For someone who is always looking for an excuse to visit Guadalajara‘s Instituto Cultural Cabañas, three current exhibitions (all lasting until well after the first of the year) were perfect.

Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco

Guadalajara-born mezzo-soprano and orchestra director Grace Echauri is the guest conductor for the OFJ’s second program of the season, featuring Dmitri Shostakovich’s Obertura Festival and Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite.

A large exhibit of paintings in Jalisco from the last 200 years, “Tierra Pródiga” (perhaps best translated as Lavish Land), is showing in Guadalajara’s lovely Ex Convento del Carmen through the end of the year.

Guadalajara’s Palacio de las Vacas (Cow Palace) is offering the interactive horror experience El Títere, a play about the chilling world of the Montalvo family and their sinister collection of puppets. 

Enthusiasts of contemporary dance should expect to be taken on a fascinating journey when the intoxicating work “Omphalos,” created in Mexico City five years ago by acclaimed Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet, is staged at the Conjunto Santander de las Artes in Guadalajara October 27 and 28.

Butoh

U Qux Cah is a performance by Butoh artist Sandra Soto.