The Baja California cultural festival begins in Los Pinos

From the Editorial Staff

La Jornada Newspaper, Saturday, August 2, 2025, p. 5

Baja California is the guest of honor at the Los Pinos Cultural Center at a celebration taking place today and tomorrow, where the border state will showcase music, dance, storytelling, literature, gastronomy, and a craft exhibition—expressions of the sea, mountains, and desert of the northern part of the country.

The Yuman, made up of five indigenous groups on the Mexican side, will be represented in the flavors of smoked kitchens, as well as in a display of handicrafts, activities that will begin at 10:00 a.m. At the same time, the photography exhibition Jaspuypaim: The Never Baptized will open to the public, capturing the life and death of the mountain Indians.

These indigenous groups have been present for some 4,500 years, making them the only group of prehistoric origin that established contact with European colonizers and that survives to the present. They live in settlements in the municipalities of Ensenada, Tecate, Rosarito, and Mexicali.

Today and tomorrow, Lizeth Marcela will offer representative oral storytelling from Baja California, in addition to leading workshops for children.

Dancer Alejandro Chávez will perform contemporary dance performances with choreography Manuel , while Jesús Bautista will perform the rock-pop concert Me verás subir.

Between 1 and 3 p.m., the Nortestación station will arrive, where books by Baja California writers will be given away. Minerva Velasco will also perform a dramatized reading of Frida Kahlo: Viva la Vida .

On Sunday, at 3:20 p.m., the National School of Folkloric Dance Company will perform the calabaceado dance, which has its roots in livestock farming activities in the north. In 2022, the calabaceado dance was declared Cultural Heritage of Baja California.

The opening of the Baja California cultural festival in Los Pinos in the Plaza de las Jacarandas will be at 11:00 a.m. and will feature Elisa Lemus, director of the Los Pinos Cultural Complex, and Alma Delia Ábrego, Secretary of Culture of Baja California, among other guests.

The activities, featuring 30 artists, chefs, artisans, and cultural promoters, as part of the Mexico in Los Pinos initiative, will take place both days from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the space located at Molino del Rey 252, in the first section of Chapultepec Park.

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La Jornada Newspaper, Saturday, August 2, 2025, p. 5

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) announced that more than 200 original pieces, including sculptures and artifacts, featuring images of the gods of Ancient Egypt will be exhibited at the institution.

Starting October 12, the Divine Egypt exhibition will explore the spirituality and religious art of this distant, yet attractive and enigmatic civilization.

It will feature spiritual representations of these deities in temples, sanctuaries, and tombs, as well as the instruments that gave them life in daily worship, establishing a connection between the real and divine worlds. The works on display range from monumental statues to small, elegant figurines symbolizing 25 of the major idols of that era, including the falcon-headed god Horus; the lion-headed Sakhmet; and the great creator for the Egyptians, Ra, among others.

The museum's executive director, Max Hollein, noted that the exhibition brings together the finest works on loan from some of the world's leading institutions, including the Fine Arts Museum in Boston, the Louvre in Paris, and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, although more than 140 of those objects belong to the Met itself, he noted.

The gallery highlighted that one of its most significant pieces is a solid gold statue of the god Amun, which will adorn a recreation of a divine barque , a type of vessel that transported the main deity of a temple.

Aiming to examine the ways in which the kings and people of Ancient Egypt recognized and interacted with their gods, each exhibition section will offer an immersive opportunity to provide a window into the thought and spirituality of one of history's most enduring and sophisticated civilizations.

The exhibition highlights the profound sense of continuity and renewal with which the Egyptians addressed the great mysteries of life and death, anchoring their answers in the visual and symbolic richness of their religious art, the Met concluded.