Promoting Young Vallarta Talent
 With the objective of creating spaces for the various methods of expression of the young,
Puerto Vallarta’s City Hall, through the Instituto Vallartense de la Juventud (Vallarta’s Youth Institute) and in coordination with the Instituto Jalisciense (Jalisco Institute), held the State’s Singing Contest 2008 with the theme “Because music and voice are the best ways of expression”.
Luis Conrado Arias Rivera, coordinator on the part of the City Hall, was the one charged with inaugurating and closing this event with the support of the City Mayor, who ratified the present administration’s commitment to promote actions in the benefit of the young community.
Surrounded by the scenery of our open air “Aquiles Serdán” theater, 18 young participants showed their talent in the “Ranchero” and “pop” genders, with the goal of representing our port in the forthcoming State competition which will take place in Guadalajara on May 2nd against the winners of other municipalities.
 Judges Paulo Alberto Parada Romo, Iván Arreola Santiago, Monserrath Mercado, Omar Viazcán and Tina Huang, who have a vast experience in the artistic media, evaluated the voice, tuning, theme compatibility, costume and stage attitude of participants as decisive elements to determine the winners who will participate in Guadalajara.
This brought out Noelia Palomares Vázquez as winner in the ranchero gender, as well as Miguel del Olmo Contreras and Perla Marina Murúa Hernández in the pop category, to represent Puerto Vallarta in the state edition. They will be recording the participating song along with the other winners from the whole state.
Source: H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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Tribute to Vallartense Painter Manuel Lepe
 The evening of Thursday, April 17, the city’s authorities, headed by City Mayor Javier Bravo Carbajal, as well as family and friends rendered a well deserved tribute to Vallartense painter Manuel Lepe, local precursor of naïf art, promoter of Puerto Vallarta and the local community of children.
The City Mayor mentioned that Manuel Lepe had art as his destination, he became an international artist who reflected the paradise framed by our municipality in his work and is part of the history of the city that saw him grow maintaining a permanent feature: his child’s soul and his love for children.
The City Mayor referred to an account of 43 exhibitions, among them, that of the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, California, in 1979, with an estimated audience of one million visitors, as well as exhibits in the galleries of Guadalajara, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, New York, among others, and being included in the French directory of XX century painters, filling with pride a town that keeps him always present within its heart.
 Born on the 17th of April of 1936, Manuel Lepe was able to make his work a reflection of the candor, ingenuity, spontaneity and bright colors of the world we all belong to. Childhood is always present, and as we all carry a child within, this child emerges when we come in contact with this Vallartense painter, a man with a great heart always collaborating to the best of his ability in favor of children and society.
This way the City Mayor inaugurated the exhibition in the main patio of the City Hall in remembrance of this painter’s work accompanied by Marcelo Mantecón Gutiérrez, First Administrative Officer; Aurea Díaz Vélez de Santiago, subdirector of Art and Culture; Manuel Gómez Encarnación, City Historian, family and friends.
During the ceremony several anecdotes of the painter’s life were shared along with a video immortalizing the memory of this outstanding Vallartense. Email to a friend
Source: H. Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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