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March 2014

 

PAST EVENTS

Chuck Pattinian and his wife, Carol, hosted a luncheon last January 30 to celebrate the re-publication of Alejandro Grattan’s historical novel, The Dark Side of the Dream.

The author fielded many questions about his career as a screenwriter/director in Los Angeles, as well as the genesis of the novel. In a recent promotion on www.amazon.com, 1,038 people downloaded the book.

SQUEAKY WHEEL READINGS

La Rueda (the wheel), a new coffee/gallery in San Juan Cosala, staged the first of a monthly reading series in English, to be held the first Wednesday of each month.  

 


Kay Davis in the Open Reading

 

The inaugural reading was on Wednesday, February 5. Featured readers were Mel Goldberg, Larry Reeves and Judy Dykstra-Brown.   Readers in March will be Patricia Hemingway and Michael Warren.  Each month there will be six places for open readings.

Directions to La Rueda: at the only stop light in San Juan Cosala, turn towards the lake.  Go one block and turn right at the plaza (on Porfirio Diaz.)  Drive two blocks or so, past Viva Mexico restaurant on your right.  

Writers who want to read, or those needing further information, can contact Judy Dykstra-Brown at 387 761 0281 or email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  

 

COMING EVENTS

A TOUCHING MEMOIR--AND IT’S FREE

Bobby Johns, long-time favorite with the Ajijic Writer’s Group, has written a deeply touching memoir called The Adventures of a Young Cornishman. “For years,” our Ojo editor says, “Bobby has been wowing audiences with his stories for many years, and now they are in a marvelous book in stores all over Lakeside--and it’s free!”

 

 

ARTISTIC INSIGHTS

The Lake Chapala Painting Guild presents Artistic Insights at a reception and show on Friday, March 7, from 4 to 6, at the Sol Mexicano Gallery. The works will be on display through March 25.

 


Spirit Creating Blossoms By Lois Schroff

 

The featured artists are Betty Petersen, Carol Ann Owers, Geraldine Classen, Joan Lowndes, Lois Schroff, Steve Achs, Varn, Winnie Hunt, Cynthia DuBois, Ina Gieysztor, Helen Marie Krustev, Nancy Gran and Mary Ann Linhart.

Sol Mexicano is located at Colon 13 in Centro Ajijic. Opening times are 10:30- 4:30 Monday through Saturday and Sundays 12-5. Tel. (376) 766-0734. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

THE PASSION OF CHRIST

To support the April Easter Passion Play, Ninos Incapacitados will host a Mexican fiesta and art auction at the Hotel Nueva Posada, Ajijic, on Friday, March 7, at 3 pm.

 

 

The fiesta starts with a cash bar and music followed by lunch and the art auction. 

Tickets are 200 pesos and can be purchased at Diane Pearl Colecciones, Hotel Nueva Posada, Dario Marquez Studio, Inovacion Hair Especialistas and Estetica Yoly.  For questions, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

VIVA MUSICA BUS TRIPS TO THE PHILHARMONIC

The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra has now announced its spring season:

Friday March 7 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2, Beethoven Fourth Symphony, 250 pesos

Sunday March 16 Beethoven Sixth Symphony, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3, 250 pesos

Friday March 28 Mozart Symphony #35,  Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #4, Brahms Fourth Symphony, 250 pesos.

Tickets are available at LCS Thursdays & Fridays 10-12.  Sunday trips leave at 10.30 and Friday trips leave at 4.30 and stop at a better restaurant for dinner before the concert.

LET’S HELP STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES

Jaltepec Centro Educativo is once again presenting one of their gourmet dinners to the Lakeside public.  Your attendance and support will help the more needy students of this Technical Universario’s curriculum in Hotel and Hospitality Management.  You can make a difference, not only to these young ladies but also so they can help educate their siblings and support their parents. 

 

 

The evening begins on Wednesday, March 12, with a no host bar at 6 pm, complimentary hors d’oeuvres and cocktail music from Timothy G. Ruff Welch.

Donation: 400 pesos per person for the dinner. Wine, at 220 pesos per bottle, is payable at the door. Please RSVP before Friday, March 7 with your main course preference to Linda Buckthorp at 766-1631 or by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Tickets will be available for pickup at Multiva’s reception desk.

It would be of help to the bar service if those who wish to order a bottle of wine (Santa Alicia Reserva, merlot or chardonnay), do so when they RSVP. 

THE BRITISH ARE COMING!

On Thursday, March 13 at 5:30, Ninos Incapacitados will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the “British invasion,” at a dinner dance at the Real de Chapala Hotel.

 

 

A delicious buffet dinner and live and silent auctions will be followed by dancing to numbers from The Stones, The Animals, and other favorite groups of the era.

 Tickets are $450 pesos each.  You can reserve tickets and tables for 10, or seats at an open table, by contacting Linda Hendy at 376 106-1281, or email her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  Special tables for ten are 7500 pesos per table.

 Tickets are also available at The Bagel Place (south of the carretera to the west of Juarez), Mostly Chocolate (Constitución 39 opposite Tom’s Bar), Century 21 (north side of the carretera opposite the Sunrise Café in San Antonio) and Opus Boutique on Colon.

INTOXICATING DANCE

Los Tangueros del Lago is a group of locals who have been studying Argentine tango for the last four years. They’re inviting the public to celebrate Cine Tango with a series of two intoxicating and exuberant film presentations.  The schedule:

Monday, March 17, La Puta y La Ballena at El Piano Rojo, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 18, Tango de Carlos Saura at El Piano Rojo, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are 100 pesos, plus a two drinks minimum.

Please call (376) 766-2876, www.elpianorojo.com.

 

 

Los Tangueros are also sponsoring an Argentine tango workshop and seminar March 20-22 at Villa Montecarlo, Hidalgo 296, Chapala, from 10 to 3, with a brunch buffet included each day. Come and learn those sultry moves with an invited guest teacher from Colombia. The cost is 1,995 pesos. For reservations, payment and more information, email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

BRUSH UP ON YOUR SPANISH

The Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo is presenting films dedicated to thoughtful consideration: What is Mexico? and Who are Mexicans?   The following movies will be shown at the Old Train Station in Chapala.  The admission is twenty pesos. All films are shown at 6:30 pm.

March 21 Los Caifanes with Juan Ibáñez, 1966. 95 minutes.

April 4  Rojo Amanecer with Jorge Fons, 1989.  96 minutes

May 2 Como Agua Para Chocolate with Alfonso Arau, 1992. 123 minutes

ALAN TURING: GENIUS AT WORK

Breaking the Code, by Hugh Whitemore, will be directed by Lynn Phelan and performed at The Naked Stage Theatre on March 21, 22 and 23. This is the story of mathematical genius Alan Turing, the man who designed the computer that cracked the German Enigma code. Cast members are Allen McGill, Michael Warren, Ron Knight, Avril Stephenson, Joan Warren, John Ward and Frank Watson.

The e-mail address for future reservations: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone Michelle at 765-6408. Reservations guarantee a seat until 3:50, after which seats will be sold to those waiting without reservations.

The Naked Stage is located at #10A Rio Bravo. Directions: west on the carretera from Ajijic, south on Rio Bravo, about two blocks down behind Daniel’s Restaurant on the east side. Daniel’s is open for lunch and dinner with a no host bar available at 3:00 p.m. The box office opens at 3:15 and the show starts at 4:00 p.m.

Save these dates for the upcoming Naked Stage production: Taking Leave–April 25, 26 and 27.

LAST CHANCE TO SEE BEHIND THE WALLS

The kind people of Ajijic let us look behind the walls of their beautiful homes to help a worthy cause, The Lakeside School for Special Needs Children, formerly the School for the Deaf. 

The last tour is March 27. Tickets are available at Diane Pearl Colecciones and Charter Club Tours at Plaza Montana. For further information, contact: Cece Girling, 376-766-3964, or Leslie Martin, 376-766-2274, or Shirley West, 376-766-4997.

BOUNTIFUL MOTHER EARTH

Los Cantantes del Lago Spring Concert, Nature’s Music, is coming up on March 25 at 7 pm and March 26 at 4 pm at the Auditorio de la Ribera.  

This concert, led by music director Timothy G. Ruff Welch, will pay tribute to Mother Earth’s bounties and have some fun twists that are sure to entertain!  

Look for tickets to go on sale beginning in late February at Diane Pearl Colecciones, Mia’s Boutique, and via email atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Cost: 250 pesos for adults, 150 pesos for students.

TWO DAYS LATER

Two days later, on March 27 at 7 pm, Viva Musica presents the Catarsis Piano Trio, featuring Diego Rojas, violin, Yalissa Cruz, cello, and Julieta Azalea Beltran, piano. They will perform selections from Beethoven, Schumann, and Astor Piazzolia.

The event is at the Auditorio de la Ribera. Cost: 200 pesos for Viva members, 300 pesos for general admission. Students are free. Contact Rosemary Keeling at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

LET’S THINK ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY 

Next on stage at the Lakeside Little Theater is the final play of the season, Social Security, which runs March 28-April 6. The play focuses on trendy Manhattan art gallery owners Barbara and David Kahn, whose life is upended when her housewife sister Trudy deposits a surprise guest on the couple’s doorstep.

Cast members left to right are Phyllis Silverman, Pierre Blackburn, Georgette Richmond, Zane Pumiglia, Candace Luciano, and Roger Larson. The director is Phil Shepherd.

 

 

The box office opens the Wednesday before opening night (Friday) and from 10-12 every day except Sunday until the show is sold out.  It is also open an hour before each performance.  Shows are 200 pesos.  

Email Paula, the box office manager, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 766-0954.

 

ONGOING EVENTS

LIVE (ALMOST) AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

Viva Musica sponsors bus trips to televised operas in Guadalajara. The coming operas are:

Saturday, March 11 at 11.00 a.m. Massenet, Werther. Bus leaves 9.30 a.m.

Saturday, April 5 at 11.00 a.m. Puccini, La Boheme. Bus leaves 9.30 a.m.

Saturday, May 3 at noon, Mozart, Cosi Fan Tutti. Bus leaves 10.30 a,m,

Saturday, May 10 at noon, Rossini, La Cenicienta. Bus leaves 10.30 a.m.

Contact Marshall at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to reserve. Tickets can be purchased at LCS Thursday and Friday 10-12 250 pesos for members, 350 pesos non-members. Seats are reserved only when tickets are purchased. Buses leave from a point just east of Farmacia Guadalajara on the carretera.

HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?

Join others every third Wednesday at 10, to share your expertise on growing vegetables and herbs in the Lake Chapala area.  The next meeting will be on March 12. Contact John McWilliams at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or by phone at 376-766-0620 to get directions.

CAMINARTE DE AXIXIC

An art walk organized by ten galleries in Ajijic started in January. The events will be held every second Friday.  All the galleries involved will be open for visitors. Refreshments will be served at each gallery.

 

 

Pick up a map in your nearest gallery.  The next walk will be March 14. Check www.ajijicnews.com for the times.

AJIJIC SOCIETY OF THE ARTS

Members of ASA will show their art works on the third Sunday of the month through April, on the Ajijic Plaza. The next event will be on March 16.

AMERICAN LEGION IN CHAPALA

Saturdays:      3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Fish Fry

Sundays:         Burgers & Dogs 12 - 3 p.m.

NAKED STAGE AND CRUZ ROJA

Diana Rowland, of The Naked Stage, tells us that “We are a non-profit organization, and at the end of every year we donate any funds we haven’t used in the production of the readings to the Cruz Roja. At the end of last year, which marked our fourth year of existence, we had 10,000 pesos to give them.”

The donation will be handed over next week.  Way to go, Naked Stage!

OASIS CLOUD CAFÉ CLOSES

Duane and Mary Ann Hanes have decided not to re-open OasisCloud Café because of the new tax laws that went into effect in Mexico on January 1.

They will, however, continue “Meet the Writer Luncheons” and host luncheons and special events. Contact them at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 765-3516. OasisCloud Café is at Calle San Luis #330, Riberas del Pilar.

 

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