On Friday, March 22nd, The Embassy of Mexico's Cultural Institute welcomed the Codex Mexico: The Book as Art exhibition to Washington, DC, in partnership with The Codex Foundation and Stanford University Libraries. The exhibition showcases both Mexico's enormous heritage in the arts of printing, and the Mexicans currently working to renew and enrich such an important legacy. Come explore Codex Mexico, a unique, exciting exposition of artisanal books and printed art at the Mexican Cultural Institute!
2829 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
March 22nd, 6:30pm
Free Admission
Open M-F 10-6, Sat 12-4
Metro: Columbia Heights
Don't miss guitarist Roberto Limón in concert at the Mexican Cultural Institute! The celebrated, Latin Grammy-nominated Mexican guitarist will interpret an eclectic range of selections from Latin America, Spain, and the US. From traditional pieces by Mexican greats Manuel M. Ponce and Carlos Chavez, to a contemporary piece by noted film composer Brian Banks, Roberto Limón's concert at the Mexican Cultural Institute promises to appeal to diverse generations of listeners.
2829 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
Thursday May 23rd, 6:30pm
Free Admission, RSVP required:
rsvp@instituteofmexicodc.org
The Mexican Cultural Institute is proud to announce the 2013 season of Mexican Table! The season kicks off on May 30th when Pati's Mexican Table returns with an Asian/Mexican fusion theme.
Then, on October 24th, Pati will present an engaging session
on Mexican cuisine in the United States, and the year will end appropriately on December 5th with a session on Mexican holiday cuisine. The 2013
season promises to be an eclectic and exciting exploration of Mexico's finest and most unique dishes. Click here for tickets!
Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street NW DC
For ticketing information,
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On the heels of Mercedes Gómez Benet's sold-out concert at the Mexican Cultural Institute in November, the Ensamble Tierra Mestiza makes its debut at the Mexican Cultural Institute this summer. Featuring Gómez on harp, Gerardo Tamez on guitar, Carlos Garcia on flute and vocals, and Natalia Arroyo on violin and vocals, the award-winning group will play selections from their first two albums, 2008's Folia y Son and 2012's Ida y Vuelta.
Ensamble Tierra Mestiza's repertoire is wide enough to allow baroque originals as well as more recent pieces composed by musicians such as Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villalobos and Arturo Márquez. The group has performed in prestigious venues in Mexico City, the United States, and Brazil. Check back soon for more information on this evening of music with Ensamble Tierra Mestiza.
2829 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
Friday, July 12th, 6:30pm
Free Admission, RSVP required:
rsvp@instituteofmexicodc.org
Don't miss a poetry reading with celebrated Mexican poet Homero Aridjis at the Pórtico Bookstore, next Thursday, May 30th!
"A Time of Angels, an inspired collection by Homero Aridjis, constitutes a major stage in a complex and combative body of work that makes him akin to some of the century's most original voices - from Wilfred Owen and T.S. Eliot to Augusto Roa Bastos. A Time of Angels is a committed book, because poetry like this is never gratuitous. It leans on experience and has the bitterness and mocking tone of everyday life. It is simultaneously desire, derision and aspiration towards wisdom."
Homero Aridjis was born in 1940 in Contepec, Michoacan, Mexico to a Mexican mother and a Greek father. He is one of Latin America's foremost literary figures, he is also extraordinary for his pioneering work as an environmental activist and his two-term stint as president of PEN International.
Many of his forty-two books of poetry and prose have been translated into fifteen languages, and his writing has been recognized with important literary prizes in Mexico (Xavier Villaurrutia, Diana-Novedades), Italy (Grinzane Cavour), France (Prix Roger Caillois), the United States, (two Guggenheim Fellowships New York Times Notable Book) and Serbia (Golden Key of Smederevo).
Pórtico Bookstore
1350 New York Ave NW
Washington, DC
For more info, click here
With his ambitious new film PACIFIC RIM set to open July 12, this spring is the perfect time to celebrate and explore the unique artistry of Mexico's Guillermo del Toro.
Not only a writer/director on his own films but a prolific producer of others, del Toro has shepherded the work of younger filmmakers like Juan Antonio Bayona, contemporaries like Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón, plus a number of animation filmmakers, working in both feature film and television. This spring, come visit the weird and wonderful world of Guillermo del Toro at AFI Silver.
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
For tickets and showtimes, click here
Come to the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center for two special showings of The Violin, the award-winning 2006 Mexican film by Francisco Vargas. Among other awards, The Violin won Best Actor for 81-year-old lead Don Ángel Tavira, in his screen debut, at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard section.
Vargas' acclaimed debut feature melds compelling social consciousness with a moving and metaphorically rich folk music score. Set sometime in the not-too-distant past, and not too far away, a peasant guerrilla movement rises in response to a tyrannical regime, but is soon brutally suppressed. His fellow villagers forced into hiding in the hills, poor street musician Don Plutarco turns his violin into a Trojan Horse, playing folk songs to charm the local commandante, but only in order to access ammunition for the guerrillas.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
For tickets, click here
Flight of the Butterflies 3D, opening October 5th at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in
Washington, DC and the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, follows the
fascinating journey of the monarch butterfly. Weighing less than a penny, it makes one of the
longest migrations on Earth across a continent to a place it has never known. Experience millions of them
in the remote mountain peaks of Mexico, with breathtaking
cinematography from an award winning team including Oscar winner Peter Parks. Be captivated by the true
and compelling story of an intrepid scientist's 40-year search to find their secret hideaway. Unravel the
mysteries and experience the Flight of the Butterflies. For a trailer, click here.
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Constitution Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20560
For tickets, click here
Take metro to the Smithsonian Station
The Maryland Science Center
601 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
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