Arts & Entertainment

Ultimate guitar

Virtuoso Mexican guitarist Paco Renteria and his band “Free Play” entertain at the Auditorio de la Ribera del Lago in La Floresta on Wednesday, October 12, 7:30 p.m., as part of Pro-Auditorio Autumn Arts Festival. Tickets are 150 to 250 pesos and are on sale at the Lake Chapala Society, Charter Club Tours, Diane Pearl’s Colecciones and the Auditorium. Proceeds from this performance will go toward the renovation of the auditorium that will begin in April 2012.

Scholarships

VIVA la Musica has authorized scholarships of 10,000 pesos each to five outstanding Mexican music students.

They include Ajijic’s Emmanuel Medeles, the conductor and teacher of the CREM orchestra, who will be able to continue his studies at the University of Guadalajara.

Other University of Guadalajara recipients are Areli Medeles of Ajijic and Ivan Morales of Guadalajara, who study the cello and piano respectively.  Awards have also gone to Eduardo Garcia of San Antonio Tlayacapan towards the purchase of a professional cello and Francisco Bedoy of Autlan to continue voice performance studies at the University of Kentucky. (Bedoy will perform at the VIVA la Musica! membership party in December.)

VIVA la Musica! also donates 18,000 pesos annually to CREM to support the teaching faculty.

Southside

Congratulations to Arturo Aceves, owner and operator of Los Crotos Posada in the village of San Luis Soyotlan on the south side of Lake Chapala. The recent art exhibition held there (the first ever in that village) was spectacular and so was the crowd. Hopefully Aceves will see his way clear in the near future for another such event. Featured artists at the event were Cornelio Garcia, Antonio Lopez Vega, Jesus Lopez Vega, Isidro Xilonxochitl, Pat Apt, DePaul Durham and Kathy Seaboyer.

Get dressed up

A new community project, “Facharte,” is hoping to turn Ajijic into an internationally known “living museum.”

Jaime Barbiery invites residents of Ajijic to participate by having their house facades, doors, doorways, garage doors, rocks, nearby utility poles or even trees painted or decorated, so that when folks are here for the Pan Am Games – or just to visit our town – and are meandering through village streets, they’ll be impressed by its beauty.

Artists from the community will be on hand to help bring your ideas to fruition – or you can come up with your own simple or extravagant designs.

Naughty but nice

Billed as the “first ever official exhibition of erotic art in Ajijic,” the work of local artist Luz Preciado is set to adorn the walls of the Ajijic Cultural Center later this month.

“Sin Tabues” (Without Taboos) opens with a cocktail reception on Saturday, September 24.

Twenty-two multi-media pop-art style works will range from the mildly titillating to the blush producing.

Also showing is Ajijic jewelry designer Jose Melendrez, who will be erecting an installation entitled “Art in the Public Bathroom.”

The exhibition has been approved by municipal authorities and remains in place until October 10. Be sure to take it in – if you dare.

Really big show

The Really Big Lip Sync Show is finally here!

Performances are scheduled Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10 at 6 p.m. and on Sunday, September 11 at 3 p.m. at Club Exotica on the Ajijic Plaza. General admission tickets are 150 pesos and 250 pesos for the balcony leather couch seats and a drink voucher.

The mime show features Pat Carroll as Ed Sullivan, Jayme Littlejohn as Lady Gaga, Collette as Cristina Aguilera, Allan McGill as Judy Garland and Kathleen Morris as Bette Midler. These are just a few of the 24 amazing acts!

The show benefits Pro-Auditorio – the project to raise funds for the improvement of the auditorium (Auditorio de la Ribera del Lago) in La Floresta.  Tickets are on sale now at the Lake Chapala Society from 10 a.m. to noon, Charter Club Tours and Diane Pearl’s.

ASA

The Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA) will meet Monday, September 5, 10 a.m. at La Nueva Posada (Donato Guerra 9, Ajijic). Coffee’s on at 9:30 a.m.  ASA is a gathering of artists in many fields of the plastic arts, who meet to exchange information and promote art in the Lakeside area. All are welcome.