The Guadalajara Reporter
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The lush grounds of Ajijic’s Garden of Dreams boutique B&B proved to be a splendid setting as the new venue for the Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA) once-a-month Art Market.
Women from lakeshore communities who have learned business skills to start up their own enterprises will be putting their products on the market at the Expo-Bazar taking place Monday and Tuesday, August 15 and 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the esplanade outside Vinos y Licores Paz, off the highway at Calle Independencia 163, San Antonio Tlayacapan.
The Festival del Lago’s musical staff and students will perform six more chamber music concerts beginning with a fundraising gala held Monday, August 8, 6 p.m.
It will be ready, set, go on Sunday, August 28 when runners line up at the Ajijic waterfront for back-to-back races in the seventh edition of Ultra Trail Campanaria competition.
A lively festival held last weekend in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos was wrapped around the quince, town’s signature fruit and source of varied by-products.
After a two-year break due to the Covid pandemic, Guadalajara NGO Conectando Culturas, A.C. was able to resume an exchange program with university students in Germany this summer.
Atotonilquillo, Chapala’s distant satellite community, is set to revive the annual Expo Membrillo country fair on Saturday and Sunday, August 13 and 14, coming back from a two-year postponement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Right on cue, after the Guadalajara Reporter’s front page story last week on weather phenomena in the Lake Chapala region, a waterspout snaked down from a giant black cloud bank hovering over the water early Tuesday, August 9.
As a prelude to this year’s Xupinaya mountain race, family, friends and admirers gathered at the Ajijic plaza Saturday, July 30 to honor the late Gerardo “Nardo” López Castellanos, one of the town’s most eminent foot racers.
