WHAT’S ON
CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN CHARITY SWIM On Christmas Day and New Year’s Day at 11.00 a.m, on the beach at Armação de Pêra for the annual fun-filled Charity Swim. Take a dip in the ocean and help to raise money for local children in need. Bring your swimwear, a towel, and go in for a swim, or just a paddle, as long as a part of you gets wet. Then recover in the Holiday Inn hotel bar to enjoy a hot bomba on Christmas Day, or a hot chocolate on New Year’s Day. If you are attending on Christmas Day, why not wear a Santa-suit. New Year’s Day you are encouraged to wear your pyjamas! Adults and children are all welcome to take part on the understanding that they do so at their own risk. To join the swim is free, although a donation is requested to help raise money for two local charities: ‘Espaço Amigo’ Armação de Pêra and ‘A Gaivota’ - Albufeira.
+INFO: +351 282 320 260 info@hialgarve.com
Tickets are sure to be in demand for the Lavrar O mar circus. Last year there were many disappointed, so do not leave booking too late! This year the organisation are bringing two circus' to the Big Top, located in the area of Monchique’s Heliport. 27th to 31st December and 1st to 5th of January, there are no shows on the 30th or 2nd as the actors will be resting. Tickets for either show cost 12€ for adults, while children up to 11-years-old are 5€. Minimum age allowed is 6-yearsold. LES DODOS - LE P’TIT CIRK The show begins at 6 p.m and will last 1 hour 20 minutes. Seasoned French acrobats who formed in 2004 bring their show, Dodos. “Dodos were a species of bird that became extinct because it was too clumsy to survive: it could not fly or swim and was too naive to face the hardship of life. This bird was physically the opposite of the acrobat, and yet they are both equally unconscious. They travel between fear and naivety, life and survival. A performance made up of five acrobatic musicians who present models of microsocieties expressed through games of sensitive relations of fragility, power and
benevolence. The hostility of the world condemns them to inventing frenetically derisive survival mechanisms, such as the unlikely attempts to escape gravity through limitless imagination. A rhythmic show where the music of guitars, double bass and violin are its breath.”
COLLECTIF MALUNÉS - FOREVER, HAPPILY... This show starts at 9:30 p.m with a running time of 70-minutes. Collectif Malunés is a Franco-Belge circus company founded in 2009. For the new season, the Malunés family grows and consists of sixteen nomadic souls. “Fairy-tales will accompany us, cradle us, and haunt us. We will grind them up, transform them, caress them, dream into them, adapt them, revisit them and twist them throughout the creation, to extract a contemporary renovation. A performance that exhausts the superficiality of this “wonderful world” displaced from reality, bringing a modern vision, alive and current, but also ridiculous. The idea is to create a collective art and a shared experience.”
+INFO: Lavraromar.bol.pt info@lavraromar.pt +351 913 943 034
New Year’s Eve
Lagos
Portimão
Come celebrate another New Year's Eve at this free party in Praça do Infante to the music of Anselmo Ralph. The musical show and the fireworks are more than enough reasons to share these unforgettable memories, on a night full of magic and fun.
End the year with revelry, music and fireworks at Portimão and Praia da Rocha where the entertainment begins at 9 p.m
WWW.TOMORROWALGARVE.COM
47