Ajijic’s acoustically superior Auditorio de la Ribera del Lago is the venue for an intimate concert of guitar and cello on January 18 entitled “From Bach to Jobim,” which will benefit the educational organization Opera Guanajuato and bring together the worlds of classical and Latin music.

For the past 18 years, Ajijic has proudly hosted the Northern Lights Festival de Febrero, which allows locals and visitors the opportunity of seeing performances by world-class international musicians.

Good and evil

Bare Stage Theatre presents “Paradise Lost,” by Erin Shields, Friday to Sunday, December 27 to 29.

The following interview is with Maryanne Gibbard, Wendy Hamblin and Leslie Martin, three women who have been performing for many years in the annual benefit Lip Sync show – a 12-year tradition at Lakeside.  Funds from this year’s show will go toward improvements to Auditorio de la Ribera.

“The Real Inspector Hound” and “After Magritte” at Lakeside Little Theatre last week featured two one-act plays deftly presented by director Randy Warren and representing the influences that shaped playwright Tom Stoppard, particularly the work of surrealist painters Marcel Duchamp and Rene Magritte.

A retrospective look at the work of a local photographer opened Saturday, December 7 in the second floor gallery at the Centro Cultural de Ajijic (CCA).