The 7th Annual International PuSh Festival of the Performing Arts
"100% Vancouver"
The annual PuSh International Performing arts Festival kicks off this week at various venues around Vancouver. This year is Vancouver’s 125 year birthday and PuSh celebrates it’s 7th birthday as part of the celebration. Lots of exciting performances and events have been planned, with an eclectic mix of music, dance, theatre and other events. And for the first time, visual artists who exhibit or publish their work will be included.
Linking performance and...
January 17th, 2011 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: arts, dance, festivals, theater
The 2011 Auckland Arts Festival
I am so excited for the upcoming Auckland arts Festival because they have been very consistent in delivering shows, events and exhibiting art that will make you contemplate, smile, laugh, and recall your yesteryears. The Auckland arts Festival has a line up of thought-provoking and equally enchanting theatre, dance, music, film, visual arts and special events.
The Festival has something for everyone from every taste, generation, genre or personality. Running from 2nd until the 20th of March 2010,...
December 21st, 2010 | theaucklandguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, Auckland, festival
Spiral – an Audience Participation Arts Festival
This month sees Camden arts Centre holding a festival with a difference – it’s an arts festival where the audience is asked to join in, and with a particular focus on kids getting involved. The next four weeks will see a series of activities leading up to the free Spiral festival on 28-29 August.
For instance,visitors will be asked to participate in building a monumental sculpture. And the sculpture isn’t the only result – the artist, Serena Korda, will also be using that...
August 3rd, 2010 | Andrea Kirkby | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: art festivals, arts, featuredarticle
Winter Break Rocks in Buenos Aires
Every July, Buenos Aires becomes a happening place. It is Winter time, cold and gray, but with the beginning of the Winter Break the city explodes with an array of activities. Besides the important cultural and entertainment offer for everyone, there is a wide range of shows specially custom for kids and parents. The agenda (in spanish) contains more than one hundred options turning the entire city into a huge playground, starting this coming Friday the 16th.
Buenos Aires offers plenty of open...
July 15th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, family, festival, holiday, kids, top-feature, winter
Tanglewood: An Ideal Summer Getaway
The best in classical music plays on the stage at the Tanglwood Music Festival in the sylvan setting of the Berkshire Hills on the western border of Massachusetts every summer. For ten weeks, Tanglewood hosts concerts and recitals by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, world-renowned classical superstars, and popular artists. Highlights of the upcoming season include an all-Beethoven program on July 10, the Boston Pops with Keith Lockhart conducting The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers...
June 11th, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, featuredarticle, music
Award Winning Authors at Seattle Arts & Lectures 2010-11 Series
Seattle arts & Lectures announces its 2010-11 series featuring 20 of the most outstanding authors, artists and cultural icons writing today. If you fancy yourself an observer or student of the human experience, you’ll want to pick up tickets to attend one of these series.
Literary/arts Series: All events held at Taper Auditorium, Benaroya Hall, 200 University, downtown (map) at 7:30 pm. Series tickets begin at $100 and are available online.
September 14th – Jonathan Franzen, National...
June 2nd, 2010 | Mary Jo Manzanares | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: arts, books, lecture
India portrayed
There’s a fascinating exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery at the moment. It focuses on Indian portraits from 1560 – the heyday of the Mughal courts – to 1860 under the British Raj.
A more modern style of Indian portrait - the Bollywood icon
For me, one of the interesting things about these paintings is the way western influence gradually creeps in – the Mughal emperors certainly knew a number of western sources, as there’s even a copy of a Cranach engraving....
May 20th, 2010 | Andrea Kirkby | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: art galleries, arts, best of week, National Portrait Gallery
The Best Russian Landscape Master’s Exhibition
Silence. 1898
“If you see a telega, then paint a telega, if you see a cow, paint what you see, try to paint what you feel, the feeling that you have when seeing a picture of nature”. This is a quote from the greatest landscape masters of the generation of Russian painters to which such masters as Ilya Repin or Viktor Vasnetsov belonged. These are words of Isaak Levitan.
In 2010 we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Levitan’s birthday, and that is a reason for which The Russian...
April 24th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, exhibitions, featuredarticle
The Roerich’s Century: Half a Month Left
... as an integrated event, and it’s a real present to all fans of the Roerichs. But it is also a good thing to see for everybody interested in arts.
Many of the items will be displayed for the first time. A few of them can be seen in an interactive mode. Items have been specially collected from 60 collections, including private ones, which means it may be the first and the last chance to see them. Many pieces were given by the Hermitage and others prominent museums.
Venue: Manezh, the Isaac’s...
April 22nd, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts
Ballet in 3D. Live. Really, No Joke
... few of best numbers ever performed at the theater.
An open signal can be received by viewers in Russia and other European countries. The concert starts at 18.00 Moscow, 15.00 UTC\GMT.
Unfortunately, despite the fact that the concert will be broadcasted live, you cannot buy tickets to watch the show, only invited people will attend at a concert hall. But they will not see it in 3D
To receive the signal, you must have spectacles and a TV-set which is able to work in 3D . The signal will be broadcasted...
April 9th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, ballet, featuredarticle
Ballet Festival “Dance Open” in St. Petersburg
... ballet stars. Incredibly high-profile “stuff” will be dancing within the IX International Ballet Festival “Dance Open”. It starts on March 28 and is crowned by the gala- concert I write about. Detailed schedule you find at the official site of the event.
Dancers taking part in the show present leading troups, mostly from Europe: Bayerisches Staatsballet, Staatsoper Berlin (botrh from Germany), The Grand Theater and the Novosibirsk ballet and opera theater (Russia), American...
March 27th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: arts, ballet
Terem Crossover: Musical Competition
... a few bands at a cafe lounge of the shop. It’s located in the very center of the city, Ligovsky prospect, 10.
The main part of competition starts on 22th of March at the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella at 20.00, then it goes further on everry day with auditions within the second stage, the final part is held on March,27 at 16.00 followed by a big concert on March 28 which ends the whole event.
An official site of the event is here, a full schedule is here. There you will find information...
March 19th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, culture, festivals, music
Three nights of J. S. Bach in St. Petersburg
On 21st of March all fans of Johann Sebastian Bach may celebrate the birthday of the great German composer by visiting a concert which will be the first one to open a mini-festival. The festival will consist of a few concerts during which Russian musicians and performers from other countries will be playing music created by Bach.The show is to take place at the Peter and Paul Cathedral, Nevsky prospect, 22-24.
On 21st, public will hear cantatas which are performed rarely. A director of stage...
March 18th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: arts, concerts, featuredarticle
Say “Habari Afrika” in St. Petersburg
There is a shop in Vienna which has managed to employ the former German prime-minister Gerhard Schroeder as a PR-tool, and as I guess free of charge. This shop sells items created by designers from 28 African countries.
What’s a link between this shop, Herr Schroeder and St. Petersburg? Late previous week the big boss from Germany opened an exhibition “Habari Afrika” organized by the shop (its poorly designed web-site is here. The only English-language page is about selling its...
March 14th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, culture, exhibitions
Incredible Oriental Sculpture at the Hermitage
Photo credit: www.2photo.ru
Currently, the Hermitage displays an exhibition of a Russian sculptor Dashi Namdakov. This name, Dashi, may sound to you a bit non-Russian, and here I must say that Dashi is a representative of one of the most interesting folks living under one roof with a “title” nation. He’s a buryat, and his folk is regarded to be the close relatives to those Mongolians who managed to conquer the territory of today’s Russia in XIII-XIVth centuries (according...
March 6th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, exhibitions, featuredarticle
Hand-crafted souvenirs
... and all I got was this lousy T-shirt’. But if you’re looking for something more original, something hand-made, Contemporary Applied arts might be worth a visit.
Should this have been my new year's resolution? You know, I think it already is!
The gallery is quite central, not far from Tottenham Court Road tube – in fact if you’re on a crafty shopping expedition you could fit in Liberty’s and CAA on the same afternoon.
The current exhibition focuses on tableware,...
February 2nd, 2010 | Andrea Kirkby | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, crafts, featuredarticle, galleries, london galleries
Art By Mail
In my previous post I told about the exhibition dedicated to functionality in the guise of art or art per functionality, as you please.
There is another story of that sort, now it’s about Mail Art. Rather funny and a bit weird business I’d say, as you can see at a special exhibition which I write about below.
But now what it is. It’s about both collecting stamps, envelopes and creating your own stamps, envelopes and postcards and sending them to an addresse. Not just to create...
January 31st, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, exhibitions, featuredarticle, museums
French Posters From 1890s At The Hermitage
A bill of the hippodrome at Porte Mailot, 1890
The picture credit: The Hermitage museum
An exhibition “The French poster and ornamental graphic” is since Januar 23 at the Hermitage museum.
We all know the great artists and their paintings created to serve people without any special function, I mean, they just have to be paintings, and reflect the vision of artists, and be attached to an wall.
A Japanese lounge, 1893.
There is another block of pictorial art, a block that is being produced...
January 30th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, exhibitions, featuredarticle, Hermitage
Markets Easy on the Pockets
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping,” once said Bo Derek, an American actress whose beaded and plaited cornrow hairstyle in the film “10″ was widely copied and became eponymous. For locals and tourists in Auckland, here are some of the best places to shop at bargain prices at that:
City Farmers Market
City Designers Market is on its last weekend this 29 and 30 January, from 9.00am to 4.00pm, at the Ellen Melville Hall,...
January 25th, 2010 | theaucklandguide | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: arts, Auckland City Market, britomart, city, crafts, designers, Ellen Melville Hall, featuredarticle, food, furniture, jewellery, market, pottery, Selwyn Reserve, souvenirs
Welcome to Belle Epoque!
This exhibition is going to take you to the past, to the times of aristocracy, superb luxury trains like Orient Express, first movies, first flights of planes, first autos, first radio waves. This is an epoch of 1895-1914, boom of culture, industry, science, the age ended by the WWI.
The French call it La Belle Epoque, The Superb Epoch, in Russia this time period got the name of The Silver Age. It is time of modernizm, maybe the last architecture style to resemble us how beautiful our ancestors...
January 15th, 2010 | Ivan Stupachenko | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: arts, exhibitions, featuredarticle
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