Mexico City and Puebla Extension Trip-June 5-10, 2024
Heritage by Hand founder, Heidi McKinnon, invites you to join her on a trip to Mexico City to visit artists, weavers, galleries and have some great food in Mexico City and Puebla from June 5-10, 2024.
Aside from art and shopping, Mexico City is an international gastronomic reference. Heidi will choose both established and emerging restaurants that highlight the brilliance and artistry of local chefs working in this vastly multicultural, cosmopolitan city.
Puebla is an amazing city with its own gastronomy and arts scene which we will explore. We will take one long day to visit artisans in a Nahua community a few hours into the mountains of Puebla to see both the traditional and contemporary side of Nahua weaving and design as well as see the sights along the way.
Details
The program fee includes transportation to and from venues, any speaking fees for artists who will visit with us or studio tours that we may do, and deposits for dinner at two restaurants. Entrance fees to museums and any incidentals that come up along the way will be the responsibility of each participant.
HbH is not a travel agency, so you will cover your own travel and lodging costs, all meals, and transfer to and from the airport. It will be possible to meet you at the airport if several flights arrive close to one another.
You will arrive on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 5th, and our itinerary will begin that evening with obligatory tacos in the neighborhood. A list of apartments in the Hipodromo region of Condesa, by Parque Mexico, will be provided so all participants stay in the same building, or close by.
We will have some flexibility in our routine to take advantage of opportunities that arise, however, the daily schedule will follow a basic structure.
Mexico City Schedule
7-8 AM- Optional morning walk/run/get a juice time. It's a gorgeous neighborhood.
8-9ish AM- Breakfast (also optional for late sleepers) We have amazing options nearby.
9:30 AM- 12 PM or later- Visit to the museums and various galleries, textile artists, architectural sites, shopping.
Our first day, we will visit the Juarez neighborhood to visit various shops by contemporary Mexican clothing designers, visit with one, and have a great lunch at Cafe Nin.
Another day will be spent in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood near the park to have tours of Kurimanzutto, Galeria de Arte Mexicano (the first contemporary Mexican art gallery in Mexico), and possibly Luis Barragan's Casa Gilardi, and two other galleries in the neighborhood.
For third morning, we will venture downtown for museum and gallery visits at Museo Franz Meyer and Museo Kaluz, a new, private Mexican art museum.
12:30-2 PM- Lunch (optional and flexible, as we may not want to have three meals each day)
2-7 PM+- Some days we will have an hour-long afternoon break. Others we will power through and catch a museum or have a studio visit with an artist before returning to the apartments..
6 PM or later- Dinner and sometimes an optional evening event like a jazz club, etc. In November, both Paul McCartney and The Cure were playing that weekend...
Puebla Extension Schedule
Our Puebla schedule will include one full day in downtown Puebla visiting museums, the oldest library in Latin America, a church and having some amazing mole before exploring contemporary Talavera ceramic artists.
On our second day, we will drive into the mountains to visit Nahua weavers and contemporary designers recreating traditional designs for a contemporary market. That evening we will drive back to Mexico City.
Health and Activity Levels
There will be a decent, but not overly taxing, amount of daily walking (10,000+ steps), and participants should be aware of that. Mexico City is a mile-high city, so participants should be aware of altitude changes and may want to arrive one day early to adjust if you have health concerns.
Arrive Wednesday, June 5th
Depart Wednesday, June 12th
Maximum of 9 participants
If participants have not visited Mexico City and wish to see Teotihuacan, or other separate excursions, we suggest to stay an extra day or arrive early.
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