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Algarve Art Magazine - Winter 2018

Algarve Art Magazine - Winter 2018We are delighted to launch the Winter 2018 Edition of our free Algarve Art! Magazine today.  The magazine is full of artists of all genres; wonderful and inspiring art, and lots of in-depth articles for you to read and enjoy.

Folk Dance Group Of Odiáxere - The Identity Of Our People

Folk Dance Group Of Odiáxere - The Identity Of Our PeopleTo absorb the knowledge of our people and to understand the life they lived, helps us to identify with our culture. This heritage rooted in clothing, music and choreography led Mar d'Estórias to contact Luís Morgado, President of the Folk Dance Group of Odiáxere (Rancho Folclórico e Etnográfico de Odiáxere), to rediscover the daily life of the Portuguese people long ago.

Interview with Little Mike Markowitz

MikeMike Markowitz, known as Little Mike, is the leader of the New York City Blues band, ‘Little Mike and the Tornadoes.’

On Saturday, September 29th the band will be playing and the second annual ‘Blues a Sul’ with the Associação de Blues do Algarve at the Club Farense in Faro, 30 Rua de Santo Antonio, at 22.00.

Algarve Art Magazine - Autumn 2018

Algarve Art Magazine - Autumn 2018Welcome to the latest edition of our free art magazine.  The magazine is full of artists of all genres; wonderful and inspiring art, and lots of in-depth articles for you to read and enjoy.

Art and Photography news from the Algarve - September 2018

Art and Photography news from the Algarve - September 2018Welcome to our September 2018 Newsletter with lots of news - photos - and a date for your diary too!  CLICK HERE to read it free online.

Meinke Flesseman's 'Secrets of Summer' exhibition opens in Portimão

meinkeThe ‘Secrets of Summer’ exhibition of works by Meinke Flesseman opens at the Museum of Portimão on September 8th at 6.00pm.

One of the Algarve's top tier artists, with a host of international clients and commissions, Meinke Flesseman’s impressive artistic career saw her first studying Fine Arts at the Lorenzo di Medici Academy in Florence, Italy, and then at the Volkov-Moscow Academy of Fine Arts, and finally, at the Ruud Wachers Academie in Amsterdam.

The knowledge and skill of the cork harvesting

The knowledge and skill of the cork harvestingIt is from May to the end of August, a more active time for the cork growth, that the cork harvesting is done. Cork is a raw material with unique characteristics that, to be extracted, needs great expertise of the cork harvester.

Being an old art and very present in the interior of the Algarve, Mar d'Estórias went to understand the knowledge and the ability needed to harvest the cork from the tree. We went to Reguengo, near Rogil, where we spoke with the specialist António Campos, known as António da Espantadiça, who welcomed us with the calm and sympathy that characterises him.

Arte Xávega – Trawl Fishing at Meia Praia

Arte Xávega – Trawl Fishing at Meia PraiaOne of the oldest types of fishing in the Algarve continues to persist on the beach of Meia Praia by the only master of the Xávega art (traditional trawl fishing) who is still licensed in Lagos - José Glória, known as Mestre Zé Bala – the skipper.
The xávega is an artisanal fishery made by trawling from the beach, carried out by human force, with the use of a yoke, or, more recently, by tractors. Around here, the art continues almost the same as it was performed more than 100 years ago, with the human strength of a minimum of 16 people to pull the "calas" (cables used to draw out the nets).