Looking back

February 2010 El Indio Mocaqua Alcobendas

Actors Jonathan Mellor and Julie Davies came to El Indio Mocaqua, the artist Nacho Paswal's  wonderful kaleidescope of a bar, to read a selection of poetry by American author T.S.Eliot as a first initiative of ASEDOW to share something beautiful It was brilliant but there were very few people there to enjoy the performance despite all our efforts. Fede, from Argentina who was running  the bar at the time told us,

'In Argentina culture and leisure time go hand in hand.'

On his return from Brazil to Dublin via Madrid on Friday, the Minister of Education from Ireland Ruairi Quinn attended the launching of two books on Spanish Irish relations in the past.
The Battle of Kinsale and  The Irish Presence at the Cortes de Cadiz.

Mr Quinn  shared a story about Jean Monnet one of the architects of the E.U. the greatest peace project of our time. When he was asked if there was anything he would change about the European Union on looking back, M. Monnet replied. 'I think I would begin with culture.'

What a deep well that is.

Music, Language, Literature, Art, Films, Songs, Dances to share and respect ...the water of life.


Three years later sadly El Indio Mocaqua is closed. However,  Fede is running a bar in London and ASEDOW is in a position to repay a debt of kindness to Julie and Jonathan.