Upcoming events.
Hosted Residency: Mexican Cuisine 101
Join 360 XQMX for a culinary whirlwind. Your welcome dinner and closing dinner will be at local restaurants known for their traditional cuisine. Each day will begin with a comforting breakfast that is Mexican inspired.
Hosted Residency: Fiction & Memoir 8-Day Generative Intensive
This professionally guided, no-judgments creative 8-day residency is based on a proven productivity method that can help you produce more pages in a week than your normal routine—and tap into a deeper emotional wellspring. The daily approach is rigorous, but it's based on a love of craft, an understanding of process, and the instructor's belief that every participant can tap into creativity and discipline at will. Novelist and storywriter Dylan Landis designed this residency for writers from aspiring to advanced, for those with work in progress or those wondering what to do next. Though we're not critiquing pages, you'll get to ask whatever craft questions are on your mind.
Latin American Mirador Dance Party
It is our TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY being in the headquARTers. Help us celebrate by dancing under the stars.
Amazing DJ from Guadalajara
Empanadas and Tacos by Ale
Beverages available
Cost: $200p
80's & Dolly Parton Mirador Dance Party
September 25th is unofficially being recognized as Dolly Parton Day (9 -2-5)! Join us for a night of 80's music for dancing ... plus a few Dolly tunes! We’ll be collecting children’s books in her honor and hosting a Dolly Parton look-alike competition.
Cost: $150p
Opening Reception: Corazón Auténtico by Dana Aeberg
Exhibition featuring work by Dana Aeberg.
Hosted Residency: Urban Sketching in Jalisco
Leave the planning and transportation to us as 360 XQMX will act as your local guide and sketch concierge. It will be an Uban Sketcher's dream as this residency will include morning and evening sketching sessions, participation with the Ajijic Sketchers, happy hour sketching at local venues, excursions to a foundry, vineyard and Japanese gardens... and so much more. Timing of this residency creates opportunities for you to experience a local balloon festival and one of Mexico's celebrated holidays, Independence Day. Wake up every day in the charming community of Ajijic, grab your art materials and be prepared to explore the local region, capturing all of the color and texture in your notebook.
Exhibition: Echoes and Whispers: Paintings, Monoprints, and Digital Collage in Dialogue
Each handmade work is paired with a multilayered piece based on the painting or monoprint. Taj Baker’s show invites viewers to approach these pairings with curiosity and playfulness: to trace visual connections, discover surprising departures, and practice seeing in new ways.
Gallery hours: Wednesdays and Saturdays 10am to 3pm; other days/hours vary.
Art playshops offered during the show.
Opening Reception: Echoes and Whispers: Paintings, Monoprints, and Digital Collage in Dialogue
Each handmade work is paired with a multilayered piece based on the painting or monoprint. Taj Baker’s show invites viewers to approach these pairings with curiosity and playfulness: to trace visual connections, discover surprising departures, and practice seeing in new ways.
Photography Exhibition: Saturation Studies
Stop by to find that perfect photo for a corner in your house that needs a touch of color!
Opening Reception: Saturation Studies
Ajijic Photographers. Group show. Support local artists!
Images will be bright, vivid, colorful & saturated!
Open Call: Photography Submission Deadline for “Saturation Studies”
Submit bright, vivid, intense & colorful photos to be featured in our upcoming photography exhibition (June 16-July 30, 2026).
Exhibition Closing Reception & 360 XQMX OPEN HOUSE
An evening of art, music, and friends. Featuring paintings by Jalisco artist, David Crum. This is his first solo exhibition!
Art Exhibition: David Crum, Stories from History - Opening Reception
An evening of art, music, and friends. Featuring paintings by Jalisco artist, David Crum. This is his first solo exhibition!
Closing Show: Val Armstrong
If you bought her work... come to collect your purchase!
If you wish to purchase something... bring your pesos!
Either way... join us to say
"Buen Viaje" to Val... until she returns next year.
ART EXCURSION: Bronze Foundry in Zapopan & Zapopan Plaza
This excursion will take us to the best art oasis in Guadalajara.
Art Exhibition: PETER SHANDERA
Since February 1, we’ve almost reached our goal for The PETER SHANDERA ART SCHOLARSHIP. Each year we want to raise enough funds to send at least 2 local students to the Art University in Tonala with all the supplies they will need for the year. Please come by to see what Urban Sketchers & Artist Trading Cards have contributed for the sale at 360. Just this week three local artist have donated their artwork for this event.
Artistas Juntos Salon Series
Resident Artists will share about what inspires them, what they are working on here and images or readings … always a nice evening.
MURAL & CERAMICS EXCURSION to San Antonio /San Juan Evangelista / Cajititlan
Join us for this art excursion road trip. We will visit the recently completed murals of neighboring San Antonio and then travel to Laguna de Cajititlan and more.
Artistas Juntos Salon Series
Resident Artists will share about what inspires them, what they are working on here and images or readings … always a nice evening.
Artisan craft workshop: Papier Maché
Learn from papier maché artist, Christy Cervantes. She will be coming all the way from Jamay to teach you her signature technique for adorning papier maché hummingbirds with textured tissue paper.
Catrina Face Painting and Altars & Tapetes in Ixtlahuacan
We will go back to JJ's salon for face painting, breakfast pastries and mimosas. We will then head to Ixtlahuacan. Local artists craft impressive altars in memory of their loved ones who have passed.
ART EXCURSION: Bronze Foundry, Zapopan Centro &Lucha Libre
This excursion will take us to the best art oasis in Guadalajara.
Ajijic Panteon, San Juan Cosala Centro & Jocotopec Centro
We will visit the Ajijic Panteon to view the sweet decorations on the graves. It is the day that Mexicans honor the children who have passed. It is lovely tradition and an honor to witness the thoughtful celebration of their lives. We will visit the two lakeside communities to our West.
Virgen del Rosario PARADE AND TRICK OR TREATING
The Virgen de Rosario parade travels directly past the 360 XQmX headquARTers! We throw open the gates to watch the celebration!
Tlaquepaque is SPECTACULAR at night!
Everyone has been to Tlaquepaque during the day ... but AT NIGHT? AND ... at Dia de Muertos? It is the best! Every shop, restaurant, gallery and food cart is decorated to the hilt!
Artisan craft workshop: Papel Picados
Learn from Ajijic's own papel picado artist, Sara Ulloa. She will walk you through the process of crafting your own papel picados and show you how to string them.
Hosted Residency: Dia de los Muertos
This is an opportunity to experience Dia de Muertos in a wide variety of situations as local towns each celebrate differently. The drama, color and texture are exhilarating. You will be front and center for the best festivities in the region. Plus a parade, trick-or-treating, artisan craft workshops, art excursions and believe it or not down days to explore or create art on your own.
Silent Book Club
At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All readers are welcome—ebooks, audiobooks, textbooks, novels, comic books... it's BYOBook. There is no cost to attend and this will be an alcohol-free event.
Friends and strangers gather at 6pm , purchase snacks or drinks, share what they're reading and settle in for an hour of silent, sustained reading from 6:30pm - 7:30pm. At the end of the hour, attendees can socialize—or not! If you are reading a page-turner and can't bear to put it down, keep reading for another thirty minutes.
Here at 360 XQMX there are endless possibilities for where you can spend your time reading. On the mirador, enjoying sunset. In the sala gallery, surrounded by art. In a fabulous rocking chair...just rocking. Maybe roll up your pants and dangle your feet in our Indonesian stone-tiled pool. There are many nooks and crannies. Please make yourself at home.
6pm - 6:30pm
Gather, grab a drink or snack & find a place to get comfy for an hour of reading. Chat with your neighbor, if you like.
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Silent reading. If you are using an audio book, please bring headphones or earbuds.
7:30pm - 8pm
Continue reading if you like. Or chat with your neighbor ...
That's it. Pretty simple. We look forward to welcoming you. We are going to try this every month...put it on your calendar and bring your friends, or make new ones.
