This last weekend of September comes with some activities, exhibitions and premieres that you will not want to leave out of your list of things to do,
Here we leave you the complete list:
UNAM Culture Festival
With its fourth year of existence, this festival has already established itself as one of the most anticipated cultural events in the city, offering a wide variety of activities, with 120 artistic and academic proposals in different venues.
For more than two weeks, UNAM will gather up to 135 guests from 17 countries in a program full of artistic diversity that goes from music to the theater and even visual arts events and immersive experiences, this festival gives a space to appreciate art in its various forms and you will not want to miss it.
Czech the complete program and the different venues through its official page.
- When: from September 26 to October 11.
Musical Moulin Rouge
CDMX will now host a place where everything is possible and that is surrounded by lights, love, music and emotion thanks to this musical brought directly from Broadway.
The work that has conquered the world with 10 Tony Awards arrives this weekend, and promises to be one of the most spectacular theatrical shows of the year thanks to John Logan’s script and the choreography of Sonya Tayeh.
Based on the iconic Baz Luhrmann film, this staging starring Arianna Rosario as Satine and Jay Armstrong Johnson as Christian will have more than 30 actors on stage and a musical repertoire that goes from Lady Gaga to classic songs.
You can see the availability of tickets through Ticketmaster.
- When: from September 24 to 28.
- Where: National Auditorium.
International Book Fair of Anthropology and History (Filah)
The 36th edition of this festival will offer more than 400 free activities, distributed in forums, colloquiums, conversations, workshops, music, editorial fair and the special participation of the guests. It will also include a cycle dedicated to creative and cultural industries, within which the award will be awarded a life dedicated to cultural promotion.
Under the central theme “Cultural rights and diversity”, the Filah will also have as part of its presentation projections of the 4th Anthropological Film Festival.
This event will have free entry. You can check the complete program on its official page.
- When: until September 28.
- Where: National Museum of Anthropology.
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Exhibitions that you will not want to lose in CDMX
The Tiger’s Coat
This project of the independent curator Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio, proposes an exhibition in which fiction and history are intertwined, causing it based on the multiple facets of the life of Tina ModeTti, photographer, activist, spy and enigmatic cultural figure.
The curator seeks to expose the artist’s photographic work to rethink in the links, real and fantastic, which has his work in relation to the contemporary, so the title is inspired by a silent film that starred in Modotti, released in 1920 in Hollywood.
Through pieces of various modern and contemporary artists, as well as documents of historical value and works that reconstruct the impact of ways in the art and politics of its time, the exhibition addresses a story about the multiple relations of the photographer both in the past and today.
- When: as of September 25.
- Where: Jumex Museum.
Lilia Carrillo: Everything is suggestive
This tribute to one of the most relevant Mexican artists of the second half of the twentieth century will begin this weekend, so you can enjoy works that highlight their originality and contributions to the history of non-financing painting in Mexico.
Carrillo managed to accommodate various themes in his production, coming to represent aspects of the natural world, consciousness, and addressing various problems present in the society of his time.
This exhibition will be available in the Diego Rivera and Nacional rooms.
- Where: Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts.
World Press photo 2025 (last weeks)
The most important international photojournalism contest in the world arrives one more year to Mexico, and this weekend will begin so you can appreciate a series of photographs that seek to address a variety of issues such as political, cultural, social and climatic conflicts.
With 42 winning works composing the exhibition, highlighting the Mexican presence by having a photograph of Musuk Nolte, who won in the Stories category with a documentary series about the extreme drought in the Amazon.
You can acquire your passes through the official website of the museum.
- When: now with date extension until October 12.
- Where: Franz Mayer Museum.
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Premieres that arrive at theaters this weekend
One battle after another
Based on the novel “Vineland” by American writer Thomas Pynchon, Paul’s film Thomas Anderson tells the story of Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a former revolutionary of the 60s who must bring together his former team of fellow activists to rescue his daughter, who was kidnapped by an enemy of the past, played by Sean Penn.
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