Shelley Edson
Email: ElOjoShelley@gmail.com
From the Lakeside Living Editor: Please send information about a local cultural, civic, community or charitable event to ElOjoShelley@gmail.com on or before January 29 to be included in the March El Ojo issue, and on or before February 26 for the April issue.
Please include the event name, description, location, date(s), time, and reservation / ticket information unless free. Event information should be limited to 100 words or less. A high-resolution photo, with photo credit information, is always welcome. Thank you, Shelley Edson
Wrapping up 2024 – Santa Visits San Juan Teocomltan
Photo Credit: Rick Palmer
Santa arrived in the San Juan Tecomatlan town plaza at 11 am, Sunday, December 22nd, and delivered toys and candy to over 200 children thanks to ANAVETS Mexico Unit 19 Christmas Toy Drive.
ANAVETS thanks the unit members and the Lakeside community for your donations. A special thank you to ANAVETS Service Officer Mark Horodecky and his committee for organizing the Toy Drive.
Ask an Expat! Helps Visitors Learn About Lakeside
Tuesdays, February 4 and 18 at 4:30 pm
Are you considering moving to Lakeside? Or recently arrived? Steve Taylor hosts an “Ask an Expat” Happy Hour that offers lakeside information in one place, at one time for those visiting, moving to, and living in Mexico. This free event is scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays, starting February 4, at Casa Del Sol, Javier Mina #7, Ajijic. Reservations are not required. Cash bar available.
All are welcome; especially anyone who can offer insights to others about how best to learn more about living in Lakeside,” Steve encourages participants to take notes and learn at one time, in one place, what a newcomer can do to make their stay here enjoyable.”
The host, Steve Taylor, retired to Lakeside in 2022. Steve first rented in Riberas and now owns a home in San Antonio. For more information, text +1 (512) 921-6150.
Art Show – Centro Cultural De Ajijic
Located in the Ajijic Central Plaza
Saturday, February 8, through Monday, February 17
The Artful Codgers Art Showopens Saturday, February 8, in the 1st and 2nd-floor galleries at Centro Cultural de Ajijic. See a wonderful show of painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, mosaic art, jewelry, and lots more created by talented local senior artists.
Friday, February 21, through Wednesday, March 5
Immerse yourself in the local art scene. This varied and interesting collective exhibition opens on February 21 in the 1st-floor gallery. Local artists participating include Gabriel Mariscal, Judy Dykstra Brown, Jesús Eduardo López, DePaul Durham, Claudia Neri, Judy Miller, Isidro Xilotl, Rogelio Sanabria, and others.
Also starting February 21, in the 2nd-floor gallery, enjoy the exhibition of one of Ajijic’s most renowned artists: Jesus López Vega with “Magical Syncretism.”
Check our Facebook page “Centro Cultural Ajijic” and Instagram “ccajijic” for hours and more details.
Artists of Lake Chapala
Saturday, February 15, 10 am to 3 pm
Artists of Lake Chapala is pleased to announce that the Art Market will be held at Garden of Dreams, Constitucion 105, Ajijic, on February 15.
Local artists will display and sell their artwork in a variety of media including jewelry, clothing, ceramics, photography, and much more. Enjoy bar service, lunch, and music throughout the day. Admission is free.
Lakeside Little Theater
February 21 through March 4
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
7:30 pm Wednesdays through Fridays
4:00 pm Saturdays through Tuesdays
Man of La Mancha
LLT’s biggest, grandest production of the year, the heartbreaking, inspirational, Tony Award-winning musical, based on Cervantes’ timeless classic, Don Quijote, is about one disillusioned man’s refusal to give up on the impossible dream. In these difficult times, this beloved show is more relevant than ever and is sure to sell out.
Lakeside Little Theater is located at Allen W. Lloyd Drive, San Antonio Tlayacapan Box Office: 376-766-0954
Tickets are 500 pesos. Present an INE card at the box office when purchasing to receive a 150 peso discount.
Bare Stage
4 pm Friday, February 28 through Sunday, March 2
His Greatness
Photo Credit: Alan Marsh
Written by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor, His Greatness is billed as a speculative scenario of what might have happened in Tennessee Williams’ life.
In 1980, Williams is in Vancouver for the opening of his latest play, written 20 years after his biggest hits. He is now mired in a haze of drugs, booze & anonymous sex.
The language of this play is so poetic, it’s almost as if Tennessee Williams had written it himself. That’s major praise for Mr. MacIvor, whose play is filled with great humor and tragedy; all masterfully interwoven in this exquisitely crafted play.
Bernadette Jones directs her actors, Paul Kloegman, Ken Yakiwchuck, and Mark Donaldson,
Tickets are 200 pesos for Friday’s performance and 300 pesos for Saturday and Sunday. Reserve now at barestagetheatre2018@gmail.com.
The new location is 19 San Lucas, Riberas del Pilar. Look for directional signs.
Doors and Bar open at 3:00 pm. Bar proceeds go to Operation
Feed. Seats are held till 3:50 pm.
Open Circle – Lake Chapala Society
The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) hosts Open Circle on Sundays at 10:30 am. This community gathering in Ajijic presents a wide range of topics. The entrance is by the side gate on Ramón Corona, opening at 9:30 am. LCS membership is not required. Reservations are requested but not required and can be made at: lakechapalasociety.com/opencircle/reservation_form.php
10:30 am, Sunday, February 2
Scholarships for Lakeside Children: Saving Futures Through Education
Save a Future with Education (SAFE) Scholarship Program was started by three elementary students from New York State who visited Lakeside in 2003. Its mission is to award scholarships to as many eligible grades 1-12 students as possible. SAFE’s core vision is that meritorious students with minimal resources deserve support to attend/benefit from a quality education. The Open Circle presentation will share details about these activities, especially about the students and families, and invite audience members to join the cause.
The speakers are Dr. Ginger Blalock, PhD, who has coordinated the program since 2013, and a panel discussion with board members from the SAFE program and student scholarship recipients. Dr. Blalock’s professional background in Texas and New Mexico was as a special education teacher and professor, focusing on learning disabilities and the transition from school to adulthood for youth with all kinds of issues.
10:30 am, Sunday, February 9
Sacred Self Writing
Have you ever felt the quiet call of your higher self, urging you to listen, reflect, and grow? The Sacred Self-Writing Workshop is an invitation to step into a space of profound self-discovery and connection. Through guided writing, mindfulness practices, and heartfelt reflection in this abridged session, you uncover the wisdom, clarity, and purpose that already resides within you. Bring your journal to begin this sacred journey.
The speaker is Briana Beveridge, a US Air Force Veteran, Certified Master Yoga Instructor, Mindfulness Speaker, Certified Relationship Coach and Life Coach, and most recently Divorce Doula and Coach. She has been practicing Sacred Self Writing for 12 years and looks forward to sharing it with you for your sacred answers within.
10:30 am, Sunday, February 16
The Death Positive Movement and the Rise of the Death Doula Practice
The worldwide movement to improve the end-of-life experience is fostering growth in the profession of death doulas who act as midwives to the dying. Death doulas are rapidly becoming part of the care team that helps patients and loved ones through the transitional and sacred processes that occur during the end-of-life experience. Loretta Downs will explain how the Death Positive movement is changing attitudes and rituals around dying, and the death doula practice that is growing in Lakeside.
The speaker, Loretta Downs, is a gerontologist who has worked with aging and dying for over 35 years. She is a Certified Senior Advisor, End-of-Life Care Practitioner, Advance Care Planning Facilitator, and a Death Doula. Loretta gives quarterly workshops at LCS on Advance Care Planning.
10:30 am, Sunday, February 23
A Peek at Expat Activism from Oaxaca
The southwestern state of Oaxaca is one of this hemisphere’s most diverse cultural and natural landscapes. It’s the wellspring for human settlement in the Americas and today one of Mexico’s poorest states. Local Oaxaca resident Enaj Schlak will share her experience as a volunteer working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, including a micro-financing program that’s changing lives for rural Mexican women.
BRAVO! Theatre
7:30 pm, Fridays, February 7 and 14
4:00 pm, Saturdays, February 8 and 15, and Sundays, February 9 and 16
10 Minute Play Festival
The BRAVO! Theatre is pleased to announce the 10 Minute Play Festival. An entire play…start, middle, climax, resolution, and ending…all in 10 minutes. One of the most entertaining nights of theatre! If you don’t like the play, just wait a few minutes. Our program of 9 plays was selected from 443 scripts sent to us by playwrights in 9 countries. An amazing lineup awaits.
This great evening of entertainment features plays directed by Deborah Elder, David Goldman, Linda Goman, Monnie King, Suki O’Brien and Darlene Sherwood. The cast of 13 actors includes both lakeside veterans and some new faces too!
Tickets are 350 pesos. Reserve by email at tickets@thebravo.org. You can also purchase tickets at Its Kinda Bazar and Seminario Laguna/Lakeside News. The BRAVO! Theatre is located at 441 Hidalgo in Riberas Del Pilar, just west of S&S Auto. Doors open one hour before showtime, so come early to mingle and enjoy a drink in our lounge.
New Vendor Market – West Ajijic
9:30 am to 12:30 pm, Fridays
Photo Credit: Shelley Edson
A new vendor market opens on Fridays, starting January 24, at the same location as the Tuesday vendor market at La Huerta in West Ajijic. The new vendor market expects sixty or more vendors.
The new Friday vendor market will carry fresh organic fruits and vegetables, plus prepared foods, artwork, jewelry, gift items, therapeutic massage services, and lots more. Come check out the market!
And the old Friday vendor market, located on the Carretera in front of a bazaar across the Carreterra from S & S Auto in Riberas, plans to close. Several market vendors said they might continue there, but at press time, plans were not solid.
Close by the old Friday market in Riberas are the local markets at Paninos and Sunrise Restaurant in San Antonio. The local vendor market at Sunrise Restaurant, on the Carretera in San Antonio, has approximately 35 local vendors selling everything from homemade hummus to fresh local produce, prepared foods, artisan bread, and lots more. Hours are 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. A short distance away is Panino’s, also on the Carretera in San Antonio, with a Saturday market open from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. About 30 vendors offer a range of similar local products, from fresh local produce to tasty BBQ.
Art Walkers
Friday, February 7, and Saturday, February 8
11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Mexicanissimo
Join us for the exclusive art walk; a perfect experience filled with art. Visit 25 artists at 15 art studios/locations in the Lake Chapala area.
Tickets, including a map, are 50 pesos per person and include entry for both days. You will need to show the ticket to enter the galleries and art studios. For more information, and artists’ locations where tickets can be purchased, please go to: ArtWalkers2025.blogspot.com
Event organized by Víctor Alcázar Art Studio for artistic, touristic and cultural purposes.
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