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Happiness is..

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Bloomsday 2014 in Spain

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Bloomsday in Euskadi, Spain Scanlan’s Tavern Gernika, the Basque regions Irish bar is hosting its annual  Bloomsday  event. Where:  Scanlan’s Tavern Gernika Carlos Gangoiti Kalea, 19, Urdaibai, 48300 Gernika-Lumo, Biscay,Spain When:  15 June 2014, 9AM – 23.30PM Cost:  Free, no booking required Contact:  Scanlan’s Tavern Gernika E: scanlanp@hotmail.com 4th Bloomsday Bathe on the Beach, Malaga – Spain For the fourth year we are planning a simple reading, swim or paddle off the beach on Bloomsday this year on Sunday, 15th June.  What makes our event a little different is that the readers are encouraged to read their pieces in their own language. This is a fun, non intellectual, nor threatening event. And it is FREE. All that is required is that you turn up on time to participate. It will be a memorable occasion. A fun get together! Where:  The Beach, Fuengirola Paseo Marítimo Rey de España, 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain When:  15 June 2014, 7.45AM – 10.30AM Cost

A Stroll through Ulysses

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A Stroll through Ulysses Original watercolour and oil paintings by Roger Cummiskey and Juan Cruz Plaza. The artists, AIA - Andalusian International Artist members, are from Ireland and Spain. This exhibition features a mixture of Joycean interpretations based on the writings and wanderings of James Joyce.  Continues until 31 July, 2014. Presented for your pleasure at galeria restaurante LUCIA, C/Maestra Ángeles Aspiazú , 17, Fuengirola. Open daily:   M-F. 12-21 h. Closed Sat and Sun.    www.aia-artgroup.com

Looking inside Marina Abramovic

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Looking inside Marina Abramovic 30.05.14  ANTONIO JAVIER LÓPEZ |  MALAGA CAC Malaga returns to the epicentre of contemporary art with this Serbian artist Marina Abramovic and Fernando Francés, lying on the ‘Couches for human use’. :: CARLOS MORET Title. 'Holding Emptiness'. Artist. Marina Abramovic Venue. CAC Málaga. Dates. Until 31 August. Opening hours. Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 8pm; from 24 June, 10am to 2pm and 5pm to 9pm. A straight line is the shortest distance between two points, but it can also be the most boring. For more than 40 years, Marina Abramovic has been searching for a relationship, an interaction, with the public. However those first, almost furious, performances of the 1970s have given way to a more formal restraint, something that also requires a greater emotional effort; from her, and from the spectator. A trip to the centre of Marina Abramovic through ‘Holding Emptiness’ - the

Les Demoiselles de Dublin

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Les Demoiselles de Dublin - watercolour by Roger Cummiskey. Night town. Watercolour 35 x 50 cm. Original. Prints are available. This painting depicts the whores Bella, Florrie, Zoe and friends in the Bordello run by Bella Cohen in the red light district of Dublin in the early part of the 20th century.  They were sometimes referred to as the coal quay whores. The brothel was visited by Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in Ulysses.  In 1904 Montgomery Street in Dublin was the most notorious red light district in Europe.  This original watercolor painting was painted in Spain and is influenced by Raphael Alberti, Spanish poet and painter.

Mijas en Plein Air

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June 1st. Thunder, lightening and really heavy rain put paid to this event after an hour. June 1st. Looking out from Mijas Pueblo. 32.5 x 46 cm Watercolour. Unframed.