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Ceremony of Glen Cinema Memorial entitled Rattle Little Mother at Dunn Square Paisley.
Location Of Names On Rattle Little Mother, Glen Cinema Memorial
Front “ To The Children Of The Glen Cinema “
Left Panel as you face front of memorial which faces in the direction of the Piazza “ Elizabeth Leonard - Samuel McBlane - Sarah McCafferty - Robert McConnell - Nellie McCran - Minnie McCran - Edward McEnhill - Margaret McEnhill - James McEnhill - Denis McGarrity - Robert McGirr - Jeanie McGrattan - Mary McWattie - Margaret Morrow - Robert Niven - Georgina Peacock - Tom Perkins - John Pinkerton - William Pinkerton - Alexander Telfer - William Rae - Thomas Renfrew - George Scott - William Spears - Jane Stevenson - Robert Wingate.
Back of Memorial which faces Paisley Town Hall “ James Gielty - John Gielty - Norman Gillies - John Goodwin - Henry Green - Mary Green - Archibald Grogan - Annie Hamilton - George Hammond “ 31 December 1929 “ Elizabeth Hart - Peter Houston - Thomas Howard - Julia Irvine - William Irvine - Thomas Jackson - James Johnston - George Kennedy - Helen Kilkie - Thomas Kilkie.
Right panel as you face front of memorial which faces towards Forbes Place “ Robert Adams - Robert Alexander - John Bell - William Black - Hugh Blue - John Bowes - David Boyd - Caroline Brain - Lily Buchanan - John Cairns - Daniel Corbett - Elizabeth Corrigan - Agnes Coyle - Robert Craig - Francis Curran - Elizabeth Dempster - Leah Dixon - Mary Dolan - George Elliott - Henry Elliott - Bessie Finlay - Enso Fiori - Janet Fitch - William Fitch - James Gatherer - Margaret Gibson.
N.B All lettering in gold except from “ 31 December 1929 “ on rear of memorial which is in black, both sides contain 26 names whilst there is 19 names on the bac
The Civil War Monument, entitled Soldier at Rest, was designed by sculptor Henry H. Davis, was dedicated in the Morristown Green on July 4, 1871. The monument features an 8-foot full length white Quincy granite figure of a Civil War soldier surmounted atop a 50-foot white Quincy granite shaft, divided into three horizontal sections. At the bottom of the shaft on the front is a bas-relief medallion. The base of the shaft stands on a series of steps. A cannon stands at each corner of the base. The monument is enclosed with a wrought iron fence. Inscriptions on the sides of the shift list battles of the Civil War inlcuding Antietam, Vicksburg, Appomattox, Shilo, Wilderness, Malvern Hill, Roanoke, Winchester, Gettysburg, Atlanta, Donelson and Cold Harbor.
Morristown Green is a two and a half acre park in the center of Morristown and bound by Park Place, Bank Street and Speedwell Avenue. The ground, which dates back to 1715, became George Washington's first encampment in the winter of 1777. The land, originally owned by the Morristown Presbyterian Church, was purchased in 1816 by the trustees of the Morristown Green and maintained as a Common ever since.
From my set entitled “The Flight Crew”
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In my collection entitled “Uncle Bill Watson”
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Hi, All:
I’m back for a day or two. While I was down, I started work on pulling my Uncle Bill’s story together. I have so much stuff. I’ve scanned almost thirty of his letters home. I’ve also scanned letters from my grandmother to Bill, miscellaneous documents, a moving account of Bill’s memorial service, a letter from the chaplain who buried him in Chester and letters to my grandparents from the parents of Bill’s flight crew. The boys died when the Wellington bomber in which they were training ditched into the Irish sea during a training mission.
In January, I will be going to Archives Canada in Ottawa to pull the files on the whole flight crew, as well as the second world war records pertaining to Bill’s friend, Cam Devine, my father, Herb Barber, and Karen’s father, George Pepper. I will also pull the first world war files for my uncles, John and Art Barber, and my great uncle, Wilbert MacDonald. It’ll take a few days of research to go through all the files. I pulled the records for Bill and his crew once before…in early 2003. At that time I photocopied quite a few records, but there are more I should have obtained.
This set of pictures were taken at #1Y Depot in Halifax, just before each of the boys shipped overseas at various times early in 1944. They still hadn’t met each other at this point, and would not meet until they crewed up in May, 1944. These images are photocopies of originals which are in Ottawa. I will try to have the originals duplicated in high quality when I go to the archives.
You’ll see the boys’ formal photos in the flight crew link given above. What a difference.
Over the next month or so, I will post the letters and documents. I think you will find them an interesting account of life in the early 1940s. Bill did a lot of things in a matter of eight or nine months.
I hope you are transported by his story as I was.
George was born to Hiram and Ida Belle Van Every in Leamington, Ontario, on August 10, 1924. Before enlisting, he worked for Wigle Motors as a gas station attendant, W.H. Willson Drugs as a delivery boy and at H.J. Heinz as a ledger clerk. His favourite sport was baseball.
George enlisted at Windsor, Ontario, after which he attended the Pre-Aircraft Education Course at Brandon, Manitoba where he studied science, math, signals and aircraft recognition. Upon graduation, he reported to 2 Manning Depot, Brandon, Manitoba for basic training. He was assessed as good gunnery and radio operator material, and was sent to #5 Bombing and Gunner Training School in Dafoe. Saskatchewan. He also attended #2 Wireless School in Calgary, Alberta. From Calgary he went to #4 bombing and gunnery school at Fingal, Ontario, and #3 Air Gunner Training School in Three Rivers (Trois Rivieres) Quebec for advanced training
After landing in Britain on April 2, 1944, he was stationed at #3 Personnel Receiving Centre at Bournemouth, Dorset, to await advanced training posting. From Bournemouth he was stationed at No. 6 Observer Training School [6(O)AFU] Staverton, Glamorganshire in Wales
From Staverton, he moved to No. 83 Operations Training Unit at Peplow, close to Shrewsbury, in Shropshire. He was killed on a training mission on the night of July 22/23, 1944, and was buried at Blacon Cemetery, Chester, on August 8, 1944
George impressed his recruitment interviewer as tall and slight, alert, of average intellect, and excellent in appearance…an overall good lad and potentially good aircrewman. Originally, he wanted to be a pilot
A cultural event entitled “ASEAN @ 50 – Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development” featuring innovations from the bloc’s ten member countries and musical and dance performances was held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States, which met from October 2-11, 2017. WIPO co-organized the event with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to mark the Organization’s 50th anniversary.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
H.E Ms. Chantal Hebberecht, Ambassador of the European Union,speak at the Launching of document entitled “Situation Analysis of the Nutrition Sector in Ethiopia” from 2000-2015.©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Nahom Tesfaye
I entitled this painting: MASHED. With a top speed of 54 m.p.h., the WC-54 3/4 ton, 4x4 Ambulance Dodge (G502) truck sped on to save thousands of lives. This painting pays homage to our veterans, to whom this old war horse was a familiar sight.
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Entitled "America's Heartland Remembers" this memorial was designed/organized by Kirkwood resident Rick Randall. It totals 2996 American flags to honor each victim of the September 11 attacks.
New Deal mural entitled "Life in the Mississippi Cotton Belt" painted in 1939 by Auriel Bessemer. He also painted murals in the Arlington VA post office. One error in the mural is that there is not a large river anywhere near Hazlehurst, much less a river boat.
Bronze Sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro, entitled "Sphere with Sphere"
Set Outside the Berkeley Library
Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, known in full as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is a research university and the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin in Ireland.
Trinity has also had a number of famous students, as this statue of Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square commemorates. And of course, two other famous students were Mary and Barry Toomey.
Address: College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
A cultural event entitled “Follow Georgia” featuring an exhibition of work by contemporary Georgian artist Ms. Tamara Kvesitadze and a music performance by ethno-jazz band “Shin” was held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States, which met from October 2-11, 2017.
Ms. Tamara Kvesitadze’s works take roots in antiquity and mythology as well as in surrealism, which successfully combine art and construction. The music of the Shin smoothly combines Georgian folk melodies with jazz, which is the sound of Georgia’s musical encounter with the world.
WIPO co-organized the event with the Government of Georgia to mark the 25th Anniversary of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – SAKPATENTI.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
Museum de Fundatie Zwolle NL presents an exhibition entitled Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear, to run from 22 September 2018 to 6 January 2019. The sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) are manifestations of the sense of fear and disillusionment that pervaded Europe during the Cold War period. Their work bids a final farewell to pre-war romanticism and aestheticism, and lands with both feet in the raw reality of the post-war world. While Giacometti reduced the human form to its bare essentials, Chadwick created powerful archetypal images of both people and animals. The exhibition includes more than 150 works. Never before has the work of Giacometti and Chadwick been so explicitly brought together.
Their paths first crossed in 1956, when Chadwick became the youngest person ever to win the Grand Prix for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. With only six years’ experience as a sculptor, the British artist snatched the prize from Giacometti, the hot favourite, who was thirteen years older and already a major name in Paris. Giacometti would go on to win the prize in 1962, but which of the two men was awarded it in 1956 is less significant than the fact that these two particular sculptors were the front-runners at that time. Each of them was expressing, in his own individual way, the sense of deep-seated angst that overshadowed day-to-day life in Europe in the fifties and sixties: the fear of a global nuclear disaster that would wipe out human civilisation.
Alberto Giacometti is among the most significant figures in the whole field of modern European sculpture. A member of a notable family of Swiss artists, he moved to Paris in 1922 and would remain there for the rest of his life, working as a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. After training with Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, he discovered modernism and so-called ‘primitive’ ethnographic art of Africa and Oceania. In response to these influences, his work became more abstract. In the early thirties, his Surrealist sculptures expressing subconscious emotions created a furore. From 1935, however, personal psychological tensions triggered a crisis in his life and work that led to a return to the human figure. Initially, his portraits and figures became both increasingly tiny and more and more attenuated. This thinness was to remain the most distinctive feature of Giacometti’s art. After the Second World War, he began to create the elongated, emaciated figures that would bring him worldwide fame. In all their attenuation, they reduce humanity to its very essence and appear both vulnerable and enigmatic.
In the early fifties, up-and-coming artist Lynn Chadwick managed to dislodge Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth from their dominant position in the field of British sculpture. Born in London, Chadwick had started his career as a technical draughtsman and exhibition stand designer. He took an equally constructional approach to his sculpture: rather than model his human and animal figures in clay or wax, he constructed them by welding steel rods together to create an armature and then filling in the gaps with a kind of cement. The angularity of the work being produced by him and other young British artists was described in 1952 as ‘the geometry of fear’, a reference to the constant dread of nuclear annihilation. Chadwick’s apocalyptic Dancers and stoical Watchers gave powerful expression to this sense of angst. From the early seventies, he broadened his repertoire to include subjects that seem to restore the sovereignty of the human spirit. Sculptures like Cloaked Figure and Sitting Couple no longer look threatening, but emanate a sense of composure and invulnerability.
Giacometti’s pre-war work influenced Chadwick’s development and the two men were keenly aware of each other’s presence. In addition to the vast differences, there are also many similarities between their oeuvres. Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear is the product of close cooperation with the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and the Chadwick Estate and Blain|Southern gallery in London.
On April 15, 2023, five First Nations in B.C., alongside provincial and federal government representatives, announced settlement agreements of the Nations’ Treaty Land Entitlements claims.Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/28589
This piece is entitled "self portrait of ones entire life". I executed this piece with the a theory I developed that is called Dimensionalism . This theory has its inspiration form my experiences with pre-seizure events for I have epilepsy. In this state I become detached from reality and see time in a different construct,that of a hyper intensity. A hyper awareness of a moment and everything that constructs it from sounds,thoughts,things tactile . While in these pre seizure states, some instances time is slowed down/speed up or frozen. While in other instances I am forced away form all comprehension of what is in my present environment and reality takes on a totally foreign existence where all has to be re learned.
For the viewers of my piece all of life is in dimensions and how one moves through these dimensions of either large dimensional constructs such as ones life or to the minute dimensional construct of a simple word. Thus giving the viewer this new perspective of time and space. The suspended animation of the piece is only dynamic as the viewer views the piece from the narrower sides form either end where a visible play of time sequencing exists and ones eye is drawn into the piece...
A perspective of a Dimesionalist where one has a view of a moment with a gods eye/time traveler or a pure energy source . From looking at a simple word to a memory one has. All is captured in dimensions. There are other branches of my theory that further portray my experiences. Demensionalising and facitile dimensionalism. These ideas also play with the constructs of how one sees time/moment.I hope to execute these ideas in the future...........
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
Best best
Efj.
All these ideas/theories have a direct correlation with present day society...from the over abundance of information that is transferred by different technologies to the ways these technologies directly affect our existence and how it adds other dimensions of time to our lives.
I will be placing more info online in the future. and creating a temp website that fully explains all the details and shows examples of these theories as well as go into more details..
If you are interested in more info please feel free to contact ...efj@sbcglobal.net
Best best
Efj.
A new piece entitled "Primary".
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Let me know if you would like to commission me for some art or I also have works to sell as well.
Thanks for lookin' !!!
On April 15, 2023, five First Nations in B.C., alongside provincial and federal government representatives, announced settlement agreements of the Nations’ Treaty Land Entitlements claims.Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/28589
A cultural event entitled “ASEAN @ 50 – Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development” featuring innovations from the bloc’s ten member countries and musical and dance performances was held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States, which met from October 2-11, 2017. WIPO co-organized the event with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to mark the Organization’s 50th anniversary.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
This is my custom Jouwe for the Toy Art Gallery Custom Group Jouwe show, Oct 2nd - Nov 2nd, 2010. The piece is entitled "Nella sua Ombra che Svolgono", which translates to "In her Shadow we Play". Here's the backstory.
''Deep in the Forest of Sorrows lived a wood dryad named Solstice, who protected an accursed mirror that gave whomever was in possession of it eternal life & beauty, but at a terrible, horrible cost - death! For those would be so foolish to gaze into it would slowly wither and die, while bestowing Solstice with the essence of their souls to keep her young. Ever-so-vain and unyielding in her quest, Solstice would lure unknowing children into her tree, with promises of sarsaparilla floats, poutine and french fries, pinwheels, small cute animals and more, even providing a comfy bed to nap in after their fat little tummys were full. But one day, the tables were turned, when evil Solstice lured five sisters to her lair and took their poor souls while they huddled in the bed. For these girls were not just regular girls, they were five sisters who happened to be the daughters of the king - Princesses Aria, Lysette, Calliope, Daphne and Elysia. After the girls failed to return for dinner, the King immediately sent out a search party to find them and bring them home. But alas, it was not meant to be. For the search party discovered their trail, which led them to Solstice's tree, and lo and behold, a ghastly sight was awaiting - all 5 sisters were dead, huddled in bed, together forever with only brave Elysia's drawing upon the mirror letting them know that it was indeed them. Upon hearing this unbearably agonizing news, the King ordered that Solstice be chained and bound to her tree for eternity and left outside to the elements, where her coveted face would be exposed to nature's fury and that which she feared the most. Not wanting to disturb his precious daughters' eternal slumber, he left them there to lay in peace, where their spirits could play together forever.
Legend has it that Solstice's once-beautiful face is now cracked and worn, her visage now but a shadow of her former presence and if you happen to be there at night, you might catch a glimpse of the five long-dead princesses, playing by the moonlight.''
I used magic sculpt, super sculpey, metal, paper, styrene, craft porcelain, dried moss and acrylics.
From my set entitled “Boats and Ships”
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In my collection entitled “Transportation”
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In my photostream
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, usually shortened to NRW, official short form NW) is the westernmost and - in terms of population and economic output - the largest Federal State of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia has over 18 million inhabitants, contributes about 22% of Germany's gross domestic product and comprises a land area of 34,083 km (13,158 square miles). North Rhine-Westphalia is situated in the Western part of Germany and shares borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. It has borders with the German states of Lower Saxony to the North and Northeast, Rhineland-Palatinate to the Southwest and Hesse to the Southeast.
The capital city is Düsseldorf, and the largest city is Cologne (Köln). Other major cities are Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Aachen, Bielefeld, Bonn, Bochum, Bottrop, Bergisch Gladbach, Mönchengladbach, Mülheim, Münster, Gelsenkirchen, Krefeld, Hagen, Hamm, Herne, Iserlohn, Leverkusen, Neuss, Paderborn, Recklinghausen, Remscheid, Siegen, Solingen, Witten and Wuppertal.
The state is centred on the sprawling Rhine-Ruhr urbanised region, which contains the cities of Düsseldorf, Bonn and Cologne as well as the Ruhr Area industrial complex. The Ruhr area consists of, among others, the cities of Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Oberhausen.
The state's area covers a maximum distance of 291 km from north to south, and 266 km from east to west.
The total length of the state's borders is 1,645 km. The following countries and states have a border with North Rhine-Westphalia:
Belgium (99 km)
The Netherlands (387 km)
Lower Saxony (583 km)
Hessen (269 km)
Rhineland Palatinate (307 km)
For many people North Rhine-Westphalia is synonymous with industrial areas and agglomerating cities. But the largest part of the state is used for agriculture (almost 52%), forests cover 25%. The southern parts of the Teutoburg Forest are located in the northeast. In the southwest, Nordrhein-Westafalen shares in a small part of the Eifel, located on the borders with Belgium and Rheinland-Pfalz. The southeast is occupied by the sparsely populated regions of Sauerland and Siegerland. The northwestern areas of the state are part of the Northern European Lowlands.
The most important rivers that run at least partially through North Rhine-Westphalia include: Rhine, Ruhr, Ems, Lippe and Weser. The Pader, which runs only through the city of Paderborn, is considered the shortest river in Germany.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia was established by the British military administration on 25 October 1946. Originally it consisted of Westphalia and the northern parts of the Rhine Province, both formerly belonging to Prussia. In 1947 the former state of Lippe was merged with North Rhine-Westphalia, hence leading to the present borders of the state.
From my set entitled “The Flight Crew”
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In my collection entitled “Uncle Bill Watson”
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In my photostream
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Hi, All:
I’m back for a day or two. While I was down, I started work on pulling my Uncle Bill’s story together. I have so much stuff. I’ve scanned almost thirty of his letters home. I’ve also scanned letters from my grandmother to Bill, miscellaneous documents, a moving account of Bill’s memorial service, a letter from the chaplain who buried him in Chester and letters to my grandparents from the parents of Bill’s flight crew. The boys died when the Wellington bomber in which they were training ditched into the Irish sea during a training mission.
In January, I will be going to Archives Canada in Ottawa to pull the files on the whole flight crew, as well as the second world war records pertaining to Bill’s friend, Cam Devine, my father, Herb Barber, and Karen’s father, George Pepper. I will also pull the first world war files for my uncles, John and Art Barber, and my great uncle, Wilbert MacDonald. It’ll take a few days of research to go through all the files. I pulled the records for Bill and his crew once before…in early 2003. At that time I photocopied quite a few records, but there are more I should have obtained.
This set of pictures were taken at #1Y Depot in Halifax, just before each of the boys shipped overseas at various times early in 1944. They still hadn’t met each other at this point, and would not meet until they crewed up in May, 1944. These images are photocopies of originals which are in Ottawa. I will try to have the originals duplicated in high quality when I go to the archives.
You’ll see the boys’ formal photos in the flight crew link given above. What a difference.
Over the next month or so, I will post the letters and documents. I think you will find them an interesting account of life in the early 1940s. Bill did a lot of things in a matter of eight or nine months.
I hope you are transported by his story as I was.
George was born to Hiram and Ida Belle Van Every in Leamington, Ontario, on August 10, 1924. Before enlisting, he worked for Wigle Motors as a gas station attendant, W.H. Willson Drugs as a delivery boy and at H.J. Heinz as a ledger clerk. His favourite sport was baseball.
George enlisted at Windsor, Ontario, after which he attended the Pre-Aircraft Education Course at Brandon, Manitoba where he studied science, math, signals and aircraft recognition. Upon graduation, he reported to 2 Manning Depot, Brandon, Manitoba for basic training. He was assessed as good gunnery and radio operator material, and was sent to #5 Bombing and Gunner Training School in Dafoe. Saskatchewan. He also attended #2 Wireless School in Calgary, Alberta. From Calgary he went to #4 bombing and gunnery school at Fingal, Ontario, and #3 Air Gunner Training School in Three Rivers (Trois Rivieres) Quebec for advanced training
After landing in Britain on April 2, 1944, he was stationed at #3 Personnel Receiving Centre at Bournemouth, Dorset, to await advanced training posting. From Bournemouth he was stationed at No. 6 Observer Training School [6(O)AFU] Staverton, Glamorganshire in Wales
From Staverton, he moved to No. 83 Operations Training Unit at Peplow, close to Shrewsbury, in Shropshire. He was killed on a training mission on the night of July 22/23, 1944, and was buried at Blacon Cemetery, Chester, on August 8, 1944
George impressed his recruitment interviewer as tall and slight, alert, of average intellect, and excellent in appearance…an overall good lad and potentially good aircrewman. Originally, he wanted to be a pilot
This statue, entitled Spriti of the American Doughboy, was designed by sculptor E. M. Viquesney. It was originally located in front of the Flathead County Courthouse in Kalispell, but was relocated to the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls in 1972. For more information, refer to this website: doughboysearcher.weebly.com/columbia-falls-montana.html
This is a contributing object to the Soldiers' Home Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Columbia Falls is located to the northeast of Kalispell west of Glacier National Park in Flathead County. It is home to the Montana Veterans Home.
SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 3: People view Wine Exhibit at the SFMOMA called - How Wine Became Modern taken January 3 2011 at the SFMOMA in San Francisco.
Jimmy's poem entitled faces was the winning entry in the 50th Anniversary Student Creativity Contest in the written category.
In Jimmy's words: "My poem “faces” is inspired by Willie Seo and Shea Hermanson’s “100 Physiognomical faces”, the art piece installed in the Wilma Thomas building on the Lansdowne campus. There was a day when I tried finding a seat in the library to study, but I couldn’t find an open space. I decided to venture over to the Wilma Thomas building. I headed upstairs and saw this huge installation of faces hanging on light gray panels.
After staring at it long enough the faces seem to ever so slightly change. Honestly, at first, it gave me a sombre gloomy feeling. The heebie-jeebies. So many gray faces staring back at me with blank expressionless eyes. I came back to study in the same spot, across from the art installation the next day not even bothering with the library. Maybe it was because the weather was blue and sunny, or the fair amount of coffee I consumed, but this time the faces looked a little more optimistic, their eyes seem to hold a tiny bit of life. That’s when I created the poem. It opens with a question.
At first, I acknowledged how lost I felt and expressed how past feelings were holding me back. As the poem progresses, it takes a more positive outlook on how to deal with the past and ultimately appreciate it. It concludes by telling myself to be more proud and hopeful for the future."
A cultural event entitled “Follow Georgia” featuring an exhibition of work by contemporary Georgian artist Ms. Tamara Kvesitadze and a music performance by ethno-jazz band “Shin” was held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States, which met from October 2-11, 2017.
Ms. Tamara Kvesitadze’s works take roots in antiquity and mythology as well as in surrealism, which successfully combine art and construction. The music of the Shin smoothly combines Georgian folk melodies with jazz, which is the sound of Georgia’s musical encounter with the world.
WIPO co-organized the event with the Government of Georgia to mark the 25th Anniversary of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – SAKPATENTI.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
THE BRIEF:
Entitled “FROM HERE TO THERE”
A comparison between where you are now and where you would like to be in 5 years time.
interpreted in anyway you wish, designed using any media, however every decision you make should increase the power of communication.
THE MEANING
I decided to present the comparison between where I am now to where I will be in 5 years time through my journey of personal development.
I intended to explain that I would gain lots of life experiences in the next 5 years that could potentially change me. I used the idea of a balanced food diet as a metaphor for my balanced diet of life, this then developed into the idea of eating food components that represented valuable life experiences. My design then developed as I added the element of my symbol gradually growing, physically and metaphorically after eating the food symbols.
I designed this animation similar to a computer game, mainly so I could clearly and simply comunicate a journey, but also include elements such as obsticles, adding realism.
I also included subtle humour adding my personality to the animation such as the mature cheese; this also makes it more enjoyable for the viewer.
THE COMPONENTS
I used Adobe Illustrator to initially draw my background design and symbols, but
I wanted to animate my design in order to communicate the changes during the journey, which would have been difficult to clarify on a static design. I used Adobe Flash CS5, which I had never used before, but by following online tutorials, took up the exciting challenge!
I included letterform in the animation to replace the metaphoric food symbols to achieve clear communication that the symbols represented life experiences.
I designed the graphic symbols as simply as possible, with the intent of animation, but also to ensure the communication was clear, I think the simplicity added character to the animation.
Finally I added audio using to make the animation more enjoyable viewing, but I chose carefully in terms of timing, style and lyrics, which are about wishes.
ARTICLE 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms
set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as
race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national
or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the
political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or
territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-
selfgoverning or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
ADOPTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
10 DECEMBER 1948
Museum de Fundatie Zwolle NL presents an exhibition entitled Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear, to run from 22 September 2018 to 6 January 2019. The sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) are manifestations of the sense of fear and disillusionment that pervaded Europe during the Cold War period. Their work bids a final farewell to pre-war romanticism and aestheticism, and lands with both feet in the raw reality of the post-war world. While Giacometti reduced the human form to its bare essentials, Chadwick created powerful archetypal images of both people and animals. The exhibition includes more than 150 works. Never before has the work of Giacometti and Chadwick been so explicitly brought together.
Their paths first crossed in 1956, when Chadwick became the youngest person ever to win the Grand Prix for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. With only six years’ experience as a sculptor, the British artist snatched the prize from Giacometti, the hot favourite, who was thirteen years older and already a major name in Paris. Giacometti would go on to win the prize in 1962, but which of the two men was awarded it in 1956 is less significant than the fact that these two particular sculptors were the front-runners at that time. Each of them was expressing, in his own individual way, the sense of deep-seated angst that overshadowed day-to-day life in Europe in the fifties and sixties: the fear of a global nuclear disaster that would wipe out human civilisation.
Alberto Giacometti is among the most significant figures in the whole field of modern European sculpture. A member of a notable family of Swiss artists, he moved to Paris in 1922 and would remain there for the rest of his life, working as a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. After training with Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, he discovered modernism and so-called ‘primitive’ ethnographic art of Africa and Oceania. In response to these influences, his work became more abstract. In the early thirties, his Surrealist sculptures expressing subconscious emotions created a furore. From 1935, however, personal psychological tensions triggered a crisis in his life and work that led to a return to the human figure. Initially, his portraits and figures became both increasingly tiny and more and more attenuated. This thinness was to remain the most distinctive feature of Giacometti’s art. After the Second World War, he began to create the elongated, emaciated figures that would bring him worldwide fame. In all their attenuation, they reduce humanity to its very essence and appear both vulnerable and enigmatic.
In the early fifties, up-and-coming artist Lynn Chadwick managed to dislodge Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth from their dominant position in the field of British sculpture. Born in London, Chadwick had started his career as a technical draughtsman and exhibition stand designer. He took an equally constructional approach to his sculpture: rather than model his human and animal figures in clay or wax, he constructed them by welding steel rods together to create an armature and then filling in the gaps with a kind of cement. The angularity of the work being produced by him and other young British artists was described in 1952 as ‘the geometry of fear’, a reference to the constant dread of nuclear annihilation. Chadwick’s apocalyptic Dancers and stoical Watchers gave powerful expression to this sense of angst. From the early seventies, he broadened his repertoire to include subjects that seem to restore the sovereignty of the human spirit. Sculptures like Cloaked Figure and Sitting Couple no longer look threatening, but emanate a sense of composure and invulnerability.
Giacometti’s pre-war work influenced Chadwick’s development and the two men were keenly aware of each other’s presence. In addition to the vast differences, there are also many similarities between their oeuvres. Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear is the product of close cooperation with the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and the Chadwick Estate and Blain|Southern gallery in London.
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In November of 1981, Barbra Streisand released her twenty-seventh album entitled MEMORIES. This album is actually another greatest hits compilation, her third greatest hits package if you count them one by one. This is a greatest hits compilation with the inclusion of two new songs that seem to have fit this album perfectly.MEMORY New song. This song is actually the theme song to the Broadway musical play, CATS. This is such a beautiful song and Barbra sings it so beautifully.YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS (Duet with Neil Diamond) (Duet version) From the album BARBRA STREISAND'S GREATEST HITS VOLUME 2 (1978). Original version from the album SONGBIRD (1978). Great song.MY HEART BELONGS TO ME From the album STREISAND SUPERMAN (1977). Amazing song.NEW YORK STATE OF MIND From the album STREISAND SUPERMAN (1977). Not a favorite, but still a good song.NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) (Duet with Donna Summer) (Single Version) Original version from the album WET (1979). 12" Version from Donna Summer's albums ON THE RADIO: GREATEST HITS VOLUMES 1 & 2 (1979) & THE DANCE COLLECTION (1987). This song is just the best Diva duet I have ever heard. I wish that Madonna & Cher would team up for the second-best Diva duet.COMIN' IN AND OUT OF YOUR LIFE New song. Great song.EVERGREEN From the original motion picture & motion picture soundtrack A STAR IS BORN (1976). A beautiful song. This is such a beautiful song.LOST INSIDE OF YOU (Duet with Kris Kristofferson) From the original motion picture & motion picture soundtrack A STAR IS BOWN (1976). This is another beautiful song, but I think that Kris Kristofferson needs to stick to acting, rather than sing. Don't get me wrong, Kris' voice is not bad, but I like him better as an actor than a singer.THE LOVE INSIDE From the album GUILTY (1980). Not bad.THE WAY WE WERE From the album THE WAY WE WERE (1974). From the original motion picture & motion picture soundtrack THE WAY WE WERE (1974). Another beautiful song. MEMORIES is another album that all Barbra Streisand fans should have by now. If not, then make sure you buy this album because it is very enjoyable. I really do enjoy hearing this album because it is one of Barbra's best, so take my advice and buy this album. I promise that you will not regret it. If you do regret it, then I can say that I tried. For More 5 Star Reviews Memories by Barbra Streisand
Declaration of Independence (Text)
1776
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.[AU1]
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
W
hen in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation[BU2] [AU3] .
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.[AU4] That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. [BU5]
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. [BU6]
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. [BU7]
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.[AU8]
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
[BU9] He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.[AU10]
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us[AU11] :
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.[BU12]
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country[BU13] , to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages,[AU14] whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.[AU15]
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
. And for the We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.[AU16] And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.[BU17] [AU18]
From my set entitled “The Flight Crew”
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In my collection entitled “Uncle Bill Watson”
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In my photostream
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Hi, All:
I’m back for a day or two. While I was down, I started work on pulling my Uncle Bill’s story together. I have so much stuff. I’ve scanned almost thirty of his letters home. I’ve also scanned letters from my grandmother to Bill, miscellaneous documents, a moving account of Bill’s memorial service, a letter from the chaplain who buried him in Chester and letters to my grandparents from the parents of Bill’s flight crew. The boys died when the Wellington bomber in which they were training ditched into the Irish sea during a training mission.
In January, I will be going to Archives Canada in Ottawa to pull the files on the whole flight crew, as well as the second world war records pertaining to Bill’s friend, Cam Devine, my father, Herb Barber, and Karen’s father, George Pepper. I will also pull the first world war files for my uncles, John and Art Barber, and my great uncle, Wilbert MacDonald. It’ll take a few days of research to go through all the files. I pulled the records for Bill and his crew once before…in early 2003. At that time I photocopied quite a few records, but there are more I should have obtained.
This set of pictures were taken at #1Y Depot in Halifax, just before each of the boys shipped overseas at various times early in 1944. They still hadn’t met each other at this point, and would not meet until they crewed up in May, 1944. These images are photocopies of originals which are in Ottawa. I will try to have the originals duplicated in high quality when I go to the archives.
You’ll see the boys’ formal photos in the flight crew link given above. What a difference.
Over the next month or so, I will post the letters and documents. I think you will find them an interesting account of life in the early 1940s. Bill did a lot of things in a matter of eight or nine months.
I hope you are transported by his story as I was.
Bob was born in Seattle Washington to John Andrew Johnson and Annie Ione Brown, and was raised in Kapuskasing, Ontario. He went to high school for one year, and then studied drafting at technical school. He joined the Boy Scouts. Bob worked as a clerk at the Dominion Store in 1941-42, and as a showcard painter at Farbs Clothing store from 1942-43. His hobbies included bowling, basketball, swimming and sketching.
Bob enlisted at North Bay, Ontario, then undertook pre-aircrew education at St. John’s Technical School in Brandon, Manitoba, where he studied English, math, aircraft recognition and signals. After graduation, he entered the service at 32 Manning Depot, Brandon, Manitoba. His second posting was at #3 Wireless School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. From Winnipeg he was posted to #17 Service Flying Training School at Souris, Manitoba. His next stop was #1 Air Gunner Ground Training School in Quebec City, after which he attended #3 Bomber and Gunner Training School at MacDonald, Manitoba. His final Canadian posting was at #3 Air Gunner Training School at Three Rivers (Trois Rivieres), Quebec.
Upon landing in Britain, he was stationed at #3 Personnel Receiving Centre in Bournemouth, Dorset where he awaited further posting. He arrived at #83 Operations Training Unit, Peplow, Shropshire, on May 23, 1944. On a night training mission, on July 22/23, Bob was killed when the Wellington bomber in which he practicing gunner duties ditched in the Irish Sea
The recruitment interviewing officer marked Bob as a ‘slight lad, but [who] seems sincere in his desire for aircrew”. He was also noted as a “malleable type of chap who is quite willing to accept guidance and instruction. He would have preferred a chance to fly as pilot but accepts selection as air gunner gracefully and impresses one as good material for training in that trade. Keen, alert well-motivated, Likes guns and has no fear of fighting”.
Mural entitled "Delta Dancing" on a wall in Leland, Mississippi. The mural honors a local dance band called "Doc's 3 B's". Led by "Doc" Booth on sax with his son Dr. Patrick Booth on trumpet, Boogaloo Ames on keyboards, Bubba Louis Hubbard on drums, Ralph Morrow on bass, and Deanna Harper on vocals, they played every Thursday night for 15 years at Lillo's Italian Restaurant located on the east edge of town right off Highway 82. This mural is located on the west wall of the building at 3rd and Main Streets.
The band leader, Dr. William Harper "Doc" Booth Jr., was born in 1929 in Maben, Mississippi. An accomplished musician, he played the clarinet and saxophone in both high school and college before attending medical school and becoming a general practitioner and surgeon. He retired from medicine due to health reasons and moved to Leland in 1987. After retirement, he renewed his earlier passion for music by organizing Doc’s 3 B’s, which provided enjoyment for many Deltans for 15 years. He passed away on September 12, 2014 at the age of 84.
Tomorrow night – Tuesday September 10 – at 11.25pm, RTÉ will broadcast a new documentary entitled The Prophets Are Weeping, as part of its Future Visions series, which was written and directed by Philip McKinley, a Masters in Theology student in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute/Trinity College Dublin.
The documentary, which was filmed in both Jerusalem and Dublin, strongly features St Thomas’ Church, just off Dublin’s O’Connell Street. The church and its incumbent Discovery Gospel Choir, feature as a significant backdrop and inspiration for a new re–envisioning of Ireland’s capital thoroughfare.
Philip’s programme explores how Ireland’s future prosperity could be derived from the ancient wisdom of the Prophets. He takes his title and starting point from the only poem published by Michael D Higgins during his Presidency, "The Prophets Are Weeping". The poem makes reference to the ‘Weeping Prophet’ Jeremiah, who advised the exiled Israelites in a hostile, foreign land to ‘build houses, plant gardens and pray for the city’. According to Philip, these three practical tools, if initiated on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, the site of the 1916 Easter Rising, could profoundly shape the future well–being of Ireland.
Focusing mainly upon O’Connell Street, his film examines urban renewal in terms of community development, spiritual renewal and reimagining the city environmentally. But the film opens with a journey to Jerusalem where Philip examines the ancient Roman notion of the “cardo”.
Philip says, “In essence, the ‘Cardo’ was the heart of the city, not just as a centre of power, but as a centre of life and life in all its fullness. Anyone could be on the ‘Cardo’. It was the ultimate shared space. Because it was so profoundly shared and so profoundly diverse, it had many competing voices and interests. And yet, what happened on the Cardo affected the whole of the city. And what affected the whole of the city, in turn, affected the whole of the nation.
“If O’Connell Street is our ‘Cardo’, then it should not only oxygenate our nation, but reflect the values of our people. One whole quadrant is owned by NAMA and therefore largely unoccupied. For some, O’Connell Street is seen as ‘muggers mile’. For others, it is a leading place in which to sell and purchase drugs.
“On Ireland’s ‘Cardo’ there is no gallery for art, no centre for the Irish language or culture, no space for reflection and quiet. If O’Connell Street reflects the nation’s heart, then what does it say about our values and our future?"
The Future Visions project began when Yellow Asylum Films and RTÉ held an open competition to bring new voices and new visions in public service broadcasting to the air as well as articulating contemporary ideas and fresh visions of the future in Ireland and globally.
There was an overwhelming response and after an interview process three were chosen, to be written, presented and directed by people new to the broadcasting landscape: Robert Grant, Philip McKinley, and a collective youth group.
The films were centred on the ideas of philosophy in schools, the importance of O’Connell Street as the heart of Dublin, and the needs and aspirations of young people as they pass through the second decade of the new millennium.
The series is a Yellow Asylum Films Production for the Tony Ryan Trust in association with RTÉ.
Entitled "All change" as from 17th September Stagecoach won't be running the 376, these Darts will be out of London service and "U" (Upton Park Garage) closes. A sad end to a long history of east end bus operation.
An exhibition entitled “Geographical Indications – Identities of Territories” was held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States, which met from October 2-11, 2017.
It presented the Italian geographical indications system through the most representative appellations of origin and geographical indications, their territories and representatives of producers, agro-food and wine. WIPO co-organized the event with the Government of Italy.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
Stapleford Park was once the home of the Sherard Family (latterly entitled Earls of Harborough) but has long ceased to be a family home and is now run as a luxury hotel.
The house is an interesting mixture of styles, with different wings betraying their respective distinct styles and eras, the most intriguing of which is the earliest part of the complex, the late medieval Lady Abigail's wing, which appears to be a mansion of c1500 that was enlarged in a surprisingly sympathetic style in the 1630s.
The most noticeable feature of this wings is its array of ornamental sculpture, most of which appears to be of late medieval date and includes a serious of rectangular relief panels of religious subjects that appear to have been reused here, and perhaps originated from a church or chapel, possibly elements of a lost reredos. There are also six late medieval statues in niches of noblemen, augmented by six more of early 17th century date to form a surprisingly homogenous sequence.
The interior of the house is for hotel guests only so I have no idea what original features lie within. The grounds too are generally the preserve of paying guests, though fortunately nobody seemed to mind me straying in for a closer look during an open day for the miniature railway in the grounds.
Various Artists, Activists and Scholars
Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 November, 9:30am - 5:30pm
Various Locations
Across Dundee
This year, the NEoN Digital Arts Festival is very pleased to organise an expanded 3-day symposium entitled, Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology NEoN Re@ct will involve over 30 international speakers over three days addressing a diversity of issues and practices engaging activist digital art.
Many artists involved in digital arts have historically been prompted to react and respond to local, national, global, social and political crises (i.e. around issues of environmentalism, gender equality, exploitation, colonialism, militarism, emancipation). Re@ct will be a platform to critically examine the relevance and impact of past and present practices, theories and strategies – to engage an uncertain future through an exploration of the creative potential of digital art.
The Re@ct symposium will be a unique, open and freely accessible event. REGISTER HERE
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Re@ct will shift between four venues in Dundee over the three days of the symposium:
Day 1, Wednesday 6 November – V&A Dundee
Day 2, Thursday 7 November – morning West Church/afternoon Chamber East
Day 3, Friday 8 November – Steps Theatre
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Maria Chatzichristodoulou, London South Bank University
Steve Lambert, Co-Director, Center for Artistic Activism, NYC USA
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Independent Curator, Cultural worker, and Educator, NYC USA
Professor Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths University of London
Marisa Morán Jahn, MIT and The New School, USA
Mahwish Chishty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Speakers
Mercedes Vicente, Adam Lockhart, Tony Dowmunt, Alicja Pawluczuk, Francesca Franco, BD Owens, Jon Blackwood, Fernando Martín Velazco, Pip Thorton, Laura Leuzzi, Joanna Walsh, Virginia Crisp, Diana Georgiou, Giulia Casalini, Janna Ahrndt, Ray LC, Fruzsina Pittner, Lulamile Mohapi, Violeta Vojvodic Balaz, Dennis Delgado, Martin Zellinger, Conor McGarrigle, Tom Keene, Johanna Hoffman and Andy Best.
Re@ct Symposium Co-Chairs
Professor Joseph DeLappe, Abertay University
Dr. Laura Leuzzi, DJCAD, University of Dundee
Professor Sarah Cook, University of Glasgow
Photography Kathryn Rattray
Generously funded by: RSE (The Royal Society of Edinburgh), Abertay University, DJCAD University of Dundee, NEoN (North East of North) and Creative Scotland.
A cultural event entitled “ASEAN @ 50 – Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development” featuring innovations from the bloc’s ten member countries and musical and dance performances was held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States, which met from October 2-11, 2017. WIPO co-organized the event with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to mark the Organization’s 50th anniversary.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
A cultural event entitled “Follow Georgia” featuring an exhibition of work by contemporary Georgian artist Ms. Tamara Kvesitadze and a music performance by ethno-jazz band “Shin” was held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States, which met from October 2-11, 2017.
Ms. Tamara Kvesitadze’s works take roots in antiquity and mythology as well as in surrealism, which successfully combine art and construction. The music of the Shin smoothly combines Georgian folk melodies with jazz, which is the sound of Georgia’s musical encounter with the world.
WIPO co-organized the event with the Government of Georgia to mark the 25th Anniversary of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – SAKPATENTI.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
Wrongly entitled on the box as "Geburt Mariae" [Birth of Mary], actually "Heimsuchung Mariae" or "Visitation of the Virgin Mary".
Schmidt Fine Art puzzle No. 625 2608, a vintage puzzle but still sealed and in excellent condition.
1000 pieces, complete.
50 x 75 cm.
From my set entitled “The Flight Crew”
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In my collection entitled “Uncle Bill Watson”
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In my photostream
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Hi, All:
I’m back for a day or two. While I was down, I started work on pulling my Uncle Bill’s story together. I have so much stuff. I’ve scanned almost thirty of his letters home. I’ve also scanned letters from my grandmother to Bill, miscellaneous documents, a moving account of Bill’s memorial service, a letter from the chaplain who buried him in Chester and letters to my grandparents from the parents of Bill’s flight crew. The boys died when the Wellington bomber in which they were training ditched into the Irish sea during a training mission.
In January, I will be going to Archives Canada in Ottawa to pull the files on the whole flight crew, as well as the second world war records pertaining to Bill’s friend, Cam Devine, my father, Herb Barber, and Karen’s father, George Pepper. I will also pull the first world war files for my uncles, John and Art Barber, and my great uncle, Wilbert MacDonald. It’ll take a few days of research to go through all the files. I pulled the records for Bill and his crew once before…in early 2003. At that time I photocopied quite a few records, but there are more I should have obtained.
This set of pictures were taken at #1Y Depot in Halifax, just before each of the boys shipped overseas at various times early in 1944. They still hadn’t met each other at this point, and would not meet until they crewed up in May, 1944. These images are photocopies of originals which are in Ottawa. I will try to have the originals duplicated in high quality when I go to the archives.
You’ll see the boys’ formal photos in the flight crew link given above. What a difference.
Over the next month or so, I will post the letters and documents. I think you will find them an interesting account of life in the early 1940s. Bill did a lot of things in a matter of eight or nine months.
I hope you are transported by his story as I was.
Wally Blunt was born to Oscar and Bessie Hannah Blunt in Scotland and raised for a time in England (Worcester, I believe). When he was quite young, the family moved to Vancouver British Columbia. Before the war, Wally worked, first as a truck driver for Eagle Times Delivery, and secondly as a worker in the veneering section of B.C. Plywoods. His favoured hobbies included skating, football, baseball, swimming, mechanics and photography
Before enlistment, Wally was a trainee in the Pre-Enlistment Education Program at Seaview High School in Vancouver where he brought his English, Science and Mathematics knowledge and skills to Grade X level. He was first stationed at #3 Manning Depot in Edmonton Alberta, but was moved to #8 Manning Depot in Souris, Manitoba. From Souris, Wally went to #7 Service Flying School in Fort MacLeod, Alberta, and then to #4 Initial Training School in Edmonton, Alberta. His next Canadian postings were at #6 Elementary Training School in Prince Albert Saskatchewan, #2 Manning Depot in Brandon, Manitoba, #7 Bombing and Gunner School in Paulson, #1 Central Navigational School in Rivers Manitoba Manitoba and # 3 Air Gunner Training School in Three Rivers. Quebec.
Wally disembarked at Liverpool on March 14, 1944, and was immediately shipped to #3 Personnel Receiving Centre, Bournemouth, Dorset to await his next posting. From Bournemouth, he attended #1 (Observer) Advanced Fly Unit in Wigtown, Scotland. On May 23, 1944, Wally arrived at #83 Operations Training Unit, Peplow, Shropshire (near Shrewsbury). He was killed on a training mission when the bomber in which he was acting as bomb-aimer, ditched in the Irish Sea on the night of July 22/23, 1944. Wally was buried at Blacon Cemetery in Chester
On April 15, 2023, five First Nations in B.C., alongside provincial and federal government representatives, announced settlement agreements of the Nations’ Treaty Land Entitlements claims.Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/28589
A cultural event entitled “ASEAN @ 50 – Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development” featuring innovations from the bloc’s ten member countries and musical and dance performances was held on the sidelines of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States, which met from October 2-11, 2017. WIPO co-organized the event with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to mark the Organization’s 50th anniversary.
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Museum de Fundatie Zwolle NL presents an exhibition entitled Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear, to run from 22 September 2018 to 6 January 2019. The sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) are manifestations of the sense of fear and disillusionment that pervaded Europe during the Cold War period. Their work bids a final farewell to pre-war romanticism and aestheticism, and lands with both feet in the raw reality of the post-war world. While Giacometti reduced the human form to its bare essentials, Chadwick created powerful archetypal images of both people and animals. The exhibition includes more than 150 works. Never before has the work of Giacometti and Chadwick been so explicitly brought together.
Their paths first crossed in 1956, when Chadwick became the youngest person ever to win the Grand Prix for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. With only six years’ experience as a sculptor, the British artist snatched the prize from Giacometti, the hot favourite, who was thirteen years older and already a major name in Paris. Giacometti would go on to win the prize in 1962, but which of the two men was awarded it in 1956 is less significant than the fact that these two particular sculptors were the front-runners at that time. Each of them was expressing, in his own individual way, the sense of deep-seated angst that overshadowed day-to-day life in Europe in the fifties and sixties: the fear of a global nuclear disaster that would wipe out human civilisation.
Alberto Giacometti is among the most significant figures in the whole field of modern European sculpture. A member of a notable family of Swiss artists, he moved to Paris in 1922 and would remain there for the rest of his life, working as a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. After training with Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, he discovered modernism and so-called ‘primitive’ ethnographic art of Africa and Oceania. In response to these influences, his work became more abstract. In the early thirties, his Surrealist sculptures expressing subconscious emotions created a furore. From 1935, however, personal psychological tensions triggered a crisis in his life and work that led to a return to the human figure. Initially, his portraits and figures became both increasingly tiny and more and more attenuated. This thinness was to remain the most distinctive feature of Giacometti’s art. After the Second World War, he began to create the elongated, emaciated figures that would bring him worldwide fame. In all their attenuation, they reduce humanity to its very essence and appear both vulnerable and enigmatic.
In the early fifties, up-and-coming artist Lynn Chadwick managed to dislodge Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth from their dominant position in the field of British sculpture. Born in London, Chadwick had started his career as a technical draughtsman and exhibition stand designer. He took an equally constructional approach to his sculpture: rather than model his human and animal figures in clay or wax, he constructed them by welding steel rods together to create an armature and then filling in the gaps with a kind of cement. The angularity of the work being produced by him and other young British artists was described in 1952 as ‘the geometry of fear’, a reference to the constant dread of nuclear annihilation. Chadwick’s apocalyptic Dancers and stoical Watchers gave powerful expression to this sense of angst. From the early seventies, he broadened his repertoire to include subjects that seem to restore the sovereignty of the human spirit. Sculptures like Cloaked Figure and Sitting Couple no longer look threatening, but emanate a sense of composure and invulnerability.
Giacometti’s pre-war work influenced Chadwick’s development and the two men were keenly aware of each other’s presence. In addition to the vast differences, there are also many similarities between their oeuvres. Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear is the product of close cooperation with the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and the Chadwick Estate and Blain|Southern gallery in London.
As part of the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Day celebrations, DylanED invited primary school pupils aged 8-11 years in the Swansea Bay area to participate in a fun and engaging creative competition.
Entitled My Holiday Memories the competition was based around the 1946 radio broadcast Holiday Memory - Dylan Thomas’ classic recollection of the sights and sounds of sunshine-laden bank holidays spent with his family as a small boy on the lively Swansea seashore. Following in the footsteps of Dylan, the competition asked pupils to submit a short story, poem or picture depicting their own fondest holiday memories.
Participating schools were provided with a fascinating insight into the Swansea writer’s story, gaining a sense of what it was like to be a child at the seaside in the 1920s through animated performances of the piece by actor Mark Montinaro and word-based workshops with Dylan Day Coordinator and poet Mab Jones. These sessions it seems, provided perfect inspiration!
Head Judge of the competition, Mab Jones said, 'Hundreds of entries were received, and both myself and the other members of the judging panel were very impressed by the way that children from our local schools really embraced the activity and illustrated their holiday memories so vividly. Although we’ve had a wonderful time reading humorous holiday tales and marvelling in the beautiful, colourful illustrations, it provided us with a very tough task in selecting a group of winners!'
DylanED 'My Holiday Memories competition winners 2018'
This year’s winners are:
Waunarlwydd Primary School
Lowri Burns
Caerwyn Richards
Nia Jones
Matthew James
Nicole Mort
Gors Community School
Aleena Khurram
Libby Wittey
The overall winner of the competition is 10 year old Nia Jones from Waunarlwydd Primary School, whose brilliant retelling of her sunshine-laden and action-packed caravan holiday to Porthcawl also won a large selection of books for the school library.
Kirsty Williams, Literacy Coordinator at Waunarlwydd said, 'The children thoroughly enjoyed and engaged in the presentation of Dylan Thomas' Holiday Memory. The work they produced in response was creative and imaginative. We have always known how talented our children at Waunarlwydd are, so to have five fantastic winners in this competition is a truly wonderful achievement and perfectly illustrates the talent that the pupils and the school contains.’
Deputy Headteacher of Gors Community School, Ceri Raisbeck said 'Our KS2 pupils at Gors Community School really enjoyed finding out about Dylan Thomas and participating in the Dylan Day competition. They were delighted at their achievement and their peers shared in their joy at winning. As a school we found the whole competition a very positive experience and one which we look forward to participating in again.'
We’d like to thank and congratulate all the schools and pupils that took part and we hope you create more fantastic holiday memories this summer!
Fel rhan o ddathliadau Diwrnod Rhyngwladol Dylan Thomas, gwahoddodd DylanED ddisgyblion ysgolion cynradd rhwng 8 ac 11 oed yn ardal Bae Abertawe i gymryd rhan mewn cystadleuaeth greadigol hwyl ac ymgysylltiol.
Mae'r gystadleuaeth - Fy Atgofion o'r Gwyliau - yn seiliedig ar raglen radio Dylan Thomas o 1946, Holiday Memory - atgof Dylan Thomas o olygfeydd a seiniau gwyliau banc heulog gyda'i deulu ar flaendraeth bywiog Abertawe pan oedd yn fachgen bach.
Gan ddilyn yn olion troed Dylan Thomas, fel rhan o'r gystadleuaeth bu'n rhaid i ddisgyblion gyflwyno stori fer, cerdd neu lun yn portreadu eu hatgofion anwylaf o wyliau.
Rhoddwyd mewnwelediad cyfareddol i stori'r ysgrifennwr o Abertawe i'r ysgolion a gymerodd ran, gan roi syniad o sut beth oedd bod yn blentyn ar lan y môr yn y 1920au trwy berfformiadau animeiddiedig o'r darn gan yr actor Mark Montinaro a gweithdai'n seiliedig ar eiriau gyda Chydlynydd Diwrnod Dylan a'r bardd Mab Jones. Mae'n debyg bod y sesiynau hyn wedi rhoi'r ysbrydoliaeth berffaith!
Meddai Prif Feirniad y gystadleuaeth, Mab Jones, 'Derbyniwyd cannoedd o gynigion ac roedd aelodau eraill y panel beirniadu a minnau'n llawn edmygedd o'r ffordd yr aeth plant o'n hysgolion lleol ati i gymryd rhan yn y gweithgaredd a darlunio eu hatgofion o wyliau mewn ffordd mor fywiog. Er ein bod wedi cael amser gwych yn darllen straeon gwyliau llawn hiwmor a chael ein synnu gan y darluniadau prydferth, lliwgar, rhoddwyd tasg galed i ni o ran dewis grŵp o enillwyr!'
DylanED 'My Holiday Memories competition winners 2018'
Enillwyr eleni yw:
Ysgol Gynradd Waunarlwydd
Lowri Burns
Caerwyn Richards
Matthew James
Nicole Mort
Ysgol Gymunedol Gors
Aleena Khurram
Libby Wittey
Enillydd cyffredinol y gystadleuaeth yw Nia Jones, 10 oed, o Ysgol Gynradd Waunarlwydd y llwyddodd ei ffordd ragorol o ailadrodd ei gwyliau llawn heulwen a gweithgarwch mewn carafán ym Mhorthcawl i ennill detholiad mawr o lyfrau ar gyfer llyfrgell yr ysgol.
Dywedodd Kirsty Williams, Cydlynydd Llythrennedd yn Waunarlwydd, 'Mwynhaodd y plant yn fawr iawn gan ymgysylltu â chyflwyniad Holiday Memory Dylan Thomas. Roedd y gwaith a wnaethant o ganlyniad yn greadigol ac yn llawn dychymyg. Gwyddom fod plant Waunarlwydd yn rhai dawnus iawn, felly mae cael pump o enillwyr gwych yn y gystadleuaeth hon yn gyflawniad ardderchog ac yn amlygu’r talent sydd gan y disgyblion a’r ysgol.'
Dyweddon Ceri Raisbeck, Dirprwy Bennaeth yn Ysgol Gymunedol Gors, 'Mwynhaodd ein disgyblion CA2 Ysgol Gymunedol Gors ddysgu mwy am Dylan Thomas a chymryd rhan yn y gystadleuaeth Diwrnod Dylan. Roeddynt wrth eu bodd gyda’u llwyddiant a rhannodd eu cyfoedion eu llawenydd a’u llwyddiant hefyd. Fel ysgol, teimlwn fod y gystadleuaeth wedi bod yn brofiad hynod gadarnhaol ac yn un i edrych ymlaen ati eto.'
Hoffem ddiolch i'r holl ysgolion a’r holl ddisgyblion a gymerodd ran a'u llongyfarch a gobeithiwn y byddwch yn creu rhagor o atgofion melys o wyliau yr haf hwn!