The International Capital Of Crafts And Creativity

Denia will big nan first version of ArteManía, nan International Festival of Art, Creativity and Crafts, from Friday October 3 to Sunday October 5 astatine Baleària Port.

The caller inaugural has been launched pinch nan ambition of becoming an yearly gathering constituent for creators from astir nan world. It will bring together artisans, painters, designers, masters and artists from aggregate disciplines to showcase their activity and speech ideas.

According to nan organisers, guests will see artists’ associations from Latvia and Italy, arsenic good arsenic creators from France, Ukraine and different European nations. Masters from Spanish cities specified arsenic Malaga, Cadiz, Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia will besides return part. Local artists from Denia, La Marina Alta and nan Valencian Community will characteristic prominently, highlighting nan richness of nan region’s creativity.

ArteManía is presented arsenic “a abstraction wherever group tin observe nan diverseness of imaginative directions and link pinch nan cultures of different countries, agreed by a shared emotion of art”.

Full programme

The programme will beryllium broad, offering creation and trade exhibitions, imaginative workshops, seminars and networking opportunities. It is not only aimed astatine professionals aliases collectors but besides astatine nan wide public, who will beryllium capable to bask a lively and festive atmosphere.

At nan covered esplanade of Baleària Port, tents will big children’s and amateur workshops, chapeau creation contests, coating and trade competitions, arsenic good arsenic unrecorded music. A nutrient motortruck area will supply a varied culinary offer. “Every time of nan show will beryllium afloat of activities, truthful that everyone tin find thing special,” opportunity nan organisers.

Meanwhile, nan Multiespai L’Androna hallway will accommodate nan stalls of artisans and artists. The action will see jewellery, accessories, ornamental objects, sculpture, dolls, miniatures and teddy bears.

Focus connected recycled materials

A unique characteristic of nan show will beryllium its attraction connected ecological and recycled materials. Visitors will observe restored furnishings transformed into unsocial pieces, lamps created from recycled components, and manner made from reused fabrics. The organisers underline: “These projects not only animate but besides show nan value of conscious consumption, shaping a caller procreation of creation that unites beauty and responsibility.”

Denia was chosen arsenic nan venue acknowledgment to its taste heritage, world ambiance and long-standing estimation arsenic nan gastronomic superior of nan Costa Blanca. The driving unit down nan task has lived successful nan metropolis for complete a decade, dedicating her efforts to supporting artists, bringing group together and encouraging caller initiatives.

The eventual extremity is to found ArteManía arsenic an yearly arena and, successful nan future, to create a assemblage of applied arts and a imperishable depository of productivity and crafts successful Denia.