The project has 102 participants from Puerto Vallarta, Banderas Bay, Guadalajara, Nuevo Leon and Mexico City. The competition ¡Vive Puerto Vallarta! has shown success at the time of registration of over 280 art pieces that reflect the happenings of daily, touristic and cultural life.
You will be able to admire the exposition of these images next Monday 7th of July at 6pm at the inside of the municipal hall and will enjoy of a welcome cocktail for the inauguration and a little tour describing the different images.
The art pieces will stay in the municipal hall until the 20th of July and will hold the nomination of the winning picture Monday 14th. First price will be 10 thousand pesos, a painting of one of Vallarta’s icons, the artist Campero plus 2 thousand postcards with the winning image printed on them. Second place gets 6 thousand pesos and third place 4 thousand.
We’ll hope to be there, otherwise we’ll update on the winning pictures nothing. Good look!
The city of Vallarta has prepared a special program of cultural activities in honor to Puerto Vallarta and its people. This year we’ll be enjoying the Fiestas de May08.
México, Germany, France and Spain are the countries of origin of some of the artists who will perform at the international events throughout the month of may.
The fiestas will have something for everyone: Regional Mexican dance, Tahitian, Contemporary, Jazz, Afro, Flamenco and so much more.
The main event of Las Fiestas de May08 will be hold on the malecon arches, but there will be other public locations like the Pitillal plaza, Las Juntas and the Sport area “Augusting Flores Contreras” which will present the traditional Chinese Dance of the Lions on 30th of May.
32 events with over 250 artists will be held on Fiestas de May08 in Puerto Vallarta.
Event schedule:
1st - 20:00 – Inauguration at the malecon arches with the tropical rhythm of “Los Fumancheros”
2nd – 18:30 – Romantic Music by the “Festival de Estudiantes” (malecon arches)
2nd – 20:00 “Grupo Rey Nayar” Regional Dance in Plaza Pitillal
2nd – 21:00 – “Radiopatias” with musical humor, intelligence and sketches will bring everyone some good fun time. (malecon arches)
3rd – 19:00 “Grupo Rey Nayar” Regional Dance (in Las Juntas)
3rd – 19:00 – Romantic Music by the “Festival de Estudiantes” (malecon arches)
3rd – 20:15 – “La Quinto Danza” Contemporary Dance to welcome Jerome Murat on the malecon arches.
3rd – 21:00 – French “Jerome Murat”, best mime ever will perform his masterpiece “The white statue” on the malecon arches.
Jerome Murat
4th – 20:00 “Grupo Rey Nayar” Regional Dance (malecon arches)
4th – 21:00 – “Orquestra Chamaco” Jamaican music mix with reggae rhythms.
5th – 21:00 – “2 Play” Acrobatic Comedy representing the comeback of the living legend of Olympic gymnastic.
7th - - “Sherele” Hebrew music from Europe with an emotional and spiritual touch. (malecon arches)
15th - 20:30 – German Orchestra from the Chamber of Stuttgart directed by “Michael Hofstetter” in the hotel Krystal, room Jalisco. Enjoy Mozart, Bach and Mendelssohn for only $150 pesos / ticket. (This is the only event with cost, all the others will be free)
Michael Hofstetter
16th – 20:00 - Italian “Marco Carolei” will guarantee a lot of laughter with his professional clown techniques on the malecon arches.
Marco Carolei
18th - 20:00 – “Carsten Daerr Trio” also from Germany will be playing a Jazz concert
Carsten Daerr
30th – 21:00 – “Dance of the Lions”, traditional Chinese Dance followed by traditional Mexican fireworks.
The month of May has always been a very important month in Mexican history. “La Batalla de Puebla”, the Battle of Puebla is celebrated every year on the 5th of May.
History says that the Mexican army with only 4,500 poorly armed men had won the battle against the French army that had over 8,000 well-armed soldiers.
It was also the first time that the imperial troops of Napoleon III fell overdue demonstrating that they were not invincible. The celebration surpasses that of the Mexican Independence Day, something very logical if one notes that the bulk of Méxican Americans born in the United States, while not naturalized Mexican residents still celebrate the Mexican Independence Day.
Vallarta Verde (Green Vallarta) Ecologico was a total success. The entire afternoon at Cuiza Restaurant Bar was filled with music, drinks and people from everywhere. Rastas, Hippies, Grandpas & Grandmas, everybody with some rhythm in their blood was present.
In case you missed it, we have some pictures especially for you and for our german friend Ajim and his drummer girlfriend that did an incredible job on stage, not to mention: for free and for the good of keeping Puerto Vallarta green. Everybody that performed today/tonight was outstanding and drew big happy smiles on everybody, not to mention the people who danced through every song.
La Cuiza is a neat hidden place on Rio Cuale but not too difficult to find and only one minute walk from the new Malecon Bridge that connects El Centro with Olas Altas. Just follow the stairs that go down right in the middle of the bridge towards Oscars and River’s Café.
To help support the Vallarta Verde Ecologists, you can buy t-shirts, hats, drinks at their events, so please don’t think twice about it, buy something, knowing you are supporting the ones that want to keep Vallarta as what it became famous for (The green fishing port) and not the gray, cement Acapulco 2 City.
In the news: Fieste Ecologica - VALLARTA VERDE
Barbara Sands
Puerto Vallarta - Vallarta Verde, a group of young and ardent ecology-minded activists has launched a new initiative to foster “green” thinking among Vallartenses.
Spearheading the new group’s efforts are Greta Fuentes, Tatiana Meneses, Carole Oury and Mercedes Sanchez among others. Joe “King” Carrasco of “Nuevo Wavo” musical fame, a transplanted Texan, is lending his group to bring Tex-Mex and reggae flavor to the day and promises to round up a bevy of local musical talents to keep the island moving to a green beat till evening.
The keynote theme of the day is information and ecological awareness. All it takes, sometimes, is a bit of chit-chat among friends and neighbors to uncover common concerns and to determine ways to address them.
Vallarta Verde aptly conveys the aims of the newly established group to build public interest in exploring all ways to preserve what very few green spaces we have remaining to us.
Major among these spaces is the eastern end of the Isla Rio Cuale whose development into yet another commercial corridor has been envisioned by the last two municipal administrations. The Isla is still a micro-nature preserve for iguanas, squirrels and an amazing numbers of birds.
But, more importantly, it’s a cool respite on a hot day; it’s a shady outdoor classroom for kids during the summer months and remains a small verdant microcosm in the Cuale. What an idea it would be to label those many varieties of trees; to have a plant and animal map. John Huston would find himself less lonely in his director’s chair.
The Isla effort will go hand-in-hand with public education through the press, in schools and in city-wide presentations to encourage ecologically sound waste management along with water and other natural resource conservation.
Development has moved so quickly in Vallarta that concrete bastions rise before our eyes without warning. Development certainly cannot be confused with progress and isn’t always the best answer for the municipality.
We can’t forget what put Vallarta on the map besides the torrid Taylor-Burton affair. It is its very Mexican-ness, its leisurely demeanor, its tile roofs and feeling of a city with proud roots, and those it has in abundance.
All those who have grown weary championing the preservation of our beautiful city’s native charms can only applaud these new faces picking up the challenge and bringing in new troops to carry on the battle to preserve our beautiful surroundings, our trees and the city’s heritage.
From the southbound bridge, Cuiza is located down the stairs and toward the ocean. From the Malecon, access is down the stairs and straight ahead to Cuiza on the right past Oscar’s and River Café.
For more information or to offer assistance, contact Greta Fuentes: zuckyinc(at)yahoo.com; Mercedes Sanchez: aisforartist1 (at) hotmail.com; Carole Oury: carolepvr(at)yahoo.com; Tatiana Meyeses: llomera(at)gmail.com or Barbara Sands: barbsands007(at)yahoo.com. Musicians or singers (dancers?) DJs or MCs who want to be part of the action can contact Joe King at joeking(at)joeking.com. Please! drummers need not apply.
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