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DJS Communications Wins IABC Renaissance Award for INCAT Inside e-newsletter
DJS Communications, an independently owned corporate communications group founded in 2004, won an IABC Renaissance Award for the INCAT Inc. monthly employee e-newsletter, INCAT Inside.
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Brighton film fest will cross the border
The Brighton International Film Festival will move across the border this year to join the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival. Thursday's event will include as many as 30 films, including one about a boy from Brighton.
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Brighton exhibit spotlights creative endeavors of 6 local female artists
The art of six local women has been brought together in one exhibit by downtown Brighton's Art on Main curator, Gayle Sanchirico. Sanchirico, an artist with works in the exhibit, calls it "a journey through the unusual, and the interpretation of a fool as the muse and artist.''
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Character counts at Alpharetta Elementary
Throughout the school year, students at Alpharetta Elementary School were given the opportunity to participate in the Character Counts Contest submitting a creative representation of the character topic of the month.
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High Meadows Poetry Winner
Matthew Reingold, a first grade student at High Meadows School in Roswell, was selected as a state winner in the national 2008 River of Words Poetry and Art Contest. He is pictured during the Georgia River of Words Award Ceremony recently held at the Chattahoochee Nature Center.
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SELLING OFF THE BED-LINEN AT GRAND PARIS HOTEL
PARIS, June 15, 2008 (AFP) - Hundreds of would-be buyers crammed one of Paris' grandest hotels Friday as the Royal Monceau auctioned off its minibars, mirrors, and the rest, ahead of a year-long revamp by star designer Philippe Starck.
Tocqueville Connection |
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An eye for detail
Above: Prominent Stockton artist Gil Dellinger offers tips on outdoor painting to Caitlin Baird, a senior at Lincoln High School in Stockton, during a special art workshop Thursday in the Japanese Garden at Micke Grove Park. Nine students from throughout San Joaquin County participated in the four-day workshop on plein air painting taught by Dellinger.
Lodi News-Sentinel |
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Summer art camps are aimed at children
PORT PERRY -- Summer art camp is back at Meta4 Contemporary Craft Gallery in Port Perry. Kids who love to draw, paint, sculpt, act and create have lots of opportunity to explore their creative...
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Whatever Family Festival offers a host of events
AUGUSTA — The Whatever Family Festival will officially kick off Saturday, July 21 with an all-day schedule of events in Gardiner, and run through Friday, July 4. Following is a list of activities that will take place during the annual festival:
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'Remembering the Post Office on Centre'
The Amelia Island Museum of History will feature the exhibit "Remembering the Post Office on Centre" in the first floor Gaslight Gallery through Sept. 28. The exhibit features a series of 30 archival photographs documenting the historic building from excavation to completion, artifacts on loan from Postmaster Ron Steedley, and clips of oral history projected on a large screen.
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Voiles: It’s summer time and the reading is easy
Somehow summer has always been a time for reading. Back in the days of only four television channels (honestly, and we didn’t realize how deprived we were) the political conventions seemed to be the only thing on and seemed to go on and on. Dad would challenge us to reading contests.
Rushville Republican |
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Museums in US freshen up, expand
CLEVELAND – Art museums throughout the country have gone on a construction binge as older institutions freshen up and expand and fast-growing cities, especially in the Sun Belt, tap into new wealth to show they have arrived in the art world.
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Rarely-seen Monet goes on display
A Claude Monet painting seen in public only once in the past 80 years goes on show in London.
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Kate Moss Leaves Little to Imagination in See-Through Dress
Kate Moss bared her breasts in a long, sheer, black-and-white polka-dotted dress while attending an Istanbul art exhibit earlier this week with her 5-year-old daughter.
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Abita council OKs bed, breakfast ordinance
With another museum just opening, a playground in the works, a new trailhead nearing completion and the number of special events growing in the town, tourism is booming in Abita Springs.
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Art museums deal with attendance spike
MILWAUKEE – In the Milwaukee Art Museum world, 2008 is seven years A.C. — or After Calatrava.
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Artwalk Amble Bus Tour
Taking part in the Artwalk Amble Bus Tour, Rondo Wood, left, and Janet Pennington look at a woodblock print by Lindsay Thurber High School art student Kristen Ross at the Allied Arts Council Gallery in the Town Centre Mall Thursday.
Red Deer Advocate |
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Artists, Museums, And The Art Of Commerce
"It is the artists, and a certain line of thinking about art, that have given the people with the cash permission to buy and sell what amounts to nothing, and to do so for ever larger and more insane sums of money.
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Credit Suisse ''Art & Entrepreneurship'' Exhibition Unveiled in New York
NEW YORK----The Credit Suisse international "Art & Entrepreneurship" exhibition will be on display at the Chelsea Art Museum from June 23 to 29. The exhibition features a new generation of 19 successful artists from around the globe and contains unique pieces of art, all based on the theme of entrepreneurship; a spirit which has fuelled important breakthroughs in science, business and culture.
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Hot Entertainment Picks: 06/20/2008
Chenille Sisters playing in Northport; Chamber group performing Sunday; Gather 'round the fire for stories; Folk festival hits Brethren Saturday; Benefit will help Lori Hall Steele; Rusty Blades will swing at the library; Stroll around Alden every Thursday; See the lovely homes of Eastport; Then see historic homes in TC; Community band starts free concerts; 'Superman Returns' in Central Lake
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Out of the box
Curator John Stringer's legacy lives on in the remarkable Stokes collection at the Art Gallery of Western Australia
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The Way I See It: Oscar Muñoz
Muñoz’s work combines photography with conventional drawing techniques and explores the impact of war on Colombian society. “Mirror Image”, his first solo exhibition in the UK, is at the Institute of International Visual Arts, London EC2, until 27 July. More info: http://www.iniva.org
The New Statesman |
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Estes Park Museum Friends & Foundation’s Fifth Annual Historic Tour June 28
Travel to the hidden structures in the Estes Valley and explore the history of the people who came to call this area, “home.” The Estes Park Muesum Friends & Foundation, Inc. present the fifth annual “Historic Tour” with eight destinations this year.
Estes Park Trail Gazette |
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Datebook - June 20, 2008
Quilt Colorado 2008 Exhibit sponsored by the Colorado Quilting Council, at the Estes Park Conference Center/Holiday Inn, 201 S. St., Vrain Ave., open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 9 a..m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Estes Park Trail Gazette |
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Shop goes from ATV to XXX
But some nearby neighbors say plans by Jeff and Vicki Mead to open the “Patterson XXX Porn Gallery” by mid-August are aimed at causing more controversy in the small mountain town.
Estes Park Trail Gazette |
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