Kentridge studied arts in his hometown of Johannesburg at the end of the 70s. In the beginning of the 80s he left South Africa to study theater in Paris, where he became interested in television. After this he became interested in animation, using his own drawings to create animated films. He became known for these works, which also garnered him a variety of awards from the film world in the 80s and 90s.

In addition to his cinematographic work and his love of theater, Kentridge is a recognized artist in the field of engraving and is famous for his tapestries that are based on topics of colonialism, modern society’s many problems, and the inequality of opportunities, with a special focus on his homeland, South Africa. His talent is naturally multi-faceted and this has led him to broach subjects in a unique way to create his art, excelling in almost everything he has done.

The exhibition is hosted by the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Malaga from February 14 to May 13. It presents a selection of his sculptures, collages, engravings, videos, films, and tapestries. The inclusion of all these different media means that this exhibition offers a rare look at the broad scope of Kentridge’s entire oeuvre in one place. It is an excellent exhibition if your destination is April is Malaga.

For more information: http://cacmalaga.org/?p=5046

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There, they often organize routes through the city and in the old town, as well as at the boardwalk by the sea- This route runs from the harbor to the neighborhood of Palo. For the more experienced participants or physically fit because it associates tourism cycling with endurance they also organize routes through the mountains of the city. The next Route or Cycle Route on March 3 rides through the streets of the capital going from the Marina Square to the end of the District of the Garden City. This is a route that any participant who likes riding on two wheels can be do, since it is a  comfortable journey on flat terrain. During the tour you will see several monuments like the Alcazaba, which will accompany us for a leg of the course and the mountains of Malaga as a background .

After the tour, you will enjoy a variety of special tapas in the area of the typical tapas bars. There you can find everything from the Malaga potato salad with with orange to the \”papas aliñas\” as well as the delicious stuffed squid. Undoubtedly this is a must after the route to regain strength

This initiative aims to promote cycling in the Andalusian city, thus contributing to maintaining the environment and leaving sedentarism aside, being also a cheap and practical way to move around

The initiative will organize for the children, schoolchildren and students in general, a route called \”Green Bike\” that consist of a tour through the Sierra Vía Verde and La Fuente de Piedra Laguna, an easy and fun route for the smallest of the province of Malaga which joins nature and culture  Not to be forgotten that during the bike route you can taste the typical Malaga skewers or some fritters with chocolate in the downtown area which during winter becomes so typical in the Old Town.

To contact the organization that promotes the routes, see the itinerary of the route, or see related events, just visit their website www.ruedasredondas.org. The organization makes it very easy for you since you can participate without prior registration.

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His music is often categorized as New Age, and is based on mixing classical compositions with modern music like rock, folk or pop. Ludovico Einaudi’s creations are truly emotional and evocative, while possessing sleek simplicity and sincere.

This acclaimed musician is on tour now, and will present the new songs of his 13th album, “Islands”. This tour will take him to Rome and Lyon during early and mid-March to end the month with four concerts in Spain: Zaragoza on the 21^st, on the 22^nd in Vigo, on the 23^rd in Logroño and on the 26^th in Malaga. After that, he will continue his European tour in Wolfburg, Germany.

Some of the compositions that have made him famous have been created as movie soundtracks. That is why he  has earned a few awards as the Golden Crane for “Aquarium”, the Echo Klassik for “Fuori dal mondo” and Best soundtrack in various festivals for “Luce dei miei occhi” and “Sotto false nome.” Ludovico’s music appears in 17 films to date, and the prolific musician has also composed for theater, dance and other media as for Television.

The history of this unique composer started back during his  childhood when he was instructed by his mother at piano. After graduating at the Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, in 1982, he traveled to America where he met his new master, Luciano Berio. Until 1986 he began the creative explosion of the author and started to merge everything what he learned with his own compositions, ideas and ultimately his musical freedom.

His melodies are a delight that takes us beyond our dreams in introspective and exciting journeys. It is impossible to remain indifferent to the music of Ludovico Einaudi. His notes flow slowly and his compositions have their own pace, but little by little, new variations that awaken our senses. If you want to hear and feel his music in person the Teatro Cervantes in Malaga gives you a perfect opportunity to do so.

The event will take place on the 26^th of March at 21 Hrs and tickets are on sale from January 23, 2012. The ticket price ranges from 11 euros to 32 euros, depending on location and there are some discounts available. For more info: http://www.einaudiwebsite.com/

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Manolo García was born in Albacete but raised in the district of Poble Nou, in Barcelona. He’s a singer, musician, songwriter, producer, painter and writer.

He began his musical career in 1980, in the band Los Rápidos. In 1983 he formed the band Los Burros together with the musician Quimi Portet and, in 1985, he hit success with El Último de la Fila, also with Quimi Portet, a band that split up in 1998. That same year, Manolo García released his first and highly-awaited album, ‘Arena en los bolsillos’, a rock album with Andalucian and Arabic roots and surreal lyrics.

His second album ‘Nunca el tiempo es perdido’ was released in 2001, similar to his previous one but a bit more intimate.

In 2004 he edited his third solo album, ‘Para que no se duerman mis sentidos’, which took him on tour to Latin America.

In 2008 he released his fourth album, ‘Saldremos a la lluvia’, characterized by a more exotic sound.

His latest album, ‘Los días intactos’ was released in October 2011, with more urban and more rocky songs.

This theatre tour is different to his previous macro-concert ones. Manolo García reviews his discography in a more intimate way. He’s accompanied by exceptional musicians with whom he shows an apotheosis of talent: Íñigo Goldaracena on the bass, Charly Sardà on the drums, Juan Carlos García on percussion and vocals, Nacho Lesko on keyboard, Ricardo Marín on electric and acoustic guitar and vocals, Víctor Iniesta (who used to play with El Bicho) on Spanish and acoustic guitar and Albert Serrano on electric and acoustic guitar.

The concerts of this tour won’t be a large unfolding of technology and big lights, all the opposite. The loyal fans will have a great time during the two and a half hours that the concert will last, which more than a concert are trips to the surreal universe of Manolo García. There are many troops of fans and many of them have been so since he was in El Último de la Fila, Los Burros or Los Rápidos. His songs ‘Pájaros de barro’ or ‘Nunca el tiempo es perdido’ are already classics despite having been released in 1998 and 2001 respectively. Manolo García is an artist respected for his undeniable quality as an artist, musician, songwriter, writer, poet and painter, for his coherence, closeness, humility and the thrill and enthusiasm that he transmits in his concerts.

For more information on the tickets to this concert, visit the following page: www.malagaentradas.com

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And why do we like Echegaray so much? There are many different reasons. The first one is because it doesn’t repeat itself. The concert for today, tomorrow or next week, excepting on very few occasions, will take place on that day only. If you can’t make it, you’ll have missed out on it and that’s that. Secondly, due to its variety, because they might present a gospel concert or a flamenco one and, thirdly and linked to the second premise, due to the variety of nationalities in its programme. Echegaray looks and looks again to offer us the best of music from around the world. And so, there’s an Argentine tango session programmed for Thursday 22nd with ‘Oda a Piazzolla’ or that special tribute which is known as an American jam session with the band ‘The tribute jazz at the Filarmonic’, which will take place on Friday 2nd. Andalucian ethnic music, with cosmopolitan twists, will be presented through ‘Supervivientes’, who on Saturday the 24th will present their show ‘El Bosque de los Recuerdos’ (The Forest of Memories). Along with all of that, the most typical and traditional of Spanish folklore, the copla (ballad), will have a double show (this is a huge exception!), on the 30th and 31st to finish of the month of March with ‘Café Cantante’.

If music lovers still want more, Echegaray gives more and more music, international music but also with Spanish rhythms such as the female group ‘Las migas’, on Friday 23rd with one show only. They make flamenco which has been labelled fusion or heterodox, in other words, without giving up their local roots they bring rhythms from here and there to create their own style, which is sometimes hard to classify. And further from the singer-songwriter versions that were so popular a few decades ago, Echegaray offers us the personal pop of Gema Cuéllar, so independent in the music market that she advertises herself on her personal blog. ‘La puerta número tres’ (Door number three) is the name of her concert, that will take place on Thursday 29th. The ‘eminently international sound’ is brought to you by the band The evolution sound’ on Thursday the 8th. Classic pop rock inaugurates the concerts early in the month of March with Vicios Caros and their show ‘Peluquería de señoras’ (Lady’s hairdresser).

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The party is assured, not just for their new fans but also for the lovers of the most authentic 80s electronica. There’s a band that we have to mention when we listen to the first bit of music and voice of a song by The Sound of Arrows, and that’s the British duo Pet Shop Boys. It will seem that we go back in time and for sure that those who have never listened to them live in concert will leave happy. Perhaps some fans of the Pet Shop Boys can consider them a mere copy act but, actually, they’re a great band with many new songs of a style that seems to be reconquering the world of music.

The shows of The Sound of Arrows are a true party where you can’t stop dancing to the remixed hits of artists such as Lady Gaga, Natalia Kills, Alphabeat, Nicole Scherzinger and The Naked and Famous. On the first album, ‘Voyage’, there’s a very clean sound accompanied by chorus sung by children, such as in ‘Ruins of Rome’, that will transport us to other worlds and that transmits pretty pleasant feelings that are not too rebellious, something that is popularly known as ‘Swedish dream-pop’.

‘Voyage’ was born in 2011 after two EPs, ‘Danger!’, edited in 2008, and ‘M.A.G.I.C.’, that saw the light in January 2009. Two years later, The Sound of Arrows surprised everyone with their first studio album, which included 11 tracks that were much more coherent and worked on that their two previous projects, with a much neater sound.

The couple that make up The Sound of Arrows, Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand, come from the Swedish city of Gävle, and their grand entry into the world of music was thanks to the single ‘Into The Clouds’, and the song ‘M.A.G.I.C.’, which was in a Mitsubishi Outlander advert. The famous record label Labrador gambled on them and they didn’t get it wrong, because these two guys are wiping the floor with ‘Voyage’.

The concert will take place on Tuesday 6th of March at the Centro Cultural Ollerías in Málaga. Are you going to miss it?

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But, who is Richard Prince? What’s his work like? Aside from his capacity for controversy and subversion, the American artist, like a good offspring of his time, asks questions about subjects that, one way or another, are present in contemporary society. From the precocity in adult initiation, such is the portrait of Brooke Shields, he moves onto irony and the manifestation, according to his perception, of the sexual frustration of the American middle class. Also, the creator isn’t just an ordinary painter because he mainly works with superimposed and manipulated photographs that have been labelled ‘rephotographs’ and that have entered the top of the art market with one of them (‘Untitled Cowboy’) reaching, in 2005, $1m. The paintings, the collages and the latest photocollages will also be present at the exhibition.

A permanent artist of the prestigious Gagosian Gallery (with homes in Rome, New York, Paris or London), his works have a tremendously contemporary narration where delicate housewives pose naked in the kitchen, restless nurses with a mask interrogate a spectator, or what used to be a car (‘Elvis’, 2007), is now scrapped and is now a sculpture that symbolizes the angst of today’s consumerism. If some of his works come close to visual poetry, other try to be a dialogue with consecrated modern artists (from Picasso to Kooning). If some of his photographs make us face a vision of life almost bordered (naked biker girls showing off tattoos in the series ‘Girlfriend’), others present a reality close to idillic paradise (such as the acclaimed series ‘Cowboys’). Although most of his work (exhibited in a small museum that belongs to the Guggenheim) was lost in a fire in 2007, Richard Prince is one of the creators with the biggest international projection and it’s a unique chance to see his practically unreleased work.

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That time, Larios street was where the beautifully decorated carriages were expected to pass. Malaga people proudly exhibited their best clothes for the holidays and celebrated with songs and chant the passage of the parade.

The Civil War and the upcoming years, when Francisco Franco prohibited all popular celebrations in Spain, marked a hiatus of this special holiday, which began to be celebrated again in 1978. The responsible for this initiative was the President de la Peña de los Angeles, Manuel Cortes Gallegos, encouraging three partners, de la Peña of undusted the history. This rescued traditions of Carnival, collected songs and the meaning of the Malaga Carnival street bands.

This year the carnival will be celebrated from the 11^th to the 19^th of February. Prices will be reduced between 10 and 25 percent, due to the crisis. The purpose of this holiday is for all Malaga inhabitants to enjoy both, the preliminary activities that culminate on the 10^th of February, as well as the nine days of carnival.

One of the highlights at the carnival is the participation of “Murgas” (street musicians), who liven up the festivity with their sounds and performances, inspired in the life of the neighborhood or area to which they belong. This year there are 27 Murgas registered, of which 10 are from autonomous provinces.

Similar to the Murgas, but with a more musical than acting performance, are the carnival parades; this year there are 21 registered. They are responsible for encouraging the audience with dances and music that gives the carnival a festive and relaxed atmosphere. The carnival parades members usually wear costumes that are related to a theme represented in the float.

This year, the main singer of the carnival is Diana Navarro. The author of the poster that promotes the Malaga Carnival is Andrés Mérida, who took the colors of winter to make sense of the holiday. This year, it is also de 25th anniversary of the Carnival anthem, played this year by Javier Ojeda.

The Malaga Carnival Foundation, which is the institution responsible for organizing and directing the carnival, has recovered an important part of the customs and activities, and gave life to the neighborhoods surrounding this festival, with a traditional food contests, rescuing the culture which is not written, but which takes place on each plate.

For more information: http://www.carnavaldemalaga.com/

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Russian Red is the project of Lourdes Hernandez, A talented girl from Madrid that started in the the music world four years ago with performances in bars in the Spanish capital. In 2008 she released her first album titled “I love your Glasses”, debut which sold over 40,000 copies and achieved massive sells becoming gold . She then embarks on an extensive tour that takes her through Latin America and Europe. Between 2008 and 2009 she played ​​over 200 gigs. Russian Red’s success is due to the talent of Lourdes as a songwriter and singer, who has been recognized with various awards in Spain, including New Artist of 2008 and best female vocalist in 2009.

The past year with the help of a major UK music producer Tony Doogan and the musical support of Belle & Sebastian she released her second album, “Fuerteventura” If the first work of Russian Red was a revelation, this new album shows the growth and evolution of a talented artist.

The concert will take place in Malaga on February 18 and is part of the 2012 European tour. The gig will be held at the Municipal Auditorium in Malaga at 21:30 hours.

For more information visit:http://www.nvivo.es/conciertos/Russian+Red-M%C3%A1laga

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There are titles for all tastes and the most advisable thing to do, of course, is to get a season ticket for the festival. You’ll have to forgive me for being impartial but I have to tell you about, for example, the monologue ‘Shakespeare’s Women’ by Rafael Álvarez ‘El Brujo’, which is regarding the text of the western guru critic Harold Bloom ‘The invention of the human’, an essential extract of the ‘Western Canon’. Regardless of the supposed divulgative work with which it’s publicised, we can’t leave aside the dramatic strength that the veteran actor can put on the essay of the American scholar, who considers Shakespeare the creator (in an artistic way) of everything human. On the topic of the the English bard, a new version of ‘Macbeth’ is made, a classic and still such a strong contemporary and present play that admits so many readings as productions have been made of it. Another play that’s not suitable for sensitive people is ‘No amanece en Génova’ (‘The sun doesn’t rise in Genoa’) by Trasto Teatro, a strong story about the terrible acts of the dictatorial regimes regardless of the ideology that you have. In the venue of the old Echegaray cinema, you can enjoy ‘André and Dorraine’, an avant-garde production of gestural theatre (close to modern performances) in which they use suggestive masks to give dramatic strength to the idea from the young theatre company Kulunka, the unquestionable winner of the 2011 Birmingham Be Festival edition. The most ludic proposal, designed for families as well even though it’s on a bit late (9pm) is the staging of the circus show ‘Banagan’.

But it’s not only a festival with strictly plays, because the organization has planned talks, conferences, workshops and activities parallel to the plays. In this sense, the main event of this immense banquet is, undoubtedly, the conference talk of Fernando Arrabal, the playwright, visual poet, artistic agitator and creator of Panic Theatre, a dramatic form that has its roots in surrealist European drama. Here’s the link with the complete official programme of this festival where the curious traveller or the local theatre fan can find all the practical information and more details on the different programmed events: http://www.teatrocervantes.com/public/uploads/file/descargas/86pro_FTM_12.pdf

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