The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The 30th annual Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG) opens on Friday, March 6, bringing hundreds of films, industry professionals, press and public together in a week-long celebration of cinema.
Renowned Italian film director and screenwriter Bernardo Bertolucci will be the star celebrity at the 30th Guadalajara International Film Festival, scheduled from March 6 to 15.
On a weekday afternoon, the crowd viewing “El Gusto del Trazo” (The Pleasure of the Line) couldn’t match the one at the Louvre, yet a respectable stream of mostly young people, even a skateboard-toting couple, flowed through the graceful Ex Convento del Carmen in downtown Guadalajara scrutinizing the hundred or so drawings by French artist Nicolas de Crécy with obvious interest.
Disney Live
Mickey Mouse and friends return for a series of shows.
Teatro Diana, Friday, January 30, 4 & 7 p.m.; Saturday, January 31, 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, February 1, noon, 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. 200-600 pesos.
Although enigmatic, the provocative and varied art installation,”Pogo,” at one of Guadalajara’s premier venues, the Instituto Cultural Cabañas, should stimulate reflection among visitors who enjoy nontraditional art. These ambitious pieces by Argentine artist Máximo González are worth seeing and, at the same time, one can take in several other exhibits from Argentina, this year’s invited country at the International Book Fair (Feria Internacional de Libros).
Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra
Four of Jalisco’s most accomplished sculptors gathered at the Chapala waterfront early Tuesday, January 6 to begin chiseling out giant blocks of cantera stone that will be transformed over two week´s time into monuments revolving around themes of Lake Chapala and water conservation.
