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

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

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!

Weekly - Tuesday
2 to 5pm - Free
Oaxaca Lending Library

Pino Suarez 519
No partner necessary. Bridge lessons before starting at 1:15.

Weekly - Thursday
8pm - Free
Buddhist Center

M. Bravo 210, 2nd patio, upstairs

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

Weekly - Wednesday & Thrusday evenings
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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

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.

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.

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

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.

Weekly - Wednesday
5-7pm - $20 pesos
Textile Museum

Hidalgo & Fiallo

Weekly - Sunday
11am - Free
Crespo 211 (between Morelos & Matamoros)

Box Office Info: information at 515 9545
Liturgy followed by coffee hour.

Weekly - Sunday
9 pm - No Cover
El Borgo Restaurant

Murguia 202
Great music and tapas. Also, every Friday there's a Blues Band.

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.

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.

Weekly - Tuesdays
8pm -
La Nueva Babel

Profirio Díaz 224

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!

Weekly - Sunday
12:30 - Free
Zócalo

A wonderful tradition, sometimes other orchestras perform.

Weekly - Friday
10am to 6pm - Free
San Martin Tilcajete

more information at www.feriadelalebrije.org.mx

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.

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.

Friday, July 30 - 10 pm - $40 pesos

Café Central
Hidalgo 302

Friday, July 30 - 6 to 8 pm - Free

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

Church of San Jerónimo
Tlacochahuaya

Friday, July 30 - 7 pm - $60 pesos in Central Section

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

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

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 -

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

Teatro Macedonio Alcalá
Independencia & 5 de Mayo

Alejandro Robles accompanied by the Orchestra Primavera

Sunday, August 01 - 8 pm - Free

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

Leaving from Jardín Conzatti

A ride through the historic center of Oaxaca.

Monday, August 02 - 2 to 4 pm - $200 pesos

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

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 -

Watch for all the decorated taxis - they usually group up at LLano Park and process thru the city

Thursday, October 21 - -

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 - -

from the 8th to the 11th of November

more information at www.oaxacafilmfest.com

Thursday, November 18 - 7 pm - Free

Plaza de la Danza
next to the Soledad Church

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

9:30 to 8pm, closed Tuesdays
Free

M. Bravo 116 at García Vigil

Tuesday to Friday: 10 to 2 & 5 to 8; Saturday 10 to 2
Free

Abasolo 313

More information at arteazulgaleria.blogspot.com

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

Murgia 105

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

Murgia 400

Every Day - 10 to 6 pm
Free

Vista Hermosa, San Agustín, Etla

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

Open: 10am to 7pm - Mex$34

García Vigil 609

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

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.

M. Alcalá 305 (second floor)

Monday to Saturday - 10am to 3pm & 4 to 8pm
Free

Allenda 107

Monday to Saturday - 10 to 2 & 5 to 8
Free

Constitución 104

9am to 8pm
Donation

M.Alcalá 507

Cosijopi 208

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

10am to 2pm
Free

5 de Mayo 307
Jalatlaco

M. Alcalá 203

Broad range of high quality crafts

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.

Open: to

Portal Benito Juárez 110
East side of the Zócalo

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.

Open: 10am to 5pm

South Side of the Zócalo

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

Daily, 10 to 6 pm
$20 pesos

San Bartolo Coyotepec

Open: 10am to 6pm - Mex$20

Independencia & García Vigil

Closed Mondays

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Weekdays 8 to 8, Saturday and Sunday 10 to 12
Free

Av. Juárez 514

Exhibitions and workshops

10am to 2pm & 3pm to 6pm
Free

Hidalgo & Fiallo