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Nº 067 September 2019 Calendar – September Fiestas – Orihuela romeria/ Folklore festival - Jacarilla celebrations – Dolores – The Past in the Present – Holding the Moors at Bay – Santa Pola – Villajoyosa – Maritime Museum Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation cows – Hispanic N. America – Dead Man Walking – River of Fire – Saving Water – Season Tickets – Art Course – Mauthausen Memories - Vinos - 2020 Calendar – Cows for Bali – Culture and Concerts.
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September Fiestas
This month sees more fiestas in honour of the Virgin Mary whose birthday is celebrated on 8th September. In Orihuela and Villena she is honoured under the title of The Virgen de Montserrat or the Black Madonna, other titles include the Virgen de Loreto and the Virgen del Rosario, with many local fiestas in the Vega Baja area. With the pressure of summer visitors owns can relax and man people hold fiestas. Roads are less busy so its a good time to get out and about either yourself or in one of the many bus tours ow organised.
Castalla celebrates Moors & Christians with 4 Christian comparsas and three of Moors approximately 2,000 people involved. aormi@icloud.com
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1 - 4th Sept. Castalla holds main fiestas of Moors & Christians. 1 - 8th Sept. Santa Pola has patronal fiestas of the Virgen de Loreto. Patronal fiestas at Sanet y Negrals. 3 - 4th Sept. Biar holds el Día del Cólera. 4 - 9th Sept. Moors & Christians in Villena. 5 - 9th Sept. The Virgen del Socorro, patroness of fishermen, is honoured in the Raval Roig district of Alacant. Patronal fiestas in Agres. First Sunday of month Moors & Christians take to the streets of Adsubia. On the first weekend the Fadrins festival is held in Adsubia. Patronal fiestas in Tormos. First weekend of the month traditional dancing in Benilloba Banyares de Mariola holds Festa de la Reliquia. Saint Thomas is honoured in Altea. A romería in Castel de Castells for the Virgen de Petracos.
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Peniscola – traditional dance festival. Liria - religious music festival in honour of la Purisima. D’Engueras – Childrens international fiesta using straw images in honour of San Gil. Valencia city – International Folklore festival
Segorbe – livestock fair, bull and horses corrida as part of patronal fiestas . Two week celebrations into middle September considered to be of Interés Turístico Nacional. aormi@icloud.com
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Montcada – Corpus Christi celebrations with carnival floats, traditional music and dancing, in honour of St. Barbara. Paterna – religious procession and Bengal fireworks street battle of the cordat. Mislata – two kilometres of cracker fireworks laid in streets of town centre in the annual traca when men try to outrun the flashing bangers., a s the go off in sequence. The second week Moors & Christians in the patronal fiestas of Aigües. From 1st Wednesday of the month until a week later on the Thursday, Moors & Christians in Ibi. 6 - 8th Mutxamel hold fiestas. Patronal fiestas in Orihuela. 6 - 10th Moors & Christians in Benejama. Patronal fiestas of Monòvar. 6 - 18th Elda holds main fiestas with special events on the 8th and 9th. 7th Sept. Daya Vieja hold patronal fiestas in honor of Nuestra Señora de Montserrate. Patronal fiestas in Jacarilla. 7 - 10th Montforte del Cid holds festival of Virgen de Orito. Second weekend Benifallim holds the Fadrins festival with a Blessed Bread parade.
8th Guardamar de Segura have fiestas in honour of the Virgen de Guardamar Fátima, held in the Campo . Moors & Christians in the patronal fiestas at Redován. 8 – 12 Albacete Fair has over 1 million visitors with 20,000 taking part in the floral offering. 9th - 12th Moors & Christian fiestas in Mutxamel. On the weekend nearest to the 9th September the Festa de Les Copletes is held in L’Alfàs del Pi. 11th Sept. “El Socarrat” is celebrated in Monóvar. 12 - 16th Greater fiestas of Cristo de la Paz held in San Juan de Alicante. 14 - 17th Fallas de San Pedro in Elda.
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Novelda has fiestas in the La Garrova district. Sax has the Fiesta de la Virgen de los Frutos. Xàbia holds the Fiesta de la Virgen del Popul. Fleix (Vall de Laguart) holds their greater fiestas. The weekend following this date the people of Dolores hold their patronal fiestas. Middle of the month Teulada celebrates the Fiesta de la Divina Pastora. 21 - 23rd Santa Cecilia festival in Alfafara.
The 3rd Sunday a romería to the Sanctuary of the Mare de Déu de la Font Roja at Alcoy dedicated to Our Lady of the Lilies. A very large procession in beautiful countryside.
Patronal fiestas in Beniaya (Vall d’Alcalà) Orxeta has patronal fiestas On the 3rd week patronal fiestas with Moors & Christians in Altea. La Xara (Dénia) holds fiestas in honour of San Mateo. 27 - 29th Redovan has the Romería a la Virgen de la Salud. 29th San Miguel de Salinas holds patronal fiestas. The weekend nearest this feast of Saint Michael the Archangel fiestas in Ibi. Also in La Villajoyosa, Gata de Gorgos and Benifallim. Moors & Christians parade in L’Alquería d’Asnar. Fiestas of Daya Vieja. 29th Sept. - 7th October Patronal fiestas in San Fulgencio. aormi@icloud.com
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During SEPTEMBER the people of many towns that have had a busy summer either through the tourist trade or through collecting harvests, now have the opportunity to relax and celebrate themselves. The majority of Spanish holidaymakers have now left the Costa Blanca, although the high season still goes on. This is the time of the year when many foreigners come for long stays and there are still many typical Spanish fiestas for everyone to enjoy. It is advisable to seek dates and hours from local tourist offices as often fiesta details are altered at the last minute. Look out for bus trips to various fiestas. September is a month where most of the fiestas are related to the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus. Many non-Catholics fail to understand that most of feasts dedicated to virgins are all dedicated to the same lady - the Mother of Jesus. Every town has its own special feast dedicated to her under a multitude of titles
The 8th is the Feast of Mary´s birth and in Agres (from 7th - 10th) Our Lady of the Castle fiestas are held in her honour. During these fiestas there is a representation of the shepherds and the Virgin Mary.
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Orihuela celebrates on the 8th September with a romeria from the sanctuary of the Virgen de Montserrat to the cathedral. For the few days preceding this there will be the the International Folklore Gathering with dancers, singers and artistes from many countries performing traditional offerings. It is a baroque temple with a Latin cross plan and a neoclassical facade topped with the anagram of Ntra. de Monserrate. According to tradition, it was built on the old Gothic parish of San Juliรกn when the image of the Virgin was discovered once the city was reconquered. The early hermitage or church is not prior to the fifteenth century, and is supposed to occupy the position of the current one and the Chapel of the Hallazgo. In 1747 the old temple was demolished, the current one being built between 1750 and 1776 by Bernardo Rippa, with important restorations throughout the 20th century.More information from Orihuela Tourist Office. aormi@icloud.com
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Jacarilla also hold fiestas on this date in honour of Nuestra Señora del Belén, normally with a bell-ringing session at mid-day followed by the usual fireworks and in the evening a floral offering at the church. Then of course the dancing, drinking, dining and other events one would expect to find. The annual fiestas in this small up-coming town of the Vega Baja is twofold - in the third week of August offering a variety of sporting activities including frontenis, high-jumping, rocodrome, multiadventure and paintball games. Then around 8th September the Parque de la Pinada is the centre for the coronation of the local fiesta queen and her maids of honour. The fiestas are in honour of the Virgen del Belen (Bethlehem), with a floral offering on the 7th September. These days are intensive with a variety of processions, fireworks and concerts.
Dolores is another Vega Baja town that continues from a busy August calendar its celebrations of this month for the town’s patronal feast of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in the middle of the month. The town takes its name from the poignant devotion the people have to this particular event in the last hours of Christ’s death when his mother’s heart and soul were pierced with so much sorrow that men could be so cruel, especially to her beloved son. This poignancy is further embedded in the town’s communal memory, because the origins of the town were from a prison camp whose inmates suffered not only form loss of liberty but from the pestilence of swamps, which were later drained into the River Segura when the town was founded. Each day has its own programme, which includes an evening Solemn Mass, followed by a procession of carriages and a communal meal. There is a vibrant carnival parade with many floats and groups representing neighbouring towns such as Algorfa, Cox Almoradi, Benejúzar and representatives from Alicante and Murcia. By far the most emotive procession is that of the Floral Offering which in recent years has seen the introduction of a pair of oxen carrying the saint’s image and bowing in homage to the Virgen de Dolores. aormi@icloud.com
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The Past in the Present by Dave Stewart
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ROMANS VERSUS CARTHAGINIANS Cartagena is an ancient city in Murcia Region that has much to offer the tourists with its Roman remains and a long, but deeply interesting history. The city is strategically placed with a deep bay protected by promontories making a stronghold since the time of the Carthaginians under Asdrúbal who gave it its name as Quart Haddast Nuevo Cartagena. The Romans captured it and there are many signs of their occupation including part of the original city walls and the ruined Castillo de la Concepción. In recent years more archaeological discoveries from various epochs have been unearthed. This rich cultural background was offered to the tourists in a Plan de Dinamizacion that was ongoing until November 2001. Because of this initiative forgotten treasures have been dusted off for public viewing and more reconstruction work done on old remains, including the Punic Wall that was discovered in 1989 with its origins dating back to 227 B.C., a strong, silent witness of the original Carthaginians. Alongside this is a symbol of how succeeding generations and civilizations build on what has gone before. In this case a Benedictine cemetery of the 17th century. This has led to the development of the tourist sector of Cartagena as the gateway to two civilizations. Museums
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Museums are excellent ways to discover a city and Cartagena has a really interesting Nautical Underwater Archaeological Museum. Cartagena has centuries long maritime tradition dating back to Phoenicians, Romans and is still the largest bay for the Spanish Fleet as well as a ship building industry. Among the boats built here is the Delfin submarine that is now part of Torrevieja’s Sea and Salt Museum. Another attraction is the Roman Theatre connected to a Museum by an underground passage. This is fascinating as the original amphitheatre gave way to various other building works, first as a market, then built over to remain hidden for a very long time until the area was redeveloped in the early 1990’s and the theatre was discovered. The cathedral was partially built over the old theatre.
Historic Battles
During the last two weeks of September the battles between Scipio’s Rome and Carthage are re-enacted each year in a festival where a Roman encampment is built with typical Roman market, taverns and many other Roman institutions. This camp is located next to the football stadium. Hundreds of the townspeople take sides dressing up as Roman legionnaires or Carthaginian troops with parades and mock battles as when the Roman, Publio Corneilo Escipion, conquered the city in 209AD.
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The Romans land on the waterfront in the early afternoon and battle commences beneath the city walls at the Cuesta del Batel. At midnight the Romans are proclaimed as victorious and the following day parade in style from Calle Esparta to the encampment. A truce is made which binds both nations through marriage and the fiestas include a theatrical display of the marriage between royal Roman blood and a Carthaginian princess Anibal and Hilice, bringing a time of peace to the city. As well as the daily parades of soldiers the visitor is treated to a spectacle in the Roman Circus. Cartagena tourist office 968 506 483 or email: infoturismo@aytocartagena.es or see webpage www.cartagena.es
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Holding the Moors at Bay
Moors & Christian fiesta battles still continue this month with some being held on the first weekend at Banyeres de Mariola; Santa Pola the first week of September; Villena from 4th - 9th; Crevillente from 24th September to 5th October. Many Spanish fortresses were built by the Moors, while others were used as frontier towns between the various Christian kingdoms. Today many of them are valuable tourism attractions. Some fiestas use the real fortress, while others have wooden ones as part of the stage props. In Benidorm a music festival and the building of a castle are held at the end of the month in expectation of the Moors & Christian fiestas during the beginning of October.
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The actual fiestas held in the first week of October start with a morning reveille (Diana) and in the afternoon a show is staged with the Entry of the Moors & Christians. The second day also starts with a Diana and a flower offering to the patron saint, San Jaime. The Moorish fleet disembarks and an ambassador meets with the Christians and then the deafening Battle of the Blunderbusses begins with the Christian King finally winning the day and occupying the castle. For those who would like to see a Moors & Christian festival the toy-making town of Ibi holds their fiestas in honour of la Virgen de los Desamparados from the 2nd Sunday of the month through to the third week of September. Celebrations begin from early morning with a diana (morning breakfast) as groups from the comparsas parade the streets in all their fierce finery. Moors & Christians march daily through the streets dressed in all heir fine costumes.
From 4th - 9th of September the spectacular fiestas of Villena take place. If you speak of Moors & Christians you talk about Villena where the fiestas are considered to be of National Touristic Interest. Of the 32,000 inhabitants 15,000 take part in these patronal fiestas dedicated to the Virgen de las Virtudes or La Morenica as she is known popularly as this is another brown skinned image. This festival dates back to 1474 when the Virgen was proclaimed patroness because of her protection during the plague. A sanctuary was built in 1490 about seven kilometres outwith the town and her image installed. Each year in March and on 8th aormi@icloud.com
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September there is a romeria pilgrimage to the shrine with pilgrims wearing a sky blue coloured neckerchief emblazoned with the image of this particular Virgen. The texts used by the Ambassadors in the Moors & Christian fiestas go back to the early 19th century. 14 comparsas or groups take part in the parades, 7 of these are Moros, some of whom march a pasodoble to music first played in 1907. One curious element of these fiestas is the interchange of the figure of la Mahoma from Biar to Villena. The reasons for this are lost in history and modern speculation is that it is possibly a form of tax from one town to another. It is certain that at one time both towns were allies in the fight against a common enemy. For visitors Villena is an old city crowned with a stupendous Arab built castle, La Atalaya, around which the town has grown. The origins of the town date back further than that with cave remains going as far back as 50,000 years. The castle was built on the ruins of an Iberian settlement and the ancient town centre is the most important part for the sightseer with a visit to the local archaeological museum a must.
Santa Pola was known by the Iberians as Alonai, then the Romans used it as a port for the large city of Elche and called it Portus Ilicitanus, later it was el Cabo del Aljibe, Santa Paula and today Santa Pola. The Iberians actually built a small town as they were fishermen but it was abandoned for unknown reasons after only 75 years in 430 BC. The construction of the port of Elche meant a tremendous impulse in the commerce and local economy. There are remains of a factory that produced the condiment of garum that took two months to ferment. aormi@icloud.com
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Villajoiosoa As the sun rises over the horizon, the boats laden with Moorish warriors creep in shore. Six o’clock in the morning and the guards on shore shout the alarm; the Moors jump overboard into the shallow water and wade forward to meet the rushing Christian defenders…and battle of La Vila Joiosa commences before breakfast. Over four thousand citizens take sides in this extravagant celebration commemorating the eventual domination of the Christians over the Moors for the town. However, before that the Moors fight and capture the small wooden castle set up on the beach area.
Segorbe is an old town with a monument dedicated to bulls and horses and their riders. There is also a Bull Museum as each September the corrida of bulls is accompanied by horsemen rather than men on foot. The horse is the protagonist of these internationally recognised fiestas. This is part of the livestock fair held in Segorbe where Jamón and butidos are the gastronomical pride of the people. aormi@icloud.com
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Barcelona Maritime Museum - Santa Eulalia In January 1918, a schooner sporting three masts and named Carmen Flores was launched at the beach of Torrevieja. The vessel was active for almost 80 years, during which time it underwent various modifications and changes of name. Between 1928 and 1975 it was a motor sailer and went by the names of the Puerto de Palma and the Cala San Vicenç. As of 1975, by which time it was called the Sayremar Uno, it operated as an auxiliary ship for underwater work. The vessel continued to work in that capacity until 1997, the year in which the Museu Marítim de Barcelona acquired it through an auction. That purchase saw the museum posed with one of the most significant and difficult challenges it had ever faced, namely the recovery and restoration of a historical vessel, adhering to the strictest criteria in terms of the protection of cultural heritage. The first of its kind to be undertaken in Spain, the operation was also intended to be an initial step towards recovering our valuable floating heritage. Having gathered together all kinds of historical and technical information that provided a highly accurate picture of the ship’s original appearance, restoration and reconstruction work began in 1998, following a principle of preservation wherever possible. Certain parts had to be newly made, such as the masts, spars and rigging.Meanwhile, plans were afoot to make the ship operative, so that the restored schooner would be able to set sail in addition to being open to visitors in the port. Currently moored at Barcelona’s old port, the Santa Eulàlia has become the museum’s flagship and is a vital part of a comprehensive range of educational programmes and pedagogical and civic activities related to the Mediterranean Sea. aormi@icloud.com
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Bali Sahaja Sawah Resort Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation Who is the greatest giver on planet Earth today? Who do we see on every table in every country of the world –breakfast, lunch and dinner? It is the cow. McDonald’s cow-vending golden arches and their rivals have made fortunes off the humble cow. The generous cow gives milk and cream, yogurt and cheese, butter and ice cream, ghee and buttermilk. It gives entirely of itself through sirloin, ribs, rump, porterhouse and beef stew to the Western markets. Its bones are the base for soup broths and glues. It gives the world leather belts, leather seats, leather coats and shoes, beef jerky, cowboy hats – you name it.
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Daisy the cow brings back childhood memories of C is for COW. Daisy is placid and cud chewing and looks at you with those endearing eyes. Let’s look at how people in Bali see cows. Hindus don’t worship cows. That’s a Fallacy. They respect, honour and adore the cow. By honouring this gentle animal, who gives more than she takes, all creatures are honoured . Hindus regard all living creatures as sacred – mammals, fishes, birds and more. They acknowledge this reverence for life in a special affection for the cow. At festivals they decorate and honour her, but they do not worship her in the sense that a deity is worshipped.
To the Hindu, the cow symbolizes all other creatures. The cow is a symbol of the Earth, the nourisher, the ever-giving, undemanding provider. The cow represents life and the sustenance of life. The cow is so generous, taking nothing but water, grass and grain. She gives and gives and gives of her milk, as does the liberated soul give of his spiritual knowledge. The cow is so vital to life, the virtual sustainer of life, for many humans. The cow is a symbol of grace and abundance. Veneration of the cow instils in Hindus the virtues of gentleness, connectedness with nature. aormi@icloud.com
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By her docile, tolerant nature, the cow exemplifies the cardinal virtue of Hinduism, noninjury, known as ahimsa. The cow also symbolizes dignity, strength, endurance, maternity and selfless service. When a mum cannot breast feed her baby, it is the cow milk that comes to their aid… without which the child will not get the required nutrients at the early stage of life. In Bali poor people depend on their cow to give them life as they depend on her for all of the above and more. Poor people in Bali?? But Bali is rich. Only rich people go there on holidays as it is an exotic destination. Not true. There are resorts built specifically to lure the holiday makers ensuring that they have a wonderful exotic vacation user blue skies and warm sun, on a golden beach with a fancy cocktail at hand. But that’s a holiday brochure vision. There are many poor people living in the villages that tourists never see. https://www.sahajasawah.org is the webpage for the Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation of Torrevieja entrepreneur Bernard van Elmpt known to many in the TORREVIEJA for his philanthropic aid to many local associations and projects. His holiday resort in Bali provides work for many of the local villagers and his foundation is helping them to recover from the effects of earthquakes, a tsunami and volcanic eruption. In this way nine villages and their people can be helped. If you look at the Yayasan Sahaja Sawah webpage you will see that the aim is to ensure that the people help themselves and never be helped directly with money. Bernard has a range of projects, such as the bridge that was destroyed in a tsunami and his foundation gave the building materials for the villagers to rebuild it for themselves. The same strategy was used to rebuild a six kilometer road.
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Earlier this year he visited Torrevieja and gave two presentations of his vision for these poor people. One is to rebuild the school which was destroyed and he is naming it “TORREVIEJA” as he considers that education is a key the future for the youngsters. Nearby is an orphanage and after the natural disasters there are even more homeless children and the Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation would like to build an extension to the current orphanage to provide for these unfortunate children.
Potable water is a big health problem as it comes from the already polluted river. At the moment the foundation, through donors, is buying special water filter systems that are given to each family, which still requires someone to go to the river to collect it. These only cost 30 euros and the name of the donor can be put on each filter. Another aim was an ambulance to get ill people to the hospital 45 minutes away over a bumpy road. He has managed to do that now it is needing a couple of defibrillators. In the videos a couple of young people could be seen with huge tumors on their faces and it would be great if something could be done for these people. Obviously fishing is a job that requires a boat and the aim is to buy boats to loan to families so that they can earn money and eventually pay off the loan for a boat; then that money can be reinvested for another family’s fishing boat. aormi@icloud.com
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Protecting the environment is also another consideration of the Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation and one other of the projects is turtle preservation, encouraging the children to participate. The Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation employs 2 staff who clean the local beaches and villages from plastic and other recyclable material, there is already an agreement with 2 villages that they save all recyclable material and it is collected it once a month and they get paid for it, so they have initiative to keep it clean. In this way villagers are taught to recycle things. The Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation supplies villagers with fruit trees and other plants that they can grow in their own gardens and be a bit more self sufficient. Another aspect of this is providing, in a payback loan agreement, families with pigs and cows so they can reproduce and continue in a cycle providing them with food or years to come. Which brings us back to Daisy the cow. As you can see in her curriculum vitae she provides a lot of sustenance to a village family. The Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation slogan is “Life’s greatest privilege is taking care of those around you.” That requires that you teach people to look after themselves without depending on handouts. But the Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation requires a lot of support to provide the fruition of these and other The RASCALS donated some money to a fund projects. The foundation require raising initiative by Matilde Sanchez and Andy your help, your donations, to assist Ormiston for buying two cows to provide income the really poor of this earth to learn and sustenance for Bali families. to provide for themselves.
We don’t give fish to eat, we give fishing rods and boats so they can eat many times. We don’t give meat to eat, we give live pigs and cows so they can reproduce and have food and money for many years. We give fruit trees, vegetables plants. We also give water filters so their water be drinkable.
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Bookshelf by Pat Hynds
Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots―ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today. El Norte chronicles the sweeping and dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century to the present―from Ponce de Leon’s initial landing in Florida in 1513 to Spanish control of the vast Louisiana territory in 1762 to the MexicanAmerican War in 1846 and up to the more recent tragedy of post-hurricane Puerto Rico and the ongoing border acrimony with Mexico.
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Interwoven in this stirring narrative of events and people are cultural issues that have been there from the start, but which are unresolved to this day: language, belonging, community, race, and nationality. Seeing them play out over centuries provides vital perspective at a time when it is urgently needed. When people like President Trump criminalize those south of the border who want to immigrants to USA as have their many predecessors. In 1883, Walt W h i t m a n meditated on his country’s Spanish past: “ We Americans have yet to really learn o u r o w n antecedents, and sort them, to unify them,” predicting that “to that c o m p o s i t e American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts.” That future is here, and El Norte, a stirring and eventful history in its own right, will make a powerful impact on our national understanding. aormi@icloud.com
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This book is is not to be confused with the successful TV series The Walking Dead, but the choice of prison or a death sentence prevalent in so many American prisons. Dead Man Walking is the Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty that sparked a National Debate. I would also like to add a suggested second book by Sistr Helen Prejean, which is an autobiography that led up to her decision to write this first book about prison sentencing. In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it. aormi@icloud.com
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Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn star in the film Dead Man Walking based on the true story of a murderer’s final days before his execution and a nun trying to reach him spiritually.
Turned 80 Helen Prejean, C.S.J., is best known for her work against the death penalty, but her new memoir, River of Fire, tells the story of the woman she was before she ever set foot on death row. The book leaves off, literally, where her famous memoir Dead Man Walking begins. The last sentence of River of Fire is the opening line of Dead Man Walking: “When Chava Colon from the Prison Coalition asks me one January day in 1982 to become a pen pal to a death-row inmate, I say, Sure. That pen pal was Patrick Sonnier, whose correspondence with Sister Prejean would lead to her accompanying him to the execution chamber at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the USA largest maximum-security prison. Mr. Sonnier was put to death in the electric chair with Sister Prejean looking on. Sr. Prejean vomited, and then resolved to spend her life fighting state-sanctioned executions. It seems almost impossible to imagine Sister Prejean as anything but the fiery, outspoken woman who has spent decades addressing structural inequality with barbed statements like, “Capital punishment means those without the capital get the punishment.”
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In River of Fire, Sister Prejean explains that it was a long road from her parents’ Louisiana estate, Goodwood, where the family employed black household servants, to St. Thomas Housing Projects in New Orleans and the death chambers of Angola. Sister Prejean describes her childhood at Goodwood, near Baton Rouge, with humor and fondness while lovingly chiding her past self for her ignorance, particularly of racial injustices. Storytelling is the Louisiana vernacular, and it comes naturally to Sister Prejean. She details her mother’s piety by explaining how when her brother was sick, her mother drew crosses on his skin with holy water. She details her own internalized racism by recounting how she bristled when her classmates called her “blackie,” or when they used the most offensive racial slur when she returned from summer break with a tan.
It seems almost impossible to imagine Sister Helen Prejean as anything but the fiery, outspoken woman who has spent decades addressing structural inequality.
After a sigh of relief when her novitiate is over, Sister Prejean goes onto teach English and then work at a parish, both in ritzy, white neighborhoods in 1960s New Orleans. It is during the time of the Second Vatican Council, and Sister Prejean describes the thrill and tumult of its effects both in her parish and in her religious order. She is sent to study theology for the first time, where she falls in love with an intelligent young priest. She describes their seven-year affair with candor, explaining how they unsuccessfully tried to live a “third way” between religious and married life. (The two ultimately recommitted themselves to their religious vows.)
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to “spiritual” versus “social justice”—and says she gave impassioned speeches in favor of the spiritual: I’m up at the microphone at our meetings arguing that we’re nuns, first of all, not social workers, and our main job, our only real mission is to help people find God, and if people have God in their hearts, they’ll be able to conquer whatever oppresses them. What do you mean, “poor” people? Even Jesus said the poor would always be with us. I make these speeches with a whole lot of enthusiasm and sincerity. And defensiveness. It is not until almost the end of the book that Sister Prejean describes her awakening. At a gathering of her religious order in 1980, one of the “social justice” sisters says, “Jesus preached good news to the poor.... Integral to that good news is that the poor are to be poor no longer.” She describes the statement as striking her like lightning, causing her to realize at once that in the four decades of her life, she had never known a single poor person, nor had she known any black person as an equal. She began to realize that her conception of herself as an apolitical person had been wrong, because supporting the status quo is an inherently political position. How many of us are in a similar stye of mind. I wonder how many of us really has a personal encounter with a poor person, or a homeless one, or even a black one.
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critique: “Barbara Miller stood up and challenged me to live and work among poor people myself before I try to inspire young people to work for justice. How can I teach them what I don’t live?” In the last chapter of River of Fire, Sr. Prejean packs her bags and moves into the city to work at Hope House, a ministry in the St. Thomas Housing Projects, where, she says, she finally learns to listen. In working with the people there, she sees firsthand and begins to understand generational poverty and racial bias in the criminal justice system. Sister Prejean clearly sees River of Fire as her last book. She writes in the afterword that she is now 80 years old: “Mama and Daddy both died at age eighty-one, so I know my death can’t be far away.” And lest the reader assume that Sister Prejean’s work against the death penalty—the legacy that most will have in mind when reading River of Fire—is the sum total of her story, she spends the final pages of her afterword calling out the places where she sees continued injustices, particularly in the treatment of women and L.G.B.T. people in the church. She includes as an appendix a letter she wrote to Pope Francis calling “for the Catholic Church to fully respect the dignity of women,” in which she describes her dismay at being excluded from “certain opportunities of service” in the church, like preaching a homily and proclaiming the Gospel.
Although Sister Prejean can count among her victories Pope Francis’ change to the Catechism of the Catholic Church in 2018, outlawing the death penalty, support for the practice is ramping up again in the United States. Just last month, U.S. Attorney General William Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to resume federal executions in the United States after nearly two decades. Sister Prejean was fighting capital punishment back then, and she is ready to continue doing so now. aormi@icloud.com
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Saving Water in Spain
In Alicante it never rains but it pours.For months we go without rain for months on end, but when it comes it’s torrential, bringing destructive and sometimes fatal flooding, such as in the las two weeks of August. In San Juan, a low-lying area of the city, authorities have built a park named La Marjal; it serves as a typical recreation area and a nature reserve – but its primary purpose is to store, and then recycle, rainwater. In function it resembles an aljibe, a technique developed by Arab residents of Spain many centuries ago, in which rainwater is collected and stored in a kind of cistern underneath a building. La Marjal does a similar job, but outdoors. The water is also then diverted to a nearby treatment plant, where it can subsequently be used to clean streets and water parks.
# “The need for sustainable management has forced us to recover ancestral practices,” says Jorge Olcina, professor of analytical geography at the University of Alicante. “You could
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say that these rainwater storage facilities in Alicante and Barcelona are the new aljibes of the 21st century.” Over eight centuries, the Arab rulers of Spain became masters of water management and conservation. Much of this knowledge was lost when they were expelled en masse in the early 17th century. However many aljibes continue to be used, although not always for its original purpose. Torrevieja has one in the park of the Nations, which serves as a gallery and exhibition area.
The San Juan park uses some of the same principles as the aljibe. “When the rainfall is too heavy for the storm drains to cope, the overflow is diverted to the park,” explains Amelia Navarro, director of sustainable development for the Alicante water authority. “It has the capacity of 18 Olympic pools but it’s never reached more than 30%,” she says, not even after its first big in test 2017 when there was unusually heavy rain. The park has been landscaped with native Mediterranean plants and rapidly populated by resident and migratory birds and small creatures, a fitting development given that marjal is the Spanish word for a coastal wetland. Since it opened in 2015, around 90 species of birds have been spotted in the park, an oasis among apartment blocks.
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Larvae-eating fish were introduced so that there are no mosquitoes, also the water is oxygenated to reduce algae growth. When storms break, rising water levels trip an acoustic alarm to warn people to leave. The park is then closed until the rain eases off. La Marjal was built in two years for €3.7 million, a quarter of the cost of the city’s traditional concrete reservoir. It also costs only €50,000 a year to maintain. “We’re the ones who end up running these projects so they have to be affordable,” says Miguel Rodríguez, head of operations at the public-private Aguas de Alicante. “Ultimately, the public pays so we have to keep costs down.” Although the park is a clever and relatively inexpensive solution, Spain’s urban water authorities have been generally slow to adapt to the climate crisis, says Leandro del Moral, professor of human geography at the University of Seville. Only Madrid, Cádiz and Seville have made any significant progress, he says.
Since it opened in 2015, around 90 species of birds have been spotted in the park, while larvae-eating fish keep the mosquito population down. Photograph: Aguas de Alicante
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The country’s water plans, announced every five years, now predict that 10-15% less water will be available in the near future, as higher temperatures brought on by global heating mean more water is lost through evaporation and plant respiration. Even if it rains as much as before there will be less water. This is a clear message that climate change is having an impact. Cities need to anticipate, not react to, the increased risk of drought.
# “We need new infrastructures, which are very expensive,” says Francisco Bartual, managing director of Aguas de Alicante. “We have upgraded the water network to the point that it’s operating at around 90%, which means we’re letting very little water go to waste.” But water is a scarce resource and political interests often trump environmental ones. Although agriculture accounts for only 3% of GDP, it takes up 80% of water consumption – and farmers are a major voting bloc. Water gets diverted from wet regions to dry, and Spain’s few major rivers are interrupted by hundreds of dams, all of which impacts the big cities. Agriculture has to reduce water consumption when there is danger of drought, not when it has already arrived, when it is too late. But this is a political hot potato as when one political party talks charge f the country the bring in water plans that are only rescinded or altered by the next incoming ruling party. Storing and recycling water, as La Marjal was designed to do, are rising up the list of alternatives.
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Season Tickets
The Torry Army committee had a meeting with the people managing the football team. They had their first training session with 15 players turning up at Nelson Mandela stadium so things are looking positive. The entrance fee to the ground is 5 euros Season tickets Will be 60 euros. We will be playing at the Nelson Mandela stadium till further notice. Torry Army memberships are now due 5 euros Merchandising Football shirts 30 euros Shorts 20 euros Football Scarves 10 euros Torry Army are proposing to hold a dance at Christmas if there is enough interest please get in touch with committee members if you are interested
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! Over the last decade and more Ronen Zlotogoura has built up an impressive style of art. Murals of paintings both inside and exterior demonstrate his capacity to enliven a bare wall and add a different dimension to a space.
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allows me to capture the magic of reality and convey it through the means of a painting or mural.”
“Personally the airbrush has been my favourite tool of use due to its great precision as well as capabilities for soft blending and fading of colours, which give the painting photographic characteristics. This is enhanced further by considerable preparation of primed canvas or metal panels, and the careful application of paint layers. The airbrush process is laborious and methodical, borrowing many techniques and materials from the automotive industry. These technologies lend themselves beautifully to my specific art application, relate to the subject matter and give my work longevity using products and chemicals that have proven to withstand the test of time.” Ronen also conducts courses for beginners and the latest is a four day one in early September.
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Beginner Airbrush Course Four complete days where you will learn skills and techniques for airbrushing. You'll receive plenty of individual attention and step-by-step guidance to create and complete the variety of projects seen here. These finished pieces are for you to take home and will serve as references and samples of your ability. Some of the things you will learn in the process include; Airbrush maintenance and optimization Colour theory and paint mixing Masking, stencil and template techniques Freehand control Lots of tips and tricks for quick professional results This course is held in a relaxing environment set in a professional art studio which is located in the tranquil countryside of Dolores, Alicante, Spain. It will run from the 3rd until the 6th of September, and is open to everyone at all levels. Feel free to forward this to a neighbour, friend or family member who is a budding artist and may be interested. The price is 380€ Including materials and lunch, for further enquiries or to book a space please call or email.
Ronen Zlotogoura. 653 401 856 www.zlotogoura.com
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Mauthausen Memories
Most people are aware of the atrocities of the Nazi against the Jews. But there were other horrific evil excesses to many other sections of the European community. This included thousands of Spanish refugees fleeing from the dictatorship of Franco. The French authorities imprisoned many of these Republican refugees and the first French concentration camp built to deal with them was at Argelés sur mer, where Antonio Machado died in Colliure and where a plaque commemorates his life and death in this French town.
Recently the Spanish government published a list of Spaniards who had died in the Mauthuasen prison camp. The list has 4,427 names including 20 belonging to the Vega Baja. Manuel Ruuso Campillois one of them, although some sources say he managed to live through it. The other was José Paredes Ubeda (1905/1941)
5 OF ORIHUELA 3 ROJALES 2 CALLOSA DEL SEGIURA 1 of Torrevieja and one from each of the following - COX, CATRAL, DAYA, REDOVAN, SAN MIGUEL DE LAS SALINAS, CATRAL, RAFAL, GUARDAMAR DEL SEGURA. This list is of those who died but there were more who lived to bear witness to the atrocities committed in Mauthausen. At least two Torrevejenses managed to work their way through France to the Pyrenees and climb over that to their native Spain. aormi@icloud.com
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The Steps of Mauthausen Quarry, where so many concentration camp prisoners fell to their death
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As the Spanish Civil War came to a close many other Republicans managed to blend into the French lifestyle and when the Germans occupied the country they involved themselves in the French Resistance movement. However, the Germans rounded up tens of thousands of Spaniards in France and sent them to the slave labour camps of Buchenwald and Mauthaüsen. It is estimated that more than 6.500 Spanish prisoners died in Mauthaüsen, near Linz in Austria, used as slave labour for the nearby quarry that had 186 steps going down to it. Men in striped pajama uniforms, with a blue triangle denoting their Spanish nationality, had to carry large 130 lbs stones up these steps and often were ordered to carry them back down again. The top was nicknamed “the parachute jump” by the SS guards, because often prisoners were lined up on the cliff edge and pushed down to their deaths in the quarry. Designed as one camp it expanded in 1940 and apart from the four main sub-camps at Mauthaüsen and Gusen there were more than 50 subordinate camps and was known as a Grade III camp, which made them the toughest camps in Nazi Germany. The war memorial here has imitation steps as a backdrop to a wretched figure of a man. 35-year-old José Parades Úbeda from Torrevieja was one of those thousands who died in this Nazi concentration camp at Mathaüsen on 14th November 1941. Another 18-year-old prisoner from Torrevieja managed to survive the horrors of Mathaüsen. The uncle of Rosa Mazon was one of those who fled Spain and into France, but was arrested and sent first to one concentration camp, only to escape. Then he was arrested and sent to another German concentration camp to escape a second time and this time sent to Mauthaüsen. He was among those who survived the ardour of imprisonment and lived in France where he served as mayor of a small French town for forty years. The memorial plaque on the former camp wall, honouring the sacrifices of those who died, states that 7,000 prisoners died there. Many of these died in sealed prison vans when the exhaust pipe was fed back into the van so that the already weak men died of carbon monoxide poisoning. They had been told that they would be liberated before boarding the vans.
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Others were taken to the beautiful castle 30 kilometres away where a special gas chamber had been installed and told they were to be deloused, but ended their final agonised moments gasping for breath. Tortures included close confinement, deliberate starvation resulting in death within twelve days, freezing showers where over 3,000 prisoner died of hypothermia, flagellations, forced blood donations for soldiers at the front line, medical experiments, hangings and indiscriminate shootings. There is a list of almost 160 different methods of killing prisoners at Mauthaüsen. The quarry at Mauthaüsen was a private enterprise by the DEST Company (under the SS), which also had a mother company in Switzerland. The quarry was famous for the granite stones that were used on the streets of Vienna, but the plan to use slave labour was partially so that the huge grandiose building projects of
Albert Speers could be carried out with the stone from this quarry. Finance came from private sources but also from the so-called Reinhardt Fund that was the property stolen from prisoners and a lot of gold was sent to Switzerland taken from the inmates. Unwittingly the German Red Cross also “donated” large funds to this enterprise as the SS in charge was also President of the Red Cross in Germany and funnelled funds to SS tasks. At one stage in 1942 slave labour was used here for building vehicles and V2 rockets and a huge underground complex was built to avoid the air strikes of the Allies. One of the final aims of these bunkers was that, should the need arise, the prisoners would be herded into them and the entrances blown up thus burying the evidence. The main manner of death of these prisoners was to work them to death until they dropped from exhaustion brought on by near starvation rations.
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Ironically the Germans at Mauthaüsen ordered the prisoners to play football between teams of different nationalities, more as a diversion for themselves rather than for the benefit of the prisoners. In reality this actually played against the Germans as copies of photographs taken by the Germans of some of their atrocities were tossed over the fence by a communist prisoner Jacinto Cortés to a very brave woman, Anna Pointer, who picked up the sealed packets and kept them hidden until the end of the war. One of the prisoners was Barcelona photographer Francisco Boix, who was put to work by the Germans in the developing of photographs in the Mauthaüsen laboratories. Bravely, together with former Republicans, including Antonio Garcia, he managed to steal over 2.000 photographs, including negatives, which Boix later used in evidence at the Nuremberg trials against Nazi officials and led to the execution of many former officers and guards at Mauthaüsen and Dachau. The Nuremberg trials were the first international courts that tried people for crimes against humanity and led to the introduction of the present courts at the Hague that have condemned several despots for similar crimes. Over 100,000 Nazis were sentenced to prison sentences, although very few, apart from Hess, really served their full sentence. Part of the reason for this was the Allied partition of Germany led to the Soviets domination of Eastern Germany and an obvious threat to the West, therefore there was a need for experienced men to form a new army and intelligence service.
A Nazi law of 31st July 1944 allowed "terrorist and their helpers" to be shot on sight without any legal process: it was called the "Niedermachungsbefhel" to shoot in cold blood, and used on many individuals and groups.
Documents filed under SECRET show that the idea of killing non-military was rife among German soldiers as some cells in British prisoner of war detention centres had hidden microphones recording conversations, especially of German officers. These were listened to by German speakers who typed up the conversations into English for the intelligence service. Does this type of thinking mean anything to you?
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’It's just a question of not being sensitive,' a German prisoner Skrzipek insisted. 'After all, we aren't women! . . . Because the half-wits are the very people who have very large families and for one mentaldefective you could feed six wounded soldiers. Of course you can't please everybody. Several things don't suit me, but it's a question of the good of the people as a whole.' But Nazi ideology was not the chief motivating factor that made 'ordinary' members of the German armed forces commit atrocities. Author Dr Neitzel argues they took part in such actions because they saw it as their job, and that war normalises violence and creates a context in which men can commit bloodthirsty acts with little or no conscience. Dr Neitzel contends that the German army during World War II was not much different from that of the American army in Vietnam, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nor were British soldiers without blame as there were times when it was expedient not to take prisoners.
When the American troops entered the Mauthaüsen camp on 5th May 1945 they found that Spanish Republican flags had replaced the former Nazi swastikas. An American soldier wounded the SS commandant of the camp, Colonel Franz Ziereis, when he tried to escape wearing civilian clothing. There is an official version of his capture which conflicts with that of Spanish survivors. The official version is that he was captured by American soldiers after a bungled suicide attempt and interviewed by Francisco Boix and a Czech Hans Marsalek in which statement he claimed that he was not responsible and only obeying orders of Pohl, Himmler and Hitler. Marsalek later wrote up this account from memory six months later. The Spanish version is that that he was caught trying to commit suicide on the evening of 23rd May, was detained by Chief Warrant Officer Walter S. Kobus (USA Army) and three other G.I.s and two ex-prisoners a Spaniard and a Czech and taken back to the camp and interrogated by three prisoners and shot by an American Cuban soldier. The aormi@icloud.com
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trials were a set of two consecutive trials of the German World War II criminals, carried over from the Dachau International Military Tribunal. Between March 29 and May 13, 1946, and then from August 6 to August 21, 1947, a total of 69 former Nazi officials were tried. Among them were some of the former guards at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system and August Eigruber, a former Gauleiter of Upper Austria. Among the defendants were also Viktor Zoller (former commander of the SS-Totenkopf guard battalion), and doctors Friedrich Entress (an SS member and a medic who practiced medical experiments on hundreds of inmates; killing most of them with injections of phenol), Eduard Krebsbach and Erich Wasicky (responsible for running the camp's gas chambers). The Mauthausen-Gusen commander, Franz Ziereis, was shot several weeks after the liberation of the Mauthausen-Gusen camps and died in former Camp Gusen I on May 24, 1945. All of the defendants were accused of a wide variety of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Among them was murder, torture, beating and starving the inmates. After six weeks all the defendants were found guilty. 58 were sentenced to death by hanging (9 were later paroled and their sentences were changed to life imprisonment), whilst three were sentenced to life imprisonment. All the death sentences were carried out on May 27 and May 28 of 1947 in Landsberg Prison.The second Mauthausen Camp Trial started on August 6, 1947. Altogether 8 former members of the camp's administration were accused of the same set of crimes as in the former trial. On August 21 the verdict was reached. Four Nazis were sentenced to death by hanging, one for life imprisonment, two for short-term sentences and one was acquitted of all the charges. The death sentences were carried out on August 10, 1948.
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Wine between columns “VINOS ENTRE COLUMNAS"is the event that will bring together twelve of the best bodegas in Spain on September 2 at the restaurant 'Las Columnas' in Torrevieja. 'Sonrojos', together with the restaurant team, organizes a day that aims to attract all those who love the world of wine and gastronomy. The event is open to professionals of the sector and to the general public, being able to obtain tickets through the web portal (www.sonrojos.es), or in the restaurant itself on the day of the event. The day will be full of activities around wine and gastronomy. From 12 noon to 3 pm the participating wineries will offer their products to the audience. The bodegas will come from the most important wine areas in Spain: Alicante, Ribera del Duero, El Bierzo, Rueda, Jerez, Priorat, Navarra, Jumilla, etc. At 13.00, Roberto Carrillo, chef of the restaurant 'Las Columnas', will delight the public with the elaboration of a tartaki and tataki of bluefin tuna of the prestigious Balfegó brand. The main activity will take place in the afternoon. At 5:00 p.m. a round table will begin with five luxury guests, in which the most current topics, trends and challenges of the national wine scene will be discussed. First, Miguel Ángel Amigo, owner of Bodegas Luzdivina in El Bierzo, will break down the new classifications that are being carried out in this first level designation of origin. aormi@icloud.com
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Next, Ramón Giró Gramona, owner of the Jaume Giró i Giró cellars, one of the most prestigious in Sant Sadurní de Noia, will talk about the most current issues related to the DO Cava. Thirdly, the young winemaker Pepe Rodríguez de Vera, owner of Bodegas Rodríguez de Vera, will address the challenges facing the Spanish Southeast to ensure the future of its viticulture. Next, Hilarión Pedauyé Armengol, an expert winemaker and botanist of several Spanish universities, will explain the particularities and singularities of the vineyard of the Natural Park of the salt marshes of La Mata and Torrevieja. To conclude, David Bernardo López Lluch, professor of the Master's degree in oenology and viticulture at the Miguel Hernández University, and national champagne ambassador, who will clarify to the audience what the quality of a wine means. Just after the round table, a special tasting of the wines from the Rodriguez de Vera bodega will take place, which will require prior registration. Again, at 7:00 p.m., the wineries will present their products again until the closing of the event scheduled for 9:00 p.m. Finally, the event will feature the invaluable presence of Sol Pérez, an ideological artist and creator of the monument of the columns, which presides over the promenade of Torrevieja, and gives its name to this cultural and festive day around wine.
Participating bodegas: Gutiérrez de la Vega (Alicante), Pagos de Peñafiel (Ribera del Duero), Luzdivina Amigo (El Bierzo), Pincerna (León), Bodegas Félix Sanz (Rueda), Cava Jaume Giró i Giró (Penedès), Vinícola Priorat (Priorat), Rodríguez de Vera (Almansa, Jumilla y Méntrida), Gutiérrez Colosía (Jerez), , Bodega Otazu (Navarra), Vinos del Viento (Campo de Borja, Calatayud, Terra Alta), Conservas Saura (Almoradí) aormi@icloud.com
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Available in early October from solidarity associations
Once again for the 15th year there will be a Solidarity calendar 2020 published early in October. Various associations will have these lovely Costa Blanca calendars for sale for their own funds. These calendars are sought after as they have lots of information about fiestas, holidays, places in the area, apart from the usual dates and information boxes. aormi@icloud.com
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The Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation slogan is “Life’s greatest privilege is taking care of those around you.” That requires that you teach people to look after themselves without depending on handouts. But the Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation requires a lot of support to provide the fruition of these and other projects. The foundation requires your help, your donations, to assist the really poor of this earth to learn to provide for themselves.
Cows for Bali
The Yayasan Sahaja Sawah Foundation supplies villagers with fruit trees and other plants that they can grow in their own gardens and be a bit more self sufficient. Another aspect of this is providing, in a payback loan agreement, families with pigs and cows so they can reproduce and continue in a cycle providing them with food or years to come. Matilde Sanchez and Andy Ormiston (aormi@hotmail.com) are collecting for this project and thanks to individual donations have enough for two cows, which the foundation will own but permit families to use them for sustenance and income. Once they have enough money the families can buy the cows an the foundation use the money to buy two more. That’s recycling.
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Nº 067 September 2019 If you look at the Yayasan Sahaja Sawah webpage you will see that the aim is to ensure that the people help themselves and never be helped directly with money. Bernard van Elmpt, the founder, has a range of projects such as the bridge that was destroyed in a tsunami and his foundation gave the building materials for the villagers to rebuild it for themselves. The same strategy was used to rebuild a six kilometer road.
We don’t give fish to eat, we give fishing rods and boats so they can eat many times. We don’t give meat to eat, we give live pigs and cows so they can reproduce and have food and money for many years. We give fruit trees, vegetables and plants. We also give water filters so their water is drinkable. aormi@icloud.com
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Torrevieja International Auditorium presents an International Cultural Programme Well known singer and actress, Lolita Flores, starring ‘The force of love’; the band Sweet California, with its Tour Origin; the Film Symphony Orchestra, interpreting the great sounding bands of the cinema; and the best songs of Dire Straits, are just some of the twenty proposals of the new season of the Auditorium of Torrevieja. Programming will begin in October and end on February 14, 2020. This season also includes a jazz cycle, classical music concerts, opera, zarzuela, dance, plays, musicals and a children's show. Tickets are already on sale at www.auditoriotorrevieja.com. The first show that will host the auditorium will be the play Toc-Toc, on Saturday, October 5. An ingenious comedy about manias with which many feel identified. The story revolves around six characters who are in the waiting room for a famous psychiatrist's office. All are possessors of a different compulsive disorder which brings to the comedy that touch of total nonsense. For the second consecutive year, the auditorium hosts the ‘Torrevieja Sounds to Jazz’ cycle. The first session will be on Friday, October 18, with ‘Till Brönner Duo’ + Jam Session with Just Friends Quintet. On Saturday, October 19, you can see the Cotijazz-Big Band show. For its part, Delvon Lamaar Organ Trio will arrive with its session on Sunday, October 20. Torrevieja Sounds to jazz will conclude on Thursday, October 24, with the performance of Ute Lemper ‘Rendezvous with Marlene’. Tickets for the different sessions aormi@icloud.com
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can be purchased individually or also for the four concerts, buying a subscription for 30 euros. Another of the cycles offered by this new program is that of the Torrevieja Symphony Orchestra, which presents four concerts. On Saturday, October 12, the recital will be dedicated to the composer pieces Mendelssohn and Beethoven. At the concert on Sunday, December 1, you can listen to the scores composed by Arriaga, Mozart and Haydn. And already at Christmas, the orchestra will offer two other concerts, the New Year, on Saturday, January 4, and that of Reyes, on Monday, January 6. The opera, as usual, will also have a place in this extensive program that the auditorium has made. An appointment with the 2001 Opera company to be presented by La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi, on October 23. La Traviata is one of the few examples of lyrical works directly taken from a contemporary work and, from that point of view, it is not strange that this opera prefigures the dramas of the realistic school. This season you can also enjoy in the auditorium of one of the most represented ballet in the world, ‘Swan Lake’. It will arrive on November 8 at the hands of the Russian National Ballet, by Sergei Raschenko, the first private company created in Russia and one of the most prestigious in the country. The work consists of 4 acts, which run between love and magic, linking in their paintings the eternal struggle of good and evil. She is starred by Prince Siegfried, in love with Odette, a young woman swan turned by the evil Von Rothbart and Odile the black swan and the sorcerer's daughter.
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Thinking of the family audience, Snow White arrives on November 9, a children's musical. Starting from the classic story of the Grimm brothers we present a very special Snow White. A character and a story that will serve to introduce children to important plots of education in values, such as nondiscrimination, respect for others and not giving so much importance to outside beauty. This Snow White will make it clear to dwarfs and princes that the classic feminine roles that conditioned the girls to be in charge of domestic tasks and passive subjects of saving kisses, have evolved. The youngest audience will be able to enjoy the Sweet California women's band that will present their Origin Tour on November 23. On this tour the group presents the songs of their fourth studio album, which only a few weeks after being published was placed in the number 2 of the national sales lists. Origen is a pop album in Spanish, with nuances of many musical styles, including Afro or urban. Lolita Flores with the actors Luis Mottola, Antonio Hortelano and Marta Guerra will also represent ‘The force of love’. An original libretto by Dan Gordon, versioned and directed by Magüi Mira. The story tells the life of Aurora, the perfect mother and shy widow, and Emma, her rebellious and endearing daughter and the clumsy and seductive teacher, and the eccentric and womanizing astronaut. These four human beings, despite their great differences, celebrate everyday life.They celebrate it with humor, tears, irony, anger, shouting and laughter. This play will be on the stage of the auditorium on Thursday, November 28. On Thursday, December 12, another essential of classical dance and Christmas will come, ‘The Nutcracker’. It will be staged by the Classic Ballet of St. Petersburg, by Andrey Batalov. A fairy tale structured in two acts. The Nutcracker's story takes place on Christmas Eve in a German city, at the beginning of the 19th century. The spectator will find himself aormi@icloud.com
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in front of the narrative that starts from the reality of a well-off bourgeois family, to navigate through dreams through a magical kingdom. The Classical Ballet of St. Petersburg is the company founded by the lead soloist of Mariinskiy Ballet Andrey Batalov (Artistic Director and Choreographer) and Andrey Scharaev (General Director). ‘La Zarzuela to Escena’ will come from the Spanish Lyric Company on Saturday, December 14. A dramatized anthological show, which is set in different prints of our zarzuela, where different sensations will be experienced thanks to a very elaborate program chosen from beauty, the sense of the rhythm of the show and the lyric. It is configured in two parts of 50 minutes each. On Friday, December 27, it will be the turn in the Auditorium of Torrevieja of Annie el Musical, which will arrive with two functions. The first at 5:00 p.m. and the second at 8:00 p.m. The show offers unforgettable melodies such as ‘Tomorrow’ (Tomorrow), a true song of optimism, with a spectacular and effective scenography as well as lighting that transports the New York of the 30s, creating an ideal atmosphere. A show conceived for the enjoyment of the whole family. In addition, the great novelty of this musical lies in the distribution of orphans that accompany little Annie. The Acrobatic Circus of China will disembark in Torrevieja on Friday, January 10. It features seventeen different acrobatic performances, perfectly connected as a complete story. The love story of a young man and his phoenix princess. The show portrays difficulties and fighting spirit when a dream is pursued. On Saturday, January 25, it will be the turn of Brother in Band to pay tribute to Dire Strais, in ‘The very best of Dire Straits European Tour’. A show that offers an elegant and very careful staging, in addition to a musical direction arranged for the occasion, combining the best of the extensive aormi@icloud.com
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repertoire of the band of Mark Knopfler. A total of 9 musicians will be on stage to perform together the best of the London group's repertoire. And the programming will conclude with the best film music, presented by the Film Symphony Orchestra. The most film orchestra in Spain will arrive at the Torrevieja Auditorium on Friday, February 14, with the FSO TOUR 19 | 20. A tour of more than 50 concerts, interpreting as no one the best movie music in concert. You can hear, among other well-known soundtracks, Avengers, Interstellar, Han Solo: a Star Wars adventure, How to Train your Dragon, Willow, Aladdin, Amelie, Jurassic World, Back to the Future, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Good, the Ugly and Bad. You can purchase your tickets in 2 different ways: ONLINE SALE: In each show you can find the link to the online purchase, or you just need to click on the "online sale" option and in just a few minutes you will have obtained your tickets. SALE AT THE BOX OFFICE: Tickets can be purchased at the Auditorium face-toface, two hours before each show and every Wednesday, from 11 am to 2 pm, at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Center in Torrevieja.
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La Vuelta 2019 is undoubtedly marked down well in the history of Torrevieja as it started from a mountain of salt on Saturday 24th August, viewed by almost a million people in Torrevieja, but also by over 500 million via television. The detailed planning over the last couple of years came to fruition with the involvement of so many associations, volunteers, security organizations, and plenty of side events by commerce, ensured the participation of the very young to the very old. . aormi@icloud.com
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One of the recuperated fiestas this year in Torrevieja was the Summer Carnival Parade which was a rerun of the magnificent annual February display. With only a couple of months to get things together congratulations to the organisers whose work delighted the thousands of visitors and residents with so many wonderful costumes. Looking forward with anticipation to what nextt August festival may bring.
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