Yorch Place

In the easter sunday the tradition marks that a "Judas" must be burn, that is a representation of bad and evil, every year people choose which person or topic will be burn, with fireworks and a party atmosphere, and this year also marked the start of the "Festival Santiago de Querétaro" a cultural festival that takes part every year in all the public plazas of the city.

This year the Judas topic was "Drug dealers", "Drug addicts", "Violence", "Alcoholism" and the "Global Crisis"

Seems the hot topics in the news.

Queretaro's best Jazz club, the "Encrucijada Jazz" is a realy neat place, great musicians, incredible price, amazing ambient, the location, in the street where the acueduct (symbol of the city) is located, and near other nightclubs and bars.

The only "but" of the place is, people, half of the people or more is too noisy, they talk and talk don't leting you listen the music as you want.

Still a great place, the other jazz places I know of Queretaro are more amateur and small cafés.

As I mentioned before, I went to the concert on October 2nd in the state auditorium in Queretaro, the concert was sold out, so 7,000 people was there with me.

My initial plan was to arrive by cab, but some friends decided to drive there, why I didn't drive myself?... well the auditorium parking lot is big, but has only two entrances, and ot find a parking space, and then at the end to wait in the mess to leave the place, is not my favorite thing.

The logistics to enter was a total caos, the auditorium has like 9 entrances, but the organicers decided to use only two, and one was for men and the other for women, and only a person per time, so each could be checked by the security staff. So it took like an hour to enter the auditorium, making line in the cold (well cool night) was not ideal, since I arrived with some friends, women and men.

The concert, was really good, the croud behave really nice, like in a big party, everybody dancing and chanting, Manu Chao is a real good entertainer, he truly love to sing and be with the people.

Since the place was full it was a great ambient, and I have the chance to find other friends there, or people I knew from other parts. Even the boss of my boss was there.

The lord of the flies, the novel that shows the evilness of mankind, young kids that found themselves lost and alone in an island, everything started fun but ended ugly with murdered kids by the evil hands of other kids.

This book became a movie in the 80's, a movie I watch on TV when I was like 7 years, or so, I got traumatized, since I rememeber everything in the movie, I started to watch since I believed that it was a fun movie of some kids in an island... I bought the DVD but I'm afraid of watching it.

And now in Queretaro a teather company adpted the book into a play with 9 year old kids playing it... fun.

I totally agree that the story is good, it is so good that I still remember it after watching it once 18 or 19 years ago.

So I think, I must fight my trauma and watch the DVD I bought and go to the teather.



You can see some photos (not mine) on flickr.com

Queretaro will be host of the 7th Indigenous and Popular Cultural Encounter, in which different ethnic groups will show their cultural heritage, dance, theater, handcraft, food and more, from September 19th to 28th in different location in the city, starting the Regional Museum in the "Jardín de los Naranjos", also in plazas and other gardens of the city.

Also part of the Cultural Encounter there will be a Ethnic Film Festival.

This event is organized by the city government, so the entrance of most of the events will be free.