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On Friday, February 22 at 8:30 pm, Melissa Castro Caviedes of Cartelera Escénica will provide visitors and locals with the unique opportunity of enjoying a celtic harp concert by Mexican harpist, Cynthia Valenzuela. The concert will take place at the Cecatur Auditorium in El Centro.
The Banderas Bay Red Cross has just announced their upcoming annual fundraising tournament. Now in its fourth edition, the event will take place on Saturday, February 16 at the Flamingos Golf Course.
It's rock Tuesdays for Los Bambinos, the very popular four-brother local band, now performing at Roxy Rock House on an ongoing basis, starting at 8 pm. Tickets are $200 pesos per person, pre-sale, and $250 pesos at the door.
Galeria Contempo is delighted to announce that Puerto Vallarta watercolorist Meg Munro is now showing at the gallery. Fresh, figurative and vibrant, Munro’s unique style has a sense of photo realism.
Billed informally as “the Rat Pack Rigoletto” the new production of Verdi’s masterpiece has been nodded favorably by New York critics and will be screened locally on Saturday, February 16, at noon, in Teatro Vallarta, as part of The MET: Live in HD series.
Ambos Galeria will host two printmaking demonstratios on Friday February 8 and 22 at 8 pm, in conjunction with their current art show Vida y Silencio, and the Friday night Southside Shuffle.
Entreamigos, a San Pancho, Riviera Nayarit-based non-profit community center that works to build bridges between cultures and community by creating educational opportunities for children and families, will be hosting their Fifth Annual Children’s Art Festival and Auction on Saturday, March 2, at 6 pm.
Although it is only February, preparations for this year’s Restaurant Week, to take place May 15 - 31 as in years past, are already in motion. Restaurants interested in participating must sign up for the event before March 10. Read all the details now!
Act II Entertainment has begun presenting Suddenly Sondheim, a collection of 20 songs taken from different musicals Stephen Sondheim wrote from the time of his collaboration with Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story to the last decade.
During the last week of March, a group of American volunteers is traveling to Chimo, a small fishing village located near the southernmost tip of Banderas Bay (beyond Yelapa), to lead a community mural project. Would you like to volunteer?
Becas Ball, the annual Becas Vallarta fundrasier, has been announced and will take place on Friday, March 8, at Club Regina’s Patio Los Arcos, the same venue as last year. Organizers stated that plans are coming to fruition and tickets are moving fast.
San Pancho has announced their annual 3-day Music Festival, to take place on Friday, February 22 through Sunday, February 24 in San Francisco, Riviera Nayarit. The Music Festival is celebrating it's 13th year, and as always, there will be no charge to the public.
The award-winning Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos Folkloric Dance Troupe will offer a one-time performance at Teatro Vallarta this coming Sunday, January 27, at 6 pm, providing a rare opportunity to enjoy a spectacular production showcasing some of Mexico’s most popular and traditional dances.
Pacific Paddle recently announced a stand-up paddle race, to take place on January 27 in Puerto Vallarta. The event is designed to introduce novices to the popular sport. Participate on a free clinic to try stand-up paddling for the first time, or refine your stroke just before the race.
Highlighting their work empowering women artists, Self magazine, a Condé Nast Publication, featured Faith Colectiva, a Puerto Vallarta shop, in its December issue.
Partnering with New York City-based photographer, Oscar Linares, Puerto Vallarta artist Sergio Hernandez developed a series of payaso, or clown portraits, that became the basis for his upcoming show, to open at Contempo on Friday, January 25, as part of the Basilio Badillo Southside Shuffle.
In its next exhibition, opening reception to take place on January 25 with cocktails 6 - 10 pm, Galleria Dante and it’s sibling, AnDante, will showcase four Mexican artists: Guillermo Brockmann, Alvaro Zardoni, Israel Zzepda and Edgar Martínez.
Roberto Vazquez has prepared a new exhibition of 24 colorful paintings and 16 pen and ink drawings for Galeria Pacifico that will be featured during two cocktail inaugurations with the artist on January 23 and 30 during the Wednesday Art Walks downtown, from 6:00 to 10:00 PM.
For the 13th straight year, Toys for Tots Vallarta distributed in excess of 8,000 toys to outlying towns and villages, from Nayarit to Cabo Corrientes and to inland mountains and valleys. More than 200 volunteers spent the day spreading smiles as they happily went looking for the neediest kids they could find.
Colectika, Puerto Vallarta’s only art gallery focused on Mexico’s finest folkloric artists, has announced three events for the coming months. This is no small task, given the fact that owner Kevin Simpson brings to Puerto Vallarta some of the finest artists they represent, often traveling from remote villages in Mexico.
