Please join us for our weekly international folk dance class.

“If you can walk you can dance.” Enjoy yourself and meet new friends. Dance is a universal language. Exercise and socialize to great music as you learn dances from around the world. No experience necessary.

Instructor Elliot Fine has performed Balkan dances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Alvin Ailey Theater. He has taught International and Israeli folk-dancing at Antioch College, in New York City as well as here in San Miguel de Allende.

Donation: $100 MXN. Pay at the door

Mark Rothko: The Power of Color - A Spiritual, Sensorial Path to Abstraction

Bea invites you to meet, feel, and understand Mark Rothko.
She will begin with a physiological and psychological study of colors,
without which, we cannot truly understand Rothko’s work.
Bea will tame for you, his signature style of hypnotic, transcendental, floating,
vibrating rectangles of color, hovering like a fuzzy mirage, into our retina and soul.

Donation:

Members $200
Non-Members $300

Nine Lives (2005)
USA | Drama, Director: Rodrigo García
With: Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Robin Wright, Elpidia Carrillo
Dur: 1:55 hrs. In English with English subtitles

Programmer: Elías Nahmías

Nine Lives is an intimate and deeply moving portrait of nine women, each captured in a single
continuous shot as they navigate moments of quiet revelation and emotional upheaval. Rodrigo
García crafts a rich tapestry of interconnected stories, exploring themes of love, loss,
motherhood, and personal resilience. Through subtle yet powerful performances, the film
offers a window into the complexity of human relationships and the fleeting nature of life’s
pivotal moments. With its unique storytelling structure and evocative cinematography, Nine
Lives is a meditation on the beauty and fragility of existence. Following the film, there will be a
discussion with Amy Cotler.

Donation:

Members $100
Non-members $150

Please join us for our weekly international folk dance class.

“If you can walk you can dance.” Enjoy yourself and meet new friends. Dance is a universal language. Exercise and socialize to great music as you learn dances from around the world. No experience necessary.

Instructor Elliot Fine has performed Balkan dances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Alvin Ailey Theater. He has taught International and Israeli folk-dancing at Antioch College, in New York City as well as here in San Miguel de Allende.

Donation: $100 MXN. Pay at the door

Russell Kaback’s “25044” - A Jewish Grandson’s Musical History of the Holocaust

A solo musical story, written and performed by Russell Kaback, based on the life of his grandfather Szyjek Magier, a Jewish Polish teenager who spent four years in the Nazi labor and concentration camps.

Presented in Russell’s theatrical storytelling style, weaving together songs on guitar, characters, sounds and gestures, “25044” incorporates interviews, testimonies, research and imagination, reminding us that hope endures.

Don’t miss this incredibly impactful performance during its one-time appearance in San Miguel de Allende at the JC3!

Russell Kaback is a musician and educator based in Maine. He received the 2016 Abromson Award and the 2018 Maine Arts Commission Project Grant in support of bringing earlier iterations of this musical story into schools in Maine. It has been performed in Maine and Massachusetts since 2014, and in his grandfather’s hometown of Bendzin, Poland in 2018.  In 2022 he began collaborating with storyteller Antonio Rocha to create the one-man musical storytelling version of the show, titled “25044”.

Doors open at 6:30 for sociaiizing. Wine and refreshments will be available for purchase.

Donation:

Members: $150 + 20 if paying by CLIP
Non-Members $250 + 20 if paying by CLIP

When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos. Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.

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Wednesday Mornings with Bea: History of Color

WHAT IS COLOR?

(Isaac Newton)

WHERE DOES COLOR COME FROM?
(animal, vegetal, mineral pigments, to synthetic lab-made colors)

Today we press on a tube and premixed color oozes out. Ready to use

But…

BEFORE THE TUBE…

Bea will give you a brief history of color from Prehistorical times until today, and throughout different cultures too (Mayan, Ancient Egypt, Greco-Roman, the Americas, India, and more)

You will learn about tempera, encaustic, oil, watercolor, acrylic. We think we know it all, but Bea is pretty sure you’ll learn a few things in this fascinating historical, scientifical, technological COLOR JOURNEY!

Donation:

Members 170 pesos 150 pesos cash
Non-Members 270 pesos 250 pesos cash

When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.

 https://clip.mx/@chesmaac

DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (1988)

UK | Drama, Director: Terence Davies
With: Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh
Dur: 1:25 hrs. In English with English subtitles

Programmers: Elías Nahmías, Amy Cotler

Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives is a poignant, impressionistic portrait of working-class
life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool. Told through a series of fragmented memories, the film
explores themes of family, trauma, and resilience, weaving together moments of joy and
sorrow with evocative use of music and poetic imagery. Anchored by deeply personal
storytelling, Davies captures the tensions within a household dominated by a tyrannical father,
as well as the communal spirit that sustains his family. A masterpiece of British cinema, Distant
Voices, Still Lives is an elegiac reflection on the passage of time and the indelible power of
memory. Following the film, there will be a discussion with Amy Cotler.

Donation:

Members $100
Non-members $150

Please join us for our weekly international folk dance class.

“If you can walk you can dance.” Enjoy yourself and meet new friends. Dance is a universal language. Exercise and socialize to great music as you learn dances from around the world. No experience necessary.

Instructor Elliot Fine has performed Balkan dances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Alvin Ailey Theater. He has taught International and Israeli folk-dancing at Antioch College, in New York City as well as here in San Miguel de Allende.

Donation: $100 MXN. Pay at the door

Play Reading: Love, Loss, and What I Wore

Love, Loss and What I Wore opened Off-Broadway in 2009 at the Westside Theatre, and became the second-longest running show in the theater’s history. Written by screenwriting sisters Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Silkwood) and Delia Ephron (You’ve Got Mail), and based on the book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman, the play is a bravura showcase for five actresses, who rhapsodize on the joys and suffering of women’s lives as reflected by their wardrobe.

The women discourse on matters ranging from love, motherhood, divorce, and even some darker subjects, but the play is suffused with humor. One vignette concerns a woman who faced an identity crisis when having to choose between two possible prom outfits – a conservative powder blue gown or a sexy black minidress. “Here’s the thing,” she says. “I’ve never really known for sure which of those two people I am – the girl who almost doesn’t get asked to the prom at all or the girl who gets to go with the really cute guy. Every time I thought I knew which one I was, I turned out to be the other.”

Another of the show’s characters posits, “Any American woman under 40 who says she’s never dressed as Madonna is either lying or Amish.”

Directed by Lee Duberman, who last year directed the bittersweet Summer Night with Unicorn at the Jewish Cultural and Community Center (JC3), and recently performed in the hot-ticket show The Letters Project, also at JC3, the cast includes Antonia Banewicz, Susanna Blachy, Ansley Braverman, Clara Dunham, and Duberman herself.

Love, Loss, and What I Wore will be presented at the JC3 at Callejón de las Moras 47, near the corner of Cinco de Mayo, on Tuesday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 12. Both performances are at 7pm. All seats are $250 pesos, with a 20 percent discount for members. Tickets are on sale online using the link below, and can be purchased for cash only at the JC3

Doors open at 6:30 for socializing. Wine and refreshments will be available for purchase.

.Donation: $250

JC3/CHESMA members should contact the JC3 at 415 185 9191 or shalomsanmiguel@gmail.com to get a 20% discount code for the performance BEFORE purchasing your ticket

SOLD OUT

Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Les Fetes Galantes or The Bantering Art of Seduction in 18th Century French Rococo

Sensuous dreams, voluptuous colors, cheeky amorous games, idealized idyllic pastoral settings, an aristocratic escapism before the tsunami of the Revolution, Les Fêtes Galantes, better translated as Courtship Parties, are the invention of Antoine Watteau,the Mozart of art, the master of subtlety, delight and pleasure, yet always oozing a dimension of sadness and subliminal anxiety.

These amorous parties ooze a lightness of being infused by the French Rococo sensibility. After Watteau, this flirtatious genre continued in the works of Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, whose paintings will ravish your senses.

Donation:

Members 170 pesos 150 pesos cash
Non-Members 270 pesos 250 pesos cash

When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.

 https://clip.mx/@chesmaac

Play Reading: Love, Loss, and What I Wore

Love, Loss and What I Wore opened Off-Broadway in 2009 at the Westside Theatre, and became the second-longest running show in the theater’s history. Written by screenwriting sisters Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Silkwood) and Delia Ephron (You’ve Got Mail), and based on the book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman, the play is a bravura showcase for five actresses, who rhapsodize on the joys and suffering of women’s lives as reflected by their wardrobe.

The women discourse on matters ranging from love, motherhood, divorce, and even some darker subjects, but the play is suffused with humor. One vignette concerns a woman who faced an identity crisis when having to choose between two possible prom outfits – a conservative powder blue gown or a sexy black minidress. “Here’s the thing,” she says. “I’ve never really known for sure which of those two people I am – the girl who almost doesn’t get asked to the prom at all or the girl who gets to go with the really cute guy. Every time I thought I knew which one I was, I turned out to be the other.”

Another of the show’s characters posits, “Any American woman under 40 who says she’s never dressed as Madonna is either lying or Amish.”

Directed by Lee Duberman, who last year directed the bittersweet Summer Night with Unicorn at the Jewish Cultural and Community Center (JC3), and recently performed in the hot-ticket show The Letters Project, also at JC3, the cast includes Antonia Banewicz, Susanna Blachy, Ansley Braverman, Clara Dunham, and Duberman herself.

Love, Loss, and What I Wore will be presented at the JC3 at Callejón de las Moras 47, near the corner of Cinco de Mayo, on Tuesday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 12. Both performances are at 7pm. All seats are $250 pesos, with a 20 percent discount for members. Tickets are on sale online using the link below, and can be purchased for cash only at the JC3.

Doors open at 6:30 for socializing. Wine and refreshments will be available for purchase.

.Donation: $250

JC3/CHESMA members should contact the JC3 at 415 185 9191 or shalomsanmiguel@gmail.com to get a 20% discount code for the performance BEFORE purchasing your ticket.

SOLD OUT

Ida (2013) Poland

Drama
Directed by Pawal Pawikowski
With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, David Ogrodnik
Duration 1:22 hours
In Polish with English Subtitles
Programmer: Elías Nahmías
Moderator: Amy Cotler

Ida tells a story set in 1960s Poland, centering on Anna, a young novitiate preparing to take her vows in a convent. On the brink of committing to her religious life, she learns of a buried family secret from the time of the German occupation. This revelation leads her on a journey of self-discovery, accompanied by her only living relative, her aunt Wanda. Together, they unearth painful truths about their family's past, challenging Anna's faith and sense of identity. Ida offers a haunting exploration of guilt, forgiveness, and the complexities of human experience. Following the film there will be a discussion with Amy Cotler.

Donation:

Members: $100
Non-members $150

Coffeehouse: Arthur Javier presents eclectic music.

Please Join us as Arthur Javier presents a mixture of light jazz, country music, Italian ballads, and Spanish classic songs.

The program will include songs by Sting, Jim Croce, Cole Porter, Yves Montand, Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Neil Diamond, Billy Ocean, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran and Elton John.

Coffee, Tea, and cookies will be served. Wine and refreshments will be available for purchase.

Donation:

Members $100
Non-Members $150