Just a week ago I had a great time at a fine restaurant in Tavira, appropriately named Álvaro de Campos, filled with mainly tourists and foreign residents, watching an excellent pianist/singer, Ricardo Martins, and a charismatic actor, Pedro Monteiro - writes Rudy Engelander

Everyone was listening throughout their dinner to poetry by Fernando Pessoa in Portuguese, English and French. Not only listening: some guests were inspired enough to read some poems themselves. The whole evening, food, music, poetry, was a huge success.

We have no idea where September went! Here we are - it is already October 1st and our latest newsletter is all ready for you to read. We hope that you enjoy this latest edition.

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Brand New 'Algarve Art' venture launches in the Algarve, combining a new website promoting art and artists of all genres, a new Algarve Society of Artists, and the forthcoming launch of a unique Algarve Art! quarterly online art magazine for the Algarve.

We are delighted to bring you our September newsletter, which is full of our latest news, photographs, paintings and new projects. CLICK HERE to read our latest newsletter. 

The short film "HopeLess" produced by FilmAlgarve.com and 100% made in Western Algarve during winter 2017 has been pre-selected at the Madrid Art Film Festival, 2017 edition.

"HopeLess" is a comedy about life, trying to make fun about our destiny.

Here is a second article of Algarve expressions, this time with help from people who commented and made suggestions as a result of the first article. Therefore, we will not mention those that were already featured in the other article, but include others of equal importance to the Algarve "dialect".

Stories of Saudade and Other Things is a new podcast for anyone interested in real stories about Portugal. There are two versions of the podcast, one in Portuguese, one in English, produced simultaneously, every two weeks. It is produced by Marco António, a Portuguese TV Journalist and writer, and Lucy Pepper, a British artist and writer living in Portugal since the last century.

Portugal has many fascinating stories to tell. With that in mind, a Portuguese journalist and a British artist joined forces to create a podcast that is the ultimate in simple down-to-earth story-telling about the Portugal, and they make it in both Portuguese and English, so everyone can hear the stories.

We've got another bumper edition for you this month...this may be our largest edition yet!! CLICK HERE to read our latest newsletter.