Bare Stage
Bare Stage Theatre’s February production is “The Savannah Sipping Society” by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten.
It is performed Friday to Sunday, February 25, 26 and 27. In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years.
Roxanne Rosenblatt directs Linda Goman, Kathleen Morris, Kathleen Pharis and Barbara Pruitt.l, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years.
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Bare Stage is located at Carretera 261 in Riberas del Pilar across from the Catholic Church. Door and bar open at 3 p.m. Seats are held till 3:50 p.m. All Covid-19 protocols will be in place: audience limited in size; masks mandatory; proof of vaccine or negative test. Informtion: Facebook/barestagetheatre2018.
Art Auction
Casa del Sol Inn holds an art auction of curated investment quality art from two galleries, Estudio Libertad and Art Mafia, Saturday, February 26, 2-6 p.m. The event is to support young Mexican artists.
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St. Andrew’s concerts
St. Andrew’s Anglican Church and the Opera de Axixic are offering concerts featuring top artists from Guadalajara. The concerts are held Saturdays, 7 p.m. at the church, Calle San Lucas 19, in Riberas del Pilar.
• February 26, mezzo soprano Mireya Ruvalcaba (Coro de Zapopan), tenor Jorge Jimenez and pianist Rodrigo Leal perform music by Agustin Lara, Mario Ruiz Aermengol, Mexican boleros and other Latin rhythms.
• March 5, double bass players Abraham Bolivar and Diana Carolina Atay, together with pianist Rodrigo Leal, play music by Giovanni Bottesini: “Gran Duetto No. 3,” “Gran duo Concertante,” and “Reverie.”
• March 12 is an opera gala with Soprano Marichuy Cardenas, mezzosoprano Teresa Banderas, tenor Ynior Medrano, baritone Ricardo Lavin and pianist Rodrigo Leal performing arias from “Don Giovanni,” “La Traviata,” “Carmen,” “Boheme,” and others.
Concerts cost 270 pesos and the last concert 300 pesos, available at St. Andrew’s, Monday to Friday, 8-11 a.m.; INK at Ocampo 32 in Ajijic, Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and Art Coffee on the Ajijic Plaza, Monday to Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday, until 9 p.m.
OFJ concert tickets
The new Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) season at the Teatro Degollado has begun, and once again the OFJ administration has kindly offered Lakeside audiences a chance to attend concerts on Sundays at 12:30 p.m.
They will reserve orchestra seats for those who want to attend. Local coordinator Joyce Noriega can be contacted at 376-766-1804 to request reservations.
She will submit your name on the weekly list to OFJ administration, no later than the Monday preceding the Sunday concert. You then pick up your ticket and pay at the box office. The concert season is as follows: February 27, March 13, 20, 27, April 3 and 10. The February 27 concert features an all French program including works by Debussy, Saint-Saens and Ravel.
For those without cars, Noriega can assist (groups of up to five) with a van reservation. The round-trip to Guadalajara costs about 300 pesos.
Exhibits
The Centro Cultural Ajijic will hold openings for two grand exhibits, Friday, March 4, 4 p.m.
“Emigrantes del Lago: Complices del Mar y del Lago, Movimiento Creativo” presents a collective show of photographs, paintings and sculpture by artists Monica Cardenas, Daria Gonzalez, Gonzalo Espinosa and Efren Gonzales. Upstairs, “Naufragos,” will be a one-man show of paintings by Isidro Xilonzochitl Camarena from San Juan Cosalá.
Espinosa is known for his numerous murals in Tucson’s South side and for his vibrant depiction of Mexico he knew as an urban teenager in Guadalajara. Originally from Acapulco, Espinosa moved to the United States in 1986 lured by the muralist movement of Los Angeles. When Tucson offered him opportunities to work in public art and art education, he founded Las Artes del Desierto, an experimental vocational community projects program to involve at-risk youth.
Born and raised in Puerto Vallarta, Daria González is a fine arts graduate of the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdG). During her 23-year art career she has participated in national and international collective and individual art exhibitions and participations in monumental sculpture symposiums.
Since 2016, González has run the Centro de Expresion Alternativa ArteDaria art studio for children, youth and adults, which led her to teach temporarily at the UdG Visual Arts department. Certified as an art therapist by the INAD, (Development Neurosciences Institute), Gonzalez continues to expand her knowledge and techniques through art disciplines to transcend and diversify herself as a female artist.
Prominent Ajijic artist Efrén González hardly needs an introduction to Lakeside residents. Best known for his oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, he is also an accomplished local muralist, proprietor of a local gallery, art supply and framing shop, frequent instructor of painting workshops offered in Mexico and abroad, and the current director of the CCA.
Photographer, editor and cultural manager Mónica Cárdenas has participated in publications and exhibitions in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, the United States, Cuba, and Spain. Winner of several awards, her images have been published in magazines, both commercial and cultural, album covers, book covers, posters, in addition to commercial productions.
In 2016, she moved to San Antonio Tlayacapan, where she started La Galería Mónica Cárdenas, a venue for developing art and crafts in different fields, such as book publishing, artist representation and a fine printing laboratory.
Isidro Xilonzochitl, better known as XiLotL or “El Chivo,” is a San Juan Cosala painter, sculptor, muralist, engraver, art teacher and founder of the collective art group “La Cueva.” He studied at the UdG in the School of Fine Arts and has participated in many individual and collective exhibitions, both in Mexico and abroad.
Photo-journalism exhibit
Semanario Laguna and Galería al Aire Libre de Ajijic (GALA) present “Gotas de Realidad,” Lakeside’s first photo journalism exhibit, to be inaugurated Saturday, February 26, 5 p.m.
The new show at the open-air gallery, wrapped around the Ajijic plaza, will feature 21 images of day-to-day community life as viewed through the lens of eights reporters from the Spanish-language weekly, capturing visual fragments of reality to illustrate the local news.
Concerts in the Park
The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) Concerts in the Park series presents:
• Us Two show of decades of music from the 1950s to the 90s, Tuesday, March 15, 3 p.m.
• Us Two tribute to Elton John and Abba, Tuesday, March 15, 5:30 p.m.
• Seth Sikes, “Me And My Gals” show, in a benefit for Food Bank Lakeside, Sunday, March 20, with shows at 2:30 and 5 p.m.
Tickets are available at the LCS office or via the LCS website.
Lake ChapalaCommunity Orchestra
The Lake Chapala Community Orchestra is back to full strength and gearing up for an exciting concert presentation Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19, 3 p.m. at the Lakeside Presbyterian Church, San Jorge 250, Riberas del Pilar.
The audience will be taken on a mesmerizing musical journey.
Entitled “Pages From History,” the concert will feature orchestral works written to commemorate famous historical events.
“Before film music gave us a musical background to history, composers such as Beethoven and Tchaikovsky composed orchestra works depicting significant historical events,” says Michael Reason, the orchestra’s conductor. “1812” by Tchaikovsky is perhaps the most famous of these, but “Finlandia” by Sibelius and “Egmont Overture” by Beethoven are equally appropriate in their respective appraisal of history.
Reason believes that an orchestral concert should appeal to a wide audience and his ability to program concerts with works from diverse musical genres is a hallmark of the orchestra’s presentations.
Guest artists include the orchestra’s principal clarinetist, Susanne Bullock, in Mozart’s “Clarinet Concerto” and Christy Carter Caldwell singing a World War II song medley.
Music from the cinema will feature prominently with James Horner’s magnificent score to “Apollo 13” and John Williams’s moving theme to Oliver Stone’s “JFK.” All the music will be complimented with video projections.
Seating is limited to only 70 people per performance. Tickets, 250 pesos, can be reserved at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Proof of vaccination is required to attend.
LLT screening
Lakeside Little Theatre (LLT) has announced a Special Playhouse screening: the award-winning play “Tennessee Rising, The Dawn of Tennessee Williams.” The drama is written and performed by Jacob Storms and directed by internationally acclaimed actor and director Alan Cumming.
Performances are Thursday and Friday, March 10 and 11, 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13, 4 p.m. During the 75-minute screening, you will see Tom, a young anonymous writer, become the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning American playwright, Tennessee Williams. The play has won the prestigious United Solo Award for Best One-Man Show.
Jacob Storms is best known for his recurring role (Serge) on Steven Soderbergh’s Amazon Original Series, “Ed Oaks.” Tickets, 350 pesos, are available at lakesidelittletheatre.com or by at the LLT box office Wednesdays and Thursdays, February 23 and 24 and March 9 and 10, 10 a.m. to noon .
LLT’s Angel Terrace Bar opens one hour before show-time and during intermission. Patrons must wear masks properly at all times in the lobby and auditorium. Those who do not comply will be asked to leave; no refunds will be issued. Proof of vaccination is required to attend.