Newsletter Mexico Press

MARZO 2009

MAR 2-7: 9th International Guitar Festival. Culiacan, Sinaloa. This festival originated in the year 2001, with the participation of renowned guitarists from America and Europe, some of whom perform with the accompaniment of the Sinaloa Orchestra of Arts. The program is complemented by master classes given by the guitarists participating and by the National Classical Guitar Contest, which brings together instrumentalists who study in Mexico and the United States. This year’s program will include the participation of the following guitarists and their companies. www.internationalguitarculiacan.com

MAR 7-31: International Music and Ecological Festival of Valle de Bravo. Valle de Bravo, Mexico State. The classic music concerts complement each other with a wide list of cultural and musical activities, a "Sample of the Earth" and an environmental forum. This set of events generates a big activity in Valle of Bravo, an agreeable festive ambience that summons both the local population and the assiduous weekend visitors to take part and to enrich their artistic sensibility and to generating conscience on the environmental and social situation in the regional basin. www.fime.org.mx

MAR 12-29: 25th Festival of Mexico in the Historic Center. Mexico City The most important cultural event in Mexico City and one of the most dynamic and creative art festivals in Latin America. http://festival.org.mx

MAR 15-19: 5th Eurojazz Festival. Mexico City. The Eurojazz Festival takes place in the Blas Galindo Auditorium. The program includes bands and soloists dedicated to exercising and broadcasting this polemic musical genre, which is among the favorites of national and international audiences. The festival, without a doubt, offers a great sampling of the nine tendencies and variations that Jazz embodies, according to the participating European countries.

MAR: Magic of Mexico Marketplace. Chicago, IL (16th); Minneapolis, MN (17th); Denver, CO (18th); Phoenix, AZ (19th). www.mexicotravelmarket.com

MAR 16-22: Cultural Festival of Zacatecas. Zacatecas, Zac. Since 1986, this festival has carried out activities in many forums, including natural settings and historical monuments. It is an event with Mexican and international participation that includes music, theater and dance performances, shows for children, exhibitions of books, handicrafts and traditions of old Zacatecas. www.zacatecas.gob.mx

MAR 16-19: Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention. Miami Beach Convention Center. The Mexico Tourism Board will have a Pavilion presenting the novelties, offers and new routes of the most important Mexican ports. Among the ports showcased will be: Ensenada, Guaymas, Loreto/Santa Rosalia, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Chiapas, Huatulco, Tampico, Progreso, Mazatlan, Acapulco, Cozumel, Veracruz, Campeche, Tabasco and Costa Maya.

MAR 18-22: 10th Tajin Festival. Papantla de Olarte, Veracruz. It includes light and sound shows, native and folk dances, art exhibitions and live music of a wide range of genres (rock, reggae, electronic and tropical) with Mexican and foreign artists. It also offers alternative therapy (massage, healing sessions, yoga, temazcal), dancing, handicraft making and sporting activities. www.cumbretajin.com

MAR 19-27: 24th International Film Festival. Guadalajara, Jalisco. This contemporary film festival is the oldest and most important film festival in Mexico, offering the best selection of Mexican and Ibero-American films of the year. The festival features a variety of films including feature-length films, shorts and documentaries. This year’s special guest is Colombia. http://guadalajaracinemafest09.com/en/

MAR 20-22: Theater/Opera Show. Chicago, Illinois. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Mexico Tourism Board bring to Chicago the award winning Mexican theater/opera by Claudio Valdés: Monsters and Prodigies: The History of the Castrati – the worldwide acclaimed opera about the Castrati. Buy tickets at https://boxoffice.mcachicago.org/public/default.asp?cgcode=1

MAR 20-APR 3: Mexico City Cultural Week. Chicago, Illinois.

MAR 21-27: National Organ Festival of Tlaxcala. Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala. This festival started in 2005, and from the beginning, the main goals has been to rescue, to promote and to spread the historical and musical wealth of the instruments located in the state. www.culturatlaxcala.com.mx

MAR 21: Spring Equinox. Chichén-Itzá, Yucatán. Thousands of people from around the world gather at this Mayan ruin on the Yucatan peninsula to witness the afternoon shadow of the snake-god Kukulcan slowly "crawl down" the country's largest Mayan pyramid, El Castillo.

MAR 23-30: Santiago De Queretaro Festival. Queretaro, Queretaro. This first took place in 2002 to mark the 471st Anniversary of the Founding of the city of Santiago de Querétaro. Its program of activities includes shows, concerts, exhibitions, a food fair, marathon and contests to stimulate artistic creation. It also gives a place to the cultural week of a guest city, as was the case of New Orleans, which was selected for the first edition of this festival. www.queretaro.travel

MAR 23-APR 28: 6th Puppet Festival of San Miguel de Allende. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. Puppeteers form Guanajuato and other states take part, giving their shows both indoors and out in the town of San Miguel de Allende. www.guanajuato.gob.mx

MAR 26-29: French Festival of Acapulco. Acapulco, Guerrero. An annual event in which the principal goal is to approach people to the French culture through different activities like movies, fashion, music and gastronomy. www.festivalfrances.com

MAR 31: Love Mexico. New York, NY. The one day symposium and will allow representatives from Mexican destinations to present what their hotels/resorts and local wedding planners can offer New Yorkers as a premier wedding and honeymoon destination. www.lovemexicoweddings.com

MAR 31-APR 3: Aztec World Conferences & Seminars. Chicago, Illinois. The UNAM Chicago Campus, the Mexico Tourism Board and the Newberry Library present a series of conferences, seminars and roundtables about the Aztec civilization. Free event.