‘Salty Seadogs Ahoy!’
Perhaps you may, or may not, have noticed that my mobile number has changed this week. Unfortunately my mobile phone company have decided that it was just too difficult to organise for me to keep my old number when I changed contracts.
Therefore please make a note of the new number - 622852018 - from this week onwards if you have any event you would like mentioned in the coming weeks and months. I will say that again just to be sure I have your attention. My NEW number is - 622852018. There now, you have no excuses when you try to phone me and then complain via email that I am yet again incommunicado.
This week I have a number of interesting things that are worth a mention. Not necessarily all art based, but of note nonetheless. On the art front, we have an exhibition of pottery taking place in the Centro Cultural de Virgen Del Carmen. Now, I confess to not having had the chance to see this one, but I have been told it is quite impressive, and has included the potter/s doing a series of talks on their favourite subject during the period of the show. It has been running from the 25th Feb and continues until the 19th March.
Onto something more in line with the arts and crafts movement than simply arts based. A series of classes on how to create the famous salt boats of Torrevieja is currently taking place in Calle Urbano Arregui, No.19 (very near the Acequion / playa Naufragos area). This is probably a bit late to enrol this time as the classes started on the 1st of February, but I have a long list of events to mention each week and sometimes things can get squeezed further down the line, so I apologise for not giving you this one a bit sooner. However, it runs until the 31st of March, so if you are interested in finding out more about ‘how to’, or even when the next series of classes will commence, by all means call in and speak to the organisers. Classes run from 6pm to 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays and are priced at only €30 a quarter.
Staying on the subject of boats, the annual naval models exhibition will take place in March, starting on Saturday the 13th, in the Los Aljibes exhibition centre (semiunderground building at the top end of the Park of Nations). The exhibition continues until the 9th May so there will be plenty of opportunity to see not only the fixed exhibition, but also a selection of the radio controlled boats in action on each and every Saturday and Sunday morning in the Park of Nations Lake. If you call, check out one of the white swans (no.19 I think?). I’ve been told it has had a radio controlled device fitted for the event so you can steer it around the lake.
Just ask the organisers if you can take it for a spin.
Contact TJ Miles - Tel. 622852018 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - if you have any upcoming arts based events that you would like mentioned in this year ’s issues of ‘A Splash Of Colour’ please do get in touch, and try to give me plenty of notice of your event or happening to make sure I can include it in time.