Puerto Vallarta Scene

Puerto Vallarta Information & Events

The 50 Peso LimeLight (at IFC)

At 7:30 pm on Thursday nights at the International Friendship Club (IFC), theater director Eileen O`Leary is hosting Theater Fun Nights. Any interested person is welcome to participate in play readings and comedy improv, Eileen says. Her experience includes acting in more than 60 plays and directing 25, with 13 of them here in Puerto Vallarta, including Arsenic and Old Lace, The Mousetrap and Love Letters.

A donation of $50 pesos is requested for IFC charities.

The IFC is upstairs behind the HSBC Bank at the corner where Insergentes turns into Libertad (in Old Town Vallarta).

For more information, call the IFC Clubhouse at 322 222 54 66

SuperBowl Party » Miguelito’s » Feb 3


Hope everyone has survived the holidays!

There will be a Superbowl XLII Party at the Miguelito’s Treehouse on Sunday, February 3rd. Kick off is at 5:00 pm. We will have many food specials as well as football pools, SuperBowl trivia, bingo, and free tequila shots when you team scores!

ADDRESS: Basilio Badillo # 287, Old Town, Puerto Vallarta
TEL: 223-1263

World Wetlands Day » February 2, 10am to 1pm

Saturday, February 2, from 10 am to 1 pm, there will be workshops and presentations in the general area of the Presedencia. There will be workshops for children in the bandstand and a marathon in Boca.

2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. WWD was celebrated for the first time in 1997 and made an encouraging beginning. Each year, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and groups of citizens at all levels of the community have taken advantage of the opportunity to undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of wetland values and benefits in general and the Ramsar Convention in particular.

Charreada » Torneo La Candelaria » February 1,2,3

On February 1, 2,and 3, the third anniversary of the Association of Charros “Real Zarco,” there will be a Charra Fiesta to celebrate in honor of the Virgin of Candelaria.

The event is supported by the City of Puerto Vallarta the purpose of promoting and disseminating the charrería, as a national sport par excellence, as well as reviving one of the most important traditions of our region.

The tournament dedicated to Candelaria, will be held at the lienzo charro “Real del Zarco” in Ixtapa It involves 19 teams from Jalisco and Nayarit, with prizes for the first three places.

According to the schedule of “Torneo La Candelaria” on Friday, February 1, the event begins with two charreadas, at 3:00 and 6:30 pm, and on February 2, “Día de la Candelaria,” there will be three charreadas at 11 am, 3:30 and 6:30 pm in which the participating teams will do make best efforts to accumulate points and qualify.

On February 3, the last day of the tournament, there will be one more charreada at 11 am and the grand finale will be at 4 pm.

The 19 participating teams are: Real del Zarco, Regionales Unidos de la Costa, José María Rodríguez Pilas, de Ixtapa; La Perla, de Llano Grande; Los Alacranes, de Las Palmas; El Asadero, de El Pitillal; Charros del Pitillal; Charros de Vallarta; Javier Curley y San José del Valle, ambos de San José del Valle, Nayarit; La Noria, también de San José; La Quebrada, de El Valle, Nayarit; Charros del Porvenir, Nayarit; Hermanos Ocegueda, de la Puerta de la Lima, Nayarit; Valle de Amatatipac, de Tepic, Nayarit; Rancho el Armadillo, de Tepic; Hacienda la Zarca, de Ixtlán del Río, Nayarit, el equipo de Carlos Sánchez Llaguno de Guadalajara, Jalisco y Charros de Guadalajara.

CONTACT: Noel Mora, Presidente Equipo Charro Real del Zarco
TEL: 322 135 8005