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

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.”

Street circus/theater presentations are now part and parcel of the May Cultural Festival, which got underway this week with concerts at the Degollado Theater. Among artists and groups appearing this year – many of them from the Canadian province of Quebec – are Throw2Catch, Caberlion Cirque, Les Buffalo Girls, Le Cirque des Curiosité, Satellite Theatre, Makadam Kanibal and Cirque et Productions.

The American Society (AMSOC) will celebrate Mother’s Day on Thursday, May 8 with a special luncheon.

As part of the celebrations to mark World Book Day on Tuesday, April 29, more than 100 people will read passages from “Las Batallas en el Desierto” (Battles in the Desert) by Mexican author José Emilio Pacheco in a mass reading organized by the Universidad de Guadalajara.

Talented magician Juan Carlos Rodarte (the Wizard of Wonders) brings his full bag of tricks to Guadalajara’s Teatro Gallerias at the end of April.