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Broadway came to San Miguel on Mother’s Day

COMM BROADWAY Four years olds - Lion King

By Mireille Rita Grovier From the Paris Opera House to the rooftops of London, with a touch of the jungles of Africa thrown in, the children of Centro Infantíl San Pablo honored their mothers with the school’s annual Mother’s Day performance. This year’s presentation, “CISP 10 – Broadway” offered a spectacular taste of Broadway musicals. [...]

Sabores San Miguel

COMM SABORES

By Angela Lewis Serrano Sabores San Miguel is a culinary festival that will gather the culinary community of San Miguel de Allende to promote local restaurants and producers, showing the gastronomic local scene to the rest of Mexico. Sabores San Miguel will be held in the Parque Juárez June 14, 15 and 16 as part [...]

Wild Women support ALMA

COMM ALMA

By Lourdes Bautista To support ALMA, the home for the elderly, Wild Women Do Get the Blues presents an acoustic blues concert by Kate Fowler and Rolando Gotes. The concert will present a musical history of women in blues — from classic to folk to delta style to the blues of our time — and [...]

A local architect’s thoughts on Casita Linda and its national design competition

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By Alfredo Castrejón Madrid In the second half of the ‘80s, after spending some time trying to decide what career to study, whether arts or architecture, I decided to enroll in the school of architecture at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). While visiting the faculty at University City in the south of México City, [...]

Celebrating Buddha’s birthday

COMM Shanti

By Brett Knobel On Saturday, May 25, Shanti San Miguel will be honoring Buddha’s birthday in conjunction with the full moon. Celebration Buddha’s birthday Sat, May 25, 10am Shanti San Miguel 275 pesos For more info and address please call 415-100-8396, or email brett@shantisanmiguel.com Tradition has it that Siddhartha Gautama (otherwise known as the Buddha) [...]

Watershed and Cities Program – “Todos por el Agua”

COMM AGUA1

Urban and Rural Communities United for the Future of San Miguel de Allende (Part I) By: Agustín Madrigal Bulnes Our Goal The “Watershed and Cities Program III” is a national initiative financed by the Gonzalo Rio Arronte Foundation and the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature. It includes 10 national projects and is headed, [...]

Extra special education arrives in San Miguel

COMM EDUCATION

By Robin Loving Rowland Did you know that San Miguel de Allende has the only special education school for deaf youngsters in the state? The school opened in September in response to requests from parents of deaf students. There are no publicly funded schools for deaf children in the State of Guanajuato. Escuela de Educación [...]

Water Awareness campaign is here

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By Muriel Bevilacqua Logan Hopefully you, as regular readers of Atención, have noticed a series of articles in recent issues covering the new water awareness and conservation campaign called AguaVida SMA, which was launched March 23 by OCAS, the Citizens’ Observatory for Water and Sanitation of San Miguel de Allende. The reason you are seeing [...]

Safety first in San Miguel

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By Linda Sonna and Hector Majalca As part of a series of police training sessions organized by San Miguel Director of Public Security Gabriel Yañez and Volunteer Training Coordinator Héctor Majalca E., local psychologist Dr. Linda Sonna and forensic evaluation expert Sandra Price Rosado presented a workshop at the San Miguel Police Academy in April. [...]

CASA Invites you to celebrate International Day of the Midwife

COMM CASA

By Kate Norman Frometa In honor of one of the oldest professions in the world, along with the countless number of women who have dedicated their lives to it, CASA, along with the rest of the world, will be celebrating the International Day of the Midwife on May 5. International Day of the Midwife Several [...]

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