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| ARTS CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY | |||||||||||||||||||
| By Jackie Peterson | |||||||||||||||||||
| There’s so much going on during the first half of February, it seems that the arts world in Mazatlán will be pausing for breath during the second half of the month. Winning paintings in the Carnaval-related Antonio Lopez Saenz competition will remain on view at the Mazatlán Art Museum, near the corner of Sixto Osuna and Venustiano Carranza, half a block east of Olas Altas, during the month of February. Then, across the street at the Mazatlán Archaeological Museum, the remarkable collection of prehispanic stamps (engraved artifacts used for communication and for stamping patterns on cloth) on loan from its counterpart museum in Guanajuato remains on view daily throughout the month. Signs and folders in English are available to explain to visitors how the indigenous peoples were thought to have used these objects. And on Feb. 15, there will be a flurry of activity around the Angela Peralta Theater as that date marks the 131st anniversary of the historic, restored opera house. The celebration includes three separate and unique events. Here’s the schedule for that date: Feb. 15: 6:00 pm | Awarding of prizes in the Third Annual Miniature Art Salon in the upstairs gallery of the theater. 7:00 pm A reenactment of the jubilant arrival of Angela Peralta, the famous Mexican Nightingale, to the port of Mazatlán in 1883, when the men unhitched the horses and bore the diva’s carriage through the streets to the Hotel Iturbide. Legend has it that she stepped onto her balcony and sang La Paloma to the crowd gathered below. 8:00 pm A concert by internationally renowned pianist Fritz Steinegger in the theater. This year the part of Angela Peralta will be played by Patricia Perez, and her procession will wind through the streets from the home of painter Armando Nava on Belisario Dominguez at the corner of Compañía to the Plazuela Machado, ending at the Municipal Arts Center (formerly the Hotel Iturbide). Other events may be booked into the Angela Peralta Theater but this is what’s on the schedule for now. You can check for updated news at the theater box office on the pedestrian walkway near the corner of Constitucion and Calle Carn-aval. Tel: 982-4446. jackie@pacificpearl.com | |
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