Connecting through Music, Dance, Food and Storytelling in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Meet your host Christina Johnson, Festival Creator and Director

In January 2020, The first One Heart Cultural Festival took place in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. 

The idea was to create more connection between people using the ancient ways we have always connected: through storytelling, dance, music, and food. Some of these connections are rare in contemporary times because of technology and using social media to connect rather than a physical presence, human voice, and enjoying experience within a group of people.

The Festival this year includes classes of dance, stage performance, an incredible internationally acclaimed tango orchestra, (QUINTANGO) Oaxacan cooking class with a celebrity Mexican poet, a concert and elegant dinner in a top quality winery, and a visionary New York Times Best Seller speaker who will speak to your heart.

We suggest ways to connect with neighbors and new people by attending Meet Me There, a group led by Victor Rua, our guest from Argentina. Try meeting new faces at the Festival, enjoy new friendship possibilities, and perhaps leave your cell phone for an hour to be with a real person.

Through the Festival we hope to awaken and restore hope for the future as our future unfolds tentatively due to years of COVID and the current stress of political and environmental changes. We enthusiastically respond to the world situation with respect for people and how we can manifest a kinder and more forgiving community when we know our neighbors face to face and realize we are of “one heart”.

If you cannot register for individual events, you may email visionarypower@gmail.com, or call or text Whatsapp 1-601-392-1732.  

Payment may be made in cash or by Paypal or Zelle. Direct Zelle payments to visionarypower@gmail.com, Wells Fargo Bank in the USA. If space is available, you will be happily registered. We are updating the payment option online, so thanks for your understanding.

LOCATIONS of the events will be given when your registration is received.

SEPARATE TICKETS may be sold in person by Festival affiliates after Oct. 1st on a space-available basis.

Event costs are by donations. The suggested minimums are listed. Feel free to contribute more if you feel inclined. Thank you for supporting the Festival! 

Los precios para entrar a los eventos son por donación voluntaria a partir del 5 Octubre. Se enumeran los precios mínimos sugeridos para donaciones. Siéntase libre de donar más. Gracias por su apoyo del Festival.

VIP Event Vuelo del Corazon

Discount price for two people registering together, 1,400 pesos or 81 USD each. 

Tickets for concerts now are on sale. Se puede comprar boletos ahora.
Se vende entradas para los conciertos el 14, 15, 26 y 27 de octubre de 2 a 6 PM.
Dirreción: subida al Caracol #10, Colonia el Caracol. Casa con reja negra. No hay timbre.

Tickets for concerts will be sold on Oct. 14,15, 26, and 27 from 2 to 6 PM.
The address is the uphill part of Calle Caracol # 10, the house has black bars, and no doorbell.

Date & TimeEvent NameMXNUSDSat, Oct. 28th
10 am – 11:30 amTango Class - Fluid exchange roles for all with Cecilia Gonzalez. *Limited to 20 Participants
Location: Casa Sueño Azul, Calle Donceles 41, colonial Los Frailes transportation provided at extra cost.600351 pm – 2:30 pmWelcome Bienvenida Festival Party. Mexican cuisine, a gorgeous view of the city, and the BEST Mariachis in town! What Does the Heart Love? Opening Talk with Diana Wentworth. *Limited to 50 participants.
Location: Los Milagros Terraza Restaurant Calle Real Salida a Queretaro 91, esq Piedras Chinas.530307 pm – 9 pm“Opening the Heart” Concert by Quintango. Special guest: Natalia Toledo (Mexican Poet), Cecilia González & Jathan Sánchez (Tango Performance), Keila Tonello (Singer).
Location: Real de Minas Hotel, Ancha de San Antonio and Calle Vieja al Panteón.75044Sun, Oct. 29th
10 am – 11:30 amTango Class (embrace (internal and external contact) with Cecilia Gonzalez.
Location: Casa Sueño Azul, Calle Donceles 41, colonial Los Frailes. Transportation provided at extra cost.6003511 am – 12:30 pmMeet Me There - an experiential gathering of connection with Victor Rua.
Location: El Sindicato,Recreo # 4, Centro3502011:45 am – 1:15 pmTango Class (creating and filing the space with small turns) with Cecilia Gonzalez.
Location: Casa Sueño Azul, Calle Donceles 41, colonial Los Frailes transportation provided at extra cost.600352:45 pm – 4:15 pmTango Class Vals (exploring the rhythm and possibilities) with Cecilia Gonzalez.
Location: Casa Sueño Azul, Calle Donceles 41, colonial Los Frailes transportation provided at extra cost.600357 pm – 9 pm“One Heart” Concert by QuinTango.
Location: El Sindicato,Recreo # 4, Centro70042Mon, Oct. 30th
11 am – 12:30 pmPoetry Workshop - "Words Generate Words" - a literary approach to the origins of language and to Cosmovision (Zapoteca) - with Natalia Toledo (in Spanish with English translation) *Limited to 20 participants.
Location: Biblioteca, Avenida Insurgentes 15, between Calle Hidalgo y Hernández Macias.27001571 pm – 2:30 pmTango Class (the subtleness of crossing, profound work on connection while revisiting the cross) with Cecilia Gonzalez.
Location: Casa Sueño Azul, Calle Donceles 41, colonial Los Frailes transportation provided at extra cost.600355 pm – 9 pm“Vuelo del Corazon”  VIP event: QuinTango Concert, Dinner and Winery tour, hosted by Viñedo San Miguel. Special guest talk -  Sparking Delight: Stories of Feast and Friendship, by Diana Wentworth. *Parking is limited. This event requires carpooling or Festival transport cost of 350 MXN (21 USD) roundtrip. Viñedo event is Formal Dress.
Location: Carretera a Celaya, ((road to Celaya), but there is no room for parking your vehicle.1700100Tues, Oct. 31st
10 am – 11:30 amTango For Beginners - with Victor Rua.
Location: El Sindicato, Recreo # 4, Centro.4002311:45 am – 1 pmChacarera Argentine Folk Dance with Victor Rua. *We are donating this class for ten students aged 12 to 18. Register by emailing visionarypower@gmail.com to get the benefit. In the subject line, write Chacarera and your name.
Location: El Sindicato,Recreo # 4, Centro.3502012:30 pm - 3 pmEating, Dancing, Laughing, Cooking and Poetry class with Natalia Toledo (in Spanish with English translation).
Location: Casa Sueño Azul, Calle Donceles 41, colonial Los Frailes transportation provided at extra cost.35002057 pm – 9 pm“Heart Beat” Concert by QuinTango. *Limited to 120 Guests.
Location: Hotel Tres Fuentes, Baeza 7, Centro.70044

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Special Prices for the following are available until Oct. 5:

Cecilia Gonzalez Tango Classes

We are offering discount prices for only six dancers, three leaders and three followers, no gender-specific for either role… i.e., two women may register together as long as one decides to take the leader role. 400 pesos or 24 USD each per class.

Natalia Toledo's Poetry Workshop "Words Generate Words", in English and Spanish

The discount price of 3,600 pesos or 210 USD for two people, registering together.

Meet QuinTango

The main concert, Opening the Heart, with QuinTango, a sizzling prize-winning orchestra. Quintango has performed in large venues – Kennedy Center, Kravis Center (Palm Beach), Lincoln Center Plaza, Gaillard Auditorium (Charleston, SC), and Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Auditorium in Palo Alto; in historic venues – The White House (State dinner), etc. See more at https://www.quintango.com