Arts & Entertainment

Visitors to the TlaquepArte Latin American show and crafts extravaganza will be again thrilled to find the same high-quality handicrafts, gifts and decorations from all over Mexico and Latin America at below retail prices. Many of the items on sale will have Christmas themes, so you’ll easily be able to decorate your house and tree with creative seasonal goodies.

Guadalajara’s magnificent Museo de las Artes (Juarez and Enrique Diaz de Leon) is hosting an exhibit to mark the centenary of the birth of Mathias Goeritz, a sculptor of German origin who left a considerable artistic legacy in this country, including Guadalajara. 

Two giant index fingers created by Jalisco-born artist Jose Rivelino have been attracting plenty of attention in London’s emblematic Trafalgar Square as part of the Dual Year of UK and Mexico.

Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra

Martin Panteleev conducts Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29 and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21. Daniela Liebman, 13, is the invited pianist.

Guadalajara’s most attractive art museum, the Instituto Cultural Cabañas, has added another supernova to its ever-active galaxy of presentations with “Frida y Yo” (Frida and I), which lasts until January 17.

As has been the tradition for many decades, just before daybreak on Monday, October 12 the tiny, revered statue of the Virgin of Zapopan will be wheeled out of the Guadalajara Cathedral, placed carefully on an elaborate float and driven very slowly back to her ancestral home in the Zapopan Basilica, preceded by thousands of high-octane ethnic dancers, decked out in colorful indigenous costumes.