Calendar girls

The Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion Post 7 is holding a photo contest to find material for their 2014 calendar.

Concert trips

VIVA la Musica has planned seven bus trips to Guadalajara’s  Teatro Degollado for the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra’s fall/winter season of concerts. The Friday concerts begin at 8:30 p.m.; Sunday’s are scheduled for 12:30 a.m. The trip dates and concert highlights are:

Special appeal

VIVA la Musica is on the lookout for no-longer used musical instruments that can be refurbished and passed on to young and aspiring musicians at Lakeside.

Soprano

Coloratura soprano Katia Iran can be heard in concert  at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church on Sunday, October 21, 4 p.m., in an event staged by My, My, How Nice Productions.

Hooray for VIVA!

A truly international quintet – clarinetist Xochitl Garcia and volinist Julio Serna of Mexico, cellist Laila Kannina of Latvia, violist Robert Nelson of the United States and violinist Robert Markus of Slovakia – did more than simple justice to the evening’s musical fare at the VIVA la Musica concert held last week at the Gonzalez Gallo Cultural Center in Chapala.

Nudes

A group of artists who have been meeting weekly in a private studio to draw and paint from life – usually the female form – will open an exhibition of their work on Thursday, September 20, 5-9 p.m. at the Art and Sol Gallery in Ajijic.