Still going strong

Anna Ellis

WHAT started as a small event amongst friends to celebrate a birthday has just grown and grown.

Now 16 years later that small event has an official name, Happy Moy Fest, and attracts fans from all over Spain.

After the resounding success of last year, this event will once again be part of the patron saint’s festivities programme, on Tuesday August 22.

Since the exhibition opened its doors, more than 4,500 Almeria residents and visitors have passed through the Casa del Cine who have been able to contemplate ‘in situ’ objects such as the Holy Grail, the Golden Idol of Fertility, the Ark of the Alliance or the Crystal Skull.

The entire collection is exhibited in 35 showcases distributed throughout this museum space in the city with five different mannequins from each film. In addition, visitors have been able to find out, in depth, where the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was filmed in Almería and its surroundings in 1988, possibly the best known of the entire saga.

It will start at 6.00pm with the participation of the bands: Viva Belgrado, Waiting For Sunset, Vomans, Adiós Caballos, Palmeras Negras and Erial.

The councillor for Culture, Diego Cruz, confirmed:

“It is important to take this festival to Amphitheatre, as part of the Culture Department’s programme.

“We want Almeria to form part of the circuits of the big artists on the scene and also to show the more alternative scene.”

The councillor added: “We want to reach all kinds