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The october 17, 2014 >friday october 17, 2014 The News >friday 18 19 News weekly eVent CalenDar OCtOBER 17 tO 19 feature more than a dozen aFFOrDaBLE ART shows transmitted from Art ownership is not just for Guanajuato to Mexico City, the wealthy. The Affordable via streaming. The 42nd Art Fair makes it possible for edition themes include: just about everyone to obtain Shakespeare 450, to a great piece with prices commemorate the birthday [email protected] ranging from 999 pesos to of the English playwright and 99,000. frontier; a reflection on the Time: Friday 1 p.m., Saturday limits in various areas such as 12 p.m. and 11 a.m. art and ideologies. Entry: 75 pesos (students) Location: multiple events in 150 pesos Guanajuato and León Location: Expo Reforma: More info: www. Morelos 67 Juárez festivalcervantino.gob.mx UNTIl JANUARY 18 UNTIl JANUARY 4 POLKA DOt ART OCTAVIO PaZ The iconic work of Japanese tHrOUGH ART artist Yayoi Kusama will de on Writer, poet and diplomat display in Mexico. Kusama is Octavio Paz might famous for her reverent use be best known for his of polka dot art. novel, “The Labyrinth of Time: Tuesday to Sunday 10 Solitude,” depicting the a.m. to 6 p.m duality of Mexican culture. Entry: 19 pesos, free Nevertheless, Bellas Artes is admission for students, showcasing an exhibit in his teachers and seniors with honor, with works of art that current i.d. Free admission on embody the larger-than-life Sundays themes of which he wrote. Location: Museo Tamayo, Time: Tuesday to Sunday 10 Paseo de la Reforma 51, a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Bosque de Chapultepec, Entry: 43 pesos Miguel Hidalgo delegation Location: Palacio de Bellos Artes, Juarez s/n, Centro UNTIl OCtOBER 19 Histórico 06050 DeSIGn WEEK MeXICO UNTIl JANUARY 4 Design Week Mexico TRAVEL wItH celebrates architecture and PICtURES “Whenever you smell real vanilla, design throughout the city In the new exhibition you crave it. This is the connection we with installations, exhibitions, “¡Vamónos! Bernard want to make,” said Franz Mayer Mu- art walks, conferences, Plossu en México” we see seum Director Héctor Rivero Borrell documentaries and even the Mexican landscape Miranda. food trucks. through the lens of French Commission for Knowledge and not a quick and easy process, ei- They are specifically featuring “Orquídeas. Otoño 2014” will fea- Time: Oct. 15 to 19 photographer Bernard Koo BY KATE BIELAMOwICZ Use of Biodiversity. ther. The average vanilla plant vanilla in their upcoming exhi- ture orchid exhibitions, photography, Entry: varies N Plossu who made four trips The News “Vanilla is lost to us. Vanilla in takes 3 to 4 years to produce, said bition, “Orquídeas. Otoño 2014” products for sale, educational work- Location: varies to Mexico, road tripping Consult www. o/Edwi Mexico is like looking at some- Mora Domínguez. (“Orchids. Autumn 2014”). shops and conferences, many of which T across its deserts, roaming Aromatic vanilla thing in a museum. It’s ancient,” His farm, Finica Xanath, does Vanilla, after all, is a type of will be geared toward the preservation designweekmexico.com for its jungles and exploring its specific times and locations. is native to Mexico, Mora Domínguez said. every step of the harvesting vanil- orchid. and cultivation of Mexican vanilla. pho NYT cities with an honest eye. yet the country on- “But it isn’t that. It shouldn’t la, including pollination. “It’s one of the oldest types “People often go to the orchid sale, Time: Tuesday to Sunday ly produces 1 per- be that. It’s a candy, a honey, a “Some days we might pollinate of orchids,” said Eduardo Pérez, but not the conferences, which is why UNTIl OCtOBER 19 10:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. cent of the world’s mole, a coffee, 5,000 flowers by president of AMO and National we picked vanilla as a theme,” said Pro- OrCHID SALE Entry: 26 pesos supply, said Óscar a perfume. It’s a hand. Imagine Autonomous University of Mex- fessor Rebeca López of AMO. “It’s our As a founding member of Location: Museo del Arte Mora Domínguez of Fini- reflection. It’s a that when va- ico professor. country’s ‘black gold.’” the Mexican Orchidology Moderno, Reforma s/n, ca Xanath, a vanilla farm in medicine. It’s us. nilla flowers on- Vanilla is endemic to Mexico The orchid festival will be held from Association, the Franz Bosques de Chapultepec, Veracruz. It’s ours,” he said. Vanilla in Mexico ly last half a day,” but the majority of vanilla con- Oct. 15 to 19 at the Franz Mayer Mu- Mayer Museum is holding a 11560 M o r a And it’s true. he said. “It’s a lot sumed in Mexico is artificial, seum in Mexico City. Over 300 plants week long orchid exhibition is like looking featuring art, conferences Domínguez Nine of the 15 Me- at something in of cost and a lot Pérez said. from 60 different species will be on eVERY SUnDAY is part of a soamerican aro- of production.” Orchid festival organizers are display. and a flower sale. This year’s yOGa FOr a GOOD small group matic vanilla spe- a museum. It’s F o r t h i s hoping that platform will help theme is vanilla, which as ancient... many don’t know is a species CaUSe of Mexi- cies are found in re a s o n , Mo - grow awareness about Mexi- Every Sunday, Mukta Yoga can va- Mexico. MOra DomíngueZ ra Domínguez can vanilla and drive production of orchid, as well. Time: Tuesday to Friday 10 features “Altruistic Sundays” nilla pro- The plant was Mexican vanilla producer is advocating a efforts. FO “OrqUíDeaS. OtOñO 2014” a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and in which the proceeds from d u c e r s first discovered combined effort “We have contacted various n r each class go to different I Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. w h o a r e by the Totonaco between busi- producers of vanilla to come and charitable foundation. Each t Entry: 45 pesos working to res- in the northern areas of Vera- nesses and producers to help showcase their products so that • “Orquídeas. Otoño 2014” will and children pay 25 pesos. Sunday features a different ANZ MAYE ANZ Location HIdalgo 45, be from Oct. 15 to 19 at the • It is open Tuesday to Friday r cue Mexican cruz and Puebla. It is a cultural drive the production of Mexican the people might become more instructor and a different Franz Mayer Museum. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday • For more information visit F o Cuauhtémoc, Centro production, symbol and an economic one in vanilla and reach the demand familiar with Mexican vanilla,” E from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and either the museum website at Histórico 06300 style of yoga. as well as the the region. that is otherwise unmet due to said Pérez. Mus XHIBI Y Time: Sunday 11:30 a.m. to • The Franz Meyer Museum is Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. http://www.franzmayer.org.mx s species va- Yet the current problem, says economic and ecological issues. “The idea is that the consumer e located at Hidalgo 45, Centro or the Mexican Orchidology te 1:00 p.m. nilla planifolia, Mora Domínguez is that although has direct access to the produc- UNTIl nOVeMBER 1 Some organizations are taking Histórico 06300 • General admission is 45 pesos, Association website at http:// Entry: 100 pesos which is in danger of ex- there is demand for natural vanil- notice, particularly the Mexican er,” he said. (Tel: 5518 2266) while teachers, students, seniors www.amo.com.mx CERVANTE’S : Mukta Yoga, os / cour / os Location tinction according to re- la, the production doesn’t exist. Orchidology Association (AMO) Finica Xanthal vanilla farm is T GREATESt Amsterdam 171, Hipódromo port by the National Natural vanilla production is and the Franz Mayer Museum. one of those producers. pho This year, the International Cervantes Festival will Condesa 06170.
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