http://www.alifeinvalencia.com Guide to Valencia Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:13:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/fashion-art-cac/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/fashion-art-cac/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:59:42 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/fashion-art-at-the-cac/ The exhibition brings together a collection of over 40 hand-painted dresses that blend fashion and design with the visual arts. Fashion Art, located in the Calle Mayor section of the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum, is arriving in Europe for the first time, having travelled to several Latin American cities such as Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago de Chile, among others.
Artists from Latin America and Spain have used fabrics [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/fashion-art-cac/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/teatro-de-la-electricidad-cac/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/teatro-de-la-electricidad-cac/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:49:50 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/teatro-de-la-electricidad-at-the-cac/ In front of an auditorium with an audience of fifty or so and on a stage that simulates the laboratory of a scientist/inventor, a scientific entertainer is attempting to improve their understanding of concepts related to physical phenomena that produce electricity.
Bells that ring without touching them, candles that go out with a metallic wand without the need to blow, jumping rings, electric arcs that cross space, or neon tubes that light up on touching their ends are some of the experiences that will literally make your [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/teatro-de-la-electricidad-cac/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:53:24 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/ Horacio Silva has confessed that, at the outset, when they proposed to him this exhibition, he had doubts, a thought that is recognized like one of the majors errors of its race because at present it is enchanting to make this sample.
Although the subject of the exhibition is appellant, the trips continue being a constant for this artist. The exhibition houses pictures not only from the trip to China, but also of others. [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:59:49 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/ This exhibition, through high-resolution infrared reflectography shows underlying drawings made before applying layers of colour from a select group of artists, Spanish, Italian and Flemish from the XV and XVI. These great painters of the past were unable to imagine that future researchers would get look at their designs, which reveal the personality of their strokes, full of vigor and beauty.
The study of these drawings, which have remained hidden for so many years  helps determine the tools and painting materials used by artists, [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/exhibition-del-color-al-bn-pasando-por-la-madera/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/exhibition-del-color-al-bn-pasando-por-la-madera/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:13:48 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/exhibition-del-color-al-bn-pasando-por-la-madera/ The Botanical Gardens is currently presenting/displaying the sculptural exhibition “DEL COLOR AL B/N, pasando por la madera” roughly translated as “OF the COLOR TO the B/N, happening through the wood” by the Valencian artist Luis Creek.
Visit the gardens to see a game of colours, textures and shades that cover all and also emulate and characterize, emblematic personages from the history of the cinema, through moving bodies carved in wood. Decomposed abstraction and pieces form the work of this artist and designer, strongly influenced by the MGP art.
Start date: [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/exhibition-del-color-al-bn-pasando-por-la-madera/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/arabia-at-the-hemisferic-cac/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/arabia-at-the-hemisferic-cac/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:26:32 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/arabia-at-the-cac/ This unique building shaped to symbolise a big human eye is a window to the outside, a balcony that will allow you to glimpse at other worlds and have incredible experiences thanks to the shows, projections and activities held regularly in its facilities.
The projection room, which can seat over 300 people, has a 900 square metre concave screen, 24 metres in diameter, which will allow you to enjoy to the full Arabia, [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/arabia-at-the-hemisferic-cac/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/star-trek-exhibition-at-the-cac/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/star-trek-exhibition-at-the-cac/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:56:46 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/star-trek-exhibition-at-the-cac/ There will be a massive “Star Trek” exhibition which will give visitors the chance to see real props and costumes from this legendary series for the first time ever in Europe, in a meticulously assembled set that will beam them up to the star ship ‘Enterprise’
The replica of the bridge, a flight simulator, models and real objects can all be seen in the exhibition on this series that actually did see into the future [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/star-trek-exhibition-at-the-cac/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-exhibition-palace/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-exhibition-palace/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:30:05 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-exhibition-palace/ It was once part of the various buildings constructed for the Regional Exhibition held in Valencia in 1909, which were mostly were demolished when the contest ended. Only a few buildings were saved from the demolition and were reused for other purposes, including the Palace of the Exposition.
The building was assigned by the City of Valencia to the prestigious architect Francisco Mora Berenguer, who had to build this palace in only seventy days to comply with [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-exhibition-palace/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/free-valencia/estadio-mestalla/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/free-valencia/estadio-mestalla/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:03:10 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/estadio-mestalla/ It is also renowned for its steep terracing and being one of the most intimidating atmospheres in all of Europe in which to play.
In the near future, the team is expected to move into the Nou Mestalla, a state-of-the-art stadium with a seating capacity of 75,000, located in Valencia, but due to the Valencia CF’s financial crisis, it’s unknown when the stadium will be completed.
On 20 May 1923, the Estadio Mestalla was inaugurated with a friendly match that [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/free-valencia/estadio-mestalla/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/free-valencia/nou-mestalla/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/free-valencia/nou-mestalla/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:55:27 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/nou-mestalla/ The stadium will have a capacity of 73,200 when finished. and will replace their current stadium Estadio Mestalla. Designed by Reid Fenwick Asociados and ArupSport the cost is estimated between 250 and 300 million Euros. The ground will have a futuristic exterior, clad in aluminium with an interior of wood and is being built on the site of a former factory in the neighbourhood of Benicalap.
The plans for the new stadium were unveiled in 2006 and on the 10th November 2006 former president Juan Soler and the club unveiled details about the [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/free-valencia/nou-mestalla/feed/ 0