A few people milled about outside in small groups waiting. Just before 9 p.m. the first riders glided from Calzada Independencia into the parking lot wearing reflective yellow vests and came to a stop at the back near the short but wide inviting mouth of the grey concrete Teatro Experimental. Tonight, Al Teatro en Bici would be holding its three-year anniversary—three years of Tuesday night bicycle rides to various artistic venues throughout Guadalajara, with the aim of promoting both health and art.
Like the sputtering then breaking of a dam the next wave came in force, three lanes wide and swinging into the parking lot on whirring bicycles. A concert speaker strapped to the back of a bicycle beat out trance music. When it stopped and its rider dismounted wearing a suit he smiled a wide set of even teeth and stood tall to welcome the rest of the riders with this posture.
His name was Alberto Eller and as head honcho of the Al Teatro en Bici organization, he had been on this and many other such nighttime bicycle rides through Guadalajara, although not many of them glowed and sparked with anticipation like this one. Instead of biking their way to an evening’s entertainment, tonight, Al Teatro en Bici was the entertainment—the focus of a full variety show of music, theater and back-patting awards.
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