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Events: Holy Week in Mexico
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Holy Week (Latin: Hebdomada Sancta or Major Hebdomada, "Greater Week") in Christianity is the last week before Easter. It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) and Good Friday, and lasts from Palm Sunday (or in the East, Lazarus Saturday) until but not including Easter Sunday, as Easter Sunday is the first day of the new season of The Great Fifty Days. It commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
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Events: Expresion en Corto International Film Festival
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The Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is an annual international film festival, held since 1997 during final week of July in the cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
As a state-sponsored, non-profit organization and cultural event that does not charge admission to its viewing audience, the festival estimates an attendance of over 77,000 total audience members from more than 72 participating countries. It presents a variety of films and activities for free.
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Events: Cinco De Mayo - The Fifth of May
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The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and throughout the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico, and especially in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population. It is not, as many people think, Mexico's Independence Day, which is actually September 16.
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Events: The Posadas in San Miguel de Allende
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From December 16 through December 24, these parties are celebrated all over San Miguel de Allende and Mexico. During nine nights, Mexicans commemorate the story of Mary and Joseph, when they were looking for shelter, just a few days before Jesus' birth. Participants take ceramic figures of Mary and Joseph ("The Pilgrims") in a symbolic manner to be deposited at the home of the Posada host, accompanied with candles and singing the traditional song. Each night ends up with a party at a different house; an important part of the "posada" party is the "piñata", a clay or paper pot ornamented with colorful paper on the outside, filled with candy and fruit. The piñata hangs from a rope. San Miguel children are blindfolded to hit the "piñata" with a stick, until it is broken, the candy and fruit fall to the floor and everyone throw themselves on the ground to pick up the piñata's treats.
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Events: San Miguel Walk Seaks Walkers!
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SanMiguelWalk writes - The Fourth Annual San Miguel Walk for CASA will take place in conjunction with the Caminata de San Juan, a hundreds of years old 9-day annual pilgrimage of thousands of faithful from every state in Mexico which begins in San Miguel at the Jardin and ends a week later at one of the most famous churches in Mexico.
The San Miguel Walk for CASA will offer shorter walks within the Caminata de San Juan beginning on January 24 when participants can choose to walk 1, 5, 10, or 15 miles. They will have transportation to return and check points along the way. Or walk for 3 days, 55 miles. The Three Day Walk is open to 55 persons. It will offer simple bathrooms and showers, wilderness camping, and a road crew to provide meals, tents, and medical services. In addition, it will have SAG services, which can take care of participants who tire unexpectedly, and provide radio communications if necessary.
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Events: San Miguel Jazz Fest
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This year the festival will present concerts featuring many personalitites of Jazz and Blues at the Angela Peralta theatre. Along with the educational venues that any festival offers, there will be workshops that will focus on public topics that should give the participants a more thorough knowledge of Jazz and Blues, if the musicians truly know their stuff.
Highlights of the festival will be the participation of the public workshops and "jam sessions" after each concert.
This is the first Festival International de Jazz & Blues to come to San Miguel de Allende. Thursday November 23rd - Sunday November 26th
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Events: Dia de la Revolucion
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The Mexican Revolution was a period of political, social and military conflict and turmoil that began with the call to arms made on 20 November 1910 by Francisco I. Madero.
The initial period of armed conflict culminated in the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz Mori and Madero's rise to presidency. Madero was deposed in 1913 and the country was engulfed in civil war, as several political and armed groups fought each other for control of the country. A major step towards the end of armed conflict involved the promulgation of the present constitution of Mexico in 1917, the official end of the Revolution. Nonetheless, conflict and political unrest such as the Cristero War persisted up to the late 1920s.
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