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Celebrate Earth Day at UMaine’s HOPE Festival
ORONO — The 14th annual Help Organize Peace Earthwide (HOPE) festival to be held on Saturday, April l9 at the University of Maine field house on campus will provide a wide range of activities for people of all ages to celebrate Earth Day.
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S'pore Art Museum and YDY Foundation set up contemporary art centre
SINGAPORE: With Asian contemporary art in the spotlight, the Singapore Art Museum and Indonesia's YDY Foundation, led by art collector and philanthropist Budi Tek, have jointly set up a new contemporary art centre in Beijing.
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A rock-solid body of work for an island artist
Artist Gary Groves hangs pieces for his current retrospective. The densely packed series of drawings, etchings, photography and woodcuts spans 30 years worth of work on the island.
Bainbridge Island Review |
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Brookings ‘opens its doors’ next Friday, Saturday
Featuring the History & Garden Festival, tours of select artist studios and a downtown walking tour, the third annual Doors Open Brookings is set for next Friday and Saturday.
Brookings Daily Register |
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Community comes to aid of injured couple
VILLA GROVE – A benefit dinner and auction for a Villa Grove couple injured recently in a Florida motorcycle accident will have an added attraction: Walter "Bub" and Carol Ezell will be able to attend the April 26 event. "It's a benefit with a plus," said Dana Craig, one of several organizers, because the couple, now recovering at home, can visit with many many people who have helped them ...
The Champaign News-Gazette |
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Tollway takes a green turn
IT is artwork as never seen before in Melbourne -- $1.5 million worth of it.
Herald Sun |
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An Aural Painting of Richmond's History
Ashby Anderson will be presenting his Historic Richmond Jazz Suite on Sunday at 3 pm at MUSE Creative Workspace . Debuted in 2006, the four movements - “The Devil's Half-Acre," “Locomotive 231," “Steppin'," and “Soul of 2nd Street" - tell the story of African-American history and folklore in Richmond.
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More than functional art, tattoos are storylines
It's springtime, and what goes better with 70-degree, cloudless weather than shorts and tank tops? Tattoos. And not just tattoos, but memories, experiences and changes creatively exhibited on flesh as functional art.
North Texas Daily |
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State of the art: PG students win 20 medals in regional competition
Pleasant Grove High School art students took home 20 state medals April 12 at the Visual Arts Scholastic Event at the University of Houston at Clear Creek. The students advanced through the regional events to compete against 1,500 others from across the state.
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Hollywood screenwriter the special guest at 12:30 today at Keith-Albee
Ken Rotcop, the author of the best-seller “The Perfect Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Movie Idea to Hollywood,” is the special featured guest speaker at 12:30 p.m. today at the 5th Annual Appalachian Film Festival.
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch |
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Wiscontrepreneurs: UW students compete to transform trash
In the spirit of entrepreneurship and Earth Day, the Wiscontrepreneur contest challenges students to give new meaning to old stuff that would otherwise occupy a landfill. The parameters: 100 hours, $10 and unlimited creativity. Beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, students used their $10 vouchers to select materials that they would then transform into an innovative item. The students are competing for ...
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Yale calls student's abortion tale a hoax
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is f ...
The Bryan-College Station Eagle |
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Paterson artist says his concepts are far from half-baked
At the Jersey City Art Museum, Joseph Gerard Sabatino, center, discusses his work with friends Gina Conte, left, and Joe Pignataro, right. Pignataro's daughter, Allyssa, 5, looks on.
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New design to combine Dali precision and fantasy
A new museum for the surrealist will rely on his stylings, including a helical staircase spiraling 28 feet from the ground to the museum's main galley on the third level.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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'Fire on the Mountain' festival celebrates the blacksmith
Blacksmiths from throughout the region will have anvils ringing in Spruce Pine Saturday at the third annual "Fire on the Mountain" festival.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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10 seconds leave Midwesterners shaken
The rattling lasted 10 seconds, but for Richmond Art Museum executive director Shaun Dingwerth, it seemed a lot longer.
Palladium-Item |
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Montana Arts Council honors area folk artists
Five Northcentral Montana folk artists are the initial honorees in a program created by the Montana Arts Council with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Great Falls Tribune |
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Fair fun at 'Iolani
The throngs heading toward 'Iolani School today know it's that time again — yes, it's the final day of the annual fair that's bursting with entertainment, food booths, games, Xtreme rides, cooking demos, an art sale, silent auction, crafts, gently-used clothing, produce, plants ... and lots of people.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Best of the Valley Quilt Show exhibits work of cloth artists
"Sudoku Flowers," "Los Burritos" and "Yosemite Falls" are at the International Agri-Center this weekend.
Tulare Advance-Register |
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Yale Student's 'abortions' For A Class Project Were A Hoax
Hartford — A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false,
New London Day |
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A lot of kokua, with music
Staging Kokua Festivals has taught its creators and organizers a lot about protecting the environment, and after
Honolulu Advertiser |
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IN BRIEF
The Times Herald picked up three awards in the 2007 Michigan AP Editorial Association's newswriting, newsphoto and graphics contest.
Times Herald |
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Film festival gets rolling
The line stretched around the block at one Salem Film Festival theater Friday night, but another just down the street had no line on the festival's opening night.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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The lost boys of oil and gas are back
CALGARY -- David Johnson remembers the dark days of last winter, when interest in small oil and natural gas companies like his was so low that investors in Toronto wouldn't even bother meeting with juniors seeking to raise money.
The Globe and Mail |
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Cotter trout festival continues today
The annual Great Cotter Trout Festival started off slowly Friday afternoon but gathered steam much like the locomotives that cross the White River over the railroad bridge.
Baxter Bulletin |
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