22 March 2010

23 March 2010

  • World Meteorological Day
  • Marketing Seminar with Stefan Drew: How to Quadruple your Turnover & Profit from 9.30am – 12.30pm followed by  Website Secrets – How to Drive Traffic to your Website with Google Adwords and Free Online Marketing Tools from 4pm – 7pm. Cost per seminar €89 For more information or to book your place – please contact Hotel Garbe – + 351 282 320260 or mail@hotelgarbe.com. At the Hotel Garbe, Armação de Pêra.  
     
  • Moncarapacho: Barbershop choir group meets every Tuesday at 18.30. Call Sylvy Wilks on 914 848108 or email: sylvy.wilks@gmail.com or see website: www.bellaacappella.net
  • Hotel Tivoli Marina, Portimão Tuesday 23 March – Time 19.30 Come and listen to Dr. Cris Piessens talk about dental implants. Find out all the facts about dental implants and get all your questions answered by an expert with a local surgery in Albufeira. Dr. Cris Piessens will explain about implants and cosmetic dentistry, and how modern techniques can improve your life, health and confidence. With more than 20 years of experience, and a long list of satisfied customers, he can give you the information you need. NO CHARGE - NO OBLIGATION JUST EXPERT ADVICE For more information, or to reserve your place, please ring 968984832 or email info@crispiessensclinic.com
  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme
     

24 March 2010

  • AFPOP Eastern Algarve Monthly Social Club  Pedras da Rainha – Tavira, Launch Date: 24th March 2010 11.00am to 3.30 / 4.00pm AFPOP EA and the Pedras Lawn Bowls Club are working together to form the AFPOP Monthly Social Club. The idea of the Social Club is to give members a chance to meet in very informal surroundings, perhaps to make new friends, while enjoying a few hours chatting, playing cards, scrabble, darts, reading magazines / books – whatever . . . Initially, until our club gets established, please try to let me know if you are going to attend. Linda Cree Mobile: 91 207 1000,Telephone: 289 798374. email: eastalgarve@afpop.com or Linda.cree@sapo.pt
  • Marketing Seminars at the Hotel Garbe with Stefan Drew: Marketing for Restaurants, Coffee Shops, Bars and Hotels: How to fill your establishment with customers by using simple, easy to use, low cost marketing ….. including using websites and online marketing. 8.30am. – 11.30am
  • PR and Media: How to get your news and stories into print, on air and into cyberspace at no cost 2pm – 5pm
  • How to Quadruple your Turnover & Profit 6pm-8pm Cost per seminary €89 At the Hotel Garbe, Armação de Pêra For more information or to book your place – please contact Hotel Garbe – + 351 282 320260 or mail@hotelgarbe.com.
  • Madrugada charity event in aid of people with life limiting disabilities: Bangers and Mash Quiz at the Burgau Hotel Contact Annette on 282 762 620 or Joan on 967 732 508 or visit the Charity Shop in Praia da Luz
  • Hotel Garbe, Armação de Pêra Local doctor, John Piper, will be signing copies of his book – The St Petersburg Declaration. Time 11.00.  Following his well-received first novel, Mother Killers, this work of fiction transports the readers back to 1868 and to a virtual travelogue of exotic venues starting with New York City but rapidly moving across Europe and Russia.
  • Hotel Brisa Sol, Albufeira Wednesday 24 March – Time 19.30 Come and listen to Dr. Cris Piessens talk about dental implants. Find out all the facts about dental implants and get all your questions answered by an expert with a local surgery in Albufeira. Dr. Cris Piessens will explain about implants and cosmetic dentistry, and how modern techniques can improve your life, health and confidence. With more than 20 years of experience, and a long list of satisfied customers, he can give you the information you need. NO CHARGE - NO OBLIGATION JUST EXPERT ADVICE For more information, or to reserve your place, please ring 968984832 or email info@crispiessensclinic.com
  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme
     

25 March 2010

  • Marketing for Real Estate & Property Agencies: How to sell your properties by using simple, easy to use, low cost marketing….. including using websites and online marketing 8.30am – 11.30am
  • Advertising Secrets: How to Cut Your Advertising Costs & Ensure Your Advertising Works Every Time 2pm – 5pm
  • AFPOP Luncheon with bookclub in Loulé in Pedra d'Água at 12.00 for 13.00. Price is 13 euros a head. All drinks before or after the meal should be paid for when ordered. For more information and bookings, please contact Tom and Joyce Shubrook: 289 413 205
  • Silves: Alpha course, a ten week programme exploring questions like Does God exist? What is the real meaning of life? Does God heal today? In an informal way at the home of Les and Mary Cave near Silves. The Alpha course is already well known to many people. 8,451 organisations in the UK and 42,530 organisations worldwide are running Alpha in 163 countries and it is estimated that over 12 million people worldwide have now attended an Alpha course. 'Commenting on Alpha, The Guardian says ´What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning'. For further information and directions on how to find their home, contact Les or Mary on 309402079 (landline) or 919729799 (mobile).
  • Faro airport: Nuno Aires, Head of Algarve Tourism and Helena Mak will officially open the new Ryannair base in Faro airport. Time 11.00
  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme
  • Estombar AFPOP: A regular Thursday evening slot has been booked for Badminton players at the pavilion of the Escola EB2,3 João Conin in Estombar, between 8pm and 10 pm. For details E-mail: info@afpop.com
     

26 March 2010

  • Evora: Pop concert:  Teste1 at the Arena de Évora Time 21.00 tickets www.blueticketline.pt  Tavira : History talk by Peter Booker on The Corsairs in the Algarve. To be held in the Municipal Library  Contact lynne.booker@iol.pt  or 281 971 567 peter.booker@iol.pt  or 281 971 567 at 11.00am. http://algarvehistoryassociation.webs.com
  • Ourique, Alentejo: Fourth Festival of the Black Pig, Gastronómicas "Sabores do Porco Alentejano," held in the town of Ourique on 26, 27 and 28. www.cm-ourique.pt
  • Marketing Seminars at the Hotel Garbe with Stefan Drew: Marketing for Real Estate & Property Agencies: How to sell your properties by using simple, easy to use, low cost marketing….. including using websites and online marketing 8.30am – 11.30am
  • Advertising Secrets: How to Cut Your Advertising Costs & Ensure Your Advertising Works Every Time 2pm – 5pm  Cost per seminary €89 At the Hotel Garbe, Armação de Pêra For more information or to book your place – please contact Hotel Garbe – + 351 282 320260 or mail@hotelgarbe.com.
  • Portimão Superbike World Championship 2010 from 26-28 March at the Autodromo do Algarve near Portimao Website: www.autodromoalgarve.com
  • Madrugada charity event: Sky Dive by Karolina on March 26th around 10h from Alvor Flying Club. Monies raised by Karolina, through sponsorship, will be donated to Madrugada, for people with life limiting disabilities. To sponsor Karolina please e-mail her on caroline.world@gmail.com.  
  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme
     

27 March 2010

  • Ourique, Alentejo: Fourth Festival of the Black Pig, Gastronómicas "Sabores do Porco Alentejano," held in the town of Ourique on 26, 27 and 28. www.cm-ourique.pt  
  • AFPOP:  AGM at Hotel Jardim do Vau in Portimao at 09.30.
  • AFPOP : Sounds of the 60's Dance.    Come and dance the night away to live music from a brilliant live band, BLUFF, from 7.30pm onwards.  It is Almadena Social Centre, €6 entry fee.  Please book with Pat Allen.  Tel:  282-697-548      Mob:  969-814-789     E-mail:  patallen@sapo.pt
  • Portimão Superbike World Championship 2010 from 26-28 March at the Autodromo do Algarve near Portimao Website: www.autodromoalgarve.com
  • The art gallery in Praia da Luz “Arrecadação da Luz “  has a new exposition starting by the painter Tina Gonçalves. Time from 20.00.
  • Boliqueime. Makeup Masterclass at the salon.  Clients will learn the tricks of the trade and how to create head-turning looks for day and evening. Costs €15 which includes drinks and nibbles.  Call the salon on 289 360 965 to book.
  • Portimão Syncronised Swimming: The 5th Festival of the Estrelas do Mar Times are 09.30 to 11.30 and 14.30 to 19.00 Location is the sports complex Complexo Desportivo in Mexilhoeira.
  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme Benagil St. Patrick's "Irish Walk" will be on Saturday, March 27 at 10:15 for a prompt 10:30 start. It will be a 2 to 21/2 hour cliff-top walk starting at Benagil. Meet where the boats are on the beach. All are welcome. Please wear sensible walking shoes or trainers. Lunch will be available afterwards. Contacts: Marshall, 282 343323, (or Jim , 967780465 after March 25th).
  • Albufeira Classic Cars on 27-28 March. Parades, displays and competitions, with a focus on sports cars of the 1920s and 1930s see Website: www.cm-albufeira.pt for details of locations
     

28 March 2010


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  • Ourique, Alentejo: Fourth Festival of the Black Pig, Gastronómicas "Sabores do Porco Alentejano," held in the town of Ourique on 26, 27 and 28. www.cm-ourique.pt
  • Portimão Superbike World Championship 2010 from 26-28 March at the Autodromo do Algarve near Portimao Website: www.autodromoalgarve.com
  • Colégio, Lagos: Classical concert to celebrate  200 years since the birth of Schumann. Time 18.30 Venue Church in Colégio
  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme
  • Art-for-Rent show in Olhao. Artoteca 70x70 is a place where people can rent works of art.  Art rental is a flexible way to enliven homes or offices and create a stylish and stimulating environment anywhere. The rental fee is $30 per artwork per half year, and is credited to the purchase of the work should one decide they don’t want to live without it. The rental time is unlimited, short or long. For further information contact Peter de Jong Tel : 289 706 920 or www.70x70.net
  • Opera Carmen: Arade Congress Centre, Parchal near Ferragudo, Bizet’s classic opera performed by the National Opera of Moldova. Tickets priced €30-35 Tel 282 498 577
  • Albufeira Classic Cars on 27-28 March. Parades, displays and competitions, with a focus on sports cars of the 1920s and 1930s see Website: www.cm-albufeira.pt for details of locations
  • Loulé Festival of Gastronomy  28 March-18 April see Website: www.cm-loule.pt for details
     

29 March 2010

  • International Earth Hour at 8pm many cities are recognising this by switching lights off for one hour.
  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme
  • The Jewish Community of Algarve  will be celebrating the First Night of the 8 day Passover festival with a communal "Seder" (dinner) on Monday 29th of March. Further information from Ralf Pinto T. 282416710 Fax 282416515 Tm 968440414 Ralf.Pinto@sapo.pt  

30 March 2010

  • Moncarapacho: Barbershop choir group meets every Tuesday at 18.30. Call Sylvy Wilks on 914 848108 or email: sylvy.wilks@gmail.com or see website: www.bellaacappella.net
  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme

31 March 2010

  • Vila Real de Sto.António: Fifth international theatre event from 20 March to 1 April with workshops, poetry and plays running daily see www.cm-vrsa.pt for details of programme