As someone who truly loves Mexico City, but is based (for the time being) in Brooklyn, NY, I was thrilled to realize that this week (Sept. 8-15) is the fifth annual Celebrate Mexico Now Festival here in New York City.
From their website:
Celebrate México Now, a groundbreaking citywide festival, offers an introduction to the vanguard of contemporary Mexican art and culture. In the 1980s and 1990s, Mexico experienced a cultural boom that generated new artists, ideas, and forms of expression. Cross-disciplinary collaborations and collectives, focused on reexamining and redefining Mexican identity within a global context, sprung up in the country?s major urban centers. Celebrate Mexico Now presents this thriving generation of artists in an annual festival that encompasses architecture, cuisine, dance, film, music, theatre, and visual art.
For those who live in New York and can’t make it to the D.F. this year, this festival offers a peek at the kinds of cultural happenings that are coming out of Mexico right now.
Highlights include a screening of new Mexican short films, a photography exhibition featuring images of Mexico City and New York’s respective subway systems, a dance party at The Delancey on Saturday, September 13th, produced by Fresa Salvaje, who routinely bring hot (and often queer) latin american DJ’s and performers to the big apple.
Blending influences from Bariloche (Argentina) and Tijuana (México), FACA’s “Bari-juana” sound mixes surf, garage and techno, with kitsch and retro iconography invading the duo’s live shows. Sonido Discoyoácan spins eclectic mixes that include vintage barrio beauties like mambo, cha cha cha, Mexican soap opera classics and wedding anthems, all seamlessly intertwined with psychedelic, early punk, indie rock, and electronica; DJ Papichulo (Fresa Salvaje’s DJ de la casa) is inspired by the music he grew up with in the 80´s in Mexico and the cumbia poblana he discovered later on.
There are also poetry, dance, and other events, as well as a guide to “authentic” Mexican Restaurants, which are having their own mini-restaurant week. All of which can be viewed on the main calendar.
totally unrelated to the post…but having some stressfull moments while trying to pack for my Mexico DF trip in Oct….what is the fashion like at the lesbian clubs in DF?? I don’t want to be over/under dressed…if you could email me or hit me up on my blog…that would be SOOO nice.. thanks.
I would say that for the most part, the fashion is pretty low key at all the clubs. Almost everyone will be in pants, mostly jeans.
Of course, that hasn’t stopped me from dressing up when I go out, and a chilanga friend of mine who now lives in Montreal (you know who you are!) always sports a fabulous, loud outfit when she hits the Mexico City clubs. We stick out like sore thumbs, but sometimes you can’t help yourself…