Pride March
Organizers of the city’s second Marcha del Orgullo GDL/G’lAVIE 2015 (pride march) on Saturday, May 30 are expecting 100,000 people to participate and watch in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights.
As well as the color and festive atmosphere, the march will have a serious side, seeking to remind politicians that all citizens have the same rights, regardless of their sexual orientation.
The march will set off from the Minerva Glorieta at 2 p.m. and make its way along Avenida Lopez Mateos, Hidalgo and Chapultepec before ending up at the Glorieta Niños Heroes. Speeches are planned before artists take to a stage for an afternoon of entertainment.
Hundreds of out-of-state participants are expected to come to Guadalajara for the protest/march, organizers say.
English Fellowship Church
Pastor Kenton (center) of Rey de Reyes Presbyterian Church in Guadalajara poses with the outgoing pastor of English Fellowship church, Ray De Lange (far left), and the three new pastors of English Fellowship after their installation on Sunday, May 17. Rey de Reyes is English Fellowship’s mother church.
La Verita
A bullfighter uses crutches as banderillas in ‘La Verita,’ an offbeat homage to Salvador Dali presented by Italian modern dance company Finzi Pasca at the Teatro Diana this week.
Piyatas
There’s still time to buy pitayas, the succulent seasonal fruit sold each year at stalls set up at the Nueve Esquinas in downtown Guadalajara (Colon and Fermin Riestra). While you’re there, why not try out some delicious birria (goat stew) at one of several specialty restaurants surrounding the plaza’s pretty fountain.
Tequila Festival
The second annual Tequila Festival organized by the National Tequila Industry Chamber will showcase Mexico’s iconic drink on Saturday, May 30 and Sunday May 31.
More than 200 brands of tequila produced in the region by 40 distilleries will be on display, with many samples on offer. There will also be music, artistic exhibitions and other attractions, organizers say.
Entrance tickets cost 100 pesos, but patrons should be aware that some exhibitors may charge for samples.
Event organizers expect 6,000 visitors for the festival, which will be held at the Plaza del Bicentenario in Los Belenes, located on the northern Periferico, across from the University of Guadalajara’s Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CUCSH) from noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 9 p.m. on Sunday.
Surrealist exhibit
The work of Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo will be on display at the University of Guadalajara’s Museo de las Artes (MUSA) from Friday May 22 until August 30.
The exhibition, titled “The Dimension of Thought,” features works in the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. Fifty years on from Varo’s death, the exhibition aims to reinterpret the artist through her books and belongings.
“What we did was see her work through her library and that had never been done before. It was a new way of discovering Remedios,” said Marisol Arguelles, curator of the Museo de Arte Moderno.
A close friend of English-born painter Leonora Carrington, Varos was forced into exile from Paris during the German occupation of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941.
Thirty-seven of her oil paintings and drawings are on display, featuring mythical characters, eerie distortions of perspective and androgynous figures. Visitors can also browse the philosophical and esoteric tomes that informed her work, as well as watch the documentary “Remedios Varo: Mystery and Revelation” (in Spanish).
The exhibition will be open to the general public on Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. MUSA is located in the Universidad de Guadalajara rectory building at Juarez and Enrique Diaz de Leon.