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Information & photos submitted by
Howard Ekman
This year, 2006, marks
the 9th annual Todos Santos Art Festival. The Art Festival might not be
exactly what you expect. The streets are not lined with artists and artisans
selling their works and wares. Exotic food and drink are not found on every
street corner. The Todos Santos Art Festival is as much about Mexican culture
and performing arts as it is about paintings, drawings and sculptures.
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Schedule of Events (Cont)
All week:
10:00 to 18:00 Hrs. Painting and drawing Exposition. 2nd Bienal Sudcaliforniana
de Pintura Carlos Olachea. Cultural Center Profesor Néstor Agúndez M.
10:00 to 18:00 Hrs. Painting Exposition. “Marine Landscapes”. Juán Bañuelos.
Cultural Center Profesor Néstor Agúndez M.
10:00 to 18:00. Regional Crafts Exposition. Casa del Artesano. Cultural
Center Profesor Néstor Agúndez M.
Art and cultural workshops to take place at the Cultural Center Profesor
Néstor Agúndez Martínez, coordinator Ernesto Adams.
Sculpture with iron scrap workshop for kids. February 8th to 10th. 16:00
to 19:00 Hrs. Facilitator Manabu Kuno.
Mask construction workshop. February 6th to 7th. 16:00 to 19:00 Hrs. Facilitator
Georgina Cosío Sández.
Information Boards and environmental models workshop. February 8th to 9th.
16:00 to 19:00 Hrs. Facilitator Miguel Moreno Galván.
Saturday, February 4th
10:00 – 18:00 Hrs. Painting and Drawing Exhibit and Regional Crafts Exhibition.
Public Plaza.
10:00 Hrs. Video and Conference. Spanish and English simultaneously. Marine
turtle conservation in Todos Santos. Grupo Tortugueros Todos Santos, A.C.
Manuel Márquez de León Theater.
11:00 Hrs. (English) and 12:00 Hrs. (Spanish). Video. “Baja California Sur,
Amazing Nature”. Alejandro Vázquez. Mar Adentro Productions. Manuel Márquez
de León Theater.
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Funded primarily by the government, the Art Festival brings folk dancing,
music and theatre performance to Todos Santos. Guest speakers come to host
conferences (including video) concerned with turtle conservation, fragile
environments, fighting drug addiction and domestic violence, family relations,
poetry appreciation, and Baja history. There are workshops teaching latin
music and folk dancing. There are recitals featuring piano and poetry. Not
your average art festival.
Typically, the festival is held at the end of January or
the beginning of February. Beginning on a Saturday and ending the following
Saturday, the festival's opening weekend includes art and drawing displays
in the main plaza. All week long in the "Profesor Néstor Agúndez" Cultural
Center, there is an art and drawing and regional crafts exhibition. Mexican
folk dancing is featured opening weekend in the afternoons and in the evenings
there is usually a music or dance show in the plaza.
 The
final Saturday usually includes a public dance to a popular live band in
the plaza. Because of the strange dates of the 2005 Festival, it appears
there will not be a public dance this year. Many local art galleries also
have special exhibits or shows to coincide with the occurrence of the annual
Todos Santos Art Festival.
If you are thinking of visiting Todos Santos during the art festival, you
should secure your accommodations
 early
as late January and February are some of the most popular times for visitors
to come to town. It can sometimes be difficult to find rentals or hotel
rooms.
The hard work of organizing the festival is being done by many supporting
community groups and individuals with the single goal of making the 2005
Art Festival one of the best ever held in Todos Santos. So come to Todos
Santos and celebrate the beauty and richness of the Mexican Culture with
us.
 Todos
Santos is located on the Tropic of Cancer in the southern portion of the
Baja Peninsula in Mexico just one hour north of Cabo San Lucas and one hour
south of La Paz. Long known as a cultural, artistic and agricultural center,
the town is a desert oasis, 1 kilometer from the Pacific Ocean at the foothills
of the Sierra de La Laguna mountains. Since the mid 1980's, the area has
become a tourist / retirement destination and home to numerous art galleries,
artists, fine restaurants, elegant hotels, unique vacation rentals and local
festivals.
Photos by
Howard Ekman Photography
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13:00 Hrs. Folkloric dance. “Agenary” Folkloric Ballet. Municipality of
La Paz. Public Plaza.
18:00 Hrs. Mexican film. “Macario”. Spanish spoken with English subtitles.
Manuel Márquez de León Theater.
19:00 Hrs. Official Inauguration and presentation of the Segunda Bienal
Sudcaliforniana de Pintura publication, Painting, and Regional Crafts Expositions.
Cultural Center Profesor Néstor Agúndez M.
20:00 Hrs. Oficial Inauguration of the IX Todos Santos Arts Festival. Public
Plaza.
20:15 Hrs. Music. Manoella Torres in Concert. Public Plaza.
Sunday, February 5th
10:00 – 18:00 Hrs. Painting and Drawing Exhibit and Regional Crafts Exhibition.
Public Plaza.
10:00 Hrs. Video and Conference. Spanish and English simultaneously. Marine
turtle conservation in Todos Santos. Grupo Tortugueros Todos Santos, A.C.
Manuel Márquez de León Theater.
11:00 Hrs. (English) and 12:00 Hrs. (Spanish). Video. “Baja California Sur,
Amazing Nature”. Alejandro Vázquez. Mar Adentro Productions. Manuel Márquez
de León Theater.
12:00 and 14:00 Hrs. Gastronomy. Workshop on the art of making food plates
attractive. Lic. Carlos O’Brien. Universidad Internacional de La Paz. Manuel
Márquez de León Theater’s Lobby.
13:00 Hrs. Folkloric Dance. California del Sur Folkloric Ballet. SEP. Public
Plaza.
14:00 Hrs. Popular Culture and gastronomy. “Taste of Todos Santos”. Mirador
next to the theatre.
14:00 Hrs. Dance and Music. “Valores Todosanteños”. Local singers and CECYT
02 Folkloric ballet. Public Plaza.
20:00 Hrs. Theater. “El de la triste figura”, The nobleman who has a sad
figure. Three voices, one guitar and two marionettes. Homage, declaration
of distinguished guest and delivery of the keys of the city to the First
Actor Ignacio López Tarso. Manuel Márquez de León Theater.
Monday, February 6th
10:00 Hrs. International film. “The celebration”. Denmark. CECYT 02 Todos
Santos Auditorium.
20:15 Hrs. Dance. Polinesian dance show. Kapahula ó Maluhía. Manuel Márquez
de León Theater.
Tuesday, February 7th
10:00 Hrs. International film. “La ciudad de Dios”. Brasil. CECYT 02 Todos
Santos Auditorium.
20:00 Hrs. Music. Latin American music and classic guitar Concert. University
of B.C.S. Manuel Márquez de León Theater.
Wednesdey, February 8th
9:00 and 11:00 Hrs. Children’s Theater. “Playing with Newton”. (Spanish).
La terraza del títere Theater Group. Manuel Márquez de León Theater.
10:00 Hrs. International film. “Pulp Fiction”. U.S.A. (English with Spanish
subtitles). CECYT 02 Todos Santos Auditorium.
20:00 Hrs. Dance. “For God I Die”, jazz and contemporary dance show. Anna
Pavlova Academy. Manuel Márquez de León Theater.
Thursday, February 9th
10:00 Hrs. International film. “Whale Rider”. New Zealand. CECYT 02 Todos
Santos Auditorium.
18:00 Hrs. Books presentation. Writers that have win state awards. 2005
Edition. Exhibition and sale of Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura publications.
Cultural Center Profesor Néstor Agúndez M.
19:00 Hrs. Poetry and music. “Full moon”. Poetry and Sax Ensemble with Conchita
Cabrera’s poems. Cabo San Lucas Casa de la Cultura. Cultural Center Profesor
Néstor Agúndez M.
20:00 Hrs. Folkloric Dance. A Review of the Mexican folkloric dances. Folkloric
Ballet of the Instituto Tecnológico de La Paz. Manuel Márquez de León Theater.
Friday, February 10th
10:00 Hrs. International film. “The butterfly effect”. U.S.A. CECYT 02 Todos
Santos Auditorium.
16:00 Hrs. Literature. Meeting with the Baja California Sur Writers Association.
Cultural Center Profesor Néstor Agúndez M.
18:00 Hrs. Theater. “Romance of the kite that wanted to reach the moon”.
COBACH Esterito Theater Group.
18:00 Hrs. Dance and music. COBACH musical group and folkloric ballet. Public
Plaza.
19:00 Hrs. Folkloric dance. Escuela Normal Urbana Folkloric Ballet. Public
Plaza.
20:00 Hrs. Music. String quintet. State Music School. Manuel Márquez de
León Theater.
Saturday, February 11th
16:00 to 19:00 Hrs. Happening. Surrealist Festival Homage to André Bretón.
Literature, music, painting and theatre performances. Public Plaza.
19:00 Music. Trova music concert. Jaime Martínez. Public Plaza.
20:00 Hrs. Closing of the festival. Public Plaza.
20:15 Hrs. Music and popular dance. Orchestra Invasión Musical . Public
Plaza
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