Events

The theme of 2015’s world’s fair and exposition, Expo Milano 2015, held May 1-Oct. 31 in northern Italy, was “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” (Dec. ’14, pg. 14). My wife, Ging, and I visited in June, and it provided a taste of what people may experience at the next expos, in Kazakhstan in 2017 and in Dubai in 2020.

To celebrate what would have been author Roald Dahl’s 100th year, these are among events planned in his native Wales in 2016 (visit www.visitwales.com):
• Exhibition of art by Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl’s illustrator, at National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, July 16-Nov. 20.
• Interactive exhibit “The Wondercrump World of Roald Dahl.” Opens in July at Wales Millennium Center in Cardiff.
• “City of the Unexpected” festival, with theatrical performances of Dahl books, in Cardiff, Sept. 17-18.

In Córdoba, Spain, an hour-long sound-and-light show — with light projections on many ponds and fountains — takes place nightly all year long at the Alcázar, or Fortress of the Christian Monarchs (Calle Caballerizas Reales s/n, Córdoba; phone +34 957420151).