González and Family Art Show
The Efrén González and Family Art Show opened January 3 at the Centro Cultural Ajijic. A large crowd of friends and admirers attended the opening to view the huge collection of works by González and Reina Galindo, and their three offspring, Leonardo, Zyanya and Paula.
Reina produces large-format floral paintings. Leo specializes in portraits, Zyanya in animal life and Paula in human figures. González included recent paintings of scenery in Canada and San Miguel de Allende. The family exhibit continues through January 15.
Exhibits
• Sculptor Francisco Quiroz Carranza, the founder and general director of Art21Studio, will headline an exhibition of his rarely seen private collection during January and February at Casa Del Sol, Javier Mina 7, with an artists’ reception on Friday, January 9, 4 to 6 p.m.
• “El Vapor Libertad,” a pictorial exhibition by Luci Williams, will open Friday, January 16, 5 p.m. at the Centro para la Cultura y las Artes de la Ribera. The art, both paintings and sculpture, interprets the history of the emblematic steamboat that plied Lake Chapala at the end of the 19th century.
• RI (Real Intelligence), an exhibition of paintings by Neal S. Willow, opens on Friday, January 16, 3 to 6 p.m. at La Estacion, Hidalgo 75 in Riberas del Pilar. The exhibition closes February 11.
• Galeria La Manzanilla on the Costalegre opens an exhibit by Alvaro Chavarin, Friday, January 16, 4 to 7 p.m. See artinmexico.com for more information.
• A group exhibition by the Lake Chapala Fine Artists Guild opens Saturday, January 10, 3 to 6 p.m. at Sol y Luna, West Ajijic. Meet the artists and enjoy live music, wine, beer, agua fresca, and a special restaurant menu. Student art from the Efrén González Children’s Art Program is also available for purchase.
• Silvia Murillo will hold an exhibition of her sculptures, Saturday, January 17, 5 p.m. at the Garden of Dreams Boutique Hotel, Constitucion 105, Ajijic. See more at silviamurilloescultora .com.
Artisan Art Show
Ajijic painter Rocio Vera is one of the many artists from the Artists of Lake Chapala who will be displaying and selling their original art at the Artisan Art Show on Saturday, January 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cultural Center located on the Carretera in La Floresta. Free entrance.
Live Music
FRIDAY
• “A Carole King Musical Tribute: Her Music, Her Story, Her Life” will take the stage at The BRAVO! Friday to Sunday, January 16 to 18. Created and headlined by singer-songwriter Susanne Sims and joined by vocalists Rev. Johannys Jimenéz-Hartog and Wanda White, and musicians Gilberto Rios, Eleazar Soto and Israel Angulo. All shows are at 4 p.m. Tickets are 400 pesos. Reserve at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., in person at It’s Kinda Bazar or online at thebravo.org.
• Black Sapphire Jazz performs at American Legion Post 9 in Chapala, 5 p.m. 100 pesos cover.
• Chriss Cross Jazz Duet will be at El Pilar Bistro, Hidalgo 261 in Riberas del Pilar, 5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
• Lakeside Jazz Trio plays Isa Vella, 6-8 p.m. Carretera Ajijic-Jocotepec 976. RSVP 376-766-2970. No cover.
• Traficante Rock ‘n’ Latin Band plays, 7 p.m. at La Bodega de Ajijic.
SUNDAY
• A Flamenco Jazz concert by musicians JuanPi Medeles, Carlos Ivan de Leon, Emilia Galvez, Gil Rios and Eleazar Soto is on at the Cochera Cultural, 7 p.m. Tickets, 350 pesos, can be reserved at info @cocheracultural.org.
COMING SOON
• The Escarabajo Blues Band will perform at the Garden of Dreams Boutique Hotel, Constitucion 105, Ajijic, Friday, January 23. Tickets are 250 pesos early-bird, 400 pesos at the door.
• Mau Jimenez brings his “Who’s The Boss Bruce Springsteen tribute to Steve Balfour’s Concerts in the Park series at the Lake Chapala Society, Sunday, January 25, 5 p.m. Tickets, available at the LCS office Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Theater
Lakeside Little Theatre will stage Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” January 16 through 25.
Director Neal Checkoway said the play’s deliberately contradictory subtitle, “A Tragic Farce,” reveals much about the work’s complexity. “It is exactly that tension between humor and sorrow, certainty and confusion that gives the play its unique perspective and power. It’s a world where emotion, disorientation and mystery exist side by side.”
Checkoway directs Rebecca Byberg, Chris Van Vliet, Ilana Spector, Dave McIntosh, M.A. Bruneau and Mark Nichols.
Matinees (Saturdays, Sundays, and Tuesdays) are at 4 p.m., evening shows at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, 400 pesos, are available at lakesidelittletheatre.com and before the shows at the box office.
Comedy
Carol Leifer, an American stand-up comedian since the 1970s, will perform at The BRAVO! Theatre Friday, January 30, 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, January 31, 4 and 7:30 p.m.
Her inner-monologue-driven, observational style is often autobiographical, encompassing subjects about her Jewish ancestry and upbringing, coming out, same-sex marriage, relationships, having been married previously to a man and now to a woman, and parenting.
Leifer credits mentor and lifelong friend, David Letterman, with her rise to fame, having performed stand-up comedy on his Late Night show 25 times.
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