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They participated in a Spanish course and in different cultural activities. Paco took this group photo during his guided visit to the Arabic quarter Albaícin.

During the first six months of 2011 approx. 50 students participated in our horseback riding programme; a similar number of students booked the Arabic bath, including a fantastic massage.

This morning our teenager group from the Gymansium Wandlitz (Berlin / Germany) visited, together with the teachers Elena and Paco, the famous "Tarasca" procession.

In May the Hermann Grundschule in Münster, Germany organised sponsored running sessions for the 6 to 10 years old kids. Our school was one of the participating sponsors. The collected money will be used to buy new school material, especially for the sports department.

We welcome Academia Buenos Aires in Argentina and Academia Uruguay, located in Montevideo, as new members of the TANDEM International network.

Spanish teachers should contact their national agency for European programmes to apply for these grants:

ES-2012-313-029 - Grundtvig grant
Curso práctico de 1 semana - perfeccionamiento y reciclaje para profesores NO-NATIVOS de español como lengua extranjera - Niveles C1/C2.
Starting dates 2012:
March: 05.03/12.03/19.03/26.03.
April: 09.04/16.04/23.04.
May: 07.05/14.05/21.05/28.05.
June: 11.06/18.06/25.06.
July: 02.07/09.07/16.07/23.07/30.07.
August: 06.08/20.08/27.08.
September: 03.09/10.09/17.09/24.09.
October: 01.10/15.10/22.10.

ES-2012-311-023 - Grundtvig grant
Curso práctico de 2 semanas - perfeccionamiento y reciclaje para profesores NO-NATIVOS de español como lengua extranjera - Niveles C1/C2.
Starting dates 2012:
March: 05.03/12.03/19.03.
April: 09.04/16.04.
May: 07.05/14.05/21.05.
June: 11.06/18.06/25.06.
July: 02.07/09.07/16.07/23.07/30.07.
August: 20.08/27.08.
September: 03.09/10.09/17.09/24.09.
October: 15.10.

You will find more information at our teacher training section.

Ha muerto Ernesta Sabato. Sabato fue, junto a Borges, una de las grandes figuras de la literatura argentina contemporánea. Fue el representante de una generación que utilizó las letras como pancarta política y como reclamo social.

Os dejo con el trailer del documental "Sabato, Mi padre" que filmó su hijo Mario Sabato.

Thus, the Festival will provide a space for the meeting of both young filmmakers and established talents from these countries, allowing for the screening of both new productions and emblematic and historic works. The Festival will be the platform for an annual meeting of films coming from the South. The Granada Film Festival "Cines del Sur" will be held annually, having designated the edition of the Festival by 04th June-10th June, 2011. The programme will be published soon at www.cinesdelsur.com

Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, will inaugurate the eighth International Poetry Festival in Granada being held from May 9th to May 13th 2011.

On May 10th at the Auditorio Manuel de Falla, Mario Vargas Llosa will talk about his relationship with poetry and other literature-related issues. During the day,  there will also be recitals by the pianist Rosa Torres Pardo and the poet Luis García Montero.

On May 12th, the ‘Federico García Lorca’ prize will be awarded to Málaga poet María Victoria Atencia.