The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Often arresting photographs, paintings and prints by some of England’s best known living artists are showing until February at the University of Guadalajara’s elegant art museum, located at Avenida Juarez and Enrique Diaz de Leon. Meanwhile, the Cabañas Institute and Ex Convento are also hosting show British artists.
Invited country United Kingdom has scheduled a diverse and entertaining literary program for the 2015 International Book Fair (FIL).
A large audience is anticipated when Salman Rushdie, one of the United Kingdom’s most celebrated novelists, inaugurates the Literary Salon of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) Sunday, November 29, 12:30 p.m.
Contemporary music
Local bands offer free “jam sessions” in these new Monday evening presentations.
Teatro Alarife Martin Casillas, Mondays, 8 p.m. Free.
Performers from the United Kingdom will take the stage of the Foro FIL (in the Expo Guadalajara esplanade) for nine consecutive nights during the FIL. The acts include cutting-edge and electrifying expressions of contemporary British music and dance, as well as more traditional artistic interpretations. All shows start at 9 p.m. and are free.
If you’re a laid-back lover of all things literary you will probably not relish wrapping your brain around Guadalajara’s humongous and frantic International Book Fair (FIL) and its superabundance of activities.
The United Kingdom, FIL’s guest of honor this year, will share its cultural heritage and diversity by bringing to Guadalajara a delegation consisting of more than 150 writers, academics, artists and representatives of publishing houses.
