Small Talk diary page
 February 2012


 

Higher profile?

Nerja’s International Club has a new president, Tony Walsh, following its recent AGM. Tony is keen to raise the profile of the club at C/ San Juan, 42, and highlight the advantages of membership.

 

It currently opens Saturday mornings, Monday evenings and Tuesday mornings and it is planned to extend opening hours and days. Visitors are welcome to use the extensive bar for drinks or coffee or tea for a very nominal charge. WIFI is available and there is a library for members.

 

The club’s social calendar is varied with games nights, quiz nights and celebrations like St. Patrick’s night, Halloween, etc, where members and visitors alike are entertained by local performers. In addition to the indoor activities on offer, the club has a monthly day trip to Gibraltar and also runs excursions to places of interest like Rhonda and Cordoba and currently a four-day visit to Madrid, Segovia and Tolado.

 

For further information contact Tony Walsh on 95 252 3075 or vice president Deborah Brady on 696 263 285.

 

 

Poppy Appeal

British expats are happiest in Spain. A new survey by Lloyds TSB International shows that 75.9 per cent of British residents say they are happier than they would be back at home, making Spain the world’s happiest expat destination.

 

Lloyds said the data suggest that, despite the financial gloom and government austerity, Britons in Spain think their financial expectations are better here than at home.

 

 

Something different
Four members of the Andalusian International Artists group will be displaying their work at Cañadu Restaurante Vegetariano, Plaza de la Merced, 21, Málaga, this month. The show opens at 8pm on February 3 and runs until the 29th under the title of Something Different.

The artists are: Enrique Linaza from Spain (paintings), Gordon Haslett from the UK (photography), Roger Cummiskey from Ireland (paintings) and Philip Magee from Ireland (photography).

 

 

Further information from Philip Magee, 679 923 955 or at their website

 

 

On Show

Margaret Riordan is exhibiting her paintings at the Axarquia Art group exhibition in Frigiliana at La Casa de La Cultura.

 

It runs until February 11.

 

Open from 10am - 1.30pm weekdays and from 10.00 - 2.00 and 4.00 - 8.00 Saturdays and Sundays.

 


(Detail)

 

Postponed

Due to ongoing production and technical problems the Nerja Players production of Wind in the Willows scheduled for February 29 has been postponed until later this year. Watch this page for announcement of a new date.

 

 

Monsters
and Vampires

An evening with Lord Byron: Monsters, Vampires and the Gothic Imagination is the title of this month’s lecture for the Nerja Decorative and Fine Arts Society on February 14. It will be given by Elizabeth Merry who has over twenty years’ experience lecturing on a range of subjects including classical art and architecture, aspects of the visual arts and literature.

 

The date is June 18th 1816; the venue is the Villa Diodati beside Lake Geneva and the dramatic Jura mountain range. Byron’s guests are his secretary Dr Polidori and Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley.

 

Outside, the rain is beating down and thunder and lightning flash across the lake from the mountains. Inside, each of the four tries to intensify the gothic atmosphere by telling a ghost story. Mary’s creation is ‘Frankenstein’ which was to be the most enduring result of that stormy night.

 

This talk explores the artistic origins of the Gothic revival and the fascination with vampires, monsters and other horrors which found their expression in those stories.

 

We look at some of the weird, supernatural and fantastic subjects pictured by a range of artists including Fuseli, Blake, Wright of Derby and others, and at some depictions of Prometheus to explain Mary Shelley’s subtitle to Frankenstein: ‘The

 


Lord Byron

Modern Prometheus.’

 

The lecture is sponsored by DeCotta Law and starts at 6pm in the Cultural Centre, C/ Granada, Nerja. Admission to members and students is €5 and for nonmembers €10.

 

For further information telephone Ali Durston on 95 253 3373.

 

 

Torrox art exhibition

There will be an art exhibition at the Torrox Costa town hall in February.

 

It will be in the foyer and will continue for the whole month. The paintings on show are by four local English amateur artists, with four individual styles and varied subjects in both watercolour and acrylics.