AROUND TOWN
Meetings & Lectures
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
At this week’s meeting, the Reverend Doctor Constance Brereton speaks about her years in Northern India and her experiences with Islam, Hinduism, the line of control that separates India and Pakistan, and her medical rickshaw in the streets of Varanasi, a cultural and religious center for 7000 years.
An artist, theologian, philosopher and adventurer with a deep interest in world culture, Rev. Brereton has had a home here for more than 30 years. She founded one of the first schools for expatriate children, taught at the Instituto Allende and served as the chaplain for Hospital de la Fe and the city of San Miguel for 12 years. She is a graduate of the University of California Medical Center and Banares Hindu University.
The UU Fellowship meets every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at La Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15. Visitors are invited to attend the service and then join the UUs in the hotel restaurant for brunch.
Bugambilia Readers and Writers Group
The Bugambilia Readers and Writers Group meets Sundays, 2–4pm, in the patio garden of the Bugambilia Restaurant, Hildalgo 42. Founded years ago, the membership of the group has waxed and waned over the years and with the different seasons. Poets, playwrights and fiction writers, including bilingual authors, have composed the group in the past. Participants volunteer to read for a specified time at the informal meetings and listeners provide an audience, encouragement and feedback. Newcomers welcome. Questions? Contact Sally at 154-9923 or sriewald@yahoo.com.
Midday Rotary Club
On Tuesday, October 14, Stephen Patton supplies general information on insurance in Mexico and an orientation for personal insurance. Patton was born and raised in Mexico City of British and Canadian decent. He has been an insurance agent for 38 years and started servicing San Miguel in 2000. He was president of the Insurance Agents Association, Mexico City chapter; member of the Sales Advisory Board of Grupo Nacional Provincial; and a member of the Life Underwriting Training Council.
The Rotary Club of San Miguel de Allende-Midday meets every Tuesday at Hotel Real de Minas at the intersection of calles Ancha de San Antonio and Stirling Dickinson. Check-in time is 12–12:25pm and the meeting starts promptly at 12:30. For more information, visit
www.rotarysma.org.
Classes & Workshops
Chess in the patio and on the terrace
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Adults meet Mondays 5–6:30pm in the north portal of the Biblioteca Pública’s central patio. The library closes at 7pm, but Café Santa Ana lets players carry on for another hour or two. |
Players gathered Thursdays at Mama Mia in the spring and summer, but will take a break until the snowbirds arrive later this fall.
Chess players meet three times a week at Casa de la Cultura on Chorro: Saturdays, 10am–2pm, Wednesdays and Fridays, 5–8pm.
How to Launch Your Publishing Career
Registration has started for author/instructor Susan McKinney de Ortega’s two-day writing workshop, where writers will discover how to get attention as a writer without having to put on a monkey suit, how to narrow the search for where to publish and how to create publishing opportunities for yourself. Each writer will publish a short piece online. Guaranteed! The workshop runs Thursday-Friday, October 30–31, 10am–1pm. For more information or to register, go to
www.sanmiguelworkshops.com
or call Jody at 152-0478.
Tours & Excursions
Saturday Adventure Tours
We all walk on the stones of the streets daily, but on October 11, the Adventureres will see stones of brilliance and rare color. We visit the workshop-home of William Harris and Luis Pantoja, where you will see gems of rare beauty in glamorous settings. They will help create your own design. Their home is also a jewel, full of Mexican crafts, and their garden is an enchanted place to sit and dream.
Leaving the glitter of brilliant gemstones, we arrive at La Era, a dairy farm of over 800 cows. Vicente Gomez tells about these factories for producing calves and milk. Nothing is left to nature; insemination will be demonstrated to any who care to watch. The very rich milk is sold to yogurt producers Danone. We visit the lovely Gomez home, where we see the artistic talent of the Sra. in the stained glass windows and the Tiffany-type lampshades. Vicente takes us to his office where he shows photos of his grandfather on his dairy farm in Spain and tells how they came to Mexico and gradually built up their thriving dairy business. May we suggest—take along a camera!
This tour leaves from inside the Jardín, across from the Parroquia, at 10am.
Botanical Garden tour
El Charco del Ingenio (Jardín Botánico) offers two-hour tours on Tuesdays at 10am sharp. A hat, water and good walking shoes are recommended. Fees are 50 pesos for members and 80 pesos for nonmembers. Private tours are available for 150 pesos per person (minimum five).
The easiest way to Jardín Botánico is by taxi. Staff will call for a taxi for the return trip.
Reservations are not necessary. Information: nzerriffi@yahoo.com.
Performances & Events
CASA Grand Fall Sale
CASA's sale is October 11, 9am–2pm in the patio at Santa Julia 15. Information: www.casa.org.
Artist needed for Hospice comic
Hospice San Miguel is producing a comic book series about Hospice geared towards Mexican families. The copy is written; we now need
someone to illustrate the characters. Contact Letty Gonzalez at 154-4287 or lego_2000_mx@yahoo.com.mx.
NYC playwright seeks local actors
Playwright Stefanie Glick will produce the original play The Death of Reason (A Tragedy in Rhyme), at Teatro Santa Ana, January 14–18. Actors are coming from NYC for the five performances and Glick hopes to round out the cast with local men ages 40-80 and women ages 60-80. Rehearsals are December 1–19 and December 28–January 13 in San Miguel. Contact Taylor Korobow (casting) at 152-0918 or
taylor.milagro@yahoo.com.
Actors, crew and choreographer needed
Playwright seeks actors for the three-act play, The Man Who Failed to Fly (a love story), opening April 9–11 at Teatro Santa Ana. The play is in English with a tropical setting and Mexican music. The cast includes four males, four females, two children, six Latin dancers and a theater-skilled choreographer. Technical workers needed for artwork, props and special effects. Auditions dates at the Shelter VG4 Theater rehearsal space will be announced, with casting during the last two weeks of February. Rehearsals frequent in March and continuing to showtime April 9. Contact Ana della Marina Rego at:
anadellamarina@gmail.com.
Films & Videos
Meditation Center: Eckhart Tolle
On Thursday, October 16, at 5:30pm, the Meditation Center at Callejón Blanco 4 presents Volume 2 of Eckhart Tolle’s The Flowering of Human Consciousness, in which the author of the bestseller The Power of Now explains the process of entering this “miraculous” state of presence that is always available to us. There is no charge for presentations, though donations are gratefully accepted.
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