The Association of Designers of the Region of Valencia (ADCV) has created Valencia Disseny Week (VDW), which will take place from 21 to 26 September 2009. An event of events, with the purpose of promoting design.

Valencia will host the second edition of “Crea Orxata 09″ next September 30, in which three distinguished Michelin-starred chefs experiment with the potential of the Valencian horchata and groundnut.
Chefs Bernd Knöller (Restaurante Riff), Jorge Breton, (Vertical and La Sucursal) , and Alejandro del Toro, (Restaurante Alejandro del Toro), will check the applications of these traditional products from Valencia on the cuisine.

How would you feel about your best friend if he suddenly did something so colossally stupid, it made you doubt the very basis of the friendship? It happens in Yasmina Reza’s monster international hit, Art, now performed in Teatro Olympia in Valencia.
Art concerns the cataclysmic effect on three friends, Sergio, Marcos, and Ivan, when Sergio purchases an expensive work of abstract art: a large painting consisting of white lines on a white canvas. As the three men engage in an ongoing debate over the value of the painting, emotions run …

The IVAM Jazz Ensemble and Dominique Di Piazza  open the festival ‘Jazz a l’IVAM 09′ today at 11.00 pm. The performance will take place in the terrace of the Modern Art Museum, IVAM, and the entry is free until full capacity.
On this occasion the IVAM Jazz Ensemble, conducted by Ximo Tebar, will be joined by the famous French bassist Dominique Di Piazza . We will also enjoy the participation of Michael Lecoq (piano), Ramon Cardo (sax) Ximo Tebar (guitar) and Donald Edwards (drums).

After four years being held in a hotel,  the Fifth Edition of Valencia.Art is consolidated in a new environment, the Centro del Carmen in Valencia.
From 1st to 4th October, 28 galleries from Spain and Portugal will exhibit their art in the halls of the impressive Renaissance cloister of the museum.
Valencia.Art, the contemporary art fair of Valencia, promoted and organized by GmExpresa, has the invaluable collaboration of the Generalitat Valenciana for this new edition of this wonderful architectural enclave. This new space makes Valencia.Art offer visitors the most groundbreaking and avant-garde …

The initial figures released for the summer season have delivered favourable results for the Region of Valencia. In the month of July, the Region was the second most popular destination among Spanish residents for overnight stays, representing 14.5% of the total figure, according to data published by Spain’s National Institute of Statistics (INE). It was also the only Spanish destination to register an increase in the number of tourists arriving from the UK.

From 8th to 10th September the city will become a catwalk featuring the latest trends at the 7th edition of Fashion Week.
The best needles in the world of tailoring and design will gather again this year at Valencia Fashion Week. This year’s edition features projects such as Plaza de la Moda (Fashion Square) and People in Fashion, as well as a showroom at Feria Valencia aimed at professionals and communicators in the fashion sector.

The Cult is touring the world with their latest work Love Live.
This British group born in 1984, was one of the bands that created the Hard Rock revival in England. Being highly successful throughout the years they still survive with new songs on the stage.
The Cult will be performing live in Valencia at Port America’s Cup on 27 September 2009.

Renault have had their suspension from this weekend’s European Grand Prix overturned after an FIA International Court of Appeal hearing in Paris on Monday. The team were handed the punishment at the last round in Hungary, where they were found at fault for allowing driver Fernando Alonso to leave the pits with a wheel that hadn’t been properly secured.
Though Renault admitted unsafe conduct, the Court decided that the penalty was too severe and replaced it with a reprimand and a US$50,000 fine. Alonso, whose front-right wheel eventually worked its way …

Alonso’s Renault F1 Team was punished in the last GP of Hungary after a tyre flew off his car in Hungary. That penalty was appealed by the team, but until 18 August this resolution will not be known.
Almost all of the paddock thinks that the penalty is excessive and that the FIA will reverse and just let a financial penalty. But Renault can not wait to know whether they can race or not, because only the resolution will be known 3 days before everything has to be already mounted in …

Three months before the tournament begins, more than 10,000 tickets have already been sold.  The most popular tickets are those for the final phase of the competition in the Ágora building.
The tickets for the Valencia Open 500 went on sale on 15th June and since then more than 10,000 have already been reserved, almost 20% of the total capacity.  The most popular tickets so far are those for the semi-finals and the final, which will be played on 7th and 8th November. 

Michael Schumacher has put his retirement on hold to make the most dramatic Formula One comeback since Niki Lauda’s return to the sport in 1982. Ferrari confirmed today that the seven-times world champion, who retired in 2006, will make a sensational return to the sport as a stand-in for the injured Felipe Massa. Subject to passing a medical, the 40-year-old German will return at the European grand prix in Valencia on 23 August.
Schumacher has made it clear that he is stepping in only to help the team for which he …

With Felipe Massa–injured in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday–likely to be sidelined for the rest of the 2009 Formula One season, Ferrari must find a replacement driver in time for the next race in Valencia, Spain on Aug. 23, and former world champions Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso are tops on the list of potential candidates.
A source close to the team confirmed that Alonso is not an impossible choice. Getting him into the car half a season ahead of schedule–he is believed to already have a deal to move …