Like all weekends in HolaLanzarote.com we tell you about the best events and activities to do on the island. This weekend there are many things to do in Lanzarote. Let’s start with the music events, this Friday will start the Arrecife en vivo (Arrecife Live), a music festival that will be on four dates on the island capital.
There will be culture, with films and paintings, with the Canaries Surf Film Festival and the Exhibition of the artist Paula Paxian, called "Almas" (Souls).
It will also be a sports weekend with the Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote and the swimming across in Playa Honda.
Yes, Lanzarote offers a variety of activities and shows. It is an island full of contrasts, color and plenty to do.
1. Arrecife en Vivo September 18th
Four days of music with big bands in Arrecife. There will be four dates to delight audiences of Arrecife with the best music. On 18 and 25 September, 2 and 9 October, music will star in the most iconic venues in the city. Friday September 18 presented Los Contratiempos, CLUB 4 Tribute To The Beatles, Furia and Joe's Band. 
2. Canarias Surf Film Festival – Lanzarote 2015
Al terminar el fin de semana, el domingo desde las 20:30 horas podrás ver Surfrider Foundation, Manufacturing Stoke y The Fortune Wild. The 2015 Canary Surf Film Festival began on Thursday September 17 and will be in Teguise until next September 20. Also, there will be two days of functions in La Graciosa. In the municipal theater of Villa de Teguise will this traveling festival between islands where there is surfing. It has gone through Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and now is the turn of Lanzarote and La Graciosa. It is intended to celebrate the passion of the canaries to live by the ocean and, of course, surfers. 
Short films and movies about surf and bodyboard of local, national and international directors will have important messages about the sport and the environment. Friday's session includes: La Primera Ola, ICON: Mike Coots and The Cradle of Storms. Saturday September 19 from 21:00 hours will be displayed: 6:27 a.m. Saturday, IntimaSea, Duct Tape Surfing, The Fisherman's Son and Serendepity. At the end of the weekend, on Sunday from 20:30 hours you will see: Surfrider Foundation, Manufacturing Stoke and The Fortune Wild.
3. Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote 2015
Once again, Lanzarote is the setting for major sporting events. Saturday September 19 marks the Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote. A triathlon taking place on the island and with the participation of international athletes. This is the fourth edition of "Ironman 70.3" Lanzarote. 
The event, better known as the Half Ironman (Medio Ironman), takes place from 8:00 am in the Club La Santa and have exactly half the distance of the “Ironman” which takes place in March. The Ironman 70.3 has a distance of 1.9 km swim, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km of track. A total of 113 kilometers, about 70.3 miles. 
A must-see spectacle. And if you can’t be there to watch it live, then don’t miss the coverage in HolaLanzarote.com
4. Fiestas Fin de Verano de Playa Honda 2015
To mark the end of summer, Playa Honda celebrates it big beginning this Friday 18. There will be an extensive program of sports, music, children's entertainment and events in general. It has planned something for everyone. Today in the open commercial area of Playa Honda at 17:00 pm there will be music with Dj Batucada and activities for children. At 19:00 hours, a Zumba Marathon and 20:30 will be the Gala of the election of Miss Playa Honda San Bartolome and Queen of the Festival. 
Saturday from 11:00 to 14:00 will continue the activities for children. At 14:00 will be the Water party “Verbena del agua” and then the Triangular Football Veterans. Saturday night at 22:00 Playa Honda will have the VII Honda Rock 2015 with: Pechuga Band, Inadaptados y Galiot. On Sunday September 20th is the Day of Family and Friends Meeting, children's entertainment, the III Contest Paellas and also the Swimming Crossing Emmax.
5. Travesía a nado Playa Honda Restaurante Emmax 20 septiembre 2015
The “Swimming across Playa Honda Emmax Restaurant 2015” will start at 16:00 hours with the first competition for Benjamin (400m) and Youngsters (800m) categories. The circuit around Playa del Pueblo will face at 17:00 in the categories of children, Junior and Masters, 1200 meters. 
6. Paint Exhibit by Paula Paxian
Souls (Almas), that’s the name of the new collection of watercolors by the German painter Paula Paxian between 2014 and 2015. With a total of 40 creations, the artist represents the "innocence of unconscious" through beautiful characters traveling in a perfect balance between the subconscious and reality perceived by the author herself. Paxian's work will be in the Exhibition Hall of the operating room from 17:00 to 21:00 until 30 September. 
7. Fiestas de las Mercedes Mala 2015
The pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady of Mercy (Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes) is Saturday at 19:30 pm, to continue at 21:00 with “Baile del Romero” with the parranda Pal Porrón in the Renaissance Society of Mala. On Sunday, there will be a kids morning with water mattress and workshops at the Renaissance Society of Mala. 