CALENDAR FOR CARNAVAL 2008 AND BEYOND

By Jackie Peterson

Feb. 1 — 8:30 p.m., Coronation pageant for Queen of the Flower Games, Salon Bacanora  Feb. 2 — 6:30 p.m., Coronation pageant for Queen of Carnaval, Salon Bacanora Feb. 2 — 8:00 p.m., Burning of Bad Humor, Olas Altas Feb. 2 — 10:30 p.m., Ship-to-shore fireworks battle, Olas Altas Feb. 3 — 5:30 p.m., First Carnaval parade, north along length of Avenida del Mar  Feb. 4 — 10:00 a.m., Child-ren’s Ball, Hotel Playa Mazatlan  Feb. 4 — 6:30 p.m., Coronation pageant for Child Queen of Carnaval, Salon Bacanora Feb. 4 — 9:00 p.m., Carnaval dance with music of Arrolla-dora Banda El Limon, grounds next door to Sam’s Club Feb. 5 — 4:00 p.m., Second Carnaval parade, south

from Aquarium to Olas Altas  Throughout the dates of carnaval, the kilometer-long street dance takes place on Olas Altas, starting in the early evening and ending in the morning hours. And the Plazuela Machado will get into a fiesta mood with special illumination and live music and clowns and shows from mid-afternoon to late in the evening throughout the carnaval period. Also on this month’s cultural agenda: Feliart, the Mazatlán Book Fair, takes over the Plazuela Machado for 10 days beginning Friday, Feb. 29. This year’s bookfest is dedicated to famous Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes and to the late Mazatlán artist-writer Antonio Haas.

 

 

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