Jazz Festival

Presentations by artists participating in the Tonica Jazz Festival are slated at three locations along the route of the Via Recreativa on Sunday, July 13, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

New U.S. franchises open

The Cheesecake Factory opened its first restaurant in Mexico in Galerias Mall last week and Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval Diaz was there to cut the ribbon. The restaurant offers more than 200 different dishes.

Bastille Day

The French community in Guadalajara (and their friends) will celebrate Bastille Day on Saturday, July 13, from 1 p.m. with a dinner at Rancho la Media Luna.

Farmer’s Market

Zapopan’s plush open-air Andares mall has started a Saturday Farmer’s Market where shoppers can purchase a wide range of items directly from producers.

St Mark’s Independence Day

Don’t miss the gala 4th of July celebration at Saint Mark’s Anglican Church on Sunday, July 6.

Learn about many of Jalisco’s 126 municipalities at a two-day, open-air expo/fair to be held in the esplanade in front of the Instituto Cultural Cabañas on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8.

The Vienna-based art foundation, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), has teamed up with the Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ) to present “Atopia, migración, legado y ausencia de lugar,” a collection of 25 works, including two installations, that “focuses on the practices and representations of the ways in which artists have accessed, rehearsed, participated in and negotiated concepts of ‘place’ or ‘place of origin,’ their past, heritage, and cultural ambiguities, with all the dilemmas such notions provoke.”

Kids, adolescents, parents and grandparents can have a ball at this yearly event focusing on the arts and dedicated to children.