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Defining
"The Role of Women" "The Role of Women" will be the topic of a lecture in Spanish by Patricia Villanueva on May 18th at 7 45 p.m. in the Gran Salon at The Emporium (formerly Collage). The talk will last approximately one hour and the speaker will discuss how women fulfill their roles professionally and at home. Donation $45 pesos. For reservations and information call 225-1726. |
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May
is the Month of Cultural EventsThis month we will be having a lot of cultural events around the city. Theater, ballet, jazz, rock, piano, trove and other music events will be on this month full of cultural sounds. For more information take a look to our monthly events. |
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May
Festival 2000 The May Festival (May 11 to June 4) similar to an American county fair, and one of the biggest events in Puerto Vallarta, features typical Mexican cock fights, banda music, and the astonishing "flyers" of Papantla. The festival (Fiesta de Mayo) will feature arts and crafts exhibits, midway games, amusement rides, a dolphin and sea lion show, a circus and scores of live musicians and dancers. Easy to locate, the festival is held at the Fairgrounds on the road to El Pitillal behind Sam's Club (at the intersection of Avenida Francisco Medina Ascencio and the Maritime Terminal). Admission is $20 pesos. Follow this link to the events calendar. |
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Third
International Triathlon World-class athletes will be competing along with ordinary mortals in the Third International Triathlon on Sunday, May 14th. The three events, which have categories for children, adolescents, amateurs and professionals, begin with swimming (1500 meters) followed by a bicycle race (40 kilometers/24 miles)and ending with a 10km (6 mile) run. The event gets underway at 7:30 a.m. at the beach in front of the Sheraton Hotel. Registration opens Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at the same place and costs $290 pesos ( 50% discount for residents of Puerto Vallarta). For more information, call Angelica Rojas, Public Relations Office, Sheraton Hotel at 293-0776. |
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International
Insomnia Beach Party Announced (Insomnia/ Schlaflosigkeit/ Sleepless) Budweiser Beer, Jack Daniel's, Finlandia Vodka, Mexican organizers of Beach Club ETC, Kit Kat Lounge and the best DJ's in town have organized the first "International Rave Beach Party of the Millennium". Everything you need for entertainment, music, Bud girls and lots more. Where? In Nuevo Vallarta Nayarit. When? on May 19th from 10pm to 3am. Reservations (3) 222-6583. Call for information and directions. Come and join us at the International Insomnia Beach Party!! |
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Let's
Go to the Theater Arsenic and Old Lace, the perennial classic of the stage, comes to Vallarta at the Flaming Sombrero Restaurant from May 24 through June 17 in an evening of dining and light entertainment. Featuring performers from both Theater Vallarta and Spotlight Productions, and directed by Eileen O'Leary, the farce is the story of two spinsters who have decided it is their moral and civic responsibility to assist homeless older gentlemen in dying. The cost of the dinner and theater combination is $250 pesos and includes a complete meal (at 6:30 p.m.) with choice of entre. Admission to the play alone (showtime 8:15 p.m.) is $100 pesos. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 224-1666. |
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Baby
Turtles in May? The last of the 1999 season baby sea turtles successfully made their scramble into the sea in the middle of May, six months after the usual end of the season. For reasons unknown, the mother turtle didn't arrive on the shores of Puerto Vallarta until early March, 2000, long after hundreds of others had deposited their eggs in the sand and returned to the sea. Forty-eight hatchlings, whose nest had been under the care of the Westin Regina Resort, were released by Maripepa Gonzlez, Manager of Public Relations for the hotel. Many visiting children observing the little turtles children received "Adoption Certificates" commemorating the occasion and inviting the children to return in 8 years when the babies, then full-grown, are expected to return to the same beach to lay their eggs. The sea protection area at the Westin Resort is one of several now preparing for operation during the 2000 rainy season. Begun in Puerto Vallarta in 1993 the conservation program has grown to include city authorities, seven hotels, universities, fishermen and the community of Puerto Vallarta, according to Susana Padilla Arenas, reporter for Tribuna de la Baha. Participating hotels where visitors can see the turtle corrals during the summer include La Jolla de Mismaloya, Camino Real, Sheraton, Fiesta Americana, Krystal, Velas Vallarta and Westin. The University of Guadalajara also has a site at the mouth of the Ameca River in Boca de Tomates and members of the Fishing Cooperative have one on the beach next to the Hotel Rosita. At a recent meeting of the Council for the Protection and Conservation of the Sea Turtle, a report stated that in 1999, 317 nests were found and 29,787 eggs collected along 10 km (6 miles) of the coast of Banderas Bay. More than 22,000 hatchlings were released into the bay on 300 separate occasions. The Puerto Vallarta program has been a great success in that under natural conditions only 20% of the eggs normally hatch whereas in the protected areas here about 73% do so. Mexican naval and military authorities of this area maintain a Program of Protection and Vigilance to eliminate the trapping of sea turtles and the collection of their eggs by unauthorized persons. |
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Conneticut
Chamber Orchestra at the Sheraton The Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of Sayard Stone, prizewinning conductor, recently returned from annual tours to Zurich, Rome, Florence, Sienna and Madrid, will present concerts on Friday, May 26 at the Hotel Sheraton Buganvilias. Admission $100 pesos. The performance will include works by Mozart, Respighi, Vivaldi, Holst, Kreisler and Britten. Flute soloist, d'Rachael will perform Mozart's Concerto Number One in G for Flute and Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Sayard, musician, founder and director of this orchestra, is one of the most esteemed conductors in the United States. He was a student of Leonard Bernstein and Serge Koussevitsky and discoverer of the partitura of Concert Number 3 for piano by Mendelssohn |
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Professional
Squash Tournament Professional Squash Tournament, Mayan Palace Open 2000 (International Masters 35+) will take place at Mayan Palace glass-enclosed court by the sea in Nuevo Vallarta May 29 to June 3. For information call Manuel Loza of the Ulama Squash club of Puerto Vallarta at 224-0646 (eves). Accommodation packages available at Mayan Palace, Nuevo Vallarta. |
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Shopping
in Nuevo Vallarta A major shopping mall has opened in Nuevo Vallarta with covered parking, escalators, glass-enclosed elevators and almost 30 stores, restaurants and services. There is public transportation from Puerto Vallarta to the new "Paradise Plaza" in the Nuevo Vallarta hotel zone every 15 minutes. |
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United
for Conservation Birders' field guide helps support environmental organization. A part of the profits from The Birds of Paradise, a 54-page booklet by Professor Dennis W. Boddy listing more than 300 local species of birds, will go to Unidos por la Conservacin. A.C. (United for Conservation), a non-profit organization that promotes education and research related to environmental issues in the Puerto Vallarta area. |
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