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SEAMUS KELLY AND SOPHIE HANNAH words from the writer: by Norman Warwick

SEAMUS KELLY AND SOPHIE HANNAH words from the writer: by Norman Warwick What Robin Parker and I started in the UK more than ten years ago soon included Steve Cooke, who took over the reins when I eventually left to come to retire here,…
INTO THE NEW YEAR WITH NEW IDEAS In its first four years of existence, when serving the arts scene in the Rochdale area of the UK, all across the arts grew from providing one page per week to The Heywood Advertiser to two pages per week.…
MORE THAN TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS It all started for us on Friday December 6th with an event that is all-inclusive and is always elegant, cheerful and bright. The Princessa Yaiza Hotel has been inaugurating a Christmas lights display for…
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NEWS, PREVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

GOSPEL, PERCUSSION, CLASSICAL, CHORAL AND STARRY SKIES Latonius & The Faith Theory in Arrecife La Tempestad in Arrecife Mijail Saprychev, classical pianist at El Grifo Miguel Aguearralde, book  launch, in Arrecife The…
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CIRCUS CHANGES

FROM MR. KITE TO CIRCUBA Elegant tents were pegged on the Rambla Medular in Arrecife with posters plastered all over the city centre announcing that, for almost a month, Cuba´s National Circus was in town. Whatever the old romantic tales…
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A WRITER AND HIS HOUSE OF BOOKS

José Saramago and a home in Tias. The moment the tour guide invites you over the threshold of the place where José Saramago once lived, you know you are entering a house  of books; a house that was obviously his place of work, and also…

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…

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…