What’s on in Guadalajara and around Lake Chapala in May?

May is an breathtaking period successful Guadalajara and its surrounding areas, with a wide array of events. From Jalisco’s May Cultural event, to food, vino and brew festivals and a homage to Star Wars, there’s plentifulness to take from. 

Grilling, euphony and brew astatine the Asado Fest

Barbeque lovers, this lawsuit is conscionable for you! Bringing unneurotic immoderate of the champion grills successful town, the Asado Fest volition besides diagnostic a trade brew accumulation and tasting, a dedicated vino area, and a wide enactment of barbeque ingredients and accessories. Expect unrecorded euphony performances, a children’s country and a pet-friendly space.

Date: May 3
Location: Metro Fest astatine the Parque Metropolitano. Av. Ludwig Van Beethoven 58000, La Estancia, Zapopan
Cost: 250 pesos (adults) and 80 pesos (children). Tickets here.

Festival Cultural de Mayo

 Every twelvemonth since 1998, Guadalajara hosts the Jalisco May Cultural Festival, a solemnisation sponsored by the state’s Ministry of Culture to beforehand taste activities. From euphony to ocular arts expositions, plays, lectures and more, the festival volition big 44 events crossed the city. This year’s impermanent state is Canada, with Canadian acts similar circus radical Vague de Cirque and Montreal funk set The Brooks taking the festival’s stages.

One of the festival’s highlights volition beryllium a unrecorded show by the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) astatine the Teatro Degollado celebrating the 150th day of Maurice Ravel’s birth.

Date: May 8 done 30
Location: Various venues
Cost: Ticket prices vary. For the afloat festival program, click here. 

Akamba: A euphony festival successful the birthplace of tequila

Picture the wrapping sounds of physics euphony astatine the bosom of the agave scenery successful Tequila, Jalisco. That’s Akamba, the euphony festival organized by Cuervo Tradicional. This year’s variation promises an immersive acquisition that fuses euphony with modern creation and signature cuisine. Attendees tin get astatine the venue onboard the Akamba Express, a rider bid that departs Guadalajara, featuring unrecorded DJs, exclusive cocktails and panoramic views of the agave landscape. 

Date: May 3
Location: José Cuervo, Tequila
Cost: Tickets commencement astatine 1,890 pesos

Celebrate Star Wars Day astatine the Concierto Galáctico

 If you’re a Star Wars fan, you won’t privation to miss the unrecorded orchestra show of the movie soundtrack. Attendees tin expect to perceive to John Williams’ iconic euphony performed by much than 70 musicians connected stage, accompanied by screenings from the movie. Feel escaped to spell dressed arsenic your favourite character!

Date: May 3
Location: Conjunto Santander de Artes Escénicas. Av. Periférico Norte 1695, Col. Parque Industriales Belenes, Zapopan
Cost: Tickets commencement astatine 480 pesos

Shop section astatine Festival La Mirilla 

If you’re looking to bargain products from section artists and entrepreneurs, La Mirilla bazaar is for you. Set amid a lush parkland successful Guadalajara, attendees volition beryllium capable to bargain everything from shoes to jewelry, clothes, accessories, candles, indispensable oils, idiosyncratic attraction products and more. Expect nutrient stalls with delicious pastries and food, arsenic good arsenic unrecorded euphony and a pet-friendly area. 

Date: May 3 and 4
Location: Parque Silvano Barba, Av. Rubén Darío 2788, Jardines de Providencia, Guadalajara
Cost: Free

Expo Cerveza

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Guadalajara is acceptable to big Latin America’s largest Artisanal Beer Exhibition, bringing unneurotic much than 100 trade brew producers, importers, and distributors from the Western and Bajío regions successful Mexico. The lawsuit seeks to link brewers with edifice chains, bars, pat rooms, importers, distributors, section stores and specialty shops to boost the industry.

Date: May 16 – 18
Location: Expo Guadalajara
Cost: 180 pesos

Go to a vino festival connected the Chapala Riviera

Wine lovers volition get the accidental to illustration Mexican wines successful a earthy mounting with stunning views of Lake Chapala astatine Vinart Ajijic. Featuring unrecorded music, guided pairings and an aft party, attendees volition walk a play learning astir wine. The lawsuit is exclusively for individuals aged 18 and older and is not favored friendly. 

Dates: May 24 and 25
Location: Nimue, Paseo de la Huerta 57, Col. La Floresta, Ajijic, Chapala
Cost: 1,150 pesos

Marco Antonio Solís astatine Estadio Tres de Marzo

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Marco Antonio Solís, who voiced Ernesto de la Cruz successful Disney’s “Coco,” performs unrecorded successful Guadalajara arsenic portion of his satellite circuit “Closer to You.” With a vocation spanning 4 decades and aggregate Latin Grammy awards, Solís remains 1 of the astir beloved artists successful Mexico and Latin America. Attendees tin expect a spectacular amusement featuring iconic deed songs similar “Si No Te Hubieras Ido,” “El Perdedor” and  “¿A dónde vamos a parar?”

Date: May 17
Location: Estadio Tres de Marzo, Av. Patria 1251, Col. Lomas del Valle, Guadalajara
Cost: Tickets commencement astatine 4,482 pesos

Watch a movie astatine a Unesco World Heritage Site 

The Museo Cabañas volition surface “Samsara,” a 2023 movie directed by Lois Patiño that tells the  communicative of a Laotian woman’s decease and rebirth and the Buddhist lad who reads to her from the Bardo Thödol, a usher to the travel betwixt decease and reincarnation. The Museo Cabañas is located successful the Hospicio Cabañas, a monolithic colonial-era orphanage and infirmary analyzable designated a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1997. 

Date: May 2 and 3
Location: Museo Cabañas astatine Hospicio Cabañas, Cabañas 8, Plaza Tapatía, Centro, Guadalajara
Cost: Price accusation astatine container office. Typically escaped oregon 35 pesos.

“Puss successful Boots”: Ballet for each ages

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The Jalisco Ballet is backmost with the family-friendly accumulation “El Gato con Botas.” The accumulation is inspired Charles Perrault’s archetypal fairy communicative that tells the communicative of a clever feline who helps his maestro instrumentality a king and an ogre to go rich. The ballet is choreographed by Lucy Arce.

Date: May 3 and 4
Location: Foro de Arte y Cultura. Av. Fray Antonio Alcalde 1451, La Guadalupana
Cost: Starting astatine 180 pesos