Opening again
The Castillo de la Floresta park, one of lakeside’s favorite open-air art exhibit spaces, has been renovated and will be re-inaugurated on Saturday, August 29, 11:30 a.m.
The paved plaza is adjacent to the eastbound service road in La Floresta and is just east of the large building with castle-like architectural details. The area has been repaired and renovated by the La Floresta Homeowners Association.
Saturday’s reopening exhibit will feature work by the artists who frequent the Sunday art market at the Glorieta Chapalita in Guadalajara. A variety of live entertainment and folk dance is planned during the event.
The conveniently located plaza will be available for other public events. Contact the La Floresta office at (376) 766-1319 for details.
Brass Concert
The brass quintet Chilakil will take the stage of the Teatro del Pueblo Ajijic in the Centro Cultural Ajijic on Sunday, August 30, 6 p.m.
The quintet includes two trumpet players, a bass player and a French horn player, and is organized by Sam Flores, the former musical director of the Mezquitic Choir.
After beginning music studies at age 12 in Atequiza, Flores earned a degree in music from the University of Guadalajara and took additional course work with French, Mexican and U.S. masters. He has played with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra and the Michoacan Symphony Orchestra, as well as many big bands and jazz groups.
The concert is being presented in Ajijic by RCM Producciones.
Mural Inauguration
Artist Jesus Lopez Vega is planning an inauguration of his latest mural on Wednesday, September 2, 6 p.m.
Painted for the community on the walls of the Family Development Agency (DIF) building in Chapala, “Escenas e Imágenes de Familias Vulnerables” (Scenes and Images of Vulnerable Families) reflects the projects and areas of service that the social welfare institution offers the community.
The mural features several themes, including indigenous communities, education, culture, and one of DIF’s priorities: the medical and psychological attention of the elderly. The DIF and Chapala municipal logos are also featured.
The presentation will be in both Spanish and English, and will offer a celebratory cocktail and music.
DIF Chapala is located at Degollado 327.
Celebrating 45 Years
A retrospective exhibit opening Friday, September 4, 8 p.m. at the Jocotepec Cultural Center looks back of the 45-year career of local artist Jesus Tadeo Vega.
A display of works by some of his students will hang alongside Vega’s, as well as photographs from the cultural center.
Music by a variety of artists and a welcome cocktail will get the party off to a good start.
In addition, local band Asuntos Varios will present its new CD: “Ritmo con Dolor” (Rhythm with Pain).
Raku Fundraiser
Master Raku potter and part-time lakeside resident Sergio Naduville holds a fundraising workshop and art sale on behalf of World Access Project on Saturday, September 5, from noon to 4:30 p.m. in the Raquet Club in San Juan Cosala.
The paying workshop members (tickets are 1,000 pesos) will design, glaze and fire a piece of pottery. There will be a wine tasting while pieces are being fired.
An art show and sale to benefit disabled children through the World Access Project will begin at 5 p.m.
Naduville developed polio at the age of two. As a result of that disease, he has chosen to spend half of each year in Jocotepec and devote some of his talent and time to raising funds to benefit disabled children across Mexico.
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Naked Stage
“The Love List,” a play by Norm Forster and directed by Diana Rowland, is slated for the Naked Stage on Friday, August 28, Saturday, August 29, and Sunday, August 30. The cast members are, left to right: Candace Luciano, Ed Tasca and Tony Wilshere. According to the Naked Stage’s Facebook page, Saturday and Sunday are sold out. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for updates.
ASA Meeting
Dana Douin will demonstrate a variety of materials and techniques for sculpturing figures when he speaks at the Ajijic Socity of the Arts (ASA) meeting on Monday, September 7, 10:30 a.m. at La Bodega Restaurant in Ajijic.
Because Douin’s current pieces are reaching six feet tall, he will also demonstrate the construction of the armatures he creates for his larger pieces.
“Creating art builds my energy. Instead of tiring while working, I build up momentum,” he says. “The way I get going is the reason my assistants in Las Vegas gave me the nickname ‘the animal.’”
Douin moved to Ajijic from Las Vegas where he owned a successful interior design business. With 20 years design experience, he was well known for his fine faux finishes and murals.
Douin was an exhibiting artist at Nevada’s largest gallery and had a major exhibit in Malaysia sponsored by Hilton International. During his three years at lakeside he has shown his work at the Sol Mexicana Gallery and the El Corazon Creativo Gallery.
Revisiting a life-long passion in cosmetology, Douin now owns a busy hair salon in Plaza Montaña. When not in the salon, he is delving into his current artistic passion, mixed media sculpture in which he incorporates paper mache, cloth mache and different forms of air drying clays he creates himself, often while recycling materials. Lakeside Little Theatre patrons are familiar with Douin’s work. There he has designed and painted sets.
Visitors to the hair salon can see Douin’s giant turtle sculpture – a replication of mythology, the amphibian has the universe on his back.
Jalisco Canta
The Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo (old Chapala train station) is one of the venues for the third Festival Internacional de Música Vocal Jalisco Canta, featuring talented a cappella groups from Mexico and abroad. Three concerts are planned in Chapala.
-Sunday, September 6, 1 p.m. – Dueto Caignet-Medina (Mexico).
-Tuesday, September 8, 7 p.m. – Vocal Crea (Mexico)
-Thursday, September 10, 4 p.m. – Vocal Leo (Cuba)
Entry to the recitals is free. Other shows in the festival take place in Guadalajara (see page 21) and several more provincial Jalisco towns. For more information visit www.jaliscocanta.org.
Recital
Also at the Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo, pianist Roberto Carlos Ramirez Figueroa plays preludes of Johann Sebastian Bach and pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Elgar, Debussy and Ponce on Thursday, September 3, 7 p.m. This is the final recital in a weekly series organized by the Universidad de Guadalajara Music School .
Coxala Art Show
The exhibit “Veta de Aves” (Flight of Birds) opens Saturday, September 12, 6 p.m. at Coxala Grafica and features the recent works of local artists Alberto Ordaz, Ivan Leaños and Luis Pinedo.
A cocktail will be offered.
Viva Bus to Russian Ballet
Viva la Musica is hosting a bus trip so lakeside residents can see the acclaimed Russian State Ballet on Thursday, September 24 at the Teatro Diana in Guadalajara. The company is scheduled to perform two major ballets, “Carmen” to the music of Bizet and Ravel’s “Bolero.”
The bus will depart from just east of Farmacia Guadalajara in Ajijic at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are 550 pesos for Viva members and 650 for non-members and are on sale at the Lake Chapala Society on Thursdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon. For more information or to make other arrangements to purchase tickets contact Marshall Krantz at (376) 766-2834 or email 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..