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City promotes holiday programs

With approximately 300 students currently enrolled in dance, theater, and music classes either via the Fine Arts Initiation School (EIAA – INBA) or directly through programs of the local Casa de la Cultura, the arts are present in Puerto Peñasco. To round out the year, the calendar bursts with various holiday presentations at the Municipal […]

Guillermo Munro recibe homenaje en la Feria del Libro de Hermosillo

Colaboradora Nina Mier HERMOSILLO, SONORA. A viernes, 24 de octubre 2014.- El escritor Guillermo Munro Palacio recibió este viernes el máximo galardón que otorga en la Feria del Libro de Hermosillo, homenaje por trayectoria asignando el nombre del escritor a la exhibición de 10 días consecutivos de stand dedicados a la promoción del libro, del […]

Guillermo Munro Palacio publishes novel “Hombres Valientes”

Contributor Nina Mier (Excerpts from original article in Spanish) Puerto Peñasco writer Guillermo Munro Palacio has launched 2014 with good news! Following nearly ten years of research, endless reading, and exhaustive inquiries, not to mention constant revisions since 2010, Munro Palacio has completed his historical novel “Hombres Valientes” (Ed. Porrúa. Mexico, 2014). Munro’s publisher has […]

Guillermo Munro Palacio publica su novela Hombres Valientes

Por Nina Mier El escritor Guillermo Munro Palacio arranca con buenas noticias este año, tras alrededor de diez años de investigación, lecturas interminables de libros, indagaciones exhaustivas, desde el 2010 en constante revisión del texto, finalizada ya su novela, aceptada por una de las más importantes editoriales de Latinoamérica, ya está en el mercado nacional […]

Inauguration of painting school “Studio”

Collaborator: Nina Mier     Photos: Socorro González On the evening of Friday, September 13th, a simple yet moving ceremony, complete with official ribbon cutting and a jazz trio from Agua de Coco, marked the opening of a new painting school in town: Studio – where you are the artist! Studio owner and instructor Magdiel Gámez Martínez, […]

Curso de Periodismo Cultural

Se llevó a cabo el Curso de Periodismo Cultural Colaboradora Nina Mier Los días 17 y 18 de agosto (sábado y domingo) se llevó a cabo el “Curso de Periodismo cultural y el uso de las nuevas tecnologías” impartido por el M.C. Josué Barrera Sarabia; coordinado por el Cine Club Primera Toma, A.C. Este evento […]

Campamento de Verano “Viajando por el mundo”

Colaboradora: Nina Mier El pasado jueves, 15 de agosto se llevó a cabo la Graduación del Campamento de Verano “Viajando por el mundo” Puerto Peñasco 2013 en el Auditorio “Ing. Mario Luis Yeomans Macías” del Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Puerto Peñasco (ITSPP). Esta experiencia que vivieron 30 niños durante 15 días seguidos (del 29 de […]

Fiesta Awards recognize outstanding artists of 2012

There are the Oscars and Tonys, and now Puerto Peñasco is home to the Eddies. To complement the 10th Anniversary of his home design showroom near the entrance to “Rodeo Drive”, Eddie Wharez of Diseños Casas y Jardin held an extravaganza on the chilly evening of Jan. 12th to celebrate the 1st Fiesta Awards for […]

Theater workshop: The fourth wall does not exist

The Cine Club Primera Toma, A.C. (First Take Film Club), under the skillful planning and guidance of Nina Mier and Socorro González, keep outdoing themselves by organizing various workshops to promote and develop the wealth of cultural talents within Puerto Peñasco. In 2012 alone these workshops have embraced film, creative writing, and now theater.  Rocky […]

El paisaje de los rostros de Rosalina Mendoza en el ITSPP

The landscape of faces of Rosalina Mendoza at the ITSPP By Nina Mier Within the celebrations marking the 12th Anniversary of the Superior Technological Institute of Puerto Peñasco (ITSPP), the community is invited to visit the “Permanent Exhibition of Visual Arts of the ITSPP: 2012-2013 Edition.” “The landscape of faces” exhibition of painter and art […]

Daniel López H., embajador de la imagen sublime

By Nina Mier  (Photos courtesy of Dan Lopez) Within the wealth of talent that call Puerto Peñasco home is Daniel Lopez, photographer and graphic artist with a keen eye for beauty.  This past year, Daniel had the opportunity to exhibit his work in Chicago; within this review (Spring 2010) of Daniel’s work and background we […]

Jesús Romero Chagoyán, sempiterno cowboy urbano

In Puerto Peñasco there lives a thinker along the border who is between tradition and vanguard…he signs his graphic design illustration art as ANTIU for marketing purposes and his name is Jesús Romero Chagoyán (Mexicali, 1980), an everlasting Urban Cowboy. 2012 has been a mixture of opportunities for Chagoyán, from exhibitions of his graphic design […]

Film in Rocky Point! Primera Toma Film Club + Nina Mier

In honor of the Film Premiere’s new date (Sunday, June 10 @ 7 p.m.) we are rerunning this interview with Nina Mier of the Primera Toma Cine Club.  Sunday’s show is sold out and an additional showing of the student film shorts is set for Tuesday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Civic […]