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Recurring Events


Band Concerts in the Zócalo
Daily -
-
Evening concerts on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday generally starting at 6pm. Noon concerts on Wednesday and Saturday.

Book Salon
Monthly - 3 rd Friday
11 am - Free
Oaxaca Lending Library
Pino Suarez 519
Book discussion group about a genre or author - advanced reading of one book in the subject area is recommended. April: Graham Greene, May: Booker Prize Winners

Book Talk
Monthly - First Friday
11am - Free
Oaxaca Lending Library
Pino Suarez 519
An informal chat about new books at the library, interesting books and bookish things. Come and share what you have been reading!

Bridge Group
Weekly - Tuesday
2 to 5pm - Free
Oaxaca Lending Library
Pino Suarez 519
No partner necessary. Bridge lessons before starting at 1:15.

Buddhist Meditation
Weekly - Thursday
8pm - Free
Buddhist Center
M. Bravo 210, 2nd patio, upstairs

Classes in Kadampa Buddhism
Weekly -
-
At the Casa de la Cultura and other locations. For more information see kadampamexico.org/otros_centros/oaxaca

Classes in West African Drumming
Weekly - Wednesday & Thrusday evenings
-
Bantaba Drum Studio
next to La Buena Mano
San Sebastian, Etla
Box Office Info: wearethedrum@yahoo.com or www.wearethedrum.com or 044 951 122 5590
Group and private lessons, all drums and instruments provided

Danzón with the Marimba Band
Weekly - Wednesday
6:30pm - Free
Zócalo
A tradition imported from Cuba, the danzón is a stately dance with syncopation. The citizens of Oaxaca gather weekly to dance and watch the dancers.

Drumming Gathering
Weekly - Thursday
5 to 7 pm - Donation
private home in Colonia Reforma
For directions email Janet Stanley at janetstanley2003@yahoo.com No experience or equipment required. The cost is whateveryou can contribute to pay the facilitator.

Duplicate Bridge
Weekly - Friday
12 noon - $20 pesos
Hotel Casa de la Tia
5 del Mayo just north of Independencia
ACBL sanctioned game. More information at www.bridge.oaxacasol.com

Ethnobotanical Garden Tours in English
Weekly - Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
11am - $100 MXP
Entrance Reforma & Constitutión
The only way to see this wonderful garden is on a tour. The tour is at least two hours long so come with water and sunscreen. There are also tours in Spanish which last one hour and cost 50 pesos daily at 10, 12 and 5pm. Arrive ten minutes before the tours to purchase tickets.

Guided Tours in Spanish and English
Weekly - Wednesday
5-7pm - $20 pesos
Textile Museum
Hidalgo & Fiallo

Holy Trinity Anglican Episcopal Church
Weekly - Sunday
11am - Free
Crespo 211 (between Morelos & Matamoros)
Box Office Info: information at 515 9545
Liturgy followed by coffee hour.

Jazz
Weekly - Sunday
9 pm - No Cover
El Borgo Restaurant
Murguia 202
Great music and tapas. Also, every Friday there's a Blues Band.

Noche de Luces
Monthly - Saturday
All Evening - Free
Centro
On the 15th of the month or the Saturday before, this is a city-wide celebration. Watch for the posters with lists of events. Many restaurants offer discounts, the museums stay open and the Alcalá has roving musicians.

Oaxaca Vives en Mi
Weekly - Friday
6 to 8 pm - Free
Usually the Zócalo but sometimes in front to the Santo Domingo Church
Weekly popular music concerts - groups vary. Then after 8:30 look for the Tuna groups on the south side of the zócalo.

Open Mike for Poets and Musicians
Weekly - Tuesdays
8pm -
La Nueva Babel
Profirio Díaz 224

Spanish English Intercambios
Weekly - Saturday
10 to noon - Free
Oaxaca Lending Library
Pino Suárez 519
An opportunity to practice your Spanish and help a Oaxacan learn English. Just arrive at 10 and you will be paired with someone. All levels of Spanish accommodated - including beginners!

The Oaxacan State Band Concert
Weekly - Sunday
12:30 - Free
Zócalo
A wonderful tradition, sometimes other orchestras perform.

Tianguis del Alebrije
Weekly - Friday
10am to 6pm - Free
San Martin Tilcajete
more information at www.feriadelalebrije.org.mx

Tour to Teotitlan del Valle
Weekly - Saturday
9 to 5 pm - $50 US dollars
Instituto Cultural Oaxaca
Av. Juárez 909
Box Office Info: more information at www.envia.org
Fundación En Vía: Travel, Learn, Fight Poverty is a non-profit microfinance organization providing tours to poor communities where participants visit women in need of small loans to improve their lives. 100% of the tour fees are given to the entrepreneurs as an interest-free microloan.

Walking Tour of Churches
Weekly - Tuesday & Saturday
10 am - $100 pesos
meet in front of the Cathedral
A tour for the devout, the lapsed, and the never-were. For more information or tours at other times write ridgecliff@hotmail.com. Fee benefits a Oaxacan program for families of the hospitilized.

Upcoming Events


Friday, July 30 - 10 pm - $40 pesos
Concert: Yope Funk Unit
Café Central
Hidalgo 302

Friday, July 30 - 6 to 8 pm - Free
Grand Opening: Galeria Massimo Audiello Oaxaca
Calle Xolotl 110 B

Group show: Luis Carrera, Roberta Neiman, Guillermo Olguin, Joel Gomez, Pelipe Nuñez, Alberto Ruiz, Laurie Litowitz, Lynn O'Hare, Emi inter.

Friday, July 30 - 8 pm - Free
Organ Concert: Cecilia Winter, organ, & Valentín Hernández, percussion
Church of San Jerónimo
Tlacochahuaya

Friday, July 30 - 7 pm - $60 pesos in Central Section
Baseball Playoffs: Guerreros vs Quintana Roo
Vasconcelos Stadium
Niños Heroes & Boulevard Vasconcelos

The seventh and final game of the playoffs. Get your tickets early. The boxoffice opens at noon.

Saturday, July 31 - 11 to 2 pm - $50 pesos
Workshop: T-shirt Tie Dye with indigo
Textile Museum
Hidalgo & Fiallo

Bring your own white cotton t-shirt - Limited enrollment - retister at educacion@museotextildeoaxaca.org.mx or 501-114 ext 104 or at the museum

Saturday, July 31 - 4 pm - Free
Movie; Hunger
CaSa - Art Center at San Augustin
Vista Hermosa, San Agustín Etla

From IMDb.com: In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

Saturday, July 31 - All Day -
10th Festival of Mushrooms
Cuajimoloyas

And Sunday, August 1st. More information and costs at M. Bravo 201, interior Plaza San Cristobal (951-514-8271). Two days of mushroom hunting and mushroom eating.

Saturday, July 31 - 12 noon - $100 pesos
5th National Festival of the Danzón
Teatro Macedonio Alcalá
Independencia & 5 de Mayo

Alejandro Robles accompanied by the Orchestra Primavera

Sunday, August 01 - 8 pm - Free
Movie: Far From Heaven
Biblioteca Henestrosa at the Casa de la Cuidad
Profirio Diáz & Morelos

From IMDb.com: In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

Sunday, August 01 - 12 noon - Free
Oaxaca is More Beautiful on a Bicycle
Leaving from Jardín Conzatti

A ride through the historic center of Oaxaca.

Monday, August 02 - 2 to 4 pm - $200 pesos
4 Day Course: Introduction to Bridge
Oaxaca Lending Library
Pino Suarez 519

Monday thru Thursday - The eight-hour course will cover basic bidding and play of hand including point count and ranking of suits. Each session will have hands-on practice with preset hands. Sign up at the OLL or for more information call members of the Oaxaca Bridge Club: Charles MacNelly (132-7883) or Barbara Lyons Perez (044-951-161-6884)

Monday, August 09 - 2 to 4 pm - $200 pesos
4 Day Course: Beginning Bridge
Oaxaca Lending Library
Pino Suarez 519

The eight-hour course will examine current bidding systems. Opening bids and responses to a 1 No Trump bid (Stayman & Jacoby Transfers), as well as the strong 2 Club opening bid will be covered. Each session will include hands-on practice with preset hands. Sign up at the OLL or for more information call members of the Oaxaca Bridge Club: Charles MacNelly (132-7883) or Barbara Lyons Perez (044-951-161-6884)

Thursday, August 12 - All Day -
The Day of the Taxi Drivers
Watch for all the decorated taxis - they usually group up at LLano Park and process thru the city

Thursday, October 21 - -
8th International Organ & Early Music Festival
Oaxaca

Through October 27th - Featured artist Guy Bovet (Switzerland) - more information on the Instituto de Órgano Históricos de Oaxaca website www.iohio.org.mx

Monday, November 08 - -
OaxacaFilmFest
from the 8th to the 11th of November

more information at www.oaxacafilmfest.com

Thursday, November 18 - 7 pm - Free
Concert: Lila Downs
Plaza de la Danza
next to the Soledad Church

More information about this wonderful Oaxacan singer at www.liladowns.com

Museums - Galleries


Alvarez Bravo Photography Center
9:30 to 8pm, closed Tuesdays
Free
M. Bravo 116 at García Vigil

Arte Azul Galería
Tuesday to Friday: 10 to 2 & 5 to 8; Saturday 10 to 2
Free
Abasolo 313

More information at arteazulgaleria.blogspot.com

Arte Biulu Galeria & Taller
Tuesday to Saturday - 3 to 7 pm and by appointment
Free
Calle Aldama 100 (corner Republica)
Jalatlaco
Box Office Info: More information at www.aretbiulu.com

Arte de Oaxaca
Murgia 105

In addition to a broad selection of Oaxacan artists, the gallery has a permanent Rodolfo Morales display. www.artedeoaxaca.com

Bodega Quetzali
Murgia 400

CaSa - Art Center at San Augustin
Every Day - 10 to 6 pm
Free
Vista Hermosa, San Agustín, Etla

Art Center is former factory - interesting exhibitions, classes...www.casanagustin.org

Casa de Juárez
Open: 10am to 7pm - Mex$34
García Vigil 609

Benito Juárez lived in the beautifully restored house - Closed Monday; free on Sunday.

Galeria Arte y Vidrio de Oaxaca
Open: 11am to 8pm
Valdivieso 116 (the street that goes from the M. Alcalá to the Zócalo)

A gallery of art glass. They also give classes in slumping and fusing glass at their studio in Etla. Inquire at the gallery.

Galería 910
M. Alcalá 305 (second floor)

Galería Aca
Monday to Saturday - 10am to 3pm & 4 to 8pm
Free
Allenda 107

Galleria Quetzalli
Monday to Saturday - 10 to 2 & 5 to 8
Free
Constitución 104

IAGO (Graphic Arts Center)
9am to 8pm
Donation
M.Alcalá 507

Ishuakara Art Studio
Cosijopi 208

Classes, studio time, art and jewelry for sale - more information at www.ishuakara.com

La Curtiduría
10am to 2pm
Free
5 de Mayo 307
Jalatlaco

La Mano Mágica
M. Alcalá 203

Broad range of high quality crafts

MACO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca
10:30am to 8pm
$30 pesos
M. Alcalá & Morelos

Closed Tuesdays, free on Sunday. Now undergoing a major restoration. Only a few galleries are open.

Manuel Garcia Arte Contemporáneo
Open: to
Portal Benito Juárez 110
East side of the Zócalo

Museo Belber Jiménez
Monday to Friday 10 - 2, 4 - 6; Saturday 10 -2
$20 pesos
Matamoros 307 (corner Tinoco y Palacios)

Wonderful new museum of jewelry (large collection of 20th Century Mexican silver), pottery and clothing. Large gift shop.

Museo del Palacio
Open: 10am to 5pm
South Side of the Zócalo

This is the former Governor's Palace now turned in to a museum.

Museum of Oaxacan Folk Art
Daily, 10 to 6 pm
$20 pesos
San Bartolo Coyotepec

Museum of Oaxacan Painters
Open: 10am to 6pm - Mex$20
Independencia & García Vigil

Closed Mondays

Oaxaca Lending Library
Open: 10am to 7pm
Pino Suárez 519

Over 30,000 books in English and Spanish, Social activities including American movies every Thursday at 6pm, bridge group Tuesdays at 1:30, Wi-Fi free to members. Closed Sunday, weekdays 2 to 4, Saturday hours 10am to 1pm. Membership fee to take out books.

Orquideario La Encantada
10 am to 5 pm
$50 MXP
San Andrés Huayapam
Box Office Info: Reservations: www.orquideariolaencantada.com.mx

Astounding collection of orchids. Take a cab, it's 15 minutes from Centro.

Rufino Tamayo Museum
10-2 & 4-7 pm, Sundays 10-3 pm, closed Tuesday
$30 pesos
Morelos 503

Fine collection of Mexican antiquities. It was the personal collection of artist Rufino Tamayo.

Santo Domingo Cultural Center
10 am to 6:15pm
$45 MXP
M. Alcalá to the left of the church

Magnificent cloister houses historical displays including the treasures from Tomb 7 at Monte Alban as well as temporary exhibits.

Stamp Museum (MUFI)
10 to 8 pm - closed Monday
Free
Reforma north of Constitución

Guided tours by the curators of the exhibitions: Bridges - Tuesdays from 5 to 6 pm and Mailmen - Thursdays from 1 to 2 pm. Visit this museum is only to see the beautiful architecture.

Taller Tamayo
Weekdays 8 to 8, Saturday and Sunday 10 to 12
Free
Av. Juárez 514

Exhibitions and workshops

Textile Museum
10am to 2pm & 3pm to 6pm
Free
Hidalgo & Fiallo