What to see, what to do in Guayaquil from Sunday July 9 to Saturday July 15

Julian buffets for the Guayaquil festivities

Hotel Uni Park

Since July 1, the traditional cured meats, cebiches, stews, moros, broths and sweets are part of the menu served at the Guayaquil de mis Sabores festival, at the Unipark hotel. La Fundadora station is an important part of this event which includes hot chocolate, planchados, morocho, pan de dulce, Galo Plaza bread, figs with cheese.

The Guayaquil de mis Sabores festival has different opening times. Your first service starts at the breakfast buffet, from 06:00 to 10:00. There are sandwiches with pork, onion, bolones, tigrillo, muchines, natural juices. It costs $13 (plus tax, excluding drinks).

Lunch starts from noon to 4pm ($22 plus tax) and La Fundadora from 4pm to 8pm ($9.50, including sweets).

Address: Clemente Ballén 406 en Chile.

Radisson hotel

Every Sunday in July, the Radisson hotel celebrates the Puerto Mangle Festival with a typical buffet lunch, including starters, entrées, mains and desserts from Guayaquil, a cebiche station and live music. From 12.30 to 3.30 pm. Price: $22 plus tax per person. Reservations: A free glass of sangria for five or more people. Address: Citadel Kennedy, av. Gral Francisco Boloña 503A and Jorge Insúa Hindro street.

Children’s show: The Adventures of Beeper

The beloved YouTube character pager and his friends Flopy, Lucas, Tori the Robot and Duckling Juan, with more than 12.3 million subscribers on the video platform, arrive in Ecuador this month. The gang visits Guayaquil with show musical full of teachings, games and lots of fun to enjoy as a family as the songs enliven and reinforce family values. In the Theater Leon Febres-Cordero Art Center (km 4.5, av. Pdte. Carlos Julio Arosemena). Tickets: $47.85, Pager Fans; $37.85, floppy disk; $27.85, Lukas; and $17.85, Tori (on sale at TicketShow). At 3:00 PM, Sunday July 9.

Works by Miguel Varea in Guayaquil

The artist Miguel Varea (1948-2020) will have his first individual exhibition in Guayaquil. The temporary room of the National Cocoa Museum houses The torn line of existence, an exhibition curated by Susan Rocha. The exhibition presents the questions of this cartoonist, for whom the line was the path along which his plots and shadows ran, as the portrait of deep internal struggles that made him a seeker of himself who did not fit into the world. The exhibition opens on Thursday 6 July. Free entrance. In Panama and Imbabura. Attention from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 5pm (last entry at 4.30pm).

MAAC: projection of the movie Argentina, 1985 (Free entrance)

The Best Foreign Language Film nominee at the last Academy Awards will be screened for free at the Anthropological and Contemporary Art Museum, MAAC. Is about Argentina, 1985, a title inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, as well as their young legal team of unlikely heroes in their battle between David and Goliath, to bring Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship to justice against all odds in a race against the clock to do justice to the victims of the Military Junta. At 7:00 PM, Tuesday July 11.

Microtheater in English, by CEN

The North American Ecuadorian Center (CEN) presents Broadway bites, a new micro-theatre cycle in English, inspired by prestigious American theater musicals. Under the direction of Jaime Tamariz, the CEN will premiere three works that will be performed every Wednesday in July until August 9. This July 12 it’s your turn Roxya loose adaptation of the musical Chicago, in which the audience will meet Roxy, a woman accused of murdering her lover, and her lawyer Billy Flynn, the most cunning and shrewd of the media, who together will create a false and dramatized story to free the protagonist. Rocio Maruri and Israel Maldonado perform. Free entrance. Two performances a day, at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. In the Paulsen Studio (visitors can go to the box office from 6.30 pm to request their tickets).

In theatres: mission impossible 7

Finally comes the seventh episode of Mission Impossible: Deadly Judgment part 1. This time Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: to track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and the dark forces of Ethan’s past closing in, he embarks on a deadly race around the world. Facing a mysterious and all-powerful foe, Ethan is forced to realize that nothing could be more important than his mission, not even the lives of those he loves. Premiere: Thursday, July 13.

Theater: star signs (Paulsen study)

What if you could relive the most important moments of your life over and over again to understand how things could have turned out differently? This is the central question of the work star signs, written by Nick Payne, an explosive romantic comedy about death and free will, about time and memory. Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for the best replacement of work, star signs tells the story of the beekeeper Rolando and the quantum physicist Mariana: two star-crossed lovers whose relationship we see in different variations of “what if?”. Mare Cevallos and Tucci Aguilar perform, conducted by Daniel Llanos. Ticket: $20 (reservations 096-018-9636). At 8:00 PM, Premiere Thursday, July 13.

Construction site: The crazy barracks (The cameras)

Toledo Café Teatro y Paradox presents the comedy El cuartel de las locales which brings together for the first time on stage the famous actresses Cecilia Cascante, Hilda Saraguayo, Claudia Camposano and Alejandra Paredes. The play is written and directed by Jorge Toledo. On billboard only the days Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 July. At Las Cámaras Theater, on av. Francisco de Orellana and Av. Miguel H. Alcívar (Las Cámaras Building). Reservations: 096-901-3441.

Show from stand up by Alejandra Azcarate

Comedian Alejandra Azcárate continues on tour with her most recent monologue What is allowed is repeated. He show it tries to pause the day to day to ask us if our so-called life project allows us to live. It is a collective experience of reflection that allows us to discover how much importance we place on the insignificant and how little value we place on what is truly important. It will be a… stand up inspiring to laugh and think. Tickets: $65, VIP; $55, gold (TicketShow). At the UEES Convention Center (km 2.5 av. Samborondón). At 8:00 PM, Friday July 14.

Circo AZ Circus celebrates Guayaquil with a ‘show’ of magic and fantasy

Az Circus celebrates Guayaquil for its festivities with a show full of magic and fantasy that includes clowns, trapeze artists, magicians, dancers, the big garland and the balloon with the traditional bikers. Are show The main attraction is a great show called Fantastic, where children can enjoy children’s characters, as well as AZ Adventure, an area with children’s games, ‘Instagrammable’ sets, a magical light castle accompanied by show of fireworks and areas for the public to take home a souvenir with the characters of the show. Tickets: General, $6.50 (children) and $11.5 (adults); box, $11.50 (child) and $16.50 (adult box); and VIP $16.50 (children) and $21.50 (adults). Two daily functions: 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM. Thursday 13 July to Sunday 6 August.

Construction site: three penises ache (House of Ecuadorian culture – Guayas)

The comedy three penises ache is a work of collective creation, scripted, directed and staged by the actors Jorge Jiménez, Leonardo Trelles and Johnny Shapiro. They decided to make public a very private moment that all men go through when the dreaded prostate exam arrives. “We have sought and brought out the comic side of this embarrassing situation,” the trio said in a statement. Admission: $10 per person (reservations 098-962-9707 and 099-957-3191). Demetrio Aguilera Theater Room, in the House of Ecuadorian Culture, Guayas core (fourth floor), av. October 9, 1200 and Pedro Moncayo. Saturday, July 15 at 7 p.m.

News in stream

Netflix: Birdhouse Barcelona. After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, causing anyone to see it to take their own lives, Sebastián (Mario Casas) and his young daughter Anna must embark on their own quest for survival through the desolate streets of Barcelona. But as they form an uneasy alliance with other survivors and fight their way to a safe haven, a threat grows more sinister than invisible creatures. This film set in Barcelona expands the universe of Birdhouse: Blind, who was played by Sandra Bullock in 2018. Premiere: July 14.

Disney+: crooked. On the brink of ruin, a widower and father of three inherits an unexpected fortune from his uncle. The money comes on one condition: that his family takes care of Twisty, an adult chimpanzee who hides a big secret: he can talk. Hiding this won’t be easy, because the chimpanzee never shuts up and will get the family into all sorts of trouble. With Darío Barassi and Consuelo Duval, the beloved Federica P. Luche. Premiere: July 14.