The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Calling Jesus Trinidad Villalpando the “Mexican Basquiat” could be seen as facile and lazy, but damned if an exhibition of his work sponsored by the state government and housed in the gracefully colonnaded 17th-century Ex-Convento del Carmen in downtown Guadalajara doesn’t make pointing out the parallels between the two artists irresistible.
French writer Emmanuel Carrère has been named as this year’s recipient of the 2017 FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages, to be presented at the Guadalajara International Book Far, November 25 to December 3.
Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra
A curtain-raiser to its fall season offers two concerts featuring works from some of the most iconic and popular movies of the past half-century, including “2001: Spacey Odyssey” (Strauss), the 2005 version of “King Kong” (James Newton Howard), “The Lord of the Rings” (Howard Shore), “Pirates of the Caribbean” (Zimmer), “Gladiator” (Zimmer), and the “The Magnificent Seven” (Elmer Bernstein).
Folk dance
Regarded as the best folk dance troupe in Mexico, the Ballet Folklorico of the Universidad de Guadalajara returns for another season of summer shows on Sunday evenings.
Film music is a surefire crowd-pleaser.
Zapopan’s new Centro Cultural Constitución will be the venue for a nearly two-hour performance by soprano Bárbara Padilla, who will once again sing on home turf Thursday, August 31, 8 p.m., directed by her friend Allen Vladimir and his Orquesta de Cámara de Zapopan (Zapopan Chamber Orchestra).
Folk dance
Regarded as the best folk dance troupe in Mexico, the Ballet Folklorico of the Universidad de Guadalajara returns for another season of summer shows on Sunday evenings.
