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‘Red Eyes’ Photo Exhibition

Les Arenetes beach. Walkers will meet in the Marina Denia car park at 10.00 for a warm­up session before the start of the walk. Anyone interested in taking part in this enjoyable activity to raise money for cancer research can register by going along to the Amunt Association headquarters in Avenida Campo Torres de Denia from Monday to Friday between 11.00 and 1pm and 6pm to 8pm.

The donation, which is €5, includes the identifying label, a backpack and a t­shirt (for the first 1,000 walkers registered). This time the t­shirt is black to symbolise lung cancer.

THE cuidArt exhibition Room at Denia Hospital is hosting several works entered in the ‘Red Eyes’ International Festival. The ‘Kids of Copper’ exhibition by Alicante­born photographer Vicente Albero will be on display until May 14.

Kids of Copper is a series of 41 documentary photographs taken in Ghana between 2014 and 2017 in a gigantic electronic tip full of discarded goods from the West.

The tip is called Sikkens and has transformed the local area into a smoking hellscape contaminated by millions of smouldering plastic appliances. The objective is to extract the copper contained in

K-POP is a massively popular, trendsetting genre of music originating from South Korea that blends mainstream music, cool choreography and addictive tunes. This charity event on April 2 at the Palau d’Esports l’Illa is your chance to soak up the country’s culture.

There will be recreational activities for many of these items for subsequent sale. However, their price is high: toxic gases and land and water pollution. The tip not only causes environmental but also social harm because it employs hundreds of youngsters from inland areas.

‘Kids of Copper’ bears witness to this small world visited by Vicente Albero, who now offers this photographic portrait of Sikkens and those who work and live there. He has formed deep friendships during the project, which still survive.

K-Pop and Korean fair

all throughout the event, which will start at 10am and end at 8pm, such as dance exhibitions. There will also be goods on sale, and as this is a charitable event, the proceeds will go NGO, the Association of Initiatives to Support Social Minorities.

Get dressed up and take selfies on the photosets, get the pop star look with a temporary tattoo, check out the art, play traditional Korean games, K­pop trivia and a gymkhana with hidden messages and watch videos featuring K­Pop groups.

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