Folk Dance Double-header
The Ballet Folclórico Ozomatli from Reynosa, Tamaulipas and Guadalajara’s Ballet Tierra y Libertad will take the stage at the Auditorio de la Ribera, La Floresta, Wednesday, July 29, 6:30 p.m.
The double-header performance is scheduled as a benefit for the Centro de Equinoterapia Pepe Martínez where nearly 50 local kids are enrolled for therapeutic sessions on horseback to overcome physical, mental and psychological disabilities such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, Down syndrome, autism and attention deficit disorder. (Find more information about the program posted the center’s Facebook page.)
Admission to the folk dance show is priced at 100 pesos for center section seating and 60 pesos for spots in the side sections. Tickets are available at Yoly’s Unisex Salon, Plaza Bugambilias; Diane Pearl Colecciones, Ocampo at Colón; Mel’s Restaurant, Zaragoza at Aquiles Serdán, Marlowe’s Marvelous Market, Encarnación Rosas 1; SuperLake in San Antonio; and the auditorium front desk.
LLT Auditions
Don’t miss the chance to read for a part (two or three men and one or two women wanted) in “Murder by Misadventure,” a mystery thriller by Edward Taylor and directed by Debra Bowers. The comedy/drama will be presented at the Lakeside Little Theatre (LLT) from October 2 to 11.
Auditions are scheduled for Saturday July 25 at the theater. Registration starts in the lobby at 9:30 a.m. with auditions at 10 a.m. For information contact Debra Bowers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The LLT encourages and welcomes everyone interested in acting, new or experienced, to attend auditions for any of the coming season’s plays.
Painting Guild
Members of the Lake Chapala Painting Guild are hosting a “Meet the Artist” reception on Saturday, July 25, 5 to 7 p.m. to launch their newest exhibition at Arileo Restaurant.
The works by members, all accomplished artists, will hang in the restaurant until the middle of August. For more information about the guild, visit www.lakechapalapaintingguild.org.
Flamenco show
When flamenco dancer Cyndie Zikmund comes from the United States to Chapala each summer to visit her sister, the performer organizes – with a little help from her friends – and hosts two week-long sessions of summer camp. This year’s camp for San Juan Cosala kids started on Monday, July 20 and will conclude with a Saturday, July 25 student flamenco recital and talent show from 3-5 p.m. at Restaurant Viva Mexico. There is no admission fee for the recital to be hosted by Agustin Vazquez Calvario. Audrey Zikmund is shown above helping San Juan campers with an art project.
Legends
Los Leyendas de la Reina Xochitl-Michi-Ciualli is a cooperative presentation of the oral legends of Ajijic organized jointly by the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) and the Lakeside Little Theatre.
Area children are preparing for the event during a theater camp at the LCS Wilkes Educational Center. They will be dramatizing the legend of the goddess of the lake, as related by the mother of event organizer Antonio Lopez Vega, on Saturday, August 1, 2 p.m. in the LLT.
Two Fiestas Mexicanas
A pair of Fiestas Mexicanas on Thursday, July 30 and Sunday, August 2 hope to garner enough revenue in ticket sales to finish the Teatro Pueblo in the Casa de Cultura in Ajijic.
Featured entertainment will be performances by the Ballet Son de Mexico, the San Juan Cosala folk dance troupe under the direction of Luis Guzman. The troupe, which recently returned from a prestigious folk dance festival in Peru, will be the first dancers to test the resonance of their steps on the new wooden floor of the theater stage in the Casa de Cultura.
Fiesta tickets at 300 pesos include one drink and a choice of pollo (chicken) puerco (pork) and rajas (strips of mild chiles) tamales. There will be raffles and surprises on both days.
Viva Spotlight
Viva la Musica! has scheduled three of their recent top musical scholarship winners to appear in a concert of baroque music on Thursday, August 6, 7 p.m. in the Auditorio de la Ribera.
Headlining the program is up-and-coming double bassist Joshua Chavez (above). The Guadalajara-born musician will be accompanied by Rodrigo Leal on piano and Daniel Medeles on viola.
Featured in the musical line up will be Marcello’s haunting “Cello Sonata,” Gabriel Faure’s magical “After a Dream,” the eloquent “Fantasy” by Giovanni Bottesini and the charming “Sinfonia Concertante” for viola and double-bass by Carl von Dittersdorf.
Chavez has performed with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra. Last year he toured Italy with the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra. He currently plays with the Boca del Rio Philharmonic in Veracruz.
Tickets for this concert are 200 pesos. They can be purchased at the auditorium, at Diane Pearl Colecciones and the LCS box office on Thursday and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon, and at the door on the evening of the concert.