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Municipal Fiestas This Week
There is only one municipal festival or fiesta beginning this week in Yucatan. This is to be expected in the relative quiet of the Lenten season. However, don’t let that fool you. If we are in Lent, then Semana Santa is on its way!
Opichen Fiesta: February 23-27
Opichen is just west of Muna and borders on the State of Campeche. This is a traditional “county fair.” Look here for great leatherwork.
Monday (Lunes) February 18, 2013
First International Cultural Festival “ Cruzando Fronteras”
This is a great chance to visit the beautiful beaches of Mahuahual and enjoy the fusion of Italian and Mexican cultures. Find out more at their website www.mahahualcruzandofronteras.com.
Location: Mahuahual, Costa Maya, Yucatan Peninsula
Dates: February 18 through February 24
Tuesday (Martes) February 19, 2013
Tuesday of Trova: Trio Los Principes
This musical performance is under the direction of Raul Alvarado. There are a number of trova trios in Yucatan that are always sure to please every audience. This is certainly one of the best.
Location: Auditorium of the Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 8:30 PM Tuesday
Admission: Free
Opening of Photographic Exhibition: Captured Moments
This showing brings us the photographic work of Dr. Jorge Victoria.
Location: Centro Cultural Jose Martí, Av. Colon x Calle 20, García Gineres
Time: 8:00 PM Tuesday
Admission: Free
Open Mic Night
A new location for Open Mic Night. Bring your own drinks for this venue, you might even bring your own chair. But definitely bring your voice, your guitar, your poem or whatever and participate!
Location: In the patio behind the shops at Maison Bleu (Bodega 41, El Studio, Cafe Creme) on Calle 41 at Calle 60
Time: 7:00 PM Tuesday
Admission: Free
Wednesday (Miercoles) February 20, 2013
Movie: NO movie today
LA 68 is closed today.
Film Shorts: Around Europe in 59 Shorts
Program 2: Smile, Camera, Action: Baby (Portugal), Barracuda (Italy), My Turn (Turkey), Bukowski (Netherlands), Bachelor Party 2 (Croatia), Dancers (Spain), My Life as a Trailer (Sweden).
Location: Cineteca Nacional in Teatro Armando Manzanero, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Wednesday
Admission: Free
Music: The Choir of the City of Merida
This concert is called “With the Strings of My Song.” It is under the direction of Maestra Nidia Gongora. This is a wonderful choir that represents Merida beautifully wherever they go.
Location: Auditorium of the Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 9:00 PM Tuesday
Admission: Free
Thursday (Jueves) February 21, 2013
Movie: Volver a Nadie
This Spanish documentary follows an Afghan girl damaged in a bomb blast. After recovering from her wounds and returning home, the Taliban have taken over and she is forced to pretend she is a boy in order to work to support her family. 52 minutes in Spanish.
Location: LA 68, Calle 68 at Calle 55, Centro
Time: 9:00 PM Thursday
Admission: $30 pesos, $15 pesos students
Lecture: The Jordan Experience
Francisco Hernandez was born in Mexico and lived in the United States for over 20 years. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in International Development Studies from Iowa State University in May 2010. Soon after he finished his course work, he spent 2 months in Léogâne, Haiti, as a volunteer assisting the victims of the January 12, 2010 earthquake. During his time in Haiti, he was selected to be a member of the Emerging Markets Development Advisors Program, a USAID-funded initiative, and spent a year in Aqaba, Jordan. Come listen to Fernando speak! Botanas provided but feel free to bring more!
Location: Valladolid English Library at Casa Hamaca, Valladolid
Time: 7:45 PM Thursday
Admission: $50 pesos
Classic Movie: The Lady Vanishes
(USA 1980). Director: Anthony Page. Starring: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, and Angela Lansbury. While traveling in pre-war Nazi Germany, a young couple realizes that a passenger seems to have been kidnapped from their train.
Location: Videosala del Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Thursday
Admission: Free
Exposition: Los Caprichos de Goya de Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
This exhibition of Goya artwork opens today and is open until March 18, 2013. Reproductions donated by Yucatan-SEDECULTA 1985 – 2012
Location: Casa de la Cultura del Mayab, Calle 63 x 64
Time: From 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Thursday
Admission: Free
Film Shorts: Around Europe in 59 Shorts
Program 3: Family Business: Dad Goodbye, Goodbye Mama (Spain), Lena and I (Kosovo), Playing God (Spain), The Run of the Mill (Denmark), War (Italy), I’m Gay (Sweden, Greece), Carrier Man (France).
Location: Cineteca Nacional in Teatro Armando Manzanero, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Thursday
Admission: Free
Friday (Viernes) February 22, 2013
Movie: The One Man Village
Semaan lives a tranquil life in the mountains of Lebanon. He is surrounded by family. With much humor, this documentary looks at a people haunted by memories of war and the possibilities of a new one. With English and Spanish subtitles.
Location: LA 68, Calle 68 at Calle 55, Centro
Time: 9:00 PM Friday
Admission: $30 pesos, $15 pesos students.
Symphony Orchestra of Yucatan
This performance, with music by Tchaikovsky, Gliere and Haydn, will feature Guest Director Robert Carter Austin and principal OSY horn Juan Jose Pastor.
Location: Jose Peon Contreras Theater, Calle 60 x 57
Time: 9:00 PM Friday
Admission:Tickets on sale at the box office
Film Shorts: Around Europe in 59 Shorts
Program 4: Life is Sweet: Dessert (Czech Republic), Edward in Wonderland (France), Sugar (Netherlands), Salt and Vinegar (UK), Mary Umbrella (Luxembourg), Great Expectations (Romania), Sugar Hearts (Spain), He Who Had Invented All This (Georgia), Chasing the Shadow (UK).
Location: Cineteca Nacional in Teatro Armando Manzanero, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Friday
Admission: Free
Film Series: The Wild Child
(USA 1970). Director: Francois Truffaut. Starring: Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol, and Francoise Seigner. In 1978 in a forest, some country men catch a wild child who cannot walk, speak, read or write. Doctor Itard is interested in the child and begins to educate him. With love and patience, the child develops normally. This is based on a true story.
Location: Videosala del Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Friday
Admission: Free
Saturday (Sabado) February 09, 2013
Film Series: Day for Night
(USA 1973). Director: Francois Truffaut, Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Francois Truffaut. A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew..
Location: Videosala del Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Friday
Admission: Free
Day of Traditional Maya Medicine
Come downtown and see a traditional Maya herbalist, huesero (chiropractor), partero (midwife), hierbatero (herbalist) or h’men (shaman). What a fabulous opportunity to personally experience Maya medicine for yourself! Make an appointment at avisos [dot] mesoart [at] gmail [dot] com or call 932-0572.
Location: Institut Educative Freire, Calle 58 #456 x 53 y 55, Centro
Time: 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM Friday
Admission: $120 pesos per consultation
International Women’s Club Meeting
This is a monthly event held on the last Saturday of every month except December, July and August. New to Merida? Come check it out.
Location: Tecnologia Turistica Total, Calle 57 x 58
Time: 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM Friday
Admission: Free
Full Moon Jazz Festival
The Full Moon Jazz is a popular annual event. Three bands, a variety of food and beverages, a dance floor and raffle prizes. The profits from this event directly support 23 of the 62 students in the Telchac Education program. The Full Moon Jazz festival is held on the beach, under the stars in a relaxed, fun environment. Trust us, you’re going to have a good time! There is free transportation from Hennessey’s Irish Pub with reservation on a first-come, first-served basis. Buy your ticket, then call 938-1687 to see if there is still space. Remember to take a sweater… the event is on the beach and does go into the night. See you there!
Location: Villas Wayak KM25.5, Progreso – Telchac coastal highway
Time: 3:30 to 9:00 PM Saturday
Admission: $250 pre-sale, $300 at the door, for sale in MERIDA: Hennessey’s Irish Pub, Merida English Library, Buenavista Inmobiliaria. PROGRESO: Thai Flash Restaurant. CHELEM: Taco Maya, Joan McBurney. TELCHAC PUERTO: Hotel Libros & Sueños.
Film Shorts: Around Europe in 59 Shorts
Program 5: Lost in Europe. Try Them (Latvia), Miracles in Armenia (Armenia), We Belarus (Belarus), Bibendum (Estonia), The Last Tour (Finland), Insignificant Details of an Accidental Episode (Russia), Inspiration (Moldova).
Location: Cineteca Nacional in Teatro Armando Manzanero, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Saturday
Admission: Free
Movie: Reportero
Reportero follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly, as they stubbornly ply their trade in one of the deadliest places in the world for members of the media. This was a PBS documentary. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Location: LA 68, Calle 68 at Calle 55, Centro
Time: 9:00 PM Saturday
Admission: $30 pesos, $15 pesos students.
Sunday (Domingo) Febrero 24, 2013
Symphony Orchestra of Yucatan
This performance, with music by Tchaikovsky, Gliere and Haydn, will feature Guest Director Robert Carter Austin and principal OSY horn Juan Jose Pastor.
Location: Jose Peon Contreras Theater, Calle 60 x 57
Time: 12:00 PM Sunday
Admission:Tickets on sale at the box office
Documentary: Jupiter: The Surprising Giant
For the first time, the largest planet in the solar system is closely investigated. The missions of the Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo offer spectacular footage of the Shoemaker-Levy comet when it hit Jupiter in July 1994.
Location: Museum of Natural History, Calle 59 next to the Zoo
Time: 12:00 PM Sunday
Admission:Free
Film Series: The Last Metro
(USA 1980). Director: Francois Truffaut, Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret. In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both their jobs.
Location: Videosala del Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 5:00 PM Sunday
Admission: Free
Film Shorts: Around Europe in 59 Shorts
Program 6: Risky Business: Millimeters (Malta), Hung (Germany), Behind the Wall (The Netherlands), Fauntom (Serbia), Catkiller (Spain), Cristiano’s Shirt (Belgium), Worse Impossible (Spain), Naked (Slovakia), The Astronaut on the Roof (Germany).
Location: Cineteca Nacional in Teatro Armando Manzanero, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Sunday
Admission: Free
Music: The Chamber Orchestra of Merida
This performance is entitled The Oboe. It is under the direction of Maestro Jose Luis Chan Sabido. The strings here are always wonderful!.
Location: Auditorium of the Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 6:00 PM Sunday
Admission: Free
Monday (Lunes) February 25, 2013
Exhibition: A Century of Yucatan Exports 1900 – 2000
This historical exhibition opens today and is open until March 26, 2013. This show is in honor of the 90th Anniversary of UADY.
Location: Merida International Airport, Manuel Crescencio Rejon
Time: 6:00 PM Monday
Admission: Free
Coming Soon
Documentary: Don Mammie Blue – Tuesday February 26
This documentary is a presentation of Ule Productions, and chronicles the life and work of Gonzalo España, better known as “Mammie Blue,” promoter of the gay community in the City of Merida. This should be an interesting documentary that you probably won’t be able to see anywhere else.
Location: Teatro Armando Manzanero, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 9:00 PM
Admission: $150 pesos
George Ann Huck Cultural Sensitivity Workshop: February 26 and March 01
During the MEL Saturday Lecture Series, George Ann Huck’s talk on Cultural Sensitivity was such a success that she has offered to lead a workshop as an extension of that talk.
Location: Merida English Library, Calle 53 x 68
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM each day
Admission: $200 pesos per session, total $400 pesos for the workshop; or $350 per session for a couple, total $500 pesos for the workshop per couple.
More information:There is a minimum attendance required, so please advise Irving or Francisco by email (meridaenglishlibrary [dot] acboard [at] gmail [dot] com; or by telephone at 924 8401 Mon. thru Fri. from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM pm, or Sat. from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM) if you are interested. All proceeds go to the Merida English Library.
Hotel Zamna: A Trip Down Memory Lane : March 1
Let Hotel Zamna take you on a jet-set lifestyle adventure to ancient cities. They will even throw in a taxi ride and music of the 60s.
Location: Hotel Zamná, Calle 53 #547 x 70 y 72.
Time: 7:30 PM doors open, 8:00 PM Dinner served
Admission: $135 pesos (seating limited) Please collect tickets prior to the event .
Exhibition: Ha’bitat / Refugio by Gerda Gruber
We do not see enough of Gerda Gruber these days, so it is always a special occasion when she has an exhibition in Merida. Do try to make it to this one and Visit Fundacion Gruber Jez online.
Location: FrontGround / Galeria Manolo Rivero, Calle 51 x 60 Centro, Merida, Yucatan
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: Free
Kaxil Kiuic Biocultural Reserve: Saturday, March 9
When the rains failed in 1960, residents of Rancho Kiuic survived by supplementing dwindling corn reserves with the protein-rich core of the Bonete tree. When the rains returned they celebrated the age-old HETZ LUUM ceremony to give thanks and ask the gods to bless their land and families. The Bonete trees are still standing, and you are invited to visit Kaxil Kiuic Biocultural Reserve for a revival of the ancient HETZ LUUM ceremony. HETZ LUUM is a Maya agricultural ceremony that incorporates the indispensable tools of traditional devotion: a Hmen or shaman, altar, cardinal indicators, sacred offerings. Renowned Hmen and healer Don Felipe Manrique will officiate. Participants may assist with the ceremony and preparation of the traditional cornmeal Pib offering. Besides blessing the land and Hetz Luum participants, Don Felipe will offer a special prayer for the survival of the jaguar as we launch conservation fieldwork for this endangered animal in Yucatan´s Puuc Hills. This extraordinary all-day event includes transportation to-and-from Merida, and delicious breakfast and lunch prepared by local Reserve staff. Reserve Director James Callaghan will lead participants on walking tours to explore the complex and fascinating biology, history and archaeology of the Puuc. The private Kaxil Kiuic Biocultural Reserve´s 4,400 acres are home to a rich variety of plants and animals, including jaguar and ocelot. The Reserve also contains the beautiful ruins of the Maya community of Kiuic visited by Stephens and Catherwood in 1839, including the “House of Diamonds” featured in their classic “Incidents of Travel in Yucatan.”
Location: Kaxil Kiuic Biocultural Reserve
Time: Bus departs Merida at 6:30 AM and returns at 7:00 PM, Ceremony: 8:00 AM
Admission: Individual $1,800MXN/USD$144, Couple (married, non-married) $3,300 MXN/USD$264; Friends of Kaxil Kiuic Donors: Individual $1,600MXN/USD$128, Couple $3,000MXN/USD$240
Note: This is an exclusive tour of the private Reserve, with admission is limited to 30 participants. Proceeds benefit the Reserve´s research, conservation and education activities, including Puuc Jaguar Conservation.
Reservations and Information: puucjaguar [at] gmail [dot] com
Telchac Puerto: Spay/Neuter Program – Saturday March 9: Rummage and bake sale
Telchac Puerto will be holding it’s first spay and neuter clinic on Sunday, March 17, and everyone is very excited about it. On March 9, there will be a fundraiser for the clinic. There will be a rummage sale and a bake sale in the Telchac central square. They are asking for donations for the rummage sale. If you have anything you would like to donate, please drop it off at Hotel Libros y Suenos by the day before the sale. Baked goods should be dropped off either the day of the sale or no more than the day before. Everyone is invited to come out and support these worthy efforts by either donating an item or buying something from the sale.
Location: Telchac Puerto central square
Time: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
For more information: e-mail: telchacpuertoyucatan.com
Fifth Annual Hennessy Polo Cup Tournament – Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10
Check out the first annual Artists Studio Tour on the website at wwww.meridaenglishlibrary.com to look at images from each artist. Choose the studios you want to visit & map your self-guided tour. Visit as few or as many as you like, and progress at your own pace. All artists will be in their studios to greet you and tell you about their art.
Location: Merida centro
Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
For more information: meridaenglishlibrary [at] hotmail [dot] com
Merida English Library’s Artist Studio Tour – Saturday March 9
Come and enjoy great food, drink, company and watch a bunch of excited people ride around on beautiful horses! This is a great event to watch and a lot of fun to visit with new and old friends.
Location: Yucatan Polo Club, Dzitya
Time: 2 to 4 PM Saturday, 2 to 5:30 PM Sunday
For more information: www.yucatanpoloclub.com
2013 Murder Mystery Theater March 3 – 9 and 12 – 14
The Merida Players are proud to announce the 2nd annual Merida Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre “Murder in Merida: Love Hacienda Style”. Join the hilarity when Inspector Gustavo returns along with F.B.I. Criminal Profiler Marilyn Weatherbean and a whole new mystery to solve! YOU get to solve the MURDER! Proceeds to benefit Evolución A.C, AMANC A.C. and Hogar Nueva Vida.
Location: Hennessy’s Irish Pub (March 3 – 7 and March 12 – 14) and Hacienda Santa Cruz (March 8 and 9)
Time: 6:30 PM
Admission: Tickets go on sale Tuesday, January 15 for the following performances: Hennessy’s Irish Pub on March 3-7 and March 12-14, $395 pesos. Hacienda Santa Cruz on March 8 and 9, $495 pesos. Tickets include the show plus a three-course meal.
More information: For more information visit the Merida Murder Mystery Theater website or email info [at] meridamysterytheatre [dot] com
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