Sept 27 – Jan 4, 2009
Talented and curious, da Vinci has been acknowledged as mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor and architect.
200 items including paintings, models, drawings and inventions will be on view.
Tech Museum of Innovation
201 South Market Street
We’ve been used to hearing that China has the largest population in the world, 1.3 billion people. However it is still difficult to get your mind wrapped around that number. It sounds like the national debt, mind boggling.
Olympics Opening Ceremony-Jeff Gross/Getty Images
To actually see 15,000 performers begins to put things into perspective. Lets face it “Cats” is a big production by our standards.
Through out the day, radio and T.V. commentators were bubbling about this spectacle (meant in the most positive of terms) almost to the point that I was willing to let it pass by, a little pissed off that NBC would not show it live.
I’m glad I abandoned my attitude and watched. 😀
One of the fun things about our new media art, the internet, is that everyone gets a chance to participate. Some of the work has been criticized as amateurish, childish etc. These views miss their mark in my opinion. I think the goal always is to play, otherwise you don’t create projects like First Person Impression or Post Secrets.
You got a story, there are plenty of places for people to hear what you’ve got to say.
A National Competition for Memoir and Documentary Writers, Videographers and Photographers.
Each day countless stories unfold. Take a real life experience of your own and tell it in a way that only you can. Craft your story with words, photos or video. Make the ordinary magical, or the exotic familiar. Shock us, amaze us or make us pause to reflect. The only rule is that it is real.
Going back to those days of hanging out in caves, wall paintings and banging on rocks just looking to tell a good story. A story about ourselves, what we wanted and what we could use a little less of. We also told story in dance, except we didn’t call it dance, it was just talking with our feet.
He knows how to move bodies in space, how to layer his phrases and, above all, how to make dancers look good. GIA KOURLAS NYTimes
Earlier this month Rennie Harris Puremovement preformed in NYC Central Park and in reading the NY Times review along with this photograph of Mr. Harris, I was intrigued. Out here in the desert, during the summer there is no Central Park. Central Park and the free shows, concerts and the park itself are all reason to miss New York every once in while.
YouTube – Behind the Performance Part I.
Mr. Harris who has a powerful presence, like Alvin Ailey with locks, explains what he is after in the this video.
NBAF *Atlanta – July 18, thru July 27, 2008
Music, dance, film, theater, poetry, literature – all presented here, all celebrating the vibrant life and art of people of color.
There will also be special tributes to Gladys Knight, minus the “Pips”, and Judith Jamison of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (did you ever see her perform “Cry”?, Stunning).
National Black Arts Festival – 7/18 thru 7/27/08
1230 Peachtree St., NE, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA
“The mission of NBAF is to engage, cultivate and educate diverse audiences about the arts and culture of the African Diaspora and provide opportunities for artistic and creative expression.”
(Image credit: Shannon McCollum/National Black Arts Festival)
The Phoenix Metropolitan area has been about creating different ways to lure its citizens into not traveling during the summer heat wave. The steady increase in the cost of gas has added new incentives. Here is a cool thing to do if you are in town.
Family Fun Day celebrates rich arts and cultural environments in local communities and encourages increasing community engagements for valley families year round. Free to the pubic, this year’s Family Fun Day provides hands-on activities, such as making dream-catcher and other dream-inspired arts and craft; it also entertains families and visitors with dance, music and theatrical performances suitable for all ages. CONDER Dance, AZ Opera in a Box and other local groups and volunteers will showcase their best performances throughout the day, spreading all the fun and joy across gallery spaces.
Channel Eight, Arizona PBS (KAET), brings Sister Bear of the Berenstain Bears for photos with children and offers children a fun activity to do. Rocky and the Puckpatrol from the Phoenix Roadrunners will also be here! China Mist offers free refreshments.
The Annual Family Exhibition and Fun Day are made possible in part through an investment by the ASU Art Museum Advisory Board, IKEA, Changing Hands Bookstore, China Mist and the Friends of the ASU Art Museum.