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The President of Mexico Felipe Calderón has announced that the bicentenary celebration of Mexican independence will mostly take place in a new fair grounds, Expo Bicentenario 2010, located on the Guanajuato/Silao road near the GM factory. The World’s Fair type event will be from July to December 2010. To date, the plans call for a cactus garden, camping area, a carnival, hotels, a sculpture hall and a transportation hub. Special cultural pavilions – artistic, ecology, future, history, Ibero-American and music will spotlight their cultural importance. In SMA, as part of the works connected with the Bicentennial, the recently renovated Angela Peralta Theater is scheduled for further renovation. Cañada de la Virgen archaeological site is scheduled to open. Rafael Tovar y de Teresa is national coordinator, and will have the state commissions of at least nine Mexican states to deal with.
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There is a new park for kids to play in, sort of. Insurgentes Park, located off the Carretera a Querétaro in the Fraccionamiento
Insurgentes, was begun in November 2007, and when the money ran out, it was left with trash, gravel and stones in place of a place to play. A second phase, with moneys to pay for it, will begin building in June. To be added are benches, cooking grills, lamps, and trashcans etc. Hopefully the trash from the first phase will be removed or used.
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UNAM courses begin at the Biblioteca Pública
with a first course entitled Formulation and Evaluation of Investment Projects, and it is entirely in Spanish. To check it out, go to www.atencionsnmiguel.org or contact
riohoja@yahoo.com.mx.
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The big-time drug dealers have had a go at capturing
SMA. They tried to bribe our police chief, Daniel Trujillo. Other police chiefs in other cities have ended up dead. Did they refuse to cooperate, or did not
cooperate enough?
In any case, on May 7, on the Calzada de La Estación, four young men were discovered to be carrying weapons (illegal in Mexico). They are from all over Mexico – Javier Ortega Elizondo of Monterrey, Cesar Gama Leonel of
Cuatla, Morelos, Epifano Abanco Flores of Acapulco and Antonio Hernández Tapia of Mexico City. They were held in the
Presidencia, and the building was emptied of workers. The Guanajuato State Rapid Reaction Task Force joined SMA’s police, the Mexican army and police officials of neighboring towns. Snipers were in place on the roofs of the Presidencia and a federal police helicopter patrolled the area. The four prisoners were taken under guard in police vehicles to the State Attorney’s office in
Guanajuato. Workers in the Presidencia returned to their jobs in the building the next day.
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News of the USA consulate here in
SMA.
Our former consul, Philip J. Maher, was remembered with a bust placed in the Plaza de Gente
Ilustres, opposite to the Real de Minas Hotel, where it joins that of Stirling Dickinson and Susan
Roettinger.
Our current USA consul Ed Clancy is on extended leave until mid-July as he takes care of his health through treatments. For regular consular services here in
SMA, the Embassy in Mexico City can send a representative about once a month. Here in
SMA, Leticia Cerritos, the consular secretary, can be of limited help. She can receive documentation for notary services and help with replacement of passports.
To contact the USA Embassy:
(01-55) 552May 5040
To go or send mail:
Paseo de la Reforma 305
Col. Cuauhtemoc
Mexico, DF 06500
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Groups and Meetings
May 18
- The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will hear Berenice Reyes speaking about CASA. The Fellowship, which welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientation, and gender identity, meets each Sunday in La Posada de la
Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15 at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome.
May 20
– The Midday Rotary Club’s weekly meeting in the Hotel Real de Minas will. The guest speaker will be graphologist Colin
Hanlen, MA. The group gathers from noon ‘til 12:25. The meeting starts promptly at 12:30. For more information, go to
www.rotarysma.org.
May 29
– The SMA International Lions Club will sponsor a trip to Tequisquiapan to take in that city’s annual Cheese and Wine festival.
The tour raises money for the Lions’ weekly eye and diabetes testing clinic. The overnight bus tour is limited to 36 people. For further information and reservations, call Ellen Gary at 152-3406. Payments should be in by May 8.
Jovenes Adelante is expanding the number of students in its university scholarship program, and thus its mentoring program, as well. Mentors meet with the students they are mentoring, and then report to the Jovenes Adelante board. Because some of the students are living and studying away from
SMA, only e-mail mentoring is possible. Being a mentor involves being involved with the student, being someone who wants the young person to succeed. Minimally, the mentor meets with students once a month, attends the orientation meeting in July and two other mentor meetings during the year to share experiences and ideas. Mentors should live in SMA full-time. Volunteers are needed as an English or math tutors, helping with the student interviews and screening, fundraising or technical support. Contact
jovenesadelante@gmail.com or Pat Harding at travel@yptd.com.
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Tours
May 17
– Saturday Adventure Tours usually visits an in-town artisan or artist and then goes out to the country to visit one of the businesses that surround our town. The tour leaves from in front of the Parroquia at 10:30.
May 18
- The House and Garden Tour begins gathering at the Biblioteca Pública at 11:00 a.m. and leaves at noon.
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, a walking tour of historic SMA led by SMA volunteers leaves the Jardín in front of the
Parroquia. The tour lasts a little over two hours and is mostly level walking. Taking part in the tour helps provide medical and dental care for children in need through Patronato Pro Niños.
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Movies
Biblioteca Cinemateca
May 17
– Kids Matinee –Sala Infantil - Vintage Cartoons – noon – FREE
– El Futuro de la Comida, Sp + Discussion – 4:00
May 19
– The Experiment, Ger/Eng – 3:00 Lost and Found in Mexico, Doc. Eng – 5:00
– Yes, Eng/Fr – 5:00
May 20
– Miró: Theater of Dreams, Eng – noon
– Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Audubon) – 3:00
– Death of a Salesman, Eng (Dustin Hoffman) – 5:00
May 21
– Yes, Eng/Fr – 5:00
May 22 - Miró: Theater of Dreams – 3:00
– Machuca, Sp/Eng – 7:30
May 24
- Kids Matinee – Sala Infantil – Vintage Cartoons – noon – FREE
MM Cinemas
– For schedule www.mmcinemas.com or 120-4743
Movie Pocket Theater
– El Market Bistro, Hernández Macías 95 – 1:30, 4:00 & 7:00
A Week of Classic Italian Movies
May 17 - Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia) – Visconti - 1971
May 18 – Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti de Cabiria) – Fellini - 1957
May 19 – Accattone – Pasolini – 1961
May 20 – I Vittelloni – Fellini – 1953
May 21 – Il Conformista – Bertolucci - 1970
May 22 – La Strada – Fellini – 1954
May 23 – Battaglio di Algeri – Pontecorvo – 1966
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Performing Arts
May 19
– A concert by Sergio Basurto playing the folklore harp and flamenco guitar will be in the Biblioteca Pública’s Sala Quetzal at 7:30. Entrance is at Reloj 50A.
May 21
– CASTING CALL – needed ages 2May 60 seven men and four women, one male, a singer/guitarist. The play, Michael Hager’s “The Last Ride” will be directed by Michael Gottlieb and will be produced August 19 thru 24, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30
May 29
– The San Miguel Jazz Cats – Bobby Kaplan, Ken Basman, Antonio Lozoya and Victor Monterrubio – will have Cuban pianist Gabriel Hernández as featured guest in at concert in the Angela Peralta Theater, corner of Mesones and Hernández Macías, at 8:00.
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Exhibitions and Openings
May 22 thru June 6
– Salon Galería of the Casa de Sierra Nevada, Recreo 27, will show Robb Kendrick’s photos – tintype portraits of cowboys (and girls) and Guanajuato’s mummies. On May 23 and June 6 at 6:00, there will be lectures about Kendrick’s work.
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