Happy 30th birthday to the Observatory at the Roque de Los Muchachos! The official inauguration was in 1985, attended by the royalty from Denmark, Holland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and heads of state of Germany and Ireland. At that time there were only six telescopes on La Palma; now there are 17 of them. To celebrate, the Canarian Astrophysics Institute has a free exhibition in Santa Cruz…
Jorge Beda lives on La Palma, but he will be having an exhibition of painting and sculpture on Tenerife, at the Casa de Cultura in Los Cristianos from January 27th – February 28th. The exhibition will be open from Monday to Friday, and entrance is free.
The Awwa art and design collective, temporarily opened an art gallery and creative studio in San Andrés y Sauces, where it organized the first inaugural group exhibition titled ISLAND 2.0 which brings together outstanding artists of the islands of La Palma and Tenerife. The exhibition will run from September 13 until October 15 and unites several emerging and established artists working around modern art in Palma, such as Peter Faust,…
The fair is even better than I thought. It turns out that there’s 100 stalls of non-edible craft work, (although some exhibitors have half a stand) and 20 of food and drink. The non-edible stuff includes lots of embroidery, crochet, tatting, leather work, felting, traditional folk dress, wooden boxes and bowls, notebooks and photo albums made of banana paper, paper and glass beads, wrought iron work, several very different styles…
There are at least two art exhibitions well worth a visit in Santa Cruz de La Palma at the moment. Jorge Beda and Merche Martin Morillo have a retrospective exhibition a the College of Architects (on the Calle real or the sea front, just north of the Placeta). Amazingly, some of the paintings are just 30€. They’re open from Monday to Frieday, 10:30am – 1 pm and 6 pm-8:30 pm…
Santa Cruz de la Palma is still celebrating the anniversary of defeating Drake. In Palacio Salazar, there’s an exhibition of model ships, mostly from the Napoleonic wars. Now model ships aren’t really my thing, but it’s worth a quick visit just because they’re so beautifully detailed. (And if you haven’t seen Palacio Salazar, that’s worth a visit too.) The exhibition fills up the ground and first floor, and contains perhaps…