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Mass Book Signing on Los Muertos Beach » Feb 10

Did you ever suspect that the strange person living in the condo next door was doing something nefarious? Maybe an international jewel thief or a spy or a mass murderer? This is a good time to find out. There are published authors living here in Vallarta and they’ll all be gathered in one public location this coming Sunday. They will be revealed.

On Sunday, February 10th from 2 to 4 pm at Daiquiri Dick’s, The Puerto Vallarta Writers’ Group, as a finale to their Weekend-Long Writers Workshop, will host a mass book signing by many local authors. Over 20 authors attended last year’s event.

For the authors and the masses, there is no charge to attend. Authors will be given table space (in the shade). This IS the literary scene in Puerto Vallarta.

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Vallarta Writers Weekend Workshop » February 8-10, 2008

The Puerto Vallarta Writers Group will host its third annual Writers Weekend Workshop from Friday to Sunday, February 8-10, 2008, at the International Friendship Club downtown.

The principle speaker will be Dan Poynter, a leading expert on Self_Publishing, and author of The Self-Publishing Manual, now in its 6th edition. Sources such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal have recognized Dan Poynter as the leading authority in this exploding sector of commercial publishing.

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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

Siempre Sol 2

by a backstage god

Solomon Rose is backat the New Santa Barbara Theater on Olas Altas to reprise his successful show from last season.

Siempre SolIt is called “Siempre Sol 2.”

The set is performed on the lines of a Las Vegas Night Club Venue, and in his own words it ”will be X-rated, and includes guest spots, the same as I did last season.” (Believe me, the only thing X-rated about the show will be coming from back-stage, because somehow during the conversation I got coerced into helping him – I did that once last season for his show Cage Folles and the script I was working to back-stage bore no resemblance to the one he and the rest of the cast were performing ‘out front.’ If it happens this time, both he and the audience are going to know about it – he’s prepared to take the chance, wotta trouper).

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Xiutla Folkloric Ballet

Xiutla Ballet
Xiutla was the first name of Vallarta and means, in Náhuatl, “the Place where the Vegetation grows.”

These dedicated young people, from only 30 in the first year, have grown to be almost two hundred now. They have traveled in the last couple of years around Mexico and in the United States and Canada and they have represented their country with pride and have danced wholeheartedly.

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the Art of Don Quixote

Original Don Quixote front page

The 1934 ComiColor Cartoon produced by Ub Iwerks.
Musical score by Carl Stalling

This video is a short animated story based on the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Don Quixote. It was selected as a finalist in a film festival “Muestra de Cine” held every year in San José, Costa Rica.

The ending text reads: “Don Quixote was taken by his imagination beyond the horizon, Where will ours take us?

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