Women & Success and Teatro das Figuras offered a very pleasant evening to local professional women at their Cultural Networking Event. The Women & Success Cultural Networking Event that took place last Thursday at the Teatro das Figuras, was a true success!
More than 35 women responded to the invitation and had a chance to meet professional women, network, visit the backstage of a theatre and enjoy a contemporary dance show, at Teatro das Figuras, in Faro.
Locally funded and produced independent film, The Right Juice, is to première in Faro this Friday, August 29th at Teatro das Figuras.
The première will be attended by members of the cast and crew, including the director, Kristjan Knigge, the producer, BJ Boulter and leading cast Mark Killeen, Lúcia Moniz, Miguel Damião, Ellie Chidzey, Beau McClellan and Michael Reeve.
This is a unique opportunity for you to play a leading role in an up and coming independent association in the Algarve. ASMAA is a multilingual and multicultural organisation and strives on its diversity of cultures.
ASMAA is a private not-for-profit association complying with its statuary aims and objectives of supporting the Algarve tourism driven sectors using the sea and marine activities as tools of sustainability. In addition ASMAA strongly supports the environment, with a special emphasis on protecting the oceans surrounding the Algarve coastal regions.
On Saturday night two members of the St Patrick’s Irish Society of the Algarve turned their garden into a little bit of Ireland in honour of their Ambassador.
Irish Ambassador to Portugal, Her Excellency Anne Webster attended the annual Summer Party of the Society and found the garden had been decorated with green, white and gold balloons and Irish flags; even the table napkins were in the Irish colours.
The history of Tavira is exemplified by its extraordinary ‘roof-scape’. Realistically captured on canvas by Juli-Anne Coward, her paintings are displayed at Galeria Côrte-Real in Paderne.
The Holiday Inn Algarve in Armação de Pêra is delighted to once agan be participating in the Caldeirada and Ocean Tapas Festival taking place in Armação de Pêra this weekend.
"Caldeirada" is a typical Algarvian dish which consists of stewed fish and sea food with potatoes, onions ,tomatoes, pimentos, spices wine and olive oil.
At the British Consulates in Lisbon and Portimão, we are introducing some changes to our public opening hours. Consular assistance will continue to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by calling us on 808 20 35 37 or +351 21 395 4082.
From 23 June 2014, our public opening hours for appointments and personal callers, in both Lisbon and Portimão, will be 09h30 to 14h00 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (currently Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 2pm).
Specially commissioned and on display at Galeria Côrte-Real in Paderne, a new series of paintings by Jan Johnson feature individual, vintage tea cups.
Perfectly executed, the delicate design of each tea cup has been devised by Jan creating a feeling of nostalgia and refinement. Her distinctive style of painting has been much admired in the UK, France and Portugal and the new exhibition is well suited to the quaint surroundings of the gallery, located in an authentic ‘quinta’ in the Algarve countryside.
