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Upcoming for Dec 1, 2019:

• What's Happening,
• 7th International Theater Festival Dec 1-7,
• + Organ Festival in SMA Oct 27-Dec 18,
• + Art Exhibition: Rafael Coronel ...to mid Dec,
• + One-Woman Joan of Arc Play Nov 21-Dec 21,
• + Santa Ana Café Exhibit Nov 16-Jan 4,
• + Art that produces sounds Nov 29-Mar 15,
• Rohr Jewish Learning Institute New Course on Coping Starting Dec 4,
• The Roommate, Dec 5-8;12-15,
• TOSMA Organic Market Dec 7,
• Chess Saturday Oct Dec 7,
• Fábrica La Aurora Art Walk Dec 7,
• Pam Ronald: The Future of Food Dec 12,
• La Pulga Flea Market Dec 15,
• Scheduled Road Work and Closures.

+ = continuing activities.

What's Happening

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The 7th International Theater Festival arrives in December at SMA
In the first days of #diciembre the seventh arrives in the city #Festival from #Teatro to #SanMigueldeAllende and here is all the information of the places where there will be works and all will be free.

From December 1 to 7, the Municipal Government, in coordination with the Teatro en la Calle group, will hold the Seventh International Theater Festival. This year, the billboard includes theater companies from Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Zacatecas, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Guanajuato, which will be presented free of charge in different ...
The 7th International Theater Festival arrives in December at SMA

The 4th Organ Festival is held in San Miguel Oct 27-Dec 18
From October 27 to December 18, the 4th Organ Festival will be held in San Miguel de Allende. This edition is dedicated to RP Socorro Govea, priest of the Temple of the Oratory and great organist, most events are free.

The Festival was born in 2016, it is a 100% Sanmiguelense independent court event. The initiators are the Organist Masters, Josue Martinez and Ramiro Granados. In this edition Master Miguel Angel Espinosa is incorporated together with Master Ricardo Castro
The 4th Organ Festival is held in San Miguel (sp).

Art Exhibition of the Work of Rafael Coronel ...to Mid Dec
For three months in San Miguel de Allende the work of Rafael Coronel will be exhibited.

Lourdes Sosa, the director of the gallery of the same name and in charge of the work, said there are 29 works that will be exhibited in the halls of the Tourist Council / Office of Tourism across from the Parroquia. Enter the exhibition through the Office of Tourism.

He said that there are unpublished works, which he did at the end of his life in this May of 2019, so a group of oil works, drawings, bronzes from the ages of 70, 80, 90 and more are presented.
Art Exhibition of the Work of Rafael Coronel Inaugurated (sp).

One-Woman Joan of Arc Play Has a Thirtieth Anniversary Revival at the San Miguel Playhouse Nov 21-Dec 21
“Once in every four or five hundred years, a person comes from out of nowhere and changes the world. Joan of Arc was such a person.” So says John Morrow, whose play, Joan of Arc: A Vision Through Fire, opened in Los Angeles in 1989 and is about to have its thirtieth-anniversary ...
One-Woman Joan of Arc Play Has a Thirtieth Anniversary Revival at the San Miguel Playhouse.

Santa Ana Café Exhibit Celebrates the Diversity Within Mexican Identity Nov 16-Jan 4
On Saturday, November 16, the exhibit The Eyes of México, a series of large-format portraits, opens at the La Biblioteca in the Café Santa Ana. Self-taught artist Ana Ragá studied product design at Universidad Iberoamericana and textile design at the School of Design of Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. But, she ...
New Santa Ana Café Exhibit Celebrates the Diversity Within Mexican Identity.

Art that produces sounds, the two exhibitions that from today you can appreciate in San Miguel de Allende Nov 29-Mar 15
Free exhibition in @bellasartessma Where art becomes sounds. In San Miguel de Allende From today until March.

"The Encounter with Sound Produces Images" and "Vibrations", the two exhibitions that you cannot miss going to see in Fine Arts of San Miguel de Allende. Today, the Ignacio Ramírez Cultural Center will open 2 exhibitions that will remain for the next few weeks ...
Art that produces sounds, the two exhibitions that from today you can appreciate in San Miguel de Allende

Rohr Jewish Learning Institute Debuts in San Miguel with New Course on Coping Starts Dec 4
On December 4, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute will open its doors in San Miguel de Allende with the course “Worrier to Warrior,” a new six-session course to help people deal with life challenges by accepting themselves and finding meaning in adversity. Participants will take on life’s challenges by examining factors that ...
Rohr Jewish Learning Institute Debuts in San Miguel with New Course on Coping

A Female Odd Couple Bring Hilarity to The Roommate, Dec 5-8,12-15
In playwright Jen Silverman’s two-hander, The Roommate, Sharon, a divorced Iowa housewife in her fifties, is seeking a woman her age to share her spacious house. She gets her roommate and a lot more than she bargained for in Robyn, a lesbian vegan from the Bronx with a shady past and a ...
A Female Odd Couple Bring Hilarity to The Roommate,.

TOSMA Organic Market Dec 7
The TOSMA market is located outside at Mercado Sano. Every Saturday 9 am - 4 pm.
TOSMA Organic Market.

Chess at Cafe Arab'ella Saturday Dec 7
What: Chess. Players of all levels are welcome; from complete beginners to experts.
When: Every Saturday at Cafe Arab'ella, New time from 11am - 1pm.
Where: Cafe Arab'ella.
Chess at Cafe Arab'ella Saturday.

Fábrica La Aurora Art Walk Dec 7
The first Saturday of every month Fábrica La Aurora hosts their open house and Art Walk.
Fábrica La Aurora Art Walk.

Pam Ronald: The Future of Food Dec 12
Join Pam as she leads us on a journey from the research labs to the fields, negotiating a tricky political, economic and cultural landscape in between. Along the way we’ll learn about groundbreaking advances in artificial breeding techniques and the real world challenges that farmers face every day.

Dr. Pamela Ronald is a distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at UC Davis. She also serves as director of the UC Davis Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy, and is the recipient of awards and honors too numerous to mention here.

Pam’s presentation will conclude with a Q&A session, followed by an informal reception with free botanas and beverages available for purchase. You won’t want to miss this!
5 pm
Pam Ronald: The Future of Food

La Pulga Flea Market Dec 15
Sunday Nov 24 , 11 am - 3 pm, Salón Los Pinos, Salida a Querétaro #145.
Since 2011. Free admission.
La Pulga Flea Market San Miguel.

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Scheduled Road Work and Closures
If you know of updates, corrections or additions to this list please let us know. We often keep road work notices up a few days beyond their planned completion date because there are not always announcements of schedule delays or completions.

... works in substitution of sanitary drainage network in Callejón de Landin street, to thereby ensure the conduction of wastewater to the Treatment Plant.

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Handle with care, asphalt binder maintenance works by the @SCT_Guanajuato in the Caracol, reduction to a lane of Glorieta de El Pípila to exit to Querétaro and in sections in the opposite direction. Use alternate ways.

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The Arcade of Guadalupe Avenue, the goodbye to the trees and the 'cooperacha' that the tenants ask for
Derived from the application of the “Maintenance and conservation of streets” program that runs the infrastructure and public works management, Guadalupe Avenue will have partial closure of streets from September 21.

Problems finding the new urban and suburban route in the San Juan De Dios area? Check this out:
Did you return to work Monday and realize that in the area of San Juan De Dios there are a lot of closed streets and others with opposite directions? Well, the rehabilitation work started on Guadalupe Avenue, so ...
Problems finding the new urban and suburban route in the San Juan De Dios area? Check this out: (sp).

As part of the dignification of this area, this Saturday, September 21 will begin the rehabilitation work of the stamped concrete pavement on Guadalupe Avenue, from the section that goes from the Station Road to the Avenue Independence.

For this reason, there will be total closure of the section that goes from Calzada de la Estación to San Rafael street and the section of Antonio Villanueva to Insurgentes, during the first stage of this action.
Rehabilitation Work In Avenida Guadalupe Begins (sp).

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Traffic Light Project
After almost 24 hours of maneuvering, the equestrian sculpture of General Don Ignacio Allende was removed, with the intention of completely restoring it. The works at the Glorieta Allende will continue. Take precautions!

The Municipal Government, headed by the mayor, Luis Alberto Villarreal García, announced the traffic light project that will be executed during the next few days; Only in the “José Manuel Zavala” Libramiento, the historic center and the main streets of the city will not be intervened.

With installation, supply and commissioning of 91 devices, San Miguel de Allende will have this new tool to regulate traffic and pedestrian traffic.
They present a traffic light project (sp).
See also: Traffic lights arrived in SMA (sp).

With the overpass in El Pípila, traffic lights will also arrive at San Miguel de Allende
September 25 is the tentative date to begin the construction works of the overpass in the Glorieta El Pípila where a project will be included that will include the first traffic lights that San Miguel de Allende will have. The traffic lights will go from the building ...
With the overpass in El Pípila, traffic lights will also arrive at San Miguel de Allende (sp).

Call to build overpass El Pípila in San Miguel de Allende, Gto
The overpass of the Exit to Celaya (Pipila) will be the most important work in our history. Today we formally begin the process. 18 Dec 2019 started. 11 Nov 2020 finished work. Elevated price contest. Thank you @diegosinhue For your commitment and support.

The project will consist of the construction of a vehicular underpass with a length of 524.82 m, with 2 lanes per direction in two bodies and a road width of 13.60 m.includes urbanization, lateral roads and services.
Estimated start of work: December 18, 2019.
Estimated work termination: November 11, 2020.
Call to build overpass El Pípila in San Miguel de Allende, Gto (sp).

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