The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The next special summer event at the Lakeside Little Theatre is the Saturday and Sunday, August 15 and 16, 3 p.m. National Theatre Live (NL) high definition screenings of Bernard Shaw’s “Man + Superman” featuring Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes.
The first public concert by the Academia de Ukuleles de la Ribera will be held Saturday, August 8, 7 p.m. at the Ajijic Cultural Center.
Festivities surrounding the annual summer visit of the Virgen de Zapopan to Chapala were replete with all the usual religious fervor and pageantry, plus some novel twists for the several thousand pilgrims in attendance.
Two top-notch Mexican folk dance troupes are scheduled to appear Wednesday, July 29, 6:30 p.m., at the Auditorio de la Ribera.
Chapala parishioners were treated to a preview look at the elegant new cloak the Virgin of Zapopan will wear for her visit to town on Sunday, July 12.
Two well-known lakeside artists have left their studios to work on new murals in municipal buildings.
As Mother Nature begins working her rainy season wonders, devout Roman Catholics are making ready to raise prayers to Mother Mary for divine intervention to protect and replenish Lake Chapala. In that vein, thousands of pilgrims will congregate Sunday, July 12 to manifest their devotion to La Virgen de Zapopan when the revered icon arrives for her traditional summer visit to Chapala.