BACKWARDS AND FORWARD all across the arts

ISLAND ART Around this time last year, as I collated a review, for the all across the arts pages on the Lanzarote Information web site, of the myriad arts and culture events that had taken place on the island over the previous twelve months,…
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A GOOD NEWS STORY

YOU DON´T NEED WORDS TO SAY   Throughout the past four years, whilst I have been living here on Lanzarote, a former member of a writing group I ran in the UK has stayed in touch via e mail and her prodigious facebook outpourings.…

FOOD FOR THOUGHT AFTER FESTIVAL

FOOD FESTIVAL & A TASTE OF THE FUTURE The Annual Festival Enogastronomy Saborea Lanzarote: 2019 A gastronomical event was always included as part of the annual Rochdale Feel Good arts and cultural Festival in the years I spent covering…

DON´T GO BREAKING MY ART

ALL ART HAS ITS PLACE Greater love hath no man for his readers than to write an article when he could have been exploring his local landscape to catch glimpses of Angelina Jolie (pictured above). This week she and her co-stars, Salma Hayek,…

LENDANEAR TO MUSIC

LENDANEAR: NOW AND THEN I fell in love with poetry through listening to the lyrics of old songs my dad would sing as he drove the family on weekend trips throughout my childhood such as On The Street Where You Live, Unforgettable and A…

SARA DEL SALINAS SPEAKS OF SALT AND SEES ITS FUTURE

SARA DEL SALINAS I have no idea if the Spanish have a phrase that is in any way equivalent in meaning or nuance to the English idiomatic saying of ´take it with a pinch of salt.´ In fact, when I first pondered the appropriateness of the…

NOT FOLLOWING THE MAP

HOW WE GOT HERE FROM THERE I spent the first half of what I laughingly call my ´career´ in the UK, writing songs with my musical partner Colin Lever. Calling ourselves Lendanear we played the folk circuit in the North West of England and…

CORNETS, CLARINETS AND BIG TROMBONES

OLDHAM BAND (LEES) LIVE AND ON C.D. Editor´s Notes. Any of our readers who have been following the Oldham Band (Lees) on http://www.oldhamband.co.uk/ will be aware that they have recently been attaching achievements to their ambitions.…

ARTS AND POLITICS: THE ODD COUPLE

ARTS AND POLITICS: THE ODD COUPLE With the UK holding an election in December that, even if the parties each try to address social issues, will inevitably be about Brexit and November 10th the date of a general election being held in Spain…

ARTS, CULTURE, CUSTOM & CHURCH

CHESTNUTS AND OLD SPANISH CUSTOMS All Saints Day in Spain (Todos Los Santos) takes place on November 1st. It is a very important national public holiday throughout Spain, when people, from all over the country, return to their town or village…