Arts & Entertainment

The event to benefit Lake Chapala, Una Tarde de Verano (A Summer Afternoon), is  billed as “a unique fun happening involving music, art, yoga, arts and crafts and good food, set in a beautiful garden overlooking Lake Chapala.”

The recent works of painter Adriana Perez Cadena – including this piece titled “Impression in movement” – will be shown at Galeria Gecko (Ocampo 6, Ajijic), with an opening reception scheduled for Saturday, June 8, 5-8 p.m. Wine and snacks will be offered.

The exhibit will be up until July 8.

VIVA la Musica! will start its summer concert series with a piano recital by Rosa Maria Valdez on Sunday, June 16, 4 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church.

Guitars

Hear some great classical guitar music at Chapala’s Gonzalez Gallo Cultural Center (old train station) on Thursday, June 13, when University of Guadalajara Music School teachers David Mozqueda and Winy Kellner team up for a concert.

Mozqueda is arguably the best classical guitarist in Mexico.

The acoustics in the Gonzalez Gallo building should be ideal for a guitar concert. The admission is just 50 pesos that will go into the coffers to help fund the summer school of arts held each year at the Gonzalez Gallo. The concert begins at 6 p.m.

The Naked Stage, producers of minimalist play readings for adult theater lovers, will present “Hot Line” by Elaine May and “The Spelling of Coynes by Jules Tosca on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 24, 25 and 26. Collette Clavadetscher is directing.

Roseann Wilshire, Mark Bennett, Howard Feldstein, Zane Pumiglia, Clay McAdam and Don Pruitt appear in “Hot Line.”

The cast of “The Spelling of Coynes” includes Jon DeYoung, Shirley Appelbaum, Joan Lowy Warren, Bob Jones, Barbara Pruitt and Amy Friend. 

Auction

Efren Gonzalez, local artist and manager of the Ajijic Cultural Center, will hold an art auction on Friday, May 17, beginning on the north side of the Ajijic Plaza at 6 p.m.

The auction will benefit the project to complete the sculpture donated to the town by master sculptor Miguel Miramontes.

Besides a tent up to shade everyone from the sun and heat, there will be refreshments served. Come out and help.

Those artists who wish to donate work to be auctioned should contact Gonzalez at (376) 766-5381.

The task of finishing Miramontes’ work is well underway at a foundry in Guadalajara. For Ajijic to own a work by this acclaimed sculptor will put Ajijic even further on the country’s artistic map, Gonzalez believes.

Those artists who wish to donate work to be auctioned should contact Gonzalez at (376) 766-5381.