas: Jazz night

Unplugged: Luna Lopez

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

THEATER

Teatro ABA: Un cuento de hadas, piratas y princesas, 3 pm and 5 pm

Sunday, January 7

Orthodox and Coptic Christmas

SPORTS

Marathon: Isthmian Runners 5.2 km Balboa run

Monday, January 8

Tuesday, January 9

Day of the Martyrs

ETC.

Day of the Martyrs: This is the anniversary of the events of January 1964 in which 23 Panamanians and 4 Americans were killed and hundreds wounded on either side. It was a dispute over which flags would fly over the old Canal Zone, which in turn was a cipher for who would be sovereign there. It was the beginning of the end of the Canal Zone and is still the subject of much controversy and mythology, on the one side because a good part of the Zonian community still seems not to know what hit them and on the other side because the founders of both of Panama's major political traditions, Dr. Arnulfo Arias and General Omar Torrijos, were actively hostile to the outpouring of nationalist sentiment but in later years sought to falsify their stands for opportunistic political reasons. For many Panamanians this will be a day at the beach, but the ideological heirs to the leftists who were the first protagonists on the Panamanian side of the confrontation --- people of all political persuasions quickly joined the fray and Panama severed its diplomatic relations with the United States for a few months  --- will march to the Jardin de Paz cemetery in El Chorrillo where Ascanio Arosemena, a high school student who was the first to die, is buried. This is not likely to be an occasion for violence, but this year it will surely be used to highlight opposition to a proposed US-Panama free trade agreement.

Wednesday, January 10

Thursday, January 11

MUSIC/DANCE

Siete Mares: Caribbean music with Marea Alta

Pizza Piola: Tango Night

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

ETC.

Eastern Panama Province: Chepo Agricultural Fair

Chiriqui: Boquete Flower & Coffee Fair, through January 21

Barro Colorado Island: BAMBI dinner & science lecture series. You must make reservations and get on the list for the launch ride in advance at the office in the Tupper Center in Ancon. Check the STRI website --- http://www.stri.org --- for details

Friday, January 12

MUSIC/DANCE

La Casona: Jazz night

Scena: Salsa night

Buzz: DJ Leo

Las Bovedas: Jazz night

Pizza Piola: Gaucho Night

Siete Mares: Caribbean music with Marea Alta

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

ETC.

Chiriqui: Boquete Flower & Coffee Fair, through January 21

Eastern Panama Province: Chepo Agricultural Fair

Saturday, January 13

MUSIC/DANCE

Finca Maya Arts Center (San Carlos): Sunset Jam, starts 2 pm,

La Casona: Jazz night

Scena: Jazz night

Las Bovedas: Jazz night

Unplugged: Luna Lopez

Las Tinajas: Tipico dance show

ETC.

Chiriqui: Boquete Flower & Coffee Fair, through January 21

Eastern Panama Province: Chepo Agricultural Fair

Sunday, January 14

Makar Sankranti

ETC.

Eastern Panama Province: Chepo Agricultural Fair

Chiriqui: Boquete Flower & Coffee Fair, through January 21

Monday, January 15

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday

ETC.

Chiriqui: Boquete Flower & Coffee Fair, through January 21

Coming up:

Panama Jazz Festival: January 15-20, dedicated to Barbara Wilson, with Danilo Pérez, Carlos Garnett, Jorge Silvester, Santi Debriano, Renato Thoms, Billy Cobham, Nneena Freelon Quartet, Edmar Castaneda Trio, Patricia Zarate, Francisco Molina, Dan Greenspan, Fernando Michelin, Mili Bermejo, Reggie Boyce and the Panama Jazz Effects, Panama Jamboree Group, Panamerican Big Band (New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music and University of Panama students led by Victor Paz and Ken Shaphors), Patricia Vlieg and Marcos Pignataro, New England Conservatory Ensemble, and more musicians from Panama 

2007 cayuco racing season:

Jan 27, Balboa Yacht Club Regatta

Feb. 10, Melia Atlantic Cup

March 10, Gamboa Rainforest Resort Regatta

March 30, 31, April 1, Ocean to Ocean Cayuco Race

Death Metal night at the Afiteatro Lolos: Selah, Disemburied, Antaro, Morttus on February 3

The Mighty Sparrow in Boquete: The Mighty Sparrow, Alfredito Payne, Shorty & Slim, Samuel Archer, Solinka, Arcadio Molinar, Leony Herrera, Carlos Martinez, Kabir, Daniel Bulgin, February 17 at the Feria De Las Flores Y El Cafe

Antillean Fair: At the Museo Afroantillano, February 17-18

Carnival: February 16-20

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