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Municipal Fiestas This Week
Panaba Fiesta: May 10 – May 20
This event is in honor of San Isidro Labrador. A trip to Panaba is probably a good idea about now. This municipality is just inland from San Felipe and Rio Lagartos. It also just this side of Tizimin, which means it is, quite literally, in the gateway to horse country – with the best beaches (and seafood) nearby. Some of the land on the larger ranches is now for sale, so – if country living by the beach is in your future, this event will give you a great idea of what life is like in Panaba.
In The City
Monday (Lunes) May 07, 2012
Printmaking Workshop with Lilian Rivera Juarez
Mondays and Wednesdays: May 7 through June 13 (12 classes)
Course Name: Pandora’s Box: Monotype and Collage Images
To learn more about the internationally well known artist, visit the website of Lilian Rivera Juarez and for more information about the workshop, please e-mail (contact [at] habla [dot] org ), call ((999) 948-1872) or visit the website of Habla. www.habla.org.
Location: Habla, Calle 26 No. 99 B x 19 y 21 Col. México
Time: 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Cost: Two payments of $700 pesos (includes basic materials).
Tuesday (Martes) May 08, 2012
Tuesday of Trova: Trio Inspiracion
This trio is under the direction of Mauricio Martin.
Location: Auditorium of the Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 8:30 PM Tuesday
Admission: Free
Movie: The Cube
(Canada, 1997). Director: V. Natali. Starring: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni and David Hewlett. Six people wake up in a room that is part of a huge cubic maze. Who built it? For what purpose? Soon, the six discover that they must work together to get out and find answers to these and other questions.
Location: Centro Cultural Jose Marti / Parque de las Americas, Av. Colon x Calle 20, García Ginerés
Time: 8:00 PM Tuesday
Admission: Free
Film Forum: Serial Mom
(1994) Director: John Waters Starring: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston and Ricki Lake. A sweet mother takes a little too much to heart in the defense of her family.
Location: Cairo Cinema Cafe, Calle 20 #98A x 15 y 17 Colonia Itzimná
Time: 9:00 PM
Admission: Free
Wednesday (Miercoles) May 09, 2012
Grand Opening: III Gran Temporada de Danza
For the past two years, Merida has been maturing as the gathering place for some of the world’s best dance companies. This is particularly true of dance companies from throughout Mexico and Latin America. Please join them as they open the Third Great Season of Dance in Merida.
Location: Teatro Peon Contreras, Calle 60 x 57
Time: 9:00 PM Wednesday
Admission: Free
Gloria Gaynor and KC and the Sunshine Band
Well! This event certainly needs no introduction! Dial that phone and get those tickets! Disco queen Gloria Gaynor sings with the legendary KC and the Sunshine Band! This is going to be a "Back to the 70′s Night" that will turn Siglo XXI into a giant nightclub.
Location: Siglo XXI Convention Center, on the road to Progreso
Time: 9:00 PM Wednesday
Admission: Diamond: $2,100, VIP $1,575, Oro $787.50, General: $367.50 Tickets can be purchased at: Segafredo de la Gran Plaza, MixUp Altabrisa, Burguer King Centro Histórico and at the box office of Siglo XXI, as well as online at www.boletosmagicos.com.
Thursday (Jueves) May 10, 2012
Mother’s Day in Mexico
Movie
Check the Full Events Calendar for updates on this event as soon as we know them.
Location: LA 68, Calle 68 at Calle 55, Centro
Time: 9:00 PM Thursday
Admission: $30 pesos, $15 pesos students.
Literature: A Reading by Bette Steinmuller
Bette Steinmuller will read from Written Out of History: Memoirs of Ordinary Activists.
This book was conceived by Bette Steinmuller and one of the other five authors; and she is the author of two chapters about living and working in Nicaragua and Cuba. She also edited this recently published book, which was 15 years in the making. Come and enjoy browsing in Bodega 41, and savoring Eric’s French delicacies at his his new Café and Bakery.
Location: In the Courtyard of Café Crème, Calle 60 x 41, Santa Ana, Centro.
Time: 5:30 PM There is parking on Calle 41 x 58 y 60.
Admission: Free
Opening of the Exhibition: Fernando Sanchez Mayans
This is a photographic collection that will be available to the public through June 20.
Location: Salón de Creadores Manuel Lizama Salazar, Calle 18 # 204 x 23 y 25, Col. Garcia Gineres.
Time: 9:00 PM Thursday
Admission: Free
Movie: Elsa & Fred
This is a brand new film starring Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. It is the story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it’s never too late to love and make dreams come true.
Location: Cairo Cinema Cafe, Calle 20 #98A x 15 y 17 Colonia Itzimná
Time: 7:00 PM Thursday
Admission: $30 pesos
Movie: Sideways
(2004) Director: Alexander Payne. Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen. Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California’s wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
Location: Cairo Cinema Cafe, Calle 20 #98A x 15 y 17 Colonia Itzimná
Time: 9:00 PM Thursday
Admission: $30 pesos
Friday (Viernes) May 11, 2012
Season XVIII: Yucatan Symphony Orchestra
Under the artistic direction of Juan Carlos Lomonaco
Program 11: Love
Suite No. 3 by Bach
Symphony No. 1 by de Mahler
Location: Teatro Peon Contreras, Calle 60 x 57
Time: 9:00 PM Friday
Admission: Tickets available at the box office
Dance: V Meeting of the Schools of Dance
Location: Teatro Armando Manzanero, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 7:00 PM Friday
Admission: Tickets available at the box office
Opening of the Exhibition: Transformation
This is an exhibition of the paintings and drawings by young artists from Centro Especializado en la Aplicación de Medidas para Adolescentes
Location: Lobby of Teatro Peon Contreras, Calle 60 x 57
Time: 8:00 PM Friday
Admission: Free
Movie: Eastern Promises
(2007). Director: David Cronenberg. Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen and Armin Nueller-Stahl. A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. The journal is found by the midwife.
Location: Cairo Cinema Cafe, Calle 20 #98A x 15 y 17 Colonia Itzimná.
Time: 9:00 PM Friday
Admission: $30 pesos
African Film: Cuba, An African Odyssey
(Algeria, 2006), Director: Jihan El Tahri. This film won Best Documentary at the Pan African Film & Arts Festival Film Competition in 2009.
Location: Cineteca Nacional Manuel Barbachano Ponce, in Teatro Armando Manzanero, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 8:00 PM Friday
Admisión: Free
Musical Theater: Rent, Jesús Cerecedo
Location: Teatro Daniel Ayala, Calle 60 x 61
Time: 9:00 PM Friday
Admission: Free
Movie: A History of Violence
(2005). Director: David Cronenberg. Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello and Vince Locke. A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
Location: Cairo Cinema Cafe, Calle 20 #98A x 15 y 17 Colonia Itzimná.
Time: 7:00 PM Friday
Admission: $30 pesos
Saturday (Sabado) May 12, 2012
Movie
Check the Full Events Calendar for updates on this event.
Location: LA 68, Calle 68 at Calle 55, Centro
Time: 9:00 PM Saturday
Admission: $30 pesos, $15 pesos students.
Dance: Xec Tribal Yucatan 2012
This performance is under the direction of Alejandra Montes
Location: Auditorium of the Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 8:00 PM Saturday
Admission: General: $90 pesos
Musical Theater: Rent, Jesús Cerecedo
Location: Teatro Daniel Ayala, Calle 60 x 61
Time: 9:00 PM Saturday
Admission: Free
Movie: Nowhere Land (Tierra de Nadie)
(2001). Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man’s land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
Location: Videosala of the Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM Saturday
Admission: Free
Movie: A Bittersweet Life
(2005 South Korea). Director: Jee-woon Kim. Kim Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun) is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculating crime boss.
Location: Cairo Cinema Cafe, Calle 20 #98A x 15 y 17 Colonia Itzimná
Time: 7:00 PM Saturday
Admission: $30 pesos
Movie: The Good, The Bad and the Weird
(2005) Director: Jeewoon Kim. The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
Location: Cairo Cinema Cafe, Calle 20 #98A x 15 y 17 Colonia Itzimná
Time: 9:00 PM Saturday
Admission: $30 pesos
Sunday (Domingo) May 13, 2012
Don’t Forget – Today is Mother’s Day
Video Documentary: The Fury of the Planet: Hurricanes!
This documentary shows what it is like in the relatively calm center of some of the worst hurricanes in history. It also shows what life is like for those who live in the most common paths of hurricanes and routinely take them on full force.
Location: Museum of Natural History, Calle 59, next to the Zoo.
Time: 12:00 PM Sunday
Admission: Free
Movie: An Inconvenient Truth
(2006) Director: Davis Guggenheim. Starring: Al Gore and Billy West. A documentary on Al Gore’s campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
Location: Videosala of the Olimpo, Calle 62 x 61
Time: 1:00 pm, Sunday
Admission: Free
Monday (Lunes) May 14, 2012
Look for ongoing events here.
Coming Soon
First DONArte Art Auction 2012: May 15, 2012
This art auction will include 30 works by a variety of European artists, with many of the paintings reproductions of quite famous masterpieces. Yucatan’s Paralympic team includes twelve athletes that will participate in weight-lifting, javelin and shot put. The athletes each need a special chair in order to compete and the children need a new vehicle to help them move from place to place. The paintings offered at auction will begin at $3,000 pesos and there will be a catalog of the paintings included with each invitation. There will also be a cocktail party for those who have invitations and catalogs on the evening of the auction. This is such a worthy cause and there is not much time left to meet this need before the June National Paralympic competition. Please attend this event and help in whatever way you can. Hard work deserves reward and these twelve athletes have earned their place in these games, as well as our support.
Location: To be included with invitation
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: Free: Invitation Only. Invitations available by phone: 9-40-77 to 80, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Monday through Friday – or go directly to the CRIT Yucatan, KM 34.6 of the Anillo Periférico.
Yoga and Meditation Retreat with Master Dharmapriya.May 25, 26 and 27, 2012
Location: Xixim Ecoparaiso Hotel in Celestun
Information: www.semillayoga.mx
2012 Whale Shark Festival: June 15 – 17, 2012
Swim with Whale Sharks and help support environmental education at the same time. Ceviche Tours is donating its entire Whale Shark Festival profit to Amigos del Isla Contoy, a 501c3 non-profit that then provides support for the education of the local population on sustainable marine conservation and ecotourism. There can sometimes be as many as 200 whale sharks feeding near Isla Mujeres, so don’t miss your chance to see them.
Location: Isla Mujeres
More Information: Ceviche Tours
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