Spring Equinox Ceremony & Concert
Ceremony
Fri, Mar 20, 4:305pm
Concert
Rodrigo Garciarroyo, Belinda
Gonzalez & Mario Alberto Hernández
Fri, Mar 20, 5:306:30pm
El Charco del Ingenio
80 pesos, members 50 pesos, students
and teachers 20 pesos, children under 10 free
Opera in the canyon
By Olivia Ledón
| The Spring Equinox is one of the four great solar festivals of the year, a day of equal daylight and equal darkness. The world feels a sense of rebirth and in many traditions, this is the start of the new year. The Spring Equinox Ceremony starts promptly at 4:30pm and lasts half an hour. In this festival, red represents life and green symbolizes the growth of plants. |
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You will be given a red carnation as a symbol to welcome spring. While eggs contain the promise of new animal life, seeds are like eggs in that both represent new life and potential.
Seeds used in the ceremony represent seeds for the mind and seeds for the earth. The ceremony of the four elements closes the event and then people go to the canyon for the concert.
El Charco celebrates this festival of the Sun with a musical offering every year. Rodrigo Garciarroyo (tenor), Belinda Gonzalez (soprano) and Mario Alberto Hernández (pianist) perform in the canyons natural amphitheater sculpted by millennia of flowing water. The program features arias from operas by Puccini and others, as well as Spanish songs from Zarzuelas.
Come with friends and enjoy an hour of magnificent music in a spectacular setting. We suggest you come early and bring a hat and cushion.
To avoid line-ups, tickets will be sold at the front entrance of the garden; Border Crossings, Mesones 57; and Madre Tierra, Correo 12.
Visit www.elcharco.org.mx/boletines for more information or contact Olivia Ledón in public relations at olicharco@gmail.com or (415)154-4715. Call Alicia Mayo at 152-0376 for information about the ceremony.
Audubon Presentation
Georgia Conti
Tue, Mar 17, 3pm
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Insurgentes 25
50 pesos, members free
Audubon showcases birds of Pátzcuaro
By Carol Wheeler
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Birds found in the Pátzcuaro area include Red warbler, Blue Mockingbird, Black-polled yellowthroat, White-tailed hawk, Mountain Trogon, Squirrel cuckoo, Painted redstart, Russet-crowned motmot, Green kingfisher, White-striped woodcreeper, Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer and Berylline hummingbird. |
To hear all about them, come to this Audubon presentation, when Georgia Conti,
founder of the Pátzcuaro Birding Club, talks about the avian wonders of Pátzcuaro. Beautiful photographs, many by San Miguel resident Wayne Colony, accompany the lecture.
San Miguels Audubon Society is planning a field trip to Pátzcuaro in the near future and this lecture may entice you to join and see these birds.
| Many visit this charming colonial town on the shores of Lake Pátzcuaro for its rich history, the resident Purhépecha people, Day of the Dead and Semana Santa celebrations, and world-famous arts and crafts. Others enjoy strolling around lovely plazas, boating to the island of Janitzio, catching a dance performance by Los Viejitos, or enjoying delicious ice cream. | |
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While partaking of the joys of Pátzcuaro, birders also come from far and wide to see colorful birds that call this part of Michoacán home.
Pátzcuaro lies at an elevation of 7,200 feet in the Central Volcanic Highlands and is surrounded by even higher volcanic mountains. Diverse habitats in this area support a variety of bird life and many exotic and endemic species can be found easily.
The presentation will be followed by Audubons annual general meeting, where members vote on a new board of directors for 2009.
Members are admitted free to the presentation; admission for others is 50 pesos. The fee will be waived if they pay for an annual membership of 300 pesos. Membership admits them to walks, hikes and other activities all year long at no charge.
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