The Calvià Town Hall presented the Rei en Jaume´s 2011 Awards, an event which is part of the most popular festivities in the municipality, at the hotel H10 Punta Negra gardens, yesterday afternoon.

Rei en Jaume´s  2011 Awards.

The Calvià Town Hall presented the Rei en Jaume´s 2011 Awards, an event which is part of the most popular festivities in the municipality, at the hotel H10 Punta Negra gardens, yesterday afternoon and which will come to a close tomorrow 13th September, with the inauguration of the Rei en Jaume´s 2011 Art Awards elected and winning works exhibition, at the Town Hall´s multi purpose room at 8 p.m.

The current official announcement shared out 14.500 euros in prizes and counted, once more, with Taylor Wimpey´s sponsorship and the collaboration of the Hotel H10 Punta Negra. The Rei en Jaume Awards 2011 edition has counted with a total of 195 participants amongst the different competing modalities: Art and Art of Calvià, Poetry in Catalan and Castilian; Narrative in Castilian and Catalan and Comic.

The Art category continues being the one with most participation with a total of 123 artists, followed by the Poetry category with 43 works competing, from which 28 are in Castilian and 15 in Catalan. After, the Narrative category appears with 22 works: 16 in Castilian and 6 in Catalan and finally 7 artists compete in the Comic category.

The winners of the Rei en Jaume 2011 Awards, in the different competing artistic modalities are:

POETRY IN CATALAN: La pietat de l'atzavara - Jordi Colomer Feliu

special mention: Entretemps - Rafel M. Creus Oliver

POETRY CASTILIAN: Hielo - Jose Luis García Herrera

NARRATIVE CATALAN: El secret de Van Gogh - Guillem Rosselló Bujosa

NARRATIVE IN CASTILIAN: Daños colaterales - Luis Manuel García Méndez

COMIC: Cactus - Alba Sánchez Romero

special mention: De viaje - César Sebastián Díaz

ART: Wild Flowers - Arantxa Boyero Lirón

special mention: 12062m111248II - Jose Luis López Moral

special mention: Des-paisajes (Camuflaje nº2) - Laura Marte (Laura Martínez Marqués)

ART OF CALVIÀ: Arrecife - Jorge Pinilla Ibáñez

SELECTED IN ART

Agoncillo - Jose Ramón Moreno Fernández

Indoor Desert #4 - Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés Hernández

After - Aina C. Darder Pizá

Mar & Marsmallows (sèrie Visionàries)- Maria del Mar Agüera Llinàs

Homenaje a Bill Dilworth, vigilante de The New York Earth Room de Walter de María - Gerard Cuartero Betriu