It is a recreational and tourist center. She is one of the few green zones whereupon it counts the city of Mexico, it measures 647,5 hectares and it is formed by three sections. First she is oldest, since from pre-Hispanic times it was place of recreation and relaxation for mexicas the texcocanos governors and, in her is the hill of the Grasshopper, to who it must to his name the place, since that means the Chapultepec word in Nahuatl. In its top is the Castle, present National Museum of History, to average hill we found the Museum of the Caracol, to its flank is of the springs that existed there, a small lake. Towards the bottom, one is Zoological of the City of Mexico and the official residence of the Pines. Also the Museums of Modern Art, Rufino Tamayo and the National Museum of Anthropology. Source: gdu

The fourth edition of the Festival will be made of the 24 of April to the 20 of May. Of his programming it emphasizes the week of Portugal, in which three delegations of that country, Lisbon, Matosiños and Faro will bring representative samples to us of their culture. Of similar importance it will be the week of Cuba, organized in coordination with the Institute of Cuban Music and the Ministry of Culture of Cuba. Source: Machincuepa

The OllinKan Festival that the Tlalpan Delegation organizes, through its Main directorate of Culture, is already referring a clear one of encounter of cultural expressions that resist the vasallaje of the globalización. During four weeks of cultural celebration, the South of the City of Mexico will offer the other glance, that that the marginality has resisted and has saved the communitarian development of the towns and its cultural alternatives. The Festival Ollin Kan Tlalpan 2007 is, as a space of vigorous here of encounter between the arts. Source: Machincuepa

To six afternoon one appeared in Chiapas, in the theater “Junchavín”, a spectacle of contemporary dance, in charge of the group Last train, Dance UV, directed by Gregorio Trejo, the putting in scene took by title “Cardinal Histories” and was composed by four dance pictures. Within the members of this veracruzano group of dance, is comiteco Chianti Vega, that has a scholarship of the National Bottom for the Cultures and Arts (FONCA), like interpreter of contemporary dance. The ten participant dancers gave a force sample and dynamism in its dances, infecting of good you vibrate and positivismo to all the assistants who applauded standing up. The Central base went the scene to receive to the Big Band of Guatemala, directed by the teacher Lester Godinez, its spectacle was divided in two parts, first interpreted great musical subjects like “Have to nice day”, “Orange Sorbet”, “Cute”, “Song of India” and one of the most applauded was melodía of the cartoons “the Pink Panther”. In the second part the singer Wayne Hopper was accompanied by the Big Band, having given voice of skillful way to subjects like “New York, New York”, “Fly me to the moon”, “Girl of the Ipanema”, among others. The attending public was satisfied with the huge spectacle and he demonstrated it with his long batteries of applause. He was as well as he closed with finishing touch the third day of activities of this huge festival. Source: conecultachiapas

 

 

The city of Comitán de Domínguez follows of celebration with all the artistic and cultural activities that 7º brings with himself Festival the International of the Cultures and the Castilian Arts Rosary. Thursday in the evening, in the House Museum Dr Belisario Domínguez, Jose Martinez Torres, doctor in letters and literary investigator, dictated to the conference “Castilian feminism and indigenismo in Rosary”; its participation became an interesting interchange of anecdotes and passages of the Castilian life of the literata Rosary, due to the presence of Sworn Carlos, intimate friend of the writer, who narrated innumerable histories of the time that very coexisted close by with Rosary Castilian, when they worked together in the Institute Nacional Indigenista (INI), in San Cristóbal of the Houses. The related facts were from comedians, to nostalgic doing of afternoon a pleasing moment for all the assistants. Jose Martinez Torres declared, who Rosary Castilian took to the practice a oriented affluent feminism, not of the recalcitrant and radical type that some women equivocadamente practice. Source: conecultachiapas