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Harbors can be very calm and also calming places. Personally I always feel drawn towards water. These boathouses struck me as a bit odd, with their automatic doors. Anyway, it's Friday and therefore new music is released and I'm sure you'll find something you'll like. I've looked into the new releases and I found James Morrison has released another longplayer. Funny thing is, I used to LOVE his music, I could've listened to it all day. Now, most of his songs are just toooo slow for me, so I won't buy this longplayer and instead just wait till it is available in our local library. Years ago I also had a thing for country music, so the new longplayer of Lady Antebellum would've been a must for me. Now? I don't really care about it. However if you like country music, go check it out. Music has always been really important to me. During the last 20 years you would have had a hard time to meet me outside without my walkman/iPod. I ALWAYS listened to music...

I found in Rust, Austria. To be exact it was a homemade version of the "Winzer Café Conrad" located at the Rathausplatz in Rust in a really beautiful old house. The coffee and the wine are good too, but the Nusskipferl* is in my opinion the best they offer (beside the fantastic view and location and nice staff). *pastry filled with nuts. In case you were wondering. Sorry forgot to mention it before.

TT Film Festival 2011 FROM THE ORGANISERS: studiofilmclub Building 7 Fernandes Industrial Centre Eastern Main Road Laventille Port of Spain Thursday Sept 29&30th doors open 7:00pm feature commences 7:30pm(curfew/state of emergency hours..sigh.)   ALL WELCOME... & FREE! STUDIOFILMCLUB are pleased once again to be collaborating with the  Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival  in 2011 - our fifth year together. This year we are extremely excited to be screening two films by  the London based director  ASIF KAPADIA. We will be screening his critically aclaimed first feature THE WARRIOR and his most recent sensation SENNA. Two very different types of film.. A very special thanks to Asif and his producers for so kindly allowing SFC to present his films to a Trinidadian audience for the very first time! Thursday Sept 29th 7:30 screen time SENNA (Asif Kapadia/UK/2010/106') PERHAPS YOU HAVE NO INTEREST in Formula One racing. Perhaps you...

 Julie Brockbank, NADC Fine Arts graduate What did you like most about studying Fine Arts at NADC? As a mature age student returning to study with a view to facilitating a career change, NADC provided a stimulating environment where I was able to develop skills and interact with like minded people. What are you doing now and how did TAFE help you get there? Currently I’m in my final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at COFA, UNSW.  I received advanced standing in a number of subjects as acknowledgment of my study at TAFE which fast tracked my degree.  With lots of encouragement from my TAFE teachers I developed the confidence and study ethic necessary to progress to University. What are your plans and goals for the future? Next year I hope to complete an Honours program at COFA and after that ... who knows !!!! Anything else? I’m a strong advocate of the TAFE system.  The practical and theoretical skills I gained at NADC provided a strong foundation for my studies at U...

Okay, so my cold isn't totally gone, but my holiday sadly is. Well, I've had a wonderful time* and wonderful weather* during my vacation. I've taken tons of pictures and I'm itching to show them to you, but first I have to get them developed** and scan them or in case of the digital pics I have to go through them and throw out the bad stuff. I have used my vacation to plan my further steps for San's Visual Art and other parts of my life and I've already started crossing off things of my ToDo-list since I got back. Though much slower than I had planned. Hope all of you are well and healthy. Have a fantastic Wednesday. * mostly ** Brought them in today, they may be ready on Saturday.

COMUNICATO STAMPA aRT eXHiBiTioN FoR eMeRGeNCy _ ZAGO and your FRIENDS! Grazie all’inventiva creativa di Gianantonio Marino Zago, prende il via il 12 e 13 novembre a Londra "Zago and your friends 100+1", mostra benefica con la partecipazione di 101 artisti internazionali, che ha l’intento di raccogliere fondi (con la vendita delle opere in asta) per l'acquisto di attrezzature e apparecchi ortopedici per persone ferite agli arti in azioni belliche, in collaborazione con Emergency. I proventi saranno destinati al Centro pediatrico di Bangui nella Repubblica Centrafricana, centro satellite dell’Ospedale cardiochirurgico di Salam in Sudan, entrambi gestiti dall’Organizzazione fondata da Gino Strada. L’artista veronese, considerato un maestro del riciclaggio in arte, che ha visto esposte le sue opere presso sedi prestigiose come l'Università Hofstra di New York, a Otaru (Giappone) e Monaco (Germania), si distingue per l’impegno artistico unito a quello umanitario. <...

TT Film Festival 2011: New Media show From  Atlantic Transformerz  by Dutch artist Charl Landvreugd AT A CORNER of the basement of the brand new Medulla Gallery on Fitt Street, Woodbrook, is a large black LCD screen. The rectangular screen plays a looped video showing several faces, each adorned with all sorts of different objects and textures. The faces look at you with an intensity that is almost disconcerting: the eyes, lips and features jump out and literally shimmer as slow movements capture changes in light. This is Atlantic Transformerz a work by Dutch artist Charl Landvreugd, one of several artists gathered for "New Media" one of the side-events of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. " Atlantic Transformerz explores the multiplicity of hues of the colour black, and makes an issue out of distinguishing black diversity," notes the liner notes to the show, curated by ARC Magazine's Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins. "Inspired by the African diaspora i...

Hew Locke. West Indies Sugar Corporation, 2009. Acrylic paint on paper. 12 x 8 3/5 in. (30,7 x 22 cm.). "Curators Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores presented a model for viewing or representing history as an emerging and fragmented partiality. A partiality, however, that does not preclude, but rather enriches one's ability to contemplate the circumstances it seeks to describe..." READ MORE here .

  Jennifer Gabbay,  'Fragments of Myself', oil on board, 100cm x 80cm, 2011 Blue Mountains artist, and Diploma of Fine Art Year 2 student Jennifer Gabbay has been selected as one of 50 finalists in the prestigious Portia Geach Memorial Award for 2011.   The winner was announced at an official opening on Thursday 22nd September 2011 at the S.H.Ervin Gallery, Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks in Sydney and is open to the public from Friday 23 September  until Saturday 6 November 2011. After the initial showing, the exhibition will tour to the Tweed River Art Gallery at Murwillumbah, Northern NSW from 3 February to 18 March 2012.   The Portia Geach Memorial Award was established 50 years ago and has become Australia’s leading prize for portraiture by female artists.  Worth $18,000, its winners have included Jenny Sages, Wendy Sharpe, Jenny Watson and Nancy Borlase. Each year the award is held at the National Trust’s S.H. Ervin Gallery i...

2nd yr Diploma of Fine Arts student Janet Reinhardt will be exhibiting in Balmain at The Watchhouse over the break. The show will only be up for the weekend of the 8th/9th (opening on the 7th) so mark your calendars! Details below... Separations The Watchhouse, 179 Darling Street, Balmain An exhibition of Prints and New Media Featuring the work of video artists John Bennett and John Laidler, and the prints and digital work of Janet Reinhardt and Bronwyn Rodden 8 th – 9 th October 2011, 10am to 5pm daily Opening 6pm Friday, October 7th – All welcome In this exhibition four artists explore the issue of separations in terms of both our alienation from our own nature and origins as well as our increasing alienation from the natural world. The video installations are really found poems, which address three main areas; the uneasy Brownian motion of airports, the natural environment and our cultural past. The prints and digital work examine both the beauty of the natural environment a...

TT Film Festival 2011:  Hit Me With Music  ( 74 mins, Directed by Miquel Galofre) Here is a film which understands all sides of its subject matter, dancehall. Miquel Galofre's sharp documentary examines how dance becomes a mode of expression, a realm of violence and, for some, an act of redemption. We eat, sleep, dream dance, one dancer remarks. In Hit Me With Music , this becomes poignantly true. The film, screening at the TT Film Festival makes keen social observations without coming to a didactic conclusion. It is an open, breathing, living thing that reveals its director's understanding and compassion for humanity. This is one the best films of 2011 and continues a winning streak for Galofre whose last film was Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast? Here   is a director of great sensitivity whose films play like odes to the people who inhabit them. ***** SCREENS ON SATURDAY, 7pm, MOVIETOWNE Miquel Galofre

  click for larger image Fine Arts teacher Di Holdsworth is exhibiting in a group show at NG Art Gallery, opening on Tuesday September 26 from 6pm-8pm. The exhibition will be officially opened by Wayne Tunnicliffe, Head Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW. There are plenty of good reasons to visit NG Art Gallery. As well as the chance to see this show, you could visit Mission, which is located downstairs, and serves great food and coffee. Or just round the corner is White Rabbit, the impressive private museum featuring contemporary Chinese art.   Misty (detail), 150x65x40cm, Di Holdsworth, mixed media assemblage with music box, 2011 To see a video of Di's work follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlonQbkLAU

VIDEO FROM ARTZPUB    CHECK MORDERN RANGE II HERE . See more from Rodell's website here . Also more in this Artzpub series  here  (Mariel Brown)  here  (Charles Campbell) and here  (Brianna McCarthy).

FROM THE ORGANISERS: "On February 2, 1911, when the London Electric Theatre opened its doors at the corner of French and Baden Powell Streets in Woodbrook, a local love affair with cinema was born. One hundred years on from the opening of that first cinema, the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff), presented by Flow, is celebrating a century of cinema in T&T. The ttff/11 takes place from 21 September to 4 October, and comprises screenings of the best new and recent films from T&T, the Caribbean and its diaspora at venues across the country. At MovieTowne in Port of Spain, in addition to film screenings, an exhibition on the early decades of the cinema industry in T&T will be held. The exhibition, which is supported by bpTT, traces the birth and rapid growth of cinemas in the country, including the phenomenon of “tent cinemas” in rural areas. The exhibition also looks at the rise of film-going culture, and the popularity of various genres of films, including the Wes...

Isn't it lovely?! It's almost fairytale-like.

I just loved the colors of these and I'm quite happy with the pictures.

Here's that information again: it's such a good offer for anyone wanting a short course in printmaking, ceramics, painting and drawing, that we thought we'd tell you about it all over again. For those who missed the last post, read on. And don't forget to share it with anyone you know who might be interested....... from left to right: detail of works by Carl Miranda, Louisa Antico, students at work, Jane Ross, Marcela Vilaplana, and group installation. All artwork from students enrolled in a range of Fine Art courses at NADC over the past few years. The Fine Arts section at NADC is offering a FREE introduction to fine arts course that runs full-time for 7 weeks. The course will give learners an opportunity to have hands-on studio classes in drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics. This course has proven very popular in the past, with many students using it as a stepping stone to further fine arts study. An information and enrolment session is being held on ...

A NEW documentary series, exploring the life of Dr Eric Williams and depicting him as, among other things, a tragic figure and a prime minister who turned a blind eye to corruption in his Cabinet, was launched last Wednesday night by the director Mariel Brown. Brown said she has a strong belief that an audience will be interested in, “a fuller picture of the man we know as the father of the nation.” “A few years ago I was talking with my father Wayne Brown,” she told the audience gathered for a private screening of Inward Hunger: The Story of Eric Williams at the Central Bank Auditorium, Port-of-Spain. “He said he thought that in the end Williams life was a tragic one.” Brown said of her series, which airs at 1 pm on Saturday (Republic Day) on Government Information Services Limited Channel 4, aims to depict the country’s first prime minister “as a human being rather than a politician.” “He was deified and despised. He was imperious and intellectually arrogant,” she said of Williams ...