Children's art
Vern Geiger of Lakeside Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation introduces Cleopatra the Python to kids in LCS Children’s Art Program, while helping them enroll in the PROFEPA National Art Contest. The children can enter paintings and drawings of endangered animals and the environment. The LCS art program is open to all interested children and meets Saturday mornings.
Public concerts
Culminating the first annual Easter Music Orchestra Camp, Maestro Dani Medeles will present the orchestra developed during the camp in two public concerts.
The first will be on the grounds of San Andres Catholic Church in Ajijic, Friday, April 13, 8 p.m.
The second will be on Saturday, April 14, 2 p.m. at the Lake Chapala Society. A cash bar will be open for the Saturday concert.
Both performances are open free to the public, but donations will be gladly accepted. The participating musicians are 18 to 24 years old.
ASA
Members of the Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA) exhibit their creations on Ajijic’s principal plaza on Sunday, April 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Expect to see paintings in varied media, jewelry, fabric art, photography and more, all done by local artists. It’s definitely worth a stop.
Those interested in joining ASA should turn up on the first Monday of the month (the next one is May 7), 10 a.m. at La Bodega Restaurant, (16 de Septiembre 124, Ajijic). Get there early. The coffee’s ready at 9:30 a.m.
Getting naked
The Naked Stage Theater presents “The Brighton Beach Memoirs” on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 20, 21 and 22, at Plaza de la Ribera (Rio Bravo 10, west end of Ajijic). Curtain is at 4 p.m. on each day.
Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play set in Brooklyn, New York shares the joys and difficulties of a middle-class Jewish family in the 1930s shortly after the Great Depression and before World War II. Doesn’t sound very funny? Just wait till you hear it. The family relationships are so familiar that Simon could be writing about your family and the lines reflect his quintessential humor.
Phyllis Silverman is directing a talented cast of Kevin O’Byrne, Don Chaloner, Alex Maidan, Shirley Appelbaum, Anne Drake, Liz White and Helena Feldstein. Call 766-5986 or email alandoley@gmail for theater reservations.
The San Pedro Restaurant and Bar will be open.
Spirit movie
Anyone who missed seeing the premier showing of the video “Spirit of Lake Chapala” by Roy Nolan on March 23 can purchase the DVD at Diane Pearl Colecciones in Ajijic for 200 pesos.
The video was well received and lots of folks have purchased copies for their film libraries or to send to family in the United States and Canada.
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Painting guild
The Lake Chapala Painting Guild opens its first show, “Impressions of Mexico,” on Saturday, April 21, with a reception from 6-8 p.m. at Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo (old train station) in Chapala.
The show will feature the art of 12 local painters: Maryann Linhart, Lois Schroff, Geraldine Classen, Libby Shipman, Varn, Bev Kephart, Winnie Hunt, Martha Bryce, Joan Lowndes, Anita Lee, Julie Mignard and Sunny Sorensen.
The show will remain up until May 30.
Song
Baritone John Herbert Jones and pianist Timothy G. Ruff Welch present a “Concert of Song” on Sunday, April 22, 4 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Riberas del Pilar.
The concert is to raise funds to ensure that the younger Mexican members of Los Cantantes del Lago can participate in a choral music competition in British Columbia this summer. It will feature songs by Ralph Vaughn Williams and Dvorak, along with several old-time church “barn burners” and energetic Broadway tunes.
A cash bar opens at 3 p.m. Tickets are 175 pesos and can be purchased at Diane Pearl Colecciones in Ajijic.
Book-signing
Author Thomas Ramsey, who lived in Ajijic for many years and was a regular contributor to Lakeside area magazines, will return from his home state of Mississippi for a book-signing for his new novel of life and love.
You’ll find him at Hotel La Nueva Posada on Tuesday, April 17, 2 p.m. to sign copies of “It Takes a While.” The story is about a widower in his later years reflecting on his marriage and his children and the delight of meeting his second wife and last love, Maria, while living as an expat in Mexico.
During his time in Mexico, Ramsay published a dual language English-Spanish book entitled “Ruminaciones/ Ruminations.” He and his wife Frances reside in Madison, Mississippi.
Choirs
Two concerts in the April 21-28 Jalisco Canta (Jalisco Sings) choral festival have been scheduled at the Gonzalez Gallo Cultural Center (old train station) in Chapala.
Camerata Vocal Sine Nomine, a lively and accomplished singing group from Cuba, will perform on Tuesday, April 24, 8 p.m., while Camerata Coral, a 16-member choir from Puerto Rico, will bring their rich musical heritage and talent to the area on Thursday, April 26, 8 p.m.
The public is invited to both these events and there is no admission fee.