The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Feria Maestros del Arte, which takes place from Friday, November 13 through Sunday, November 15 at the Club de Yates de Chapala (Ramon Corona 1, Chapala), is not just a once-a-year event designed to give Mexican folk and indigenous artists a place to sell their art.
The crowd gathered at the Chapala cemetery for the annual American Legion Post 7 Day of the Dead picnic raised a toast at the grave of departed pal John Rafferty.
The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) in Ajijic has planned a grand all-day “Free-esta” on Saturday, November 7 to celebrate the organization’s 60th anniversary.
The Democrats Abroad have logged four events on the November calendar beginning with Democrat Watch Parties on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 14 at Salvador’s Restaurant in Ajijic.
St. Andrew’s Anglican
Responding to those who wonder if the evening of October 31 is satanic or sacred, hellish or wholesome, Fr. Winston Welty’s sermon title for on Sunday, November 1 makes his view clear. “Baptizing Halloween” insists that the childlike humor of that night is a wonderful prelude to the celebration of All Saints Day. Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m. Refreshments are served in the garden after the service.
While extended Mexican families have many hands to keep up the tombs of their deceased relatives, who is looking after grave sites of foreigners buried at the Chapala cemetery, most of whom have no local survivors?
Lake Chapala area residents will note not a pause, but rather an intense burst of activity as Mexico’s idiosyncratic commemorations of All Saints and All Souls build steam this weekend, continuing through Monday, November 2, Dia de los Fieles Difuntos (Day of the Faithful Dead).
