Campus Party
This week, several thousand developers, gamers, geeks and hackers descended on Expo Guadalajara for Campus Party 2015. The five-day, round-the-clock technology festival is a magnet for tech savvy folks, many of whom camp out in tents on the Expo floor for the duration of the event.
Campus Party brings together online communities, gamers, programmers, bloggers, governments, universities and students, and has a broad focus, covering technology innovation and electronic entertainment, with an emphasis on free software, programming, astronomy, social media, gaming, green technology, robotics, security networks and computer modeling. The event’s stated goal is to gather the best talent in areas regarding technology and the Internet to share experiences and innovate for a “better tomorrow.”
Tastoanes
This Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m., the Cerro de le Reina in Tonala will host the famous “Dance of the Tastoanes,” an annual ritual commemorating an indigenous insurgence during the Spanish invasion of western Mexico.
The centuries-old religious tradition dates back to the arrival of the Spanish in the old kingdom of Tonallan. The Indian queen, Cihualpilli, received the Spanish troops with open arms and willingly converted to Catholicism.
But a group of Indians less enamored with the European invaders and their religion banded together and rebelled, putting up a heroic fight on Tonala’s Cerro de la Reina hill. As legend has it, when their rebellion was put down they were turned into grotesque monsters known as “tastoanes.”
1st Cabañas exhibit
An exhibition featuring 57 stunning works in silver that belong to the Tane collection has gone on display at the Cabañas Cultural Institute. The pieces include creations by some of Mexico’s most famous artists, such as Leonora Carrington, Luis Barragan, Francisco Toledo, Juan Soriano and Jan Hendrix. Tane is Mexico’s leading silversmith and jeweller, and renowned for its high-quality workmanship.
2nd Cabañas exhibit
A new photographic exhibit aims to strengthen the ties between the Instituto Cabañas and the nearby San Juan de Dios (Libertad) Market. Titled “222 Pasos” (222 Steps) – the distance between the two historic establishments – the show features 44 images of workers from both sites taken by Gaal D. Cohen. Visitors can listen to tape recordings of the workers featured, and also see a video installation. The idea, says the exhibit’s curators, the ITESO University and Colección Diéresis, is to “create a dialogue” between the two institutions. As well as the exhibit, several ancillary events are planned before the show closes on August 16.
Remember that entry to the Cabañas is free to everyone on Sundays. Closed Mondays. The fee for foreign visitors during the week is 70 pesos. The cost for Mexican citizens and foreign residents with ID is 45 pesos.
‘Patch’ Adams
Hunter Doherty “Patch” Adams, the U.S. physician, comedian, social activist, clown and author, will give a talk at the Teatro Galerias on Thursday, October 8, 8 p.m.
Adams encourages doctors to form compassionate connections with their patients. The founder of the alternative medicine Gesundheit Institute in West Virginia, he believes humor and play are essential to physical and emotional health.
His life and work was featured in the 1998 movie “Patch Adams,” starring the late Robin Williams.
Tickets for the talk are 300-650 pesos.