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Los Mangos Biblioteca Cocktail Benefit

Enjoy a pleasant evening of cocktails, appetizers and music at The River Café as we raise much-needed funds for Puerto Vallarta’s Public Library, Biblioteca Los Mangos.

  • Date: July 27, 2011
  • Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm
  • Location:The River Café
  • Cost: $200 pesos in advance or $250 pesos at the door

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Los Mangos Library is a true community cultural center. If you have never been there, then make some time, stop by and have a look around. It is an amazing, wonderful place filled with activities for people of all ages.

From movies to music, art to poetry, there is definitely something for everyone at the library. The English book section is incredible, with a huge and very wide variety. There is always an area with used books for sale at very affordable prices.

But it is a continual struggle to keep things up and running and we need your support. So! We hope that you will join us, relax at the River Café with some yummy hors d’oeuvres, a cocktail (or two) and music – all for a very worthwhile cause!

Please contact me at pamela(at)healthcareresourcespv.com or 044-322-107-7007 for tickets. We look forward to seeing you there!

Open daily from 8 am to 11:30 pm, The River Café is located at Isla Rio Cuale #4 in downtown Puerto Vallarta. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (322) 223-0788 or online at RiverCafe.com.mx.

by Pamela Thompson

Cabaret Concert – March 18

Paradise Community Center (127 Pulpito– site of the Farmer’s Market) will host an exciting new entertainment concept on March 18 at 6:00 p.m.–A Cabaret Concert, show-casing a fabulous variety of some of Vallarta’s finest professional talent ranging from classical to flamenco to pop to jazz, and more.

Audience members will enjoy a host of vocalists and instrumental ensembles featuring violin, harp, marimba, keyboard, guitar and flute, to name but a few. Best of all, half of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit programs initiated and administered by CompassioNet Impact, a non-profit organization that serves the marginalized people of Vallarta through 1200/weekly hot meals, a bookmobile, English classes, home building and interest-free business loans, to name a few.

Among the line-up of engaging performers are vocalists–Jamaican-born Roger Kassio (Kass), Kathy Overly, the QuesaDivas (women’s choral ensemble); popular musicians D’Rachel, Samuel Rua Hernandez, Raul Simental Zapata and Andrea Jupina; Time to Play–the vocal/instrumental quartet of Mary & Don MacLachlan, Lois Rogers and Garry Carlson; guitarist Eduardo Leon, Antonio Chavez and his delightful Mirimba Band; the dynamic flamenco group Laboquita, and more!

Ticket-holders are invited to enjoy complimentary Happy Hour libations (beer, wine, sodas, water, margaritas) before the show between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. A self-serve cash bar will offer drinks for purchase during and after the show.

Tickets ($250 pesos, including complimentary Happy Hour from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m.) can be purchased at Paradise Community Center (Mon.-Sunday 9:00 a.m. to Noon & beginning at 5:30 p.m.the day of the event. The Cabaret Concert begins promptly at 6:00 p.m.

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Circo de los Niños – March 12

San Pancho resident Gilles Ste-Croix, vice-president of the prestigious Cirque du Soleil brand has created a special Circo De Los Niños to perform on March 12, at 6 pm, at entreAmigos.

Titled Cuando no existían los niños (when children didn’t exist) the temporary company features 40 San Pancho children that have participated in special workshops conducted by Ste-Croix.

All proceeds for the production will serve to benefit EntreAmigos’ diverse cultural programs. EntreAmigos features a 16-thousand square-feet community center with dedicated spaces for a library, art gallery, computer lab, workshops, classrooms and much more.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

  • $500pesos – table seating zone 1
  • $350 pesos – table seating zone 2
  • $200 pesos – bleacher seating

Please join entreamigos for this very special fundraiser benefit.

This year San Pancho children will spend two weeks in workshops being sponsored and produced by Gilles Ste-Croix of Cirque du Soleil and friends from Circo del Mundo and Cirrus Cirkus. On March 11th (for parents only) and March 12th (tickets on sale), these children will show us all their new skills and new self confidence in a fantastic theater production, Cuando aun no existia los suenos.

This amazing opportunity for our children is is no small production. The flurry of activity surrounding this event includes more than 200 community members – from artists, to parents to part time residents. Additional support has been provided by the government agencies of SEDECO and CECAN, including the participation of 15 Satinbanco artists joining us from Tepic.

Please get your tickets at entreamigos Monday – Friday from 10-2. If you are unable to get to entreamigos please email info@entreamigos.org.mx for information about how to reserve your tickets online.

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2011 Becas Ball

CHANGING LIVES THROUGH EDUCATION

by Polly G. Vicars

Becas Vallarta is celebrating 50 years of continuously giving scholarships to Vallarta’s young people of great ability and inadequate resources. We are proud to have done this with an all volunteer force – – no paid staff, no office, no telephone, no office equipment! Our marvelous volunteers do everything at their own expense!

Tickets are still available for our major fund raiser– the upcoming Becas Ball at the Casa Magna Marriott Hotel in the Marina on Saturday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m. It is going to be a fabulous event with a cocktail hour compliments of local businesses in the garden, sit down dinner in the ballroom with wine donated by Trio and Vitea, music for dancing and entertainment by Grupo Cubana and an incredible Silent Auction of prizes donated by the generous businesses of Puerto Vallarta and beyond.

To whet your appetite for the event there will be gift bags filled with amazing items from Fandango Teatro Vallarta, Lalo Morelos, Marcelo Mico, Carl Timothy, June Rosen and more. We have door prizes capped by white gold and diamond earrings by Nino Fopianni of Mexico City, a spectacular Silent Auction, featuring dinners in Champions Sports Bar, Café des Artistes, Daiquiri Dicks, Época, La Palapa, Mikado, No Way Jose and The River Café. We have Hotel Stays in the Hacienda San Angel, Casa Isabel, Casa Magna Marriott and Embarcadero Pacifico in Puerto Vallarta; Casa Encantada in Patzcuaro, Casa Espiritu Alegre in Guanajuato, Dickinson Guest House in Guadalajara, Quinta Don Jose in Tlaquepaque. We have recreation at Ed Eden Eco Park, Barcelo Hotel, Canopy River, Club de Golf de la Marina as well as Objects de arte from Artell, Elements, Lalo Morales, Mundo de Azulejos and Jewelry from Cassandra Shaw Jewelry and June Rosen Lopez. We cap it off with a bottle of Tequila Don Crispin, orchids from Florese Vallarta and the “Piece de resistence” by Lalo Morales Design Department on Constitution – – a bedroom chair of Mexican Primavera covered in natural linen from Oxaca with a painted back of La Perrita Loca.

All of the above have been donated by incredibly generous businesses who believe as we do that we can change lives through education and make a real difference in the lives of our students, their families, their city and their county. What a tribute to these companies who themselves are experiencing this bad economy, but continue to support Becas Vallarta.

Tickets are $100 USD or $12,000 pesos. Please call me at 223-1371 or 044-322-182-0215 or e-mail phvicars@gmail.com for your tickets before it is too late.