One of the most important cultural events to take place in Mexico is the festival of colour, dance and traditions held in the state of Oaxaca every year ‘La Guelaguetza,’ this year the festivities are to be on the 25th of July and the 1st of August with the shows scheduled for 10:00 and 17:00 [...]

The ‘Cumbre Tajin,’ also known as the festival of identity, is one of Mexico’s most important gatherings with regard to culture, growth and development, considering there are over 5,000 different activities scheduled from the 17th to the 21st of March. Host to the Cumbre is Mexico’s Gulf State of Veracruz, a vibrant coffee-producing region that [...]

The inauguration ceremony for the 87th edition of Mexico’s largest carnival, the ‘Veracruz Carnival 2011,’ is scheduled to begin at Boulevard Manuel Ávila Camacho at 21:00 hours with the Quema del Mal Humor ceremony, which is the traditional comical parody which opens the festivities annually, as usual, performed by local artists. Floats and dancing beauties [...]

After investment totalling over 20 million pesos, the oldest and best known carnival on Mexico’s Pacific Coast will kick off on the 3rd of March and continue until the 8th, with hotels already reporting almost 100% occupation levels. The event was first introduced into the local calender in 1898, making this year’s event the 113th [...]

Yesterday, the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico’s most important religeous centre, received the largest congregation of Catholic pilgrims throughout the whole world, as is usual on December 12th, in veneration of the appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the year 1531. Marcelo Ebrard, the head of Mexico City’s government, announced that the [...]

In addition to its recently remodelled, 8-kilometer promenade, the latest attraction in Mazatlan is this year’s winter-season fanfare of music, art and dance for a month-long festival of culture throughout the whole of December. To organise such a varied offering to locals and visitors alike, the local city and state cultural organizations have joined forces [...]

Although there have already been some festivities in the Zocalo –main square- of Mexico City, the real celebrations for the 100th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution begin this evening, the centre of attraction being the Monument to the Revolution; having recently been remodelled, the Monument will be officially reopened at 18:00 hours, and will be [...]

This year’s BPM Festival in Playa del Carmen kicks off on New Year’s Eve for its fourth edition, where electronic-music lovers groove to the sounds in this spectacular setting along the Riviera Maya. Last year’s turnout of national and international visitors broke the 18,000 mark for the first time and this year’s Festival is predicted [...]

One of the top flautists of the world will be performing at the International ‘Cervantino Barocco’ Festival, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas later this month, the one and only Horacio Franco, in the video above, playing precisely ‘baroque.’ The director of the local state Council for Culture and the Arts (Coneculta), Márvin Lorena [...]

Today, the inauguration ceremony of the Morelia International Film Festival (MIFF) will see the screening of the film Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and starring Javier Bardem; the Mexican actors in the film: Rodrigo Prieto, Brigitte Broch, Lynn Fainchtein, José Antonio García and Martín Hernández will also attend, along with the  Argentine actress Maricel [...]