The second annual Sucede Festival, a six-week blitzkrieg of free cultural events at over 105 locations around Guadalajara, kicks off Saturday, October 7.

If the city of Guadalajara kept a calendar fixed to its fridge, October’s page would resemble a Jackson Pollock.

For the next three months, one of central Guadalajara’s crown jewels, the Cabañas Cultural Institute, is availing the city of an exhibit which should please mightily those who appreciate the intersection of art and equine.

Romeo & Juliet

The Ballet Jalisco, the only professional classical troupe in the state, teams up with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra to present the renowned work by Sergei Prokofiev, based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Dozens of artisans from the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas join craftsmen and women from other Mexican states and a few Latin American countries at a “show and sell” market set up in a large tented arena facing Guadalajara’s Plaza del Sol.

Moulin Rouge

Semi-pro production of work based on 2001 film by Baz Luhrmann. Featuring live music from the Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil de Guadalajara.