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Festival season's in full swing: Nuits d'Afrique, the Montreal reggae and Haitian music festivals
Some of the world's greatest entertainers will descend upon Montreal in the coming days, including two children of Africa: Seun Kuti, son of legendary Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and Empire Isis, the Moroccan-born dancehall performer basking in the middle of a U.S. record-label bidding war.
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4:55 p.m. - Local artists invited to submit names for slot in exhibit series
4:55 p.m. July 3 — The Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica National Museum in Hagåtña invites local artists to submit their names to establish a registry which will be used to plan a rotating series of local art exhibits.
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Exhibition With a Difference
From 15th July a photographic exhibition with a difference will be on display for a month at Baltic Restaurant, SE1.
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"Woody Guthrie" gets powerful staging in Boulder
Review: Traditional musicals can be schmaltzy, the singing too precious, with people bursting into conversational song for no apparent reason. Then there are shows about the kind of music regular people play on back porches and in bars. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival's "Woody Guthrie's American Song" falls into the latter camp.
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Entertainment
Perth photographer Paul Bradley wore holes in his shoes, developed blisters on his feet and fought off muggers for his latest exhibition. Manhattan with Camera is a collection of images Bradley snapped while he walked the streets of New York for three months.
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Source Fest Tries Some Odd Mash-Ups
A gutsy experiment is unfurling this week at the Source Festival. Through Sunday, seven interdisciplinary teams -- a burlesque artist paired with a poet, for example, and a playwright matched with a photographer -- present newly minted mash-ups, exploding the walls that might seem to separate cre...
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Afer the Fireworks, Hit Gallery's Loda Bash
Two summers ago electronic-music outfit 88 held down daytime parties at Gallery Restaurant and Lounge in Silver Spring that featured DJs and well as live graffiti art. If a club opening for a party in the afternoon is unusual, one that does so in MoCo -- well, that's unexpected indeed.
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Sculpture commemorates Native quest for equality
Sculptor Roy Peratrovich Jr. was inspired by a Tlingit legend about how Raven stole the sun and brought light to the world.
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National Museum’s updated art galleries reopen
THE PUBLIC will today get a first chance for a glimpse of major changes under way at the National Museum of Wales.
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Taken flight, the £60k Scouse bird-on-a-stick
An outdoor sculpture by Tracey Emin worth £60,000 has vanished - but no one seems to care.
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Summer fun on Courthouse Square
Harold Stein of Vienna walks tall Wednesday during the Trumbull Art Gallery's Summerfest Parade through Courthouse Square in Warren. The parade traveled from the gallery on East Market Street to the square. For more photos, visit cu.tribtoday.com
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Welsh landscape paintings on show
Four new galleries dedicated to celebrating art in Wales and featuring Welsh landscapes, open.
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Paysages Éphémères
Every festival transforms the city for its duration (just ask cab drivers about the effects of the Jazz Fest), but some do it more purposefully.
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Jelly wobbles at banquet
Scientists have captured the sound of wobbling jelly and plan to broadcast it at a bizarre event at University College London. The architectural jelly banquet hosted by the university is part of the London Festival of Architecture.
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First Thursday: Cole/Marr photography adds music and coffee to art
Cole/Marr Photographic Workshops owners Kristen Cole and David Marr expand their gallery space in Downtown Boise. GO...
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Railroad Square galleries stay open late on July 4th
If you're looking for something more subtle than Southern rock, crowds and fireworks on the Fourth of July, visit the few brave galleries taking part in the First Friday Gallery Hop from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday.
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Trodden grass at fest spurs no stress
City officials predict little more than trampled grass when an expected 5,000 or more people converge on downtown Des Moines' Western Gateway Park for this weekend's 80/35 music festival.
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Jazz Videos
Get featured! Submit your video Description A clip from a 1981 performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Tom Waits sings two of his compositions accompanied by Teddy Edwards on tenor sax and Greg Cohen on bass.
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West African bushmen are denied U.S. visas
STAUNTON -- Three West African bushmen recruited to build an authentic mud-hut village at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia were denied visas because they are too poor and inarticulate.
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Provo gallery stroll for July is tonight
Because the first Friday of July is the Fourth of July, the downtown art gallery stroll for this month is tonight.
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KL to get preview of Rainforest Festival
KUCHING: Preview shows will be held in Kuala Lumpur and here to give music lovers a taste of the annual Rainforest World Music Festival, which kicks off at the Sarawak Cultural Village near here on July 11.
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" Duck Festival " at Shanghai 38, Sofitel Bangkok Silom
Shanghai 38 presents a favourite in Chinese cuisine with the “DUCK FESTIVAL” throughout this July. As well as Beijing Duck, Chef Jacky Chan brings you a huge selection of dishes such as “Baked Duck Me
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T S Eliot's controversial 'indecent' painting to go on display
A controversial portrait of the poet T S Eliot, which was once rejected by the Royal Academy as indecent, is to be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in a new exhibition.
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Things to do: Friday
• Children's storytimetakes place at 10 a.m. every Friday at the Barnes & Noble in the Mesilla Valley Mall, 700 S. Telshor Blvd. Info: 522-4499. • "Heart of the Home" exhibition will open from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Branigan Cultural Center with an artist reception on.
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Vietnam triumphs at FIAP photo contest
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has won the highest award at the 29th black and white photo contest held by the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) in Slovakia .
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