Celebrate México Now 2008: 5 years!
September 8 – 15
New York Authentic Mexican Restaurant Week
Visit www.mexiconowfestival.org for participating restaurants
The Authentic Flavors of Mexico Foundation and the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture present New York Mexico Restaurant Week. Featuring three-course prix-fixe menus ($25 lunch/$35 dinner), this wallet-friendly dining week offers a crash course in authentic Mexican cuisine—its flavors, aromas, and textures—and opens doors at some of the city’s finest restaurants.
Sep. 8 - 10 and Sep. 12 at 12:30 pm, Sep. 13-15 at 8pm
September 11 - NO SHOW
Available Space: danscores by Ofelia Loret de Mola
City Hall Park, NYC; www.lmcc.net/sitelines
FREE
With Available Space, danscores by Ofelia Loret de Mola transforms areas of City Hall Park into a carnival that reveals the secrets and fantasies of our society. Audiences travel with the performers (including punk rock musicians, direct from Mexico) along an intimate path to an underlit plaza that evokes the grit and cheap sparkle of a Mexican circus.
September 8 -15
Hecho en Dumbo
111 Front Street (Brooklyn); 718.855.5288 / www.hechoendumbo.com
Dinner served daily from 6pm / no cover charge for music shows
Brooklyn restaurant and nighttime hotspot Hecho en Dumbo (derived from the official “Hecho En Mexico” seal), delivers a true taste of cosmopolitan Mexican culture via chef Danny Mena’s authentic menu of classic rustic staples, and a regular line-up of live music and DJs.
September 8: Dance! /9pm
Eminently danceable mash-ups by Dj’s Giovanni Escalera (Sweet Electra) and Amylu (Nacotheque) that sample Latin American, Spanish, and American music.
September 10
7:00pm
Poesía Mexicana Contemporanea
St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus Auditorium; 101 Murray Street (between Greenwich + Washington Streets)
Free Admission
A discussion and reading with rising young poets Ali Calderón and Xitlálitl Rodríguez, moderated by poet, novelist, and playwright Carmen Boullosa, plus the launch of the fall issue of the Mexican literary magazine, Reverso Revista Literaria, presented by founder/editor Carlos de Alba, and introduced by Raul Zorilla, Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
Presented by Dr. Alina Camacho-Gingerich and St. John’s University’s Committee on Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).
September 10: Gutierritos Pop Lounge/9:30pm
With music by Selector Monobichi and visuals by Celeste, Gutierritos Pop Lounge is the perfect late evening hang-out for abogángsters, flaneurs, writers, and music nerds.
September 11: Polka Madre/10pm
Polka Madre filters the world’s music through Mexico City--the world’s largest metropolis--moving easily from euphoric polkas and melancholic waltzes to punk, rock and passages of classical music.
Friday, September 12: Funk-Klore from Mexico City/9:30pm
Rana Santacruz transforms traditional music from different regions of Mexico into his own original post-folk melodies; DPB delivers a high energy DJ set with the best in Mexican and international electro, funk and big beats!
September 10 - 15
The Other Lado
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University
53 Washington Square South; 212.998.3650/www.nyu.edu.kjc
Free Admission
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 9pm
A photographic dialogue between passengers on the New York City subway and the Mexico City metro, The Other Lado looks at similarities and differences between these two metropolitan worlds, thousands of miles apart. Created by Aaron Alamo and Adarian Herschel Krustofsky. Exhibition on view thru December 6, 2008.
September 12
7pm
5x5: New Mexican Short Films
School of Visual Arts; 209 East 23rd Street (between 2nd & 3rd Aves), www.sva.edu
FREE Admission
A program of shorts by Mexican directors who have won awards at the Morelia International Film Festival recipients or received Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowships. Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers. Spanish with English subtitles.
September 13
DaPuntoBeat: 7:30pm/$12
Los Músicos de José: 9:30pm/$12
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater; 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place); 212.967.7555/ www.joespub.com
Two Mexico City bands take the stage at one of New York’s most celebrated music venues. DaPuntoBeat’s explosive live act combines rock, funk and electronic elements, turning any space into a dance floor; Los Músicos de José—making its US debut—plays instrumental acid rock for the post-laptop era.
September 13
10pm
Fresa Salvaje: FACA + Sonido Discoyoacán
The Delancey
168 Delancey Street (between Clinton and Attorney Streets); myspace.com/fresasalvaje
$10
Fresa Salvaje—New York’s roving dance party with guest dj’s from Latin America—presents the New York debut of FACA (Valeria Leyva and Facundo Delgado), plus local Mexico City ex-pat Sonido Discoyoacán.
September 14
3:00pm & 8:00pm
Norvak Poderoso DeMente: A Hypnotelekineticparanormal Show
Spiegelworld at South Street Seaport, Pier 17; 212.279.4200/www.spiegelworld.com
$20
A delightfully wacky fusion of clowning, magic, and theatrical cabaret, Norvak Poderoso DeMente (Norvak, The Powerful Mind Reader) is the creation of Andrés Aguilar and Artús Chávez, graduates of the Clown College of Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Fernando Córdova. In his Hypnotelekineticparanormal Show, Norvak Poderoso DeMente takes the audience on a journey of laughter and magic with his hypnotic, telepathic, clairvoyant and telekinetic abilities.
September 15
5:30pm
Fandango!
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green; 212.514.3716/ www.americanindian.si.edu
Free admission
Bring the whole family to celebrate Mexican Independence Day and the festival closing with this gathering of community musicians, dancers, and poets. The Fandango, a unique Mexican tradition with roots in the county’s indigenous heritage and colonial Spanish influences, blends song and dance in its lively sones jarochos.
September 15
8:00pm
Lila Downs
The Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St.; 212.997.6661/www.the-townhall-nyc.org
$25
Oaxacan born singer and Latin Grammy Award winner Lila Downs performs music from her new CD release "Shake Away" (Ojos De Culebra), plus songs with The Mariachi Academy of NY. Latin alt-folk quartet Pistolera opens the show.
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