The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Efren Gonzalez is wrapping up his three-year stint as director of the Centro Cultural de Ajijic (CCA) with a full program of special events that will keep gallery spaces and the newly refurbished stage area buzzing with activity from next weekend through the end of the month.
Following last week’s reopening of Chapala’s former town hall as the Centro Cultural Antigua Presidencia, the new facility will be the venue for a series of special performances listed on this year’s Fiestas Patrias program.
Ajijic’s La Bodega restaurant is holding a singing contest to raise funds for the Chapala Red Cross, the local Civil Protection-Fire Department, the School for Special Children (Jocotepec) and Operation Feed (San Juan Cosala).
Season tickets for the 51st season of Lakeside Little Theatre (LLT) are available at the theatre box office on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8 and 9, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The lakeside extension of Guadalajara’s 2015 Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi will take the form of a Fiesta Mexicana to be held Friday, September 11, 5 p.m., at the esplanade outside the Auditorio de la Ribera, La Floresta.
Ajijic artist Efren Gonzalez recently completed a new painting to commemorate Mexico’s upcoming patriotic holidays and the traditional precision teams of talented young girls who compete riding sidesaddle at break-neck speeds.
Next month, My, My, How Nice! Productions presents “Murder in Two Parts,” featuring two plays, two women and two dark comedies about power, passion and possibly more than one murder.
