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- Valencia Weekend: Summer Concerts
Buen finde! It’s a busy Valencia weekend for live music and IVAM has new exhibitions worth a visit, including a screening of an experimental film about the loudest sound ever recorded on earth. It’s also the last chance to catch events at Festival Fronteras. Music & Performance For fans of folk music, on Thursday and… - Valencia News | Teacher’s Strike and New Arrivals
Bon dia! Valencia enters another week with no end in sight to the teachers’ strike, now in its third week and heading toward a major Wednesday march. On the housing front, new data shows just how far out of reach ownership has become for younger residents. And two stories this week — one from Saturday,… - Valencia Weekend: Arts and Culture Fests!
Buen Finde! The city is packed with arts and culture outdoor festivals this Valencia weekend, especially in Turia Park, the Botanical Gardens and Jardines Viveros. Plus a free mussels giveaway in Cabanyal on Saturday morning. It’s also the last chance to catch a screening at Docs VLC or an Agatha Christie book talk at VLC…
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- How Valencia has a way of unlocking unexpected versions of you. For Lana, it was a children’s book.
It’s happened to all of us: you uproot your life, land somewhere new, and in the gap between who you were and who you’re becoming, something unexpected surfaces. For Lana Arcon, a Canadian living in Valencia, it took the shape of a children’s book series. “I had this idea to capture our stay… I didn’t… - Public vs Private in Spain: What Teachers and Doctors Are Actually Paid — and Why Thousands Are on Strike
Since Monday 12 May, public school teachers across the Comunitat Valenciana have been on indefinite strike — the first of its kind in the region in recent memory, and one that has brought tens of thousands onto the streets. The list of demands goes beyond pay: smaller class sizes, better working conditions, and the restoration… - Santo Remedio: cocktails that want to heal you in more ways than you imagine.
Our next Pont de Valencia event is at Santo Remedio — and once you hear what goes into a drink there, you’ll understand why we picked it. The bar is run by Aida and Nico, two bartenders with years of serious experience behind the stick. Their foundation is classical cocktail-making — but that’s just the…
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