Teachers from the Canadian School in Guadalajara enjoy the Copa de la Amistad Canada-Mexico pool tournament this week at Bolerama Tapatio. From left, back row: Kristi Chipeniuk, Luis Franco, Jackie Barfett, Anna Deligianis, Alvina Tsui, Armando Cortes and Paco Fregoso. Front row: Tory Garcia and Brenda Zavala.  Now in its third year, the Canadian School offers an immersive bilingual education program that aims to teach students to become creative and critical thinkers.  The school is located in Colonia Prados Providencia. For more information see canadianschool.com.mx.

The Universidad de Guadalajara (UdG) gave Federico Solorzano Barreto a solemn and dignified send off at the Paraninfo Enrique Diaz de Leon after the famed local paleontologist died at the age of 92 this week.

The Union Jack is ever present this month in Guadalajara: on billboards, posters, street corners, in hotels and newspaper advertisements. With Great Britain as this year’s invited guest to the city’s May Festival, everything British is in. 

Guadalajara’s Museo de la Ciudad will be participating in World Wide Knit in Public Day for the first time on Saturday, June 13. 

The legendary Nuestros Dulces

TlaquepArte, the biannual exhibition of handicrafts, gifts and decorations, keeps getting better and better. Having moved from its traditional Tlaquepaque location, visitors to this year’s fair are benefitting from the increased space now available at Expo Guadalajara.